Clare McGlynn

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Clare Mary Smith McGlynn (born 1970) is a Professor of Law at Durham University in the UK and leading expert on violence against women and girls and gender equality. She advises governments, civil society and social media platforms regarding online and image-based sexual abuse, and works closely with survivors to strengthen the law. In 2020, she was appointed King’s Counsel honoris causa in recognition of her role influencing law reform regarding image-based abuse and sexual violence. In 2024 she was appointed to the Judicial Appointments Commission for a three year term as Lay Commissioner. McGlynn has also served as a member of the UK Parliament's Independent Expert Panel. McGlynn specialises in the legal regulation of pornography, image-based sexual abuse (formerly known as revenge pornography), cyberflashing, online abuse, violence against women, and gender equality in the legal profession. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Lund University, Sweden, in 2018 in recognition of the international impact of her research on sexual violence and she is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is a member of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Combating Technology-Facilitated Violence against Women and Girls. Her active role in supporting women and girls led to her being named as an ‘outstanding’ advocate by Glamour magazine on International Women’s Day 2025. She extensively contributes to national and international media and public debates, regularly being interviewed on the UK’s flagship political programme BBC Radio 4 Today, as well as BBC Woman’s Hour, breakfast TV, Channel 4 News, and all mainstream media. Her expert opinion is featured in many documentaries including BBC Panorama 'The Secret World of Trading Nudes’, the controversial Channel 4 documentary with Vicky Pattinson ‘My Deepfake Sex Tape’, German national TV’s ZDF documentary on deepfake porn and in Austria, the NZZ programme ‘Fake...