Professor. Lawyer.

PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS

WIP   Coopting Stories, Gate Keeping Work, Excluding the Poor: The Resurgence of Economic Liberty and the "Right to Earn a Living"

 

WIP   The Legal Consequences of Conflating and Appropriating Slavery Abolition 

 

WIP   The Constitutional Underpinnings of Survival Labor

 

SUB    Demonizing Our Sisters Through Epistemic Oppression

• “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).
• Invited to present at Texas A&M University School of Law (March 2022)
• Invited to present at Saint Louis University School of Law (April 2022)

 

2024     Laboring Toward Equitable Citizenship, 122 Michigan Law Review ___ (April 2024) (Invited) (Reviewing Julie C. Suk, After Misogyny)

 

2024     Survival Labor, 112 California Law Review ___ (April 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), https://worklaw.jotwell.com/learning-from-sex-workers-lessons-in-advocacy- stigma-and-struggle/.

 

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).

 

2020    Not Built for Us, American Bar Association Journal (legal short fiction about a black advocate charged with domestic terrorism resulting from a peaceful protest)

 

2018    Amara Legal Center, Protection from Sexual Extortion Act (July 11, 2018) https://www.amaralegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/sextortion-written- testimony.pdf

 

2018    Amara Legal Center, Amara's Stance on FOSTA/SESTA (Feb 23, 2018)

https://www.amaralegal.org/amaras-stance-on-fosta-sesta/

 

2016    Amara Legal Center, Harmful Investigation Tactics: How Law Enforcement Uses Criminalization to Control and Retraumatize Survivors of Sex Trafficking (December 2016) https://www.amaralegal.org/harmful-investigation-tactics-how-law- enforcement-uses-criminalization-to-control-and-retraumatize-survivors-of-sex- trafficking/