This webinar will examine the Rape Shield Laws, a brief history and examples of recent cases will be part of this exciting  presentation with Presenter Michelle J. Anderson. Michelle J. Anderson is Dean and Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law, where she teaches criminal law.  She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal.  She then clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for Judge William Norris.  As an attorney, she practiced in the areas of criminal defense and civil rights. Dean Anderson is a leading scholar on rape law. Her articles have been published in the Boston University Law Review, George Washington Law Review, Hastings Law Journal, Rutgers Law Review, Southern California Law Review, and University of Illinois Law Review, among others. Her article redefining what rape should be legally, “Negotiating Sex,” was selected as the core text on rape law in Criminal Law Conversations, published by the Oxford University Press in 2009.  Dean Anderson is the former Policy Chair for the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence.