S. Sexuality and Gender Law Practicum

The Practicum on Sexuality and Gender Law offers students a first-hand opportunity to dedicate a semester to legal and public policy issues related to gender and sexuality law. Legal issues concerning family, gender, and sexuality are among the key and complex concerns of our time and often involve issues most personal to us. With so much at stake, this course empowers students with a cutting-edge opportunity to step into the shoes of lawyers advocating on sexuality and gender law issues with leading organizations doing this work. This course combines a weekly two-hour seminar and project work. The seminar component focuses on the Practicum’s cornerstones of collaboration, communication, and a multidimensional approach to advocacy--- a practice of being smart, strategic, and creative in identifying and deploying resources to advocate for social change. The seminar sessions will address your lawyering and advocacy skills by learning about the work of law reform the challenges, opportunities, strategies, and creative thinking involved in developing strong legal skills as a movement attorney in this area. The Project work component will build upon the seminar sessions so students can gain insight into movement lawyering in sexuality and gender law. Student work intensively throughout the semester at leading organizations focused on litigation, legislative advocacy, public policy analysis, and public education.