DDRO 25A16 - Gender and Queer Law

In an era of technology, health crisis and transnational thinking, this course covers cutting edge issues, such as gender discrimination through algorithms, sexual harassment after #metoo, reproductive rights and strategic litigation and how feminist legal theory questions the way the law is constructed and applied according to stereotypical views of identity and systemic discrimination. The seminar investigates how queer theory influences the legal field by rejecting a binary view of identity and encompassing issues challenging LGBTQI groups. What do we learn from these different legal standpoints as we encounter changes in family, criminal and employment law? Does queer theory influence gender law? Are there new ways to consider legal concepts such as consent, personal autonomy, and intersectionality?
Marie MERCAT BRUNS
Séminaire
English
Autumn 2021-2022
- Participation / commitment to the course (10%) - Weekly questions and oral controversy (15%) - Mid-term paper on case law à la hauteur du 25% - Final paper (50%)
Mercat-Bruns, Oppenheimer, Sartorius, Enforcement and Effectiveness of Antidiscrimination Law: Challenges and Innovative Tools Springer 2018
Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations Edited by Martha Albertson Fineman, Jack E. Jackson, Adam P. Romero (2009)
Janet Halley, Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism (Princeton University Press 2006).
Mercat-Bruns, M #Me too in France : a wave of ambivalence, in Noel, Oppenheimer D, The Global #Me too Movement Full Court Press 2020
Mercat-Bruns, Oppenheimer, Sartorius, Enforcement and Effectiveness of AntidiscriminationMercat-Bruns, Marie. Discrimination at Work: Comparing European, French, and American Law. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1
Daniel Borillo, Le droit des sexualités, PUF 2009
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity Routledge (1990)
J. Radin, Contested Commodities Harvard University Press 1996
Katherine Bartlett, Deborah Rhodes, Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, and Commentary Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2006
Elsa Dorlin, Sexe, Genre et Sexualités PUF 2008
M. Mercat-Bruns, Harcèlement sexuel au travail en France: entre rupture et continuité, Quel genre de droit ? Lectures féministes du droit français, REGINE (Ed. CNRS 2014)
M. Mercat-Bruns, Discriminations en droit du travail : dialogue avec la doctrine américaine, Dalloz 2013
M. Mercat-Bruns, La doctrine américaine sur les discriminations et le genre : dialogue entre la critique du droit et la pratique, Jurisprudence critique n°3 2011, p. 93
M. Mercat-Bruns, L. Cluzel, Discriminations dans l'emploi, Etude comparative de la jurisprudence du Conseil d'Etat et de la Cour de cassation, étude proposée à la Halde (La Documentation Française, 2011)
M. Mercat-Bruns, Egalité salariale, discriminations individuelles et systémiques in Les discriminations entre les hommes et les femmes, dir. F. Milewski et H. Périvier Presses de Sciences Po 2011, p. 117
R. Siegel, C. McKinnon, Directions in Sexual Harassment Law, Yale University Press 2004 Hugues Fulchiron (sous la direct), Mariage-Conjugalité, Parenté-Parentalité, Thèmes et commentaires , Dalloz 2009.
Andrew Parker, Janet Halley After Sex?: On Writing Since Queer Duke University Press (July 2007).
M. Minow, Making All the Difference : inclusion, exclusion and American Law, Cornell University Press 1990
R. Siegel, C. McKinnon, Directions in Sexual Harassment Law, Yale University Press 2004
Hugues Fulchiron (sous la direct), Mariage-Conjugalité, Parenté-Parentalité, Thèmes et commentaires , Dalloz 2009