Gender & Sexuality Law Blog

Friday the Iowa Supreme Court held unanimously that the state’s definition of marriage – a union of a man and a woman – violated the Iowa Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.  This is the first court to do so unanimously, and the first mid-western court to do so.  No more can marriage traditionalists dismiss the idea [...]

News Flash: the Iowa Supreme Court has announced that it will release its decision in the same sex marriage case, Varnum v. Brien, tomorrow at 8:30 am (CST).  The decision will be available here.
- Katherine Franke

Last Thursday, the California Supreme Court heard arguments in Strauss v. Horton, the case challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8. For those of you who missed it, you can watch all three hours of it here (fast forward 15 minutes to skip the Cal. Sup. Ct. promo and get to the real argument). [...]

Yesterday, the Gender and Sexuality Law Program kicked off its spring 2009 colloquium with the presentation and discussion of Professor Anna Marie Smith’s paper entitled “Reproductive Technology, Family Law, and the Post-welfare State: The California Same-Sex Parents’ Rights ‘Victories’ of 2005.“ Professor Smith’s article touches on several facets of parental rights and its intersection with [...]

Columbia Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic Director and co-Director of the Gender and Sexuality Law Program, Suzanne Goldberg, has recently published a new essay discussing the significance of the Allison D. v. Virginia M. case – the first case to come before the New York State Court of Appeals raising the rights of [...]