Professor. Lawyer.

PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS

 

WIP     Is Economic Liberty for Everyone?

 

WIP     The Constitutional Underpinnings of Survival Labor

 

2024     Silencing the Sex Worker, 71.4 UCLA L. Rev.___(Summer 2024). Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4159001.

• “Downloads of the Year” on Lawrence Solum's Legal Theory Blog https://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2023/01/downloads-of-the-year-2022.html   
• “Download of the Week” on Lawrence Solum’s Legal Theory Blog https://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/2022/07/download-of-the-week-demonizing-our-sisters-through-epistemic-oppression-by-butler.html (July 30, 2022).

2024     In Pursuit of Collective Liberation in Feminist Constitutionalism, 122 Mich. L. Rev. ___ (April 2024) (Invited) (Reviewing Julie C. Suk, after misogyny)

 

2024     Survival Labor, 112 Cal. L. Rev. 403 (2024). 

• Selected for Third Annual Equity Scholars’ Conference at Boston University School of Law (November 2021) 

• Presented at the AALS New Voices in Criminal Justice Panel (January 2022)
• Invited to the Marquette University Law Junior Scholar Works-in-Progress Workshop (September 2022)

 

2021     Yvette Butler, Aligned: Sex Workers’ Lessons for the Gig Economy, 26 Mich. J. Race & L. 337 (2021). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjrl/vol26/iss2/3.

•   Reviewed by Charlotte S. Alexander, Learning from Sex Workers: Lessons in Advocacy, Stigma, and Struggle, JOTWELL (June 11, 2021),

 

2021     (Book Chapter) The Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities, “From Fallen Women to the Tumblr Ban: Representing the Landscape of Sex Work From a Historical and Legal Perspective,” Panichelli, M., Capous-Desyllas, M., Butler, Y (New York, NY: Routledge)

 

2021     (Book Chapter) The Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities, “Contemporary Social Work Education, Practice, Policy, and Research With the Sex Trades,” Panichelli, M., Capous-Desyllas, M., Butler, Y (New York, NY: Routledge)