Women and the Law

This course focuses on the ways gender identity affects how we interact with systems of power including the law, the law-making process, the Judiciary, and the legal profession. The course will cover a broad range of case law across many practice areas, setting out the legal framework for analysis of gender and gender-based policies, along with the material from economists, social scientists, and theorists regarding a wide range of issues as they pertain to gender-based rights. The course will also examine the ways in which these legal frameworks and public policies create—and often, fail to create—just and equitable outcomes. It will focus heavily on the intersectional movements within law and society that seek to address these failures across disciplines; as such this course will look at gender rights in the context of work, education, healthcare, family, criminalization, economics, racial inequity, disability, sexuality, and more.

International Criminal Law