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Sessions Information
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January 7, 2016
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm
Session Type: Section Call for Papers
Session Capacity: 104
Hotel: New York Hilton Midtown
Room: New York Suite
Floor: Fourth Floor
This panel will explore the remarkable progress, and acute difficulties, in the struggle for LGBT rights in Africa. Much of its attention will go to South Africa, a country in which LGBT rights have received emphatic constitutional protection – but in which public attitudes, and often the realities of daily life, lag well behind constitutional guarantees. Activists in South Africa have made effective use of courts as a tool in their struggle, but doing so has entailed careful planning of incremental litigation and (on the judges’ side) careful decisions about when to rely on legislative actors to implement the constitution’s commands. Meanwhile, activists elsewhere in Africa face public attitudes at least as resistant as those in South Africa, but the challenges within any one country are magnified by the extent to which Africa is both the colonial inheritor and the present target of moral agendas pressed by those in the West. The presenters and commentators will explore these complex and troubling issues on this panel.
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Session Speakers
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Commentator
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Speaker
University of Cape Town Faculty of Law
Speaker
New York Law School
Moderator
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
Speaker from a Call for Papers
University of North Carolina School of Law
Speaker from a Call for Papers
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Session Fees
- 4190 Africa, Co-Sponsored by International Human Rights and on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, : $0.00
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