Hunter Of Justice

"Offers commentary on sexuality and gender issues, mostly, but not exclusively, focusing on law."

Author: Nan Hunter is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and legal scholarship director at the Williams Institute, UCLA Law School. She is the co-author (with Bill Eskridge) of the casebook Sexuality, Gender and Law.

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Recent Posts from hunter of justice

Memo to the appointments committee: how to interview minority candidates
The hiring conference for entry-level law professors, known universally and grimly as the meat market, starts today. Having survived my one year as a candidate and many years on the hiring side of the table,…
ENDA in the Senate: how the hearing went
Bottom line: the hearing on S. 1584, the Senate side version of ENDA, was smooth sailing. Both this and the House committee hearing were probably more theater than anything else. Apparently, theater on this topic…
New proposal attempts to thread abortion needle in health reform
Anti-abortion House Dems, whose number is large enough to defeat health reform, have balked at the compromise worked out earlier to avoid the use of federal funds for abortion and are insisting on additional conditions.…
Gay marriage after Maine
As heartbreaking as it was for the people on the ground and as callous as this may sound, Maine 09 was just another move in the two steps forward, one step back dance that social…
ENDA chugging along
Both publicly and behind the scenes, things are moving on ENDA. Tomorrow at 10 a.m., the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee will conduct a hearing on this year's (trans inclusive) version of…
Election night results - Kalamazoo equal rights ordinance wins; gay candidates win in St Pete, Detroit, Akron, & Chapel Hill; Republicans take NJ & VA
Midnight sign-off - Things look grim for the No on 1 campaign in Maine, although no one has called the race. There might be a recount. In Washington state, however, the Approve R71 side is…
Washington state returns may take several days
Because Washington state is now totally a vote by mail jurisdiction (with one very small exception in one county), the only results that can be announced tonight for Referendum 71, on whether to validate a…
Races to watch on election night
>> LGBT rights: Danger in Maine Maine - Winning the ballot referendum on Maine's new marriage law would provide a huge psychological boost to gay marriage advocates because it would mark the first time that…
Split on abortion threatens health reform
CQ reports on an abortion impasse in the House that will hit the wall when the health reform bill goes to the floor. Anti-choice Dems are insisting that there be no allowance of abortion services…
MSU Law professors propose "e/marriage"
Michigan State Law Professors Adam Candeub and Mae Kuykendall have launched a website to promote the idea, explicated in their article, E: Marriage: Breaking the Marriage Monopoly, that states should permit a couple to marry…