Gender & Sexuality Law Blog

  The Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School wants to express our gratitude for the communities that support our work and who engage in our programming. As we approach #GivingTuesday 2018, Tuesday, November 27th, we hope you will consider including the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law in your year-end giving. […]

Cross-posted to the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law Medium Page This Fall, the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law is pleased to host Joseph Fischel and Emily Stolzenberg as Visiting Faculty in Residence at Columbia Law School. Professors Fischel and Stolzenberg will be participating in Center programming, and working on their own independent research […]

Reversing Roe v. Wade Won’t Help Republicans Overturning the landmark 1973 ruling, as seems more and more likely, might take away a powerful tool for energizing conservative voters — and it might motivate liberal ones. by Carol Sanger Originally Published in The New York Times, July 5, 2018 * * * * * Overturning Roe? […]

This Summer, Tamar Katz Peled joined the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law as a Visiting Scholar.  I spoke with Tamar 2 weeks ago about her research, and her plans for pursuing further inquiry and advocacy work in her primary field of study: reproductive surrogacy, and reproductive access in legal and social contexts.  Below is […]

Cross-posted to Medium. In a significant gender equality ruling, the Supreme Court today struck down a federal immigration law that made it harder for fathers than mothers to pass their U.S. citizenship on to their children. Current immigration law discriminates between citizen fathers and citizen mothers whose children are born abroad. The Court recognized the […]

Cross-posted to Medium The Organizers of the Women’s March on Washington made a call to action for women to strike on March 8th, 2017 in honor of International Women’s Day. The idea was to utilize this recognized day as a springboard for engagement through a wide-spread strike. The organizers’ language follows: “…we join together in making […]

Columbia Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic, on Behalf of NAACP LDF and AALDEF, Urges Supreme Court to Strike Down School Board’s Restroom Discrimination Against Transgender High School Students In an amicus brief filed today with the U.S. Supreme Court by Columbia Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic, two of the nation’s leading […]

Saturday, January 21st 2017 should be marked in history as a day when people came together with the purpose of uniting to support one another’s needs.  The Women’s March on Washington, an enormous event that catalyzed in the days and weeks following the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, […]