Gender & Sexuality Law Blog

Columbia’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic recently filed a brief in the European Court of Human Rights involving the right of victims of sex trafficking to a remedy under various European and International Laws.  My recent article in the European Lawyer magazine, which takes a somewhat different view from Professor Franke’s post, elaborates the trafficking/slavery [...]

In her confirmation hearing last week Hilary Clinton was asked by Barbara Boxer to talk about how she plans to use the office of the Secretary of State to better the “status of women in the world.” She was particularly interested in the problems of violence against women and sex trafficking, making explicit reference [...]

Nazneen Mehta is a second-year law student at Columbia Law School and is writing a Note on the international market in surrogacy services – particularly between relatively affluent “intended parents” in the US and poor female surrogates in India. Her Note will examine the ways in which this market might better be regulated by [...]

Seems he’s going to get off
We learned yesterday that due to Michele Hirshman‘s great lawyering on behalf of her client and former boss, the former Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer will not be prosecuted by Michael Garcia, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Not under the Mann Act, a [...]