Research

A practical resource for legal academics, educators, and graduate students. Syllabi, teaching notes, annotated bibliographies, and reflections on integrating queer legal theory across the law school curriculum and beyond.

Teaching resources

Queer Legal Theory: A Seminar Syllabus A fifteen-week syllabus for a law school seminar introducing queer legal theory to students with or without prior theoretical training. Moves from foundational texts through contemporary applications in constitutional, family, criminal, and international law. Freely downloadable and adaptable.

Teaching Bostock Beyond the Holding Notes on using Bostock v. Clayton County as a vehicle for broader discussion of interpretive theory, the relationship between textualism and substantive outcomes, and what the decision leaves unresolved for trans employees. Suitable for 1L statutory interpretation units.

Reading Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick with Law Students A teaching guide developed through Cee Vee’s Reading Circle. Addresses common resistances, offers entry points through specific legal cases, and suggests discussion questions for seminars on constitutional law and legal theory.

Integrating Queer Perspectives in Family Law A set of supplementary materials — cases, theoretical readings, and discussion prompts — for family law courses that wish to move beyond formal LGBTQ+ inclusion toward deeper engagement with how family law constructs kinship, dependency, and the normal.

Annotated bibliographies

Foundations of Queer Legal Theory An annotated list of twenty essential texts for scholars new to the field — covering foundational queer theory, early queer legal scholarship, and key empirical works on law and sexuality.

Trans Rights and Administrative Law A specialised bibliography on the regulatory and administrative dimensions of trans rights, organised around the major federal agencies (HHS, DOE, DOJ) and their shifting interpretations of sex non-discrimination obligations. Updated following Loper Bright.

Queer of Color Critique and Legal Scholarship Gathering work at the intersection of queer theory, critical race theory, and legal scholarship. Emphasises authors whose work refuses the siloing of these traditions. Complements the Reading Circle’s Ferguson session.

Works in progress

On Queer Temporality and Limitation Periods A speculative piece exploring what queer theory’s engagement with time — Halberstam, Muñoz, Freeman — might offer to doctrinal debates about statutes of limitations, laches, and the temporal structure of legal injury.

The Archive and the Closet: Evidence Law and Queer Historical Injury An exploration of the evidentiary challenges of litigating historical anti-queer discrimination. Forthcoming.

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