Lucie Dupin (Doctorante contractuelle en droit privé)
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Abstract
Under French criminal law, acts of gendered conformation imposed on intersex persons can be qualified as volontary violence and, in some cases, volontary mutilating violence. French doctors who perform these acts may be held criminally liable. They can be sentenced to up to 20 years of imprisonment.
期刊介绍:
The Scientific Committee of the journal Médecine et Droit includes professors of medicine, professors of law, magistrates, lawyers, court medical experts, and specialists in compensation for physical injury. Médecine et Droit provides: • rigorous and clear support for informative and educational matter • a tool for reflection and actualisation of knowledge • an essential link between doctors and lawyers. Médecine et Droit informs: • doctors on different aspects of law and regulations encountered in their profession • lawyers on the specific problems of the medical profession and important bio-ethical issues