Gender & Sexuality Law Blog

The CRR-Columbia Fellowship is a full-time, residential fellowship for up to two full years starting in July 2010. The Fellow will be a member of the community of graduate fellows at the Law School and will be integrated into the legal and policy work of the Center and will have work space at both locations. [...]

There has been much made of Sonia Sotomayor’s life, her Puerto Rican background, her modest, if not poor, childhood, her mother, what her Latina-ness means to her, her involvement in civil rights organizations, etc.  It’s both a big part of why Obama picked her to serve on the Supreme Court and will form the basis [...]

By: DUNCAN OSBORN
Gay City News link here
05/26/2009

Columbia Law students Mollie Kornreich, Abram Seaman, and Keren Zwick have taken up Bruce Wilborn’s case out of their belief he was denied parole in the killing of a gay man because he too is gay.

At first blush, Bruce Wilborn is not the ideal client for a [...]

Ebonie Hazle is a 3rd year law student at Columbia, who offers these thoughts on her experience in law school:
As is so often the case with endings, during this last semester of law school, I’ve been thinking a lot about how it began. When I first started at Columbia, I was excited about the newness [...]

In 1995 Lani Guinier, Michelle Fine, Jane Balin, Ann Bartow & Deborah Lee Batchel published a study of the gender-based bias and stratification of the law school experience at Penn Law School.  Becoming Gentlemen: Women’s Experience at One Ivy League Law School, 143 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1 (1995).    I often mention this article in [...]

Grace Tabib is a third year student at Columbia Law School and offers these thoughts on the regulation of pornography – K. Franke

As in other areas of gender study, Catharine MacKinnon’s extreme view once again forecloses the possibility of women controlling their own sexual impulses. When MacKinnon argues that all pornography is abusive to women, [...]

On Friday, February 13th we held a symposium honoring the important work of Martha Nussbaum to the scholarship of Gender, Sexuality and the Law.
The Symposium was a tremendous success, and the proceedings will be published in a special issue of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law.
Videos of each of the panels and Professor Nussbaum’s [...]

As an update to my earlier post on possible gender bias in Notes selection process at the most elite law reviews, I was delighted to learn today that Devi Rao has been elected the next Editor in Chief of the Columbia Law Review!  She is hard at work on a very smart and important note [...]

Nancy Leong, a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown Law Center, has just cirulated a draft of a paper looking at the sex-based disparity in student notes that are accepted in Law Reviews.   The paper, A Noteworthy Absence, claims that relative to the percentage of women in law school and the percentage of Note submissions from women [...]

On Friday, the Gender and Sexuality Law Program held its inaugural symposium, this year honoring  the work of Professor Martha Nussbaum.  Nine scholars submitted papers providing insights on  Professor Nussbaum’s scholarship, points of departure for her theories, and novel applications of her  theories to many different contexts.  Dean Schizer introduced Professor Nussbaum before her keynote  speech at the end [...]