ATTENTION 3LS | Gender and the Law Seminar
Prof. Hillman’s Gender and the Law Seminar was added to the Fall 2023 schedule. There are six open seats remaining. If you have not satisfied your Advanced Writing Requirement, please enroll.
The course will be offered at 10:00 a.m. on Mondays.
Gender & the Law Seminar
Course 496
2-hour research/writing course
This seminar is intended to provide students with an understanding of the evolution of LGBTQ+ rights in the United States by providing an overview of the laws, policies, and politics surrounding sexuality and gender. We will examine Supreme Court jurisprudence addressing LGBTQ+ constitutional issues including intimacy, liberty, and marriage. We will also explore federal court treatment of statutory discrimination protections based on sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation in the workplace, education, healthcare, and housing, among others. The class will focus on how social progress has impacted LGBTQ+ legal rights by considering the treatment of the LGBTQ+ community during the Twentieth Century, how the law has transformed, and why. This is a dynamic and rapidly-evolving area of law, and this course provides an overview of its evolution, ongoing changes, and likely future progression and challenges.
Along with the subject matter, as a seminar course, this class will also focus on further developing students’ legal research and writing skills and will satisfy Memphis Law’s Advanced Writing Requirement. Students will complete a detailed and comprehensive research memorandum addressing a related topic of their choice that will require students to practice and improve their research skills using a broad range of sources. Students will conduct research and analysis in order to write a detailed, comprehensive, clear, and concise research memorandum addressing their chosen legal issue. Finally, this class will require students to further develop their ability to orally articulate their research topic confidently & coherently.
This course satisfies the Advanced Research/Writing requirement.
