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Alex Sharpe

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Professor

Director of Impact

Social & Legal Theory; Human Rights; Gender, Sexuality and Law; Criminal Justice; Law and Popular Culture

 
School of Law
S2.30, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom


024 765 23615

Office Hours: Term 1 2024-2025

Tuesday - 3-4 pm
Friday - 4-5 pm

Alex’s research interests lie in the areas of social and legal theory, legal history, criminal justice, law and popular culture, gender sexuality and the law, and Bowie studies.

She is the author of over 100 publications, including four sole-authored monographs:

David Bowie Outlaw: Essays on Difference, Authenticity, Ethics, Art & Love (London: Routledge, 2022)

Sexual Intimacy and Gender Identity 'Fraud': Reframing the Legal & Ethical Debate (London: Routledge, 2018)

Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law (London: Routledge, 2010)

Transgender Jurisprudence: Dysphoric Bodies of Law (London: Cavendish, 2002)

Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles include:

'My Death Waits: David Bowie and Mortality' (forthcoming 2025)

'Deceptive Sex: Rethinking Consent from the Gender Margins' (forthcoming 2025)

Review Essay of Who’s Afraid of Gender?’ by Judith Butler (2024) Law and Critique (forthcoming 2025)

’Deception as to Gender: A Review of Proposed Revisions to CPS Legal Guidance on Rape and Serious Sexual Offences' Journal of Criminal Law (published online 3 October 2024 Sage)

'European Human Rights Law and the Legality of Sex Offence Prosecutions based on Deception as to Gender History' Legal Studies (published online 15 August 2024 Cambridge UP)

'Queering Judgment: The Case of Gender Identity Fraud' in Ferreira, N, Moscati, M, and Raj, S (eds) The Queer Judgments Project (Counterpress, 2024)