Gender, Sexuality, and U.S. Law

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This course provides both a historic and contemporary overview of the treatment of gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity in the United States court systems. Focusing largely on court decisions, we will examine policy issues including, but not limited to same-sex marriage, the right to privacy, affirmative action, abortion, discrimination in education and in the workplace, as well as First Amendment law relevant to gender and sexuality.