Selected Works Old
Recent
Pedagogy
Sexuality & Law
- Justice Ginsburg’s Obergefell v. Hodges
- Thirteen False Blackbirds [on same-sex marriage]
- Lesbians & Abortions
- Sexual Justice, Student Scholarship & the So-Called Seven Sins
- Demokratia and Antigone, Before and After Sappho
- Judicial Review, Judicial Activism, Queer Rights, and Literature: A Conversation between the Honorable Michael Kirby and Professor Ruthann Robson,
- A Mere Switch or a Fundamental Change?: Theorizing Transgender Marriage,
- Unsettling Sexual Citizenship
- Judicial Review and Sexual Freedom
- Sexual Democracy
- Footnotes: A Story of Seduction
- The Missing Word in Lawrence v. Texas
- Assimilation, Marriage, and Lesbian Liberation,
- Lesbianism and the death penalty: a “hard core” case
Constitutional Law
- Justice Ginsburg’s Obergefell v. Hodges
- Public Interest Lawyering & Judicial Politics: Four Cases Worth a Second Look in Williams-Yulee v. The Florida Bar,
- “Losing My Religion”: Extended Role Play and the First Amendment Religion Clauses
- Beyond Sumptuary: Constitutionalism, Clothes, and Bodies in Anglo-American Law
- 27 Words, [The Second Amendment]
- Thirteen False Blackbirds
- Lesbians & Abortions
- Judicial Review, Judicial Activism, Queer Rights, and Literature: A Conversation between the Honorable Michael Kirby and Professor Ruthann Robson,
- Judicial Review and Sexual Freedom
- Sexual Democracy
- The Missing Word in Lawrence v. Texas
- Assimilation, Marriage, and Lesbian Liberation,
- The Specter of a Lesbian Supreme Court Justice: Problems of Identity in Lesbian Legal Theorizing,
- Ariadne’s Provisions: A “Clue of Thread” to the Intricacies of Procedural Default, Adequate and Independent State Grounds, and Florida’s Death Penalty
Commentary on Constitutional Law
Lane v. Franks for SCOTUSBlog:
- Opinion analysis: First Amendment clearly protects public employee’s subpoenaed testimony – but not sufficiently clearly to overcome qualified immunity
- Argument analysis: How wrong was the Eleventh Circuit about the First Amendment protections for a public employee’s subpoenaed testimony?
- Argument preview: First Amendment protections for public employee’s subpoenaed testimony, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 24, 2014, 1:26 PM)
- United States Supreme Court in Schuette: Michigan Can Ban Affirmative Action, London School of Economics Blog
- Justice Scalia’s Petard and Same-Sex Marriage, CUNY Law Review Footnote Forum
- Upcoming Supreme Court cases over the “contraceptive mandate” are dominated by issues of corporate personhood, religious beliefs, and sexual equality, London School of Economics Blog
- Confederate cotton creates modern issues, as the right to wear the Confederate flag is contested in contemporary U.S. schools, The London School of Economics Blog
- Puzzling Corporations: The Affordable Care Act and Contraception Mandate, JURIST
- High Fashion or Religious Fervor? Headwear Laws Fraught With Trouble, Commentary, The National Law Journal
- School dress codes: Miniskirt madness, Op-Ed, Los Angeles Times
- Case Comment: United States v. Windsor, Footnote Forum, CUNY Law Review
- Mandating Sweat-Free Garment Labels: Feasible Under the First Amendment, JURIST
- Sweat-free labels to change the garment trade, Op-Ed, The Los Angeles Times
- Toward a more perfect analysis, SCOTUSblog, same-sex marriage symposium
- What’s rational about rational basis review?, SCOTUSblog, same-sex marriage symposium
- A federal case? Answers Found in Tenth Amendment, Op-Ed, Los Angeles Times
Law & Literature
Poetry
Fiction
- The Struggle for Happiness (St. Martin’s Press, 2000) (short fiction)
- A/K/A (St. Martin’s Press, 1997) (novel)
- Another Mother (St. Martin’s Press, 1995) (novel)
- Cecile (Firebrand Books, 1991) (interlinked short stories)
- Eye of a Hurricane (Firebrand Books, 1989) (short stories) (winner of the Ferro- Grumley Award for outstanding fiction on lesbian life)
Short Fiction
Creative Nonfiction