Bela Bonita Chatterjee
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Bela Bonita Chatterjee is a leading legal scholar whose work interrogates the boundaries of criminal law, child protection, and emerging technologies. Her research focuses on the legal and ethical challenges posed by child sex dolls and robots, a field where she has made foundational contributions. In her highly cited 2019 paper, “Child sex dolls and robots: challenging the boundaries of the child protection framework” (35 citations), Chatterjee critically examines the legal vacuum surrounding these objects, arguing that existing child protection frameworks are ill-equipped to address their importation and use. She maps the growing calls for criminalisation while exposing the profound ambiguities in the law—a gap her work seeks to close. By bridging criminal law theory with real-world technological developments, Chatterjee has become a pivotal voice in debates on digital sexual exploitation and legal personhood. Her scholarship is essential reading for anyone grappling with how the law should respond to the unprecedented challenges posed by AI and synthetic objects.
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