Gender & Sexuality Law Blog

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 [...]

From Shana Khader of the Domestic Violence Project, who organized the screening this week of Crazy Love (see the trailer here):
It might be surprising that the Domestic Violence Project chose to screen a documentary that ends with a woman marrying the man who disfigured and blinded her. But Dan Klores’s award-winning Crazy Love (2007) isn’t about romance, [...]

Did you ever stop to think that, despite all the international variations in policy and laws on reproductive rights, the experience of pregnancy and childbirth is truly universal?  We all have been part of the reproductive process, whether going through it or being the product of it. Nancy Northup very eloquently made this point in [...]

Today, the Columbia Women’s Law Association hosted a lunchtime discussion with Professor Katherine Franke on CT’s recent decision regarding same-sex marriage (for details click here and scroll down).  A ton of really provocative questions were raised through our ensuing discussion.  We talked about the detrimental effect that a fixation on and reverence for marriage – [...]

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