Hofstra Law School invites you to the Hofstra Colloquium on Law & Sexuality. Launched in 2007, the colloquium is designed to advance the cutting edge of scholarship on law and sexuality, particularly scholarship concerning the human rights of sexual minorities. It serves as both a platform for existing leaders in the field and as a venue for cultivating new talent.

Upcoming Speakers

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Darren Rosenblum
Associate Professor of Law, Pace Law School
“Unsex CEDAW”

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Suzanne Goldberg
Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
“Categorical Instability: Identity-Based Discrimination and the Adjudication Constraint”

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Marc Poirier
Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
“The Standardization of Legal Kinship Forms: What Numerus Clausus Theory May (or May Not) Have to Offer the Civil Union / Same-Sex Marriage Controversy”

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Darren Hutchinson
Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
“Sexuality, Politics, and Doctrinal Evolution”

Monday, March 9, 2009

Dean Spade
Assistant Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
“Discrimination, Recognition, and the Politics of Impossibility”

Monday, March 23, 2009

Kees Waaldijk
Senior Lecturer, E.M. Meijers Institute of Legal Studies – Universiteit Leiden

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Catherine Smith
Associate Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
“Straight Scrutiny”

Contact

For more information, please contact either Professor Elizabeth M. Glazer at (516) 463-5874 or Professor Holning Lau at (516) 463-7048, Co-Directors of the Hofstra Colloquium on Law & Sexuality.