A number of courses at Northwestern Law deal substantively with issues related to sexual orientation, sexuality, and gender. The 2008-09 courses with significant attention paid to these issues are listed below, including Sexual Orientation and the Law, a seminar being taught this spring by adjunct professor Camilla Taylor, Senior Staff Attorney at Lambda Legal.
The clinics listed have represented LGBT clients in the past. Additionally, through the Public Interest Practicum (taught every semester by Professors Len Rubinowitz and Cynthia Wilson), students can extern for credit for 10-12 hours/week at organizations including Lambda Legal, the ACLU of Illinois’s Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, the AIDS Legal Council, and other Chicago-area legal organizations representing LGBT clients.
Additionally, Northwestern professors have published significant legal scholarship on LGBT issues. Professor Andrew Koppelman, a leading authority and frequent commentator on LGBT legal issues, is the author of “Expressive Association and the Ideal of the University in the Solomon Amendment Litigation,” Social Philosophy and Policy (June 2008). Professor Tonja Jacobi is the author of “How Massachusetts Got Gay Marriage: The Intersection of Popular Opinion, Legislative Action, and Judicial Power,” Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues (January 2007). Professor Kimberly Yuracko, who studies feminism and sex discrimination, participated in “Protecting Gender Nonconformity with a New Gender Essentialism” at the “Makeup, Identity, Performance & Discrimination” symposium at Duke in 2006. Each of these professors has participated in OUTLaw events in the past.
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