Gender & Sexuality Law Blog

Last Friday night, the Syracuse men’s basketball team was routed by Oklahoma, losing 84-71 – in no small measure because of the shooting collapse of Syracuse’s star guard Eric Devendorf, who finished the game with only 8 points.
Why should readers of a Gender and Sexuality Law blog care about the Syracuse men’s basketball team?  Well, [...]

After surgery for pancreatic cancer, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court to hear oral arguments yesterday, and then attended President Barack Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress last night.
Justice Ginsburg, a graduate of Columbia Law School and a member of our faculty before she was elevated to the Supreme Court, [...]

The Huffington Post has got a story about the Gonzales case before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights about which we have already blogged.  The case is being handled by students in the Human Rights and Sexuality & Gender Law Clinics, under the supervision of the Human Rights Clinic’s Deputy Director Carrie Bettinger-Lopez:
The unfortunate saga [...]

Law students are invited to submit articles addressing domestic violence and the law from a national or international perspective.
The winner’s paper will be published in the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
All winners’ names and papers will also appear on the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence website.
The deadline is May 31, [...]

Wednesday, a Brooklyn judge sentenced Nixzaliz Santiago to 43 years in prison for failing to protect her daughter, Nixzmary, from her step father’s violence. “You, Ms. Santiago, ignored these desperate calls,” said the judge at sentencing. “You may not have delivered the fatal blow, but the jury found it was in your power to [...]

From Alma Beltran y Puga of the Human Rights Clinic:
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month in the United States, and we have a tragic story to tell. On June 22, 1999, Jessica Lenahan’s estranged husband, Simon Gonzales, abducted her three young daughters in violation of a court-issued domestic violence restraining order. As soon [...]