PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS

  

WIP     A Suspect Tradition: Common Occupations and the Right to Earn

 

WIP     The Epistemic Appropriation of Hair Braiding Cases

 

WIP     Is Economic Liberty for Everyone?

 

2025     Survival Labor. Inquest. Harvard Institute to End Mass Incarceration. (Invited to write a short article translating my published scholarly work by the same name into a piece accessible to a broad audience.) Forthcoming April 2025.

 

2024     Silencing the Sex Worker, 71.4 UCLA L. Rev. 726 (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. 1281 (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)