Max Waltman

Max Waltman is Assistant Professor at 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 scholarly work is comparative, centering on Canada, Sweden, the United States, and international law. It appears in Harvard Journal of Law & Gender , Political Research Quarterly , Michigan Journal of International Law , Women's Studies International Forum ...See more

Max Waltman is Assistant Professor at 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 scholarly work is comparative, centering on Canada, Sweden, the United States, and international law. It appears in Harvard Journal of Law & Gender , Political Research Quarterly , Michigan Journal of International Law , Women's Studies International Forum , Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice , and Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society , as well as in other publications. His op-eds have been published in the New York Times , Toronto Star , in 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 previously a visiting researcher and fellow at Harvard University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has received post-doctoral research funds from the Wenner-Gren Foundations in Sweden and was awarded the Sweden-America Foundation's Prince Bertil fellowship in 2 See less