Law Review Articles

Correspondence (for Marlee Kline), 16 Canadian J. Women & L. 1 (2004) (essay in memorial issue for Marlee Kline).

Law Students as Legal Scholars, 7 N.Y. City L. Rev. 195 (2004) (essay/review of Scholarly Writing for Law Students and Academic Legal Writing).

The Missing Word in Lawrence v. Texas, 10 Cardozo Women’s L.J. 397 (2004).

Assimilation and/or Resistance, 1 Seattle J. Social Just. 631 (2003) (brief introduction to other articles in the issue).

Critical Challenges: A Conversation on Complicity and Civility in Legal Academia, 1 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 601 (2003) (co-written with Penelope Andrews & Sharon K. Hom) (analysis in dialogue form of the havoc a tenure dispute can wreak in a law school environment).

The Zen of Grading, 36 Akron L. Rev. 303 (2003) (essay reflecting on the inter-relationships between Zen and grading exams).

Assimilation, Marriage, and Lesbian Liberation, 75 Temp. L. Rev. 709 (2002) (substantial law review article examining assimilation, same-sex marriage, polygamy, incest, and motherhood).

Our Children: Kids of Queer Parents & Kids Who are Queer: Looking at Sexual Minority Rights from a Different Perspective, 64 Alb. L. Rev. 915 (2001) (article discussing the rights of the children of lesbian and gay parents and contrasting the rights of minors who are sexual minorities).

Making Mothers: Lesbian Legal Theory & the Judicial Construction of Lesbian Mothers, 22 Women’s Rts. L. Rep. 15 (2000) (article considering the rights of non legal parents).

Mostly Monogamous Moms? An Essay on the Future of Lesbian Legal Theories and Reforms, 17 N.Y.L. Sch. J. Hum. Rts. 703 (2000) (brief essay in symposium issue commemorating twentieth anniversary of Lesbian/Gay Law Notes).

The Politics of the Possible: Reflections on a Decade at CUNY School of Law, 4 N.Y. City L. Rev. 245 (2000) (reflective essay).

Beginning From (My) Experience: The Paradoxes of Lesbian/Queer Narrativities, 48 Hastings L.J. 1387 (1997) (article examining narrative theory in the context of lesbian legal theory).

Codifications: The Regulation of Lesbian Relationships, 9 Austl. Feminist L.J. 3 (1997) (article comparing the treatment of lesbian relationships in law and literature).

Sexual Minorities & "The" State, 2 Flinders J.L. Reform 68 (1997) (article presented at the 1996 Australian Law Teachers Conference considering both U.S. and Australian conceptions of the state as affecting sexual minorities).

The State of Marriage, 1 Y.B. N.Z Jurisprudence 1 (1997) (article comparing New Zealand and U.S. decisions relating to same-sex marriage).

To Market, To Market: Considering Class in the Context of Lesbian Legal Theories and Reforms, 5 U.S.C. J.L. & Women’s Stud. 173 (1995) (theoretical article examining postmodern conceptions of class in the context of lesbian legal theory and litigation).

Third Parties and the Third Sex: Child Custody and Lesbian Legal Theory, 26 Conn. L. Rev. 1377 (1994) (solicited for special issue: Solomon's Dilemma: Children and the Law exploring third party custody).

Incendiary Categories: Lesbian/Violence/Law, 2 Tex. J. Women & L. 1 (1993) (solicited for special issue on women and violence).

Posner's Lesbians: Neither Sexy Nor Reasonable, 25 Conn. L. Rev. 491 (1993) (solicited for a symposium on Richard Posner's Sex and Reason).

The Specter of a Lesbian Supreme Court Justice: Problems of Identity in Lesbian Legal Theorizing, 5 St. Thomas L. Rev. 433 (1993) (solicited for special issue: The 1990's: A New Jurisprudence Emerges).

Embodiments: The Possibilities of Lesbian Legal Theory in Bodies Problematized by Postmodernisms and Feminisms, 2 L. & Sexuality 37 (1992) (theoretical treatment of postmodernism and feminism).

Gender & Other Disadvantages, 18 Fla. St. L. Rev. 883 (1991) (reviewing Deborah Rhode's Justice and Gender).

Lavender Bruises: Intra-Lesbian Violence, Law & Lesbian Legal Theory, 20 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 567 (1990) (article examining lesbian domestic violence).

Lesbian Jurisprudence?, 8 Law & Ineq. 443 (1990) (article postulating a lesbian legal theory).

Lesbianism in Anglo-American Legal History, 5 Wis. Women’s L.J. 1 (1990) (article examining the historical treatment of lesbians in legal texts and acts).

Lifting Belly: Privacy, Sexuality & Lesbianism, 12 Women’s Rts. L. Rep. 177 (1990) (article considering the constitutional doctrine of privacy and its critiques as applicable to lesbians).

Lov(h)ers: Lesbians as Intimate Partners, 63 Temple L. Rev. 511 (1990) (co-written with S.E. Valentine)

Ariadne's Provisions: A "Clue of Thread" to the Intricacies of Procedural Default, Adequate and Independent State Grounds, and Florida's Death Penalty, 76 Cal. L. Rev. 87 (1988) (co-written with Michael Mello).

Judge Over Jury: Florida's Practice of Imposing Death Over Life in Capital Cases, 13 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 31 (1985) (co-written with Michael Mello).

Tired of Civil Rights: The Fifth Circuit Imposes an Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies Requirement in Section 1983 Actions, 12 Cumb. L. Rev. 391 (1981).

The Fourth Amendment Behind Bars: Search and Seizure in Prison, 5 Nat’l J. Crim. Def. 259 (1979).

Comment, Shark Infested Waters: Extraterritorial Application of Federal Controlled Substance Laws, 9 Stetson L. Rev. 145 (1979) (awarded the Elizabeth M. Leeman Award, for the best student work in each issue).

