U.K. Marriage Equality Bill Introduced This Week – What Will It Do?
This week the British government introduced a bill into Parliament that would allow same-sex couples to marry. While the bill may signal progress on the issue of marriage equality in Britain, some...
View ArticleMarriage Is a Mixed Blessing
From today’s New York Times (and the headline wasn’t my choice, I preferred Marriage: It’s Complicated). It’s hysterical that the Times is running ads for diamond wedding rings right above the Op-ed....
View ArticleTime to Queer Marriage. Let’s Start With “Til Death Do Us Part”
With what seems like marriage around the corner in New York for same-sex couples, some of us have been thinking about how to Queer the politics of full legal recognition. Reform of the marriage law is...
View ArticleNY Appellate Court Lets Lawyer Shift Madoff Losses to His Ex-Wife – Huh?
Above the Law ran the story below today about a decision from the NY Appellate Division, Simkin v. Blank, in which a divided court allowed Steven Simkin to reopen a divorce settlement on account of...
View ArticleWeekly Roundup: Sex Harassment in the Classroom, “Illegitimacy”!, and How It...
Here’s the weekly roundup of events of note that were worthy of longer comment, if I had more time: Timothy Taylor - Out of a Job The University of Florida has fired a male professor after finding that...
View ArticleSupreme Court Roundup: 8th Amendment Rights of Teenagers, Indefinite...
The Supreme Court issued three very important decisions today all of which, in different ways, engage issues of gender and/or sexuality law: - Graham v. Florida, holding that teenagers may not be...
View ArticleFamily Law as Property Law: What the NY Court of Appeals Really Did in Debra H.
As was noted in yesterday’s post about the New York Court of Appeals’ decision in the Debra H. v. Janice R. case, the non-bio mom in a lesbian relationship won the right to a hearing on whether she...
View ArticleWho “Owns” the Marriage Equality Issue?
The last several weeks have been busy ones in the battle for marriage equality. The governors of Maine and New Hampshire signed laws that allowed same sex couples to marry. California’s Supreme Court...
View ArticleThe Countess and the Mogul: Bad Divorce Law
Reform of divorce laws in light of the ways in which many women end up much worse off than their ex-husbands after divorce remains a huge problem for those of us concerned about Gender Justice. But...
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