Lesley Wexler

· Professor

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Arms Control & Domestic and International Security

Active 2000–2021

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Citations189

Papers942 last 5y

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About

Lesley Wexler is a faculty member associated with The Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security at the Illinois Global Institute. She is part of the College of Law at the University of Illinois, located at 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Champaign, IL. Her contact email is lmwexler@illinois.edu. Wexler's work focuses on issues related to arms control, security studies, and international security, contributing to the academic and policy discussions within these fields. She is involved in the Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security, which aims to advance understanding and policy related to global security challenges.

Research topics

Political Science
Criminology
Psychology
Law
Finance
Business

Selected publications

2018 SYMPOSIUM LECTURE: #METOO AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE
2019-01-01 · 1 citations
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MeToo and Law Talk
2019-01-01 · 1 citations
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How Americans talk when they talk about #MeToo is often deeply rooted in the law—even in non-legal settings, participants in the #Me-Too conversation often deploy legal definitions of victims and perpetrators, reference legal standards of proof and the role of legal forums, draw explicit or implicit comparisons to legal punishments, and derive meaning from legal metaphors and legal myths. In this essay, I identify and assess the deployment of such law talk to help understand both how legal rheto…
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Frequent coauthors

Jennifer K. Robbennolt
19 shared
Arden Rowell
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
14 shared
Colleen Murphy
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
7 shared
Jonathan Klick
University of Pennsylvania
2 shared
Jonathan S. Masur
2 shared
Jonah B. Gelbach
2 shared
Jason Webb Yackee
1 shared
David A. Dana
1 shared

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