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Course Titles and/or Descriptions
- Gender and the Law (3) Law-7802: This course focuses on gender-related case law, doctrine, theory, and practice. It explores the legal history of the United States as a gendered system, including the development of modern equal protection analysis as applied to gender in various areas of the law, including employment, immigration, family, and property. Using feminist theoretical perspectives as a guide for readings and discussion, we will examine how the pursuit of women's political rights have shaped not only American jurisprudence, but also gender relations for both women and men through regulation of such issues as marriage, divorce, work, reproduction, and the family. Readings will include court cases, historical documents, and scholarly essays on sexual inequality in the United States. Students will be responsible for researching and writing a paper on a relevant topic. There are no prerequisites for this subject. Students of both sexes and all political views are encouraged to enroll. This course will satisfy the Substantial Writing Requirement.
- Seminar Sexual Orientation and the Law (2) Law-7846: This course explores legal recognition and regulation of sexuality and gender identity. We will look at how broad constitutional principles apply to sexual orientation and gender identity, such as the concept of minority status and rights, federalism, privacy rights, equal protection, and First Amendment rights. We will critically examine government regulation of several aspects of life, including sexuality and privacy; same-sex coupling; sexuality, gender, and parenting rights; expression of sexual identities; hate violence and criminal "justice"; and sexuality, gender, and the US military. Most of the readings will be "black letter" law from decisions, statutes, and administrative rules. However, we also will examine concepts from a variety of disciplines (and other countries) in order to broaden our perspectives and enhance our understanding of American law. Each student will prepare a final research paper instead of a final exam. This course is offered approximately every other year. This course allows the optional production of a paper that will satisfy the Scholarly Writing Requirement. Enrollment is limited to 15 students.
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Additional Information
Safe Space Training Workshops are available for students, faculty, and staff.
The law school has a Diversity Week each year that includes speakers on LGBT issues, as well as a university-wide PRIDE week that includes awards.
Programs on campus that benefit the LGBT community include a presentation on tax issues for LGBT couples and presentations on the status of litigation concerning same-sex marriage.
Sixteen members of the faculty and administration, as well as the head of our board of visitors and the university president, filed a brief in the California Supreme Court supporting the legality of same-sex marriage in this state.
There exists a close working relationship between OutLaw and outside LGBT groups such as LAMBDA Legal and Orange County Equality Coalition.
LGBT topics are raised in classes such as Constitutional Law, Employment Law, and Family Law.
Additionally, the local legal community is starting an affiliate bar for LGBT attorneys.
OutLaw
- Set up tabling events and hosted a legal forum on same sex marriage in advance of the November 2008 election on Proposition 8.
- Hosted another forum when Proposition 8 passed, "Prop 8 Passed—Now What?"
- Participated in a holiday Equality Card writing event.
- Was named as an amici in an amicus brief submitted to the California Supreme Court in Strauss v. Horton, the lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of Proposition 8.
- Cohosted two legal forums at the University of California Irvine (UCI) with the Orange County Equality Coalition (OCEC) on same-sex marriage rights.
- Cohosted a public interest panel with focus on LGBT experience in the legal field.
- Organized a mixer for LGBT student groups at all Southern California law schools.
- Participated in the law school's annual Diversity Week food fair.
- Cohosted a bar review and one of the law school community's monthly En Banc social sessions.
- Hosted a One Year After Prop 8 legal forum.
- Cohosted, along with the law school's Tax Law Society, a forum on tax issues for LGBT people.
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