The first-year curriculum often strikes students as unrelated to the most pressing legal issues of the day.
To address this, last year the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law teamed up with faculty members who teach 1L courses in Torts, Property, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, and Contracts to organize an event called “Abortion as the Curriculum." Professors “taught their subject” through the lens of the right to abortion, showing how each of their respective subjects is critical to the legal questions surrounding a right to abortion, reproductive autonomy, or sexual liberty.
Given how popular the event was last year, we decided to do it again this Fall, focusing on one of the most critical social and legal issues of the moment: LGBTQ+ rights. We intend to explore issues like parental rights, bodily integrity, the criminalization of non-cis bodies, and much more. Professors Clare Huntington, Susan Sturm, Bernard Harcourt and Ashraf Ahmed will join CGSL’s Director, Prof. Katherine Franke to discuss how LGBTQ+ rights appear in the areas of Property, Torts, Civil and Constitutional Law. CLS 3L student Jackson Springer will speak to its relevance in the area of Contract Law.