Critical Theory and Legal Theory

Critical Theory and Legal Scholarship, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2020

2019 Class Syllabus

Law and Society in Michel Foucault’s Collége de France Lectures, 2014

What is Critique? (Reading Group), 2002

Legal Realism (Reading Group), 2008


Discrimination and Difference; Social Movements and the Law

Discrimination, 2002-04

Identity and Difference, 1992, 1993, 1996

Races, Communities and Nations: Identity in Law and Culture (usually with Thomas C. Heller), 1995, 1996, 1998

Representing Social Movements: 1997 (with William Simon); 1999, (with Dori Spivak, at Tel Aviv University) 2005

1999 Class Syllabus

Act and Identity: Representation in Law and Culture (with Judith Butler), 1998

Transgender Law (with Dean Spade), 2006

The Poetics of Sexual Injury (with Andrew Parker), 2004

Feminism(s) and Pornography (with Jane Kamensky), 2017

2017 Class Syllabus


Family Law

Family Law, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999-2007, 2009-13, 2021

Child, Family, State, 2013, 2016

Regulation of the Household, 2008-2009

Comparative Family Law: Egypt and the United States, 2005, 2006 (at the American University of Cairo Law Department)

Theories of the Family, 1998, 2003

Family Law of Poor Families, 2018

2018 Class Syllabus

Reproductive Rights and Justice (with Mindy Roseman), 2015, 2016