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Blanche Cook
Assistant Professor in the Law School
Loyola University Chicago
Education/Degree:
1 JD JD (University of Michigan)
About
Blanche Cook is an assistant professor at Wayne Law in Detroit. She is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Michigan Law School. Prior to joining the academy, she was an assistant United States attorney with the Department of Justice, specializing in large-scale drug and sex-trafficking prosecutions. In the fall, she will be a scholar-in-residence at the University of California Berkeley School of Law.
Current Work
This fall, she published Complicit Bias: Sex-Offender Registration as a Penalty for Obstructing Sex-Trafficking Prosecutions. The article chronicles a mistake Congress made in drafting the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act that requires sex trafficking victims who refuse to cooperate against their assailants to register as sex offenders. The article is a call to action asking Congress to amend this act of overcriminalization. Professor Cook also completed a Ted Talk where she built an algorithm to capture power, as it is raced, classed, and gendered, based on the Parable of the Woman Caught in Adultery.
Research Area Keyword(s)
criminal procedure, Critical Race Theory