GSL Online
Gender & Sexuality Law Online is a webjournal published by the Columbia Law School Center for Gender & Sexuality Law.
Female Genital Cutting: The Pressures of Culture, International Attention, and Domestic Law on the Role of African Women
Author: Aisha Nicole Davis, JD 2012 Abstract: This essay examines the international scrutiny of female genital cutting (FGC) often referred to as female genital mutilation (FGM), and how international legislation overlooks the women affected by the procedure. It focuses on FGC on the continent of Africa, analyzing the policy and legislation influenced largely by those who are ...
Sex, Drugs, and American Jurisprudence: The Medicalization of Pleasure
Author: Susan Reid, JD 2011 Abstract: This paper explores the role of medical arguments in cases where courts have overturned statutes that burden pleasure-seeking behavior, such as non-procreative sexual intimacy or the use of endorphin-inducing substances. It speculates that the characterization of the individual interests at stake as medical rather than pleasure-related, and the framing of ...
The Queen v. Fennety: Infant Abandonment in Mid-Nineteenth Century New Brunswick, Canada
Author: Nikki Kumar, LLM 2010 Abstract: The plight of young unwed mothers in nineteenth century New Brunswick is not well documented, nor well understood. However, an article in a Fredericton newspaper, the Head Quarters, described the case of Sophia Fennety, a young unwed mother, and her supposed drowning or suffocation of her six-week old infant child ...
Prosecuting Human Trafficking as a Crime Against Humanity under the Rome Statute
Author: Jane Kim, JD 2011 Abstract: Bought and sold, consumed and exploited: human bodies, labor, personhood, and dignity have become the most valuable, reusable, and profitable products in the 2011 world market. In the early twenty-first century, increased awareness and international concern mobilized several legal mechanisms to combat the 32 billion dollar human trafficking industry. In ...
Violence and the Form: The Ultrahazardous Activity of Excluding Children in Canada’s Immigration Family Class
Author: Jamie Chai Yun Liew, LLM 2011 Abstract: The paper is about a Canadian immigration rule that permanently prohibits the reuniting of children with their parents in Canada simply because their landed immigrant parents did not list their children on their application forms. This paper is interested in how violence can manifest itself in the strict application ...
About GSL Online
Gender & Sexuality Law Online offers students at Columbia Law School the opportunity to e-publish important new scholarship on gender and sexuality. These projects advance our understanding of emerging issues such as gender identity discrimination, trafficking, reproductive technologies, immigration reform, or marriage equality, to name only a few topics.
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Female Genital Cutting: The Pressures of Culture, ...
Author: Aisha Nicole Davis, JD 2012 Abstract: This essay examines the international scrutiny of female genital cutting (FGC) often referred to as female genital mutilation (FGM), and how international legislation overlooks the women affected by the procedure. It focuses on FGC on the continent of...
Sex, Drugs, and American Jurisprudence: The Medica...
Author: Susan Reid, JD 2011 Abstract: This paper explores the role of medical arguments in cases where courts have overturned statutes that burden pleasure-seeking behavior, such as non-procreative sexual intimacy or the use of endorphin-inducing substances. It speculates that the characterization...
The Queen v. Fennety: Infant Abandonment in Mid-Ni...
Author: Nikki Kumar, LLM 2010 Abstract: The plight of young unwed mothers in nineteenth century New Brunswick is not well documented, nor well understood. However, an article in a Fredericton newspaper, the Head Quarters, described the case of Sophia Fennety, a young unwed mother, and her supposed...
Author: Aisha Nicole Davis, JD 2012 Abstract: This essay examines the international scrutiny of female genital cutting (FGC) often referred to as female genital mutilation (FGM), and how international legislation overlooks the women affected by the procedure. It focuses on FGC on the continent of Africa,...
Author: Laura Stafford, JD 2011 Abstract: This paper seeks to analyze EU accession procedures and their effects on subject countries. It examines the EU’s accession process as it relates to Romania’s decriminalization of homosexuality. The paper suggests that the EU “orientalizes”...