This course will survey leading issues at the intersection of gender, law, and public policy. Topics may include marriage, education, employment discrimination, contraception, abortion, sexual harassment, rape, domestic violence, pornography, and intersections with race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation. Leading cases will be placed in conversation with historical and theoretical texts drawn from feminist legal thought and other critical traditions. Course requirements will include attendance, class participation, short reading responses, and a longer final paper. There will be no final examination. With permission of the instructor, students may write long papers for R credit instead of shorter papers. After the term begins, students enrolled in the course can transfer from section (LAW 01) into section (LAW 02), which meets the R requirement, with consent of the instructor. Open to students from other schools with the consent of the instructor.
3 units · Law Honors/Pass/Restrd Cr/Fail
This course will survey leading issues at the intersection of gender, law, and public policy. Topics may include marriage, education, employment discrimination, contraception, abortion, sexual harassment, rape, domestic violence, pornography, and intersections with race, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation. Leading cases will be placed in conversation with historical and theoretical texts drawn from feminist legal thought and other critical traditions. Course requirements will include attendance, class participation, short reading responses, and a longer final paper. There will be no final examination. With permission of the instructor, students may write long papers for R credit instead of shorter papers. After the term begins, students enrolled in the course can transfer from section (01) into section (02), which meets the R requirement, with consent of the instructor. Open to students from other schools with the consent of the instructor.
Offered in Winter 2026 at Stanford University.