Note, Criminal Law: Federal Escape Statute - Jury's Discretion or Judge's Law?, 8 Stetson L. Rev. 428 (1979) (discussion of "homosexual panic" defense to escape from federal prison).

Books - Non-Fiction 

Sappho Goes to Law School (1998).

Gay Men, Lesbians, and the Law (1996).

Lesbian (Out)Law: Survival under the Rule of Law (1992).

Books - Fiction 

The Struggle for Happiness (2000) (short fiction).

Masks (1999) (poetry; introduction by Marge Piercy).

A/K/A (1997) (novel).

Another Mother (1995) (novel centering on a lesbian attorney who represents lesbian mothers in high profile custody litigation as well as lesbian mothers indicted for murdering their children).

Cecile: Stories (1991) (assigned in many women's literature courses).

Eye of a Hurricane (1989) (short stories; winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for outstanding fiction on lesbian life).

Articles in Periodicals 

Understanding FAIR v. Rumsfeld, Out, November 2005.

Lawyers and Poetry, 29 Legal Stud. F. 95 (2005) (selection of poetry).

A Conversation (with James R. Elkins), 29 Legal Stud. F. 144 (2005) (conversation with the editor of Legal Studies Forum on law and literature).

Lesbianism and the Death Penalty: A "Hard Core" Case, 32 Women’s Stud. Q. 181 (2004).

O P E N, 28 Legal Stud. F. 815 (2004) (fictional treatment of Oregon's open adoption statute).

Notes on a Different Case, 21 Creative Non-Fiction 6 (2003-4) (discussion of medical malpractice; winner of the Jewish Health Care Foundation/Creative Nonfiction Award).

Wedding Bell Blues (Transgender Marriage), Out, August 2003.

Queer Justice, Out, February 2003.

Faith, Fame, and Progress, Out, May 2002.

Sacred Cows: Polygamy, Incest, Bestiality and the Question of Same-Sex Marriage, Out, August 2001.

The Love Amendment, Out, February 2001.

Resisting the Family: Repositioning Lesbians in Legal Theory, 19 Signs 975 (1994) (special issue on feminist legal theory).

Discourses of Discrimination, 24:4 Radical America 39 (1993).

Mother: The Legal Domestication of Lesbian Existence, 7:4 Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 172 (1992).

Lesbian Love Contracts?, Sojourner: The Women’s Forum (July 1990).

Looking for Lesbian Legal Theory, 42 Sinister Wisdom 32 (1990).

Articles in Anthologies 

Reinscribing Normality?: The Law and Politics of Transgender Marriage, in Transgender Rights (Paisley Currah, Shannon Minter, and Richard Juang eds., 2006).

Legal Scholarship on Lesbianism & Other Minority Sexualities - Part of Feminist Jurisprudence?, in Feminist Jurisprudence, Women and the Law: Critical Essays, Research Agenda, and a Bibliography (Betty Taylor, Robert Munro & Sharon Rush eds., 1997).

Convictions: Theorizing Lesbians and Criminal Justice, in Legal Inversions (Didi Herman & Carl Stychin eds., 1995).

Our Relationships & Their Laws, in Dykelife (Karla Jay ed., 1995).

Pedagogy, Jurisprudence and Lesbian Sex in a Law School Classroom, in Lesbian Erotics (Karla Jay ed., 1995).

Violence Against Lesbians, in The Criminal Justice System and Women (Barbara Raffel Price & Natalie Sokoloff 2d ed., 1995).

Lesbicide in Femicide: The Politics of Women Killing (Diana Russell ed., 1992).

Articles in Encyclopedias 

Employment Law and Policy, in Encyclopedia of American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History and Culture (Marc Stein ed., 2004).

Rights of Association and Assembly, in Encyclopedia of American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History and Culture (Marc Stein ed., 2004).

Crime and Criminology, in Lesbian Histories and Cultures (Bonnie Zimmerman ed., 2000).

Law and Legal Institutions, in Lesbian Histories and Cultures (Bonnie Zimmerman ed., 2000).

Marriage, in The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History (Wilma Mankiller et al. eds., 1998).

Reprints/Excerpts/Translations 

Convictions: Theorizing Lesbians and Criminal Justice, reprinted in A Queer World: The Center for Gay and Lesbian Studies Reader (Martin Duberman ed., 1997).

Crimes of Lesbian Sex, excerpted and reprinted in Lesbians, Gay Men and the Law (Wm. Rubenstein, ed. 1993 & 2d ed. 1997) and Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society & Politics (Larry Gross & James D. Woods eds., 1999).

Lavender Bruises: Intra-Lesbian Violence, Law & Lesbian Legal Theory, excerpted and reprinted in Applications of Feminist Theory to Women’s Lives: Sex, Violence, Work & Reproduction (D. Kelly Weisberg ed., 1996); excerpted and reprinted in Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials (Weisberg & Appleton eds., 1998); and excerpted and reprinted in Domestic Violence Law (Nancy Lemon ed., 2000)

Lesbian Jurisprudence?, excerpted and reprinted in Margaret Davies, Asking the Law Question (1994).

Lesbische Rechtswissenschaft, in Streit: The Feminist Legal Theory Journal of Germany (1994) (translated into German by Annette Keinhorst).

Mother: the Legal Domestication of Lesbian Existence, reprinted in Motherhood (Martha Fineman ed., 1995); and reprinted in Adventures In Lesbian Philosophy (Claudia Card ed.,1994).

To Market, To Market: Considering Class in the Context of Lesbian Legal Theories and Reforms, reprinted as revised in Queerly Classed: Gay Men and Lesbians Write About Class (Susan Raffo ed., 1997).