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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Policing Gender: The Interest Convergence of Women’s and Transgender Rights
By Tracy Thomas
Michael R. Ulrich, Policing Gender: The Interest Convergence of Women's and Transgender Rights, Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, Vol. 28 (forthcoming). This Essay first observes in Part I how the…
Legal Theory Blog
Siapka & Tzanou on the GDPR and Gender
Anastasia Siapka (KU Leuven - Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP)) & Maria Tzanou (University of Sheffield) have posted Re-imagining Data Protection: Femtech and Gendered Risks in the GDPR…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Review of Gendered Liberty and the Puzzle of Constitutional Claims By Those Who Seek to Defy Gender Stereotypes
By Tracy Thomas
Leah Litman, Free to Be You But Not Me, JOTWELL, reviewing Laura Portuondo, Gendered Liberty, __ Geo. L.J. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN. In Gendered Liberty, Prof. Laura Portuondo presents a doctrinal puzzle: While claims to…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Orit Gan’s Forthcoming Work “On Women’s Autonomy: From Muller to Dobbs”
By Jamie Abrams
Orit Gan has posted "On Women's Autonomy: From Muller to Dobbs" on SSRN. This article is forthcoming in volume 29 of the Journal of Gender, Race and Justice in 2026.…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Underrepresentation of Women in Congressional Testimony and its Consequences for Judicial Decision-Making
By Tracy Thomas
Caroline L. Bruckner, Elizabeth A. Keith, Karen O'Connor & Collin Coil, Echoes of Exclusion: The Underrepresentation of Women in Congressional Testimony and its Consequences for Judicial Decision-Making, 16 ConLawNOW 187…
Davis+Gilbert PERKS
Federal Court Revives “Reverse Discrimination” Claim Based on DEI Policies
A recent decision by a federal appellate court serves as a stark reminder to all employers to carefully ensure that DEI-related policies do not run afoul of longstanding laws prohibiting…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Confronting Inequality: Three Eras of Gender and Tax Scholarship
By Tracy Thomas
Bridget J. Crawford, Confronting Inequality: Three Eras of Gender and Tax Scholarship, 58 Loyola L.A. Law Review (forthcoming 2025)Tax law is not neutral—it encodes social values and reinforces certain longstanding hierarchies.…
The Faculty Lounge
How Is Surrogacy/Egg Donation/[Fill In The Blank] Like Prostitution? (Part 986)
In the course of preparing remarks for an upcoming roundtable, I was searching back through my old posts and came across this still-relevant blast from the past, How Is An…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
AALS Virtual Book Event, Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It
By Tracy Thomas
AALS Section on Aging and Law Online Book Event - Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About ItDate: Thursday, May 8 from 1 –…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Potential Gendered Effect of the SAVE Act of Proof of Citizenship for Voting
By Tracy Thomas
I weigh in here on the potential gendered effects of the SAVE Act requiring a person to present a birth certificate, passport, or Real ID (the one for domestic flying),…