(Program to be published in Law & Sexuality)
One or more presenters were selected from a call for papers.
Thirty year ago, Rhonda Rivera published “Our Straight-laced Judges: The Legal Position of Homosexual Persons in the United States,” the first comprehensive law review article of its kind. Since then, the sexual orientation and gender identity legal literature has exploded, with hundreds of articles considering all imaginable aspects of the law’s relationship to gender identity and sexual orientation. At the same time, political demands of lesbian, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender have both multiplied and moved to the center of cultural debates, and the body of case of law addressing these issues has likewise grown exponentially. What, then, are the next steps for legal scholarship?
This program will be begin with a brief look back over the past decades’ major ideas and contributions and then will move forward quickly to highlight new issues, new theories, and the possibilities for linking theory and practice. Each panelist will concentrate briefly on one major issue or idea with an eye toward envisioning the field for the decade(s) to come.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.