Gender & Sexuality Law Blog

Milli Kanani Hansen, currently a second year law student at Columbia Law School is on the editorial board of the Human Rights Law Review, is the Research Chair for Rights Link (is a human rights law student organization at Columbia Law School that provides free legal research services to human rights and public interest law [...]

After much gossip, hand-ringing, internecine scuffles and turf kick-up, the White House has announced that Luis de Baca will be appointed to head up the State Department’s Trafficking In Persons (TIP) Office.  The TIP Office coordinates policy out of the State Department on the Traffic in Persons and, perhaps most importantly, must issue an [...]

I blogged recently about the concerns I had when I read the statements Hilary Clinton made in her Senate confirmation testimony related to the issue of sex trafficking.  I heard little sign in her testimony of a desire to change policy from the crusade undertaken by the Bush Administration that overdetermined the problem of human [...]

The Supreme Court issued several very important opinions this morning, one we have blogged about before – Fitzgerald v. Barnstable – in which the Court was asked to determine whether the remedy provided by the federal statute that prohibits sex discrimination, including sex harassment, in schools (Title IX) precludes enforcement of sex discrimination claims under [...]

One of the courses I teach at Columbia Law School has to do with litigating cases of excessive force against the police.  See the syllabus here if you’re interested.  A couple months ago I was talking to a lawyer, James Cook, in Tallahassee, Florida about a taser case he is working on (you can see [...]