Professor Clare McGlynn KC (Hon)

Expert on violence against women & girls

Areas of Expertise

Online Safety

My work emphasises the devastating impact of online violence against women and identifies better forms of regulation / or and argues for stronger regulation.

Pornography

My research and policy work strives to reduce the easy availability, and adverse impacts, of extreme and abusive porn through strengthening regulation and criminal sanctions.

Sexual Violence & Justice

Central to my work on sexual violence are the perspectives of victims and survivors, particularly their understandings of what justice means to them.

Image-Based Abuse

My work on taking and sharing intimate images without consent, including image-based sexual abuse

Includes the references:

'Downblousing', 'Revenge porn'

'Upskirting', 'Collector culture', 'Deepfake porn'

Cyberflashing

My research and policy work raises awareness of the harms of cyberflashing and makes recommendations for new laws criminalising this commonplace and pernicious form of abuse.

Metaverse

My research develops the new concept of meta-rape, to replace virtual rape, to better describe the nature and harms of sexual violence and abuse in the metaverse.

Professor Clare McGlynn KC (Hon)

Law Professor . Advisor . Commentator .

I am a Professor of Law at Durham University in the UK with expertise in the legal regulation of sexual violence, pornography and online abuse, particularly cyberflashing and image-based sexual abuse (taking, creating and sharing intimate images without consent).

I work closely with policy-makers, victim-survivors and the voluntary sector to shape law and policy reforms, as well as with social media and other companies to improve their policies. In 2020, I was appointed an Honorary KC (King’s Counsel) in recognition of my work championing women’s equality in the legal profession and shaping new criminal laws on extreme pornography and image-based sexual abuse.