Waltman's Pornography: The Politics of Legal Challenges is an ambitious, empirically informed, and jurisprudentially skilled argument for the regulation of (some) pornography...Waltman's discussion of the various unsuccessful attempts to regulate pornography in the United States, Canada, and Sweden is quite nuanced in recounting the jurisprudential reasons cited by the courts for each such failure.
Max Waltman is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, who has published on the politics of legal challenges to prostitution, sex trafficking, and pornography, including its association with gender-based violence and sex inequality. His work is comparative and international in outlook and has appeared in Harvard J. Law & Gender,Political Research Q.,Michigan J. Int'l Law,Women's Stud. Int'l Forum,Law & Inequality, and Wisconsin J. Law, Gender & Society, and other publications. His op-eds have been published in the New York Times,Toronto Star, Swedish newspapers, and various online news sites. Legislative bodies domestically and abroad have consulted him, and he works on policy initiatives with prostitution survivors and feminist groups. Waltman was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University 2016-2017 and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2017-2018.