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Gender and the Law Blog: New Book, Equality's Guardians Niels Petersen, Equality's Guardians (Oxford University Press Oct. 2025) Equality's Guardians offers an unparalleled comparative analysis of constitutional equality case law from apex courts across 18...

New Book--Equality's Guardians
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Gender and the Law Blog: Junk Science in Abortion Litigation Kirby Tyrrell ,Addressing Junk Science in Abortion Litigation, 55 U. Mem. L. Rev. 61 (2024) Junk science has been a longstanding feature of antiabortion legislative and litigation strategy. But after ...

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Gender and the Law Blog: The Problem With the Illusion of Stability in Family Law Kaiponanea T. Matsumura, The Illusion of Stability in Family Law, 78 Vanderbilt Law Review 1133 (2025) Stability is universally accepted as a central value in family law. Within the context of adult r...

The Problem With the Illusion of Stability in Family Law @kaipomatsumura.bsky.social
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Gender and the Law Blog: Study Finds Female Judges Impact Jury Trial Verdicts in NC by Increasing the Probability of Guilty Verdicts Alessandra Foresta, Lady Justice: The Impact of Female Judges on Jury Trial Verdicts in North Carolina, 88 European Journal of Political Economy (June 2025): 102678. In this work, I explore the influe...

Study Finds Female Judges Impact Jury Trial Verdicts in NC by Increasing the Probability of Guilty Verdicts @aforesta.bsky.social‬ lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: Call for Papers SCOTUS Blockbuster Cases 2025 Call for Papers SCOTUS Blockbuster Cases 2025 Written Symposium The Center for Constitutional Law at Akron The Center for Constitutional Law at Akron Law seeks submission of essays to publish as part ...

Call for Papers "SCOTUS Blockbuster Cases 2025," Summer Written Symposium with The Center for Constitutional Law. Deadline 8/25/25. lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: Amicus Brief Filed by NWLC in Ending Forced Arbitration Act Case Public Justice, along with the National Women's Law Center, and other organizations, filed an amicus brief in a case considering whether the Ending Forced Arbitration in Sexual Assault and Sexual Hara...

Amicus Brief Filed by @nwlc.org in Ending Forced Arbitration Act Case lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: Minor v. Happersett and the Repudiation of Universal Suffrage Ellen D. Katz, Minor v. Happersett and the Repudiation of Universal Suffrage Minor v. Happersett rejected a constitutional challenge to a Missouri law that excluded women from the electorate. Ratifica...

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Gender and the Law Blog: The Lawless Workplace and Commentary on the Book, Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy Matthew T. Bodie, The Lawless Workplace, 43 Law and Inequality 99 (2025) In their remarkable book

"The Lawless Workplace" and commentary on the Book, "Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy." @matthewtbodie.bsky.social lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: Ohio Case Asking Who Can Dispense Abortion Drugs Likely Headed to State Supreme Court Jo Ingles, Case Asking Who Can Dispense Abortion-Inducing Drugs Likely Headed to Ohio Supreme Court, Statehouse News Bureau A Hamilton County Court judge has blocked state restrictions on nurse practi...

OH Abortion Drugs Case Enjoins Restrictions on Providers Again lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: Map Shows the Impact of Obergefell v Hodges Decision

Map Shows Immediate Impact of Obergefell lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: Review of Gendered Liberty and the Puzzle of Constitutional Claims By Those Who Seek to Defy Gender Stereotypes Leah Litman, Free to Be You But Not Me, JOTWELL, reviewing Laura Portuondo, Gendered Liberty, __ Geo. L.J. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN. In Gendered Liberty, Prof. Laura Portuondo presents a do...

Review of Gendered Liberty by @lauraportuondo.bsky.social provided by @leahlitman.bsky.social lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: L. Joe Dunman on L. Joe Dunman has posted

"What Hath Obergefell Wrought" @joedunman.bsky.social
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Gender and the Law Blog: Serena Mayeri Published Serena Mayeri has published Marital Privilege: Marriage, Inequality, and the Transformation of American Law today with the Yale University Press. The summary of the book is excerpted here. The United ...

New Book "Marital Privilege" @serenamayeri.bsky.social lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: SCOTUS Rules South Carolina Planned Parenthood Cannot Sue for Defunding as No Individual Enforcement Right for Spending Powers The case is Medina v. Planned Parenthood, 606 U.S. ___ (2025). Adam Liptak, NYT, Supreme Court Rules Planned Parenthood Cannot Sue Over S. Carolina Defunding Effort The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday...

SCOTUS Rules South Carolina Planned Parenthood Cannot Sue for Defunding as No Individual Enforcement Right for Spending Powers lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: SCOTUS Revives Archaic Sex Discrimination Case of Geduldig Holding that Biology is not Gender Classification Leah Litman, The Archaic Sex-Discrimination Case the Supreme Court Is Reviving, Atlantic The Supreme Court’s decision last week in United States v. Skrmetti will have direct consequences for many tran...

SCOTUS Revives Archaic Sex Discrimination Case of Geduldig Holding that Biology is not Gender Classification @leahlitman.bsky.social lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: SCOTUS in Mahmoud Relies on Yoder Precedent to Require Religious Exemptions to Gender Identity Material in Public Schools The case is Mahmoud v. Taylor. CBS News, Supreme Court Sides with Parents who Objected to Kids' Books on Gender Identity, Sexuality The Supreme Court on Friday ruled in favor of a group of Maryland pa...

SCOTUS in Mahmoud Relies on Yoder Precedent to Require Religious Exemptions to Gender Identity Material in Public Schools lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

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And Alito's concurrence is giving the dissenters more reason to worry on this point.

Bonus 136: Nationwide Injunctions vs. Nationwide Class Actions If those who oppose non-plaintiff-specific relief are doing so on principle and not just politics, they should support more robust nationwide class action suits against the federal government.

It's worth keeping in mind, insofar as today's #SCOTUS ruling is going to put a lot of pressure on federal district courts to certify nationwide class actions, that part of why nationwide classes have become harder to certify is because of ... the Supreme Court:

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The work around for everyone will likely be more national class actions.

Gender and the Law Blog: SCOTUS Decides Skrmetti Case Holding that Trans Discrimination is not Sex-Based Discrimination Under Equal Protection The decision is here: US v. Skrmetti, 605 U.S. ___ (2025). Held. Tennessee’s law prohibiting certain medical treatments for transgender minors is not subject to heightened scrutiny under the Equal Pro...

SCOTUS Decides Skrmetti Case Holding that Transgender Discrimination is not Sex-Based Classification under Equal Protection. The case opinion and commentary here.
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OUT NOW - our episode on US v. Skrmetti, the case upholding TN’s ban on gender affirming care for minors.

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NEW: The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that a 2021 censorship law can't be used to ban teaching about race and gender in Oklahoma's higher education institutions.

This is a win for academic freedom and the First Amendment.

Gender and the Law Blog: SCOTUS Unanimously Rules in Reverse Discrimination Case to Reject Heightened Standard for Majority Group Claims Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services (6/5/2025) Justice Jackson for the majority opinion for a unanimous Court. Key takeaways: The Sixth Circuit’s “background circumstances” rule—which requires m...

SCOTUS unanimous in Ames rejecting heightened standard for Title VII discrimination alleged by member of majority group. (Straight woman v LGBTQ). Thomas concurs to criticize all "atextual legal rules & frameworks" & "judge-made doctrines" for statutes. lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: The State Action Doctrine as a Barrier to LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Anibal Rosario Lebron, Between the Pessimism of State Action and the Optimism of SSOGIE Equality, 53 SW. L. REV. 303 (2025) This article critically examines the limitations imposed by the state action...

The State Action Doctrine as a Barrier to LGBTQ+ Civil Rights @arosariolebron.bsky.social
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Gender and the Law Blog: Introducing the Australian Feminist Legislation Project Heli Askola, Kate Seear, Jamie Walvisch, Becky Batagol, Introducing the Australian Feminist Legislation Project This introductory chapter outlines the development, aims, methods, theory and structure ...

Introducing the Australian Feminist Legislation Project lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: New Book--Women's Rights in Liberal States: Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion and the Chimera of Rights New Book: Women's Rights in Liberal States: Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion and the Chimera of Rights (Cambridge University Press), available here. The introduction can be found on SSRN here. . The r...

New Book: Women's Rights in Liberal States. On the theoretical chimera of the liberal protection of rights. lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: Expanding Corporate Fiduciary Duty for Women's Rights Geeta Kohli, Expanding Corporate Fiduciary Duty, Michigan State L. Rev. (forthcoming) Equity and representation are difficult and risky topics at the moment. Nevertheless, given the social, economic, ...

Expanding Corporate Fiduciary Duty for Women's Rights lawprofessors.typepad.com/gender_law/2...

Gender and the Law Blog: Regulating Pregnant Women in the Post-Roe Era Ederlina Co, Eclipsed: Pregnant Women in the Post-Roe Era In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and au...

Opening the Door to Regulating Pregnant Women in the Post-Roe Era
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Gender and the Law Blog: Call for Papers SCOTUS Blockbuster Cases 2025 Call for Papers SCOTUS Blockbuster Cases 2025 Written Symposium The Center for Constitutional Law at Akron The Center for Constitutional Law at Akron Law seeks submission of essays to publish as part ...

Call for Papers, The Center for Constitutional Law: SCOTUS Blockbuster Cases 2025
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