LAW 630 - Feminist and Queer Jurisprudence Seminar

Course Type: Upper Writing Requirement
Credits: 2

Description: This seminar will explore feminist and queer theories of law and their implications for contemporary controversies. Issues addressed are likely to include some of the following. How are gender, sexual identity, and sexual orientation socially and legally constructed? Is American law intrinsically patriarchal, androcentric, heterosexist and/or transphobic, and how might it protect more inclusively the rights and interests of persons living in the United States? What do inclusive theoretical frameworks surrounding legal rights and responsibilities look like? How do intersecting marginalized identities based on race, ethnicity, ability, religious identity, etc. interact within these frameworks? How would inclusive, fair, and just basic institutions of society be structured? For example, how would law regulate and/or support marriage, parenthood, market work, care work, education, health care, sexual autonomy, and reproductive rights? How would it address various forms of public and private discrimination, including violence that is gender-based, homophobic, or transphobic?