DDRO 25A16 - Gender and Queer Law
DDRO 25A16 · Spring semester 2025-2026
- Language of tuition
- English
- Course type
- Cours séminaire
