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

And just to lighten things up .... Prop 8: the musical
Watch it HERE
No on 8: "political malpractice"?
There is no shortage of blame, to put it mildly, circulating around the failure to stop Prop 8. Many voices have described the failure to connect adequately with communities of color. LA Weekly reports demands…
Obama's approach to governing
By Elizabeth Drew in the New York Review of Books:Starting during the debates, and then quite clearly in his election-night speech, Obama has sought to tamp down expectations of how much he will be able…
On the Prop 8 challenge case
The following column by Professor Vik Amar of UC-Davis Law, posted on Writ, analyzes the recent decision by the California Supreme Court to consider the question of whether Prop 8 violated state law and what…
Giving thanks for ... Kate Clinton
Closing out the holiday weekend with the inimitable Kate C
More on race and Prop 8
Charles Blow, the African-American columnist for the NY Times who both writes and produces compelling graphics for the op-ed page, has a column this morning in which he argues that lgbt rights advocates should concentrate…
Thanksgiving 2008, or, Let Obama be Obama
Various commentators have now discovered, to their apparent amazement, that President-elect Obama is not a leftist. As the dryly astute NYT columnist Gail Collins observed last summer, has no one been audacious enough to have…
Res ipsa ...
From a church in San Diego, a new (actually very old) face of Christianity; HT to Ken Liu
Epstein: Why marriage laws are like high tariffs, with the same solution
From the infuriatingly libertarian, but consistent, Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law, a column in Forbes on Prop 8, and why the answer is to de-regulate marriage from any government licensing:Today's harsh skirmishing…
FL court allows gay dad to adopt foster children
A Florida state trial court judge ruled today that the law banning adoption by any "homosexual" is unconstitutional under that state's constitution. Judge Cindy Lederman ruled that the provision violated the state equal protection clause,…