The Ontological Status of Consent and its Implications for the Law on Rape
- 1 June 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Legal Theory
- Vol. 2 (2) , 147-164
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1352325200000446
Abstract
One of the dominant themes of the symposium from which this collection of articles arose was the ontological status of consent. Is consent a particular state of mind? Is it the signification of that state of mind via a conventionally recognized act? Or, is consent a normative concept that evaluates not only the presence of a state of mind or act, but also the appropriateness of that state of mind or act in the particular circumstances?Keywords
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