Areas of Expertise
- Sexuality and Gender Law
- Civil Procedure
- Civil Rights
- Lawyering and Social Change
- Equality Theory
- Immigration and Asylum related to gender and sexual orientation
Education
- Harvard Law School, JD 1990
- National University of Singapore, Fulbright Fellow, 1985-86
- Brown University, AB 1985
Detailed Biography
Law clerk to Justice Marie Garibaldi, New Jersey Supreme Court, 1990-91. Skadden Foundation Fellow with Lambda Legal Defense, 1991-93. Senior Staff Attorney with Lambda Legal Defense, 1993-2000. Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham Law School, 1996-2000. On faculty of Rutgers Law School-Newark, 2000-2006. Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School, 2004-05.
Member of the New Jersey Civil Practice Committee of the New Jersey Supreme Court (2002-present); Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law Annual Review Board of Advisors (1999-present); founder and past president of the Board of Directors of Immigration Equality (formerly the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force)
Joined the Columbia faculty in Fall 2006. Currently directs Columbia's Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic and teaches Civil Procedure, Lawyering, Social Change, and the Movement for Women's and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights.
Selected Publications
Constitutional Tipping Points: Civil Rights, Social Change, and Fact-Based Adjudication (forthcoming in Columbia Law Review, December 2006))
A Historical Guide To The Future Of Marriage For Same-Sex Couples, 15 Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law 249 (2006)
Lawrence & The Road From Liberation to Equality, 46 South Texas Law Review 309 (2004) (symposium).
Morals-Based Justifications for Lawmaking Before and After Lawrence v. Texas, 88 Minnesota Law Review 101 (2004) (winner of the Dukeminier Award for the best sexual orientation law review articles of 2004)
Equality Without Tiers, 77 Southern California Law Review 101 (2004) (winner of the 2003 Association of American Law Schools Outstanding Scholarly Paper Award)
Thinking About Feminism, Social Justice, and the Place of Feminist Law Journals: A Letter to the Editors, 12 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 582 (2003).
On Making Anti-Essentialist Arguments in Court, 81 University of Oregon Law Review 629 (2002).
STRANGERS TO THE LAW: GAY PEOPLE ON TRIAL, University of Michigan Press (1998) (co-author).
