Katharine Young
Professor and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, Law
Specializations:
Feminist legal theory
International human rights
LGBTQIA+ rights
Reproductive rights and reproductive justice
Women's rights
Comparative constitutionalism
Economic and social rights (rights to housing, health care, education, social security, water, sanitation, clean environment)
Critical race theory
Critical legal studies
Law and the Global South
Course idea:
Feminist legal theory - U.S. and international perspectives
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Peng Yin
Assistant Professor of Ethics, Boston University
Specializations:
Religion and sexuality
Sexual ethics
Queer theology
Course idea:
Sexual ethics: a feminist-and-queer-centered attempt at thinking through contemporary conversations in sexual desire and pleasure, intimate violence, polyamory, sex work, pornography, as well as sex and technologies.
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Lisa Joffe
Lecturer, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis
Specializations:
Women's rights and religious law
Gender and multiculturalism
Family law
Course idea:
None specified
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Jocelyn Viterna
Professor, Sociology, Harvard University
Specializations:
Sociology, Reproductive Justice
Reproductive Health
Gender and Politics
Criminalization of Sexuality and Reproduction
Implicit/Explicit Gender Bias in the Judicial System
Gender-based Violence
Gender and War
Latin America
Course idea:
None specified
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Sylvia Sellers-Garcia
Associate Professor, History, Boston College
Specializations:
Colonial Latin America
Early modern Spain
Colonial Central America
History of empire
Narrative and literature
Course idea:
Comparative Colonialism Criminality, Violence, Gender, and Legal Structures
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Jill Weinberg
Assistant Professor, Sociology, Tufts University
Specializations:
Crime, Law, Deviance
Sports
The body
Research Methods
Course idea:
Non specified
Jill D. Weinberg is an Associate Professor of Sociology and an affiliated scholar at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, IL. She joined Tufts University after serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at DePaul University.
She is a scholar who examines the decriminalization through social process, focusing on the ways groups use rules, norms, and the language of consent and choice. Her first book, Consensual Violence: Sex, Sports, and the Politics of Injury(University of California Press 2016), examines how two groups that willingly engage in seemingly violent activities — mixed-martial arts and sexual sadomasochism -- enact elaborate law-like rules to organize themselves and to demonstrate their legitimacy to a broader public. Her second book project is a cross-country comparison of assisted death and the ways terminally ill people, their loved ones, and medical professionals navigate laws that proscribe or permit aid-in-dying.
Her second research stream emerges from the "Contested Constructions of Discrimination Project" funded by the American Bar Foundation. This project uses experimental research design and semi-structured interviews to compare how ordinary people and trial judges define employment discrimination.
She is widely published in peer-review journals such as Sociological Science, Sociological Methods & Research, and Law & Social Inquiry. Popular accounts of her work have appeared in the Advocate, the Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, Truthout, and the Society Pages.
In her free time, she is an avid runner and enjoys hanging out with her pugs.
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Libby Adler
Professor of Law, Northeastern University
Specializations:
Constitutional and family law
Administrative law
Gender, Sexuality and gender identity, and sexuality
Course idea:
None specified
Professor Adler holds a joint appointment with the School of Law and the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. She teaches Constitutional Law, Sexuality, Gender and the Law, Family Law and Administrative Law. Professor Adler has written extensively on sexuality, gender, family and children, including foster care, and draws heavily from queer and critical theory. Her book, Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform, was published in April 2018 by Duke University Press. She is also a co-editor of the casebook Mary Joe Frug’s Women and the Law (4th ed.), and has written about contemporary legal issues arising out of Nazism.
Professor Adler has served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, where she taught Women and the Law, and at the University of Frankfurt, where she taught a course on contemporary legal fallout from the Nazi labor program. She received the Northeastern University Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007-2008.
Prior to joining the permanent faculty, Professor Adler served Northeastern as a visiting professor in 1999-2000 and as a part-time lecturer in 1998-1999, while also a visiting researcher and graduate fellow at Harvard Law School. In the 1990s, she practiced as a policy attorney for the Massachusetts child support enforcement agency, drafting legislation and regulations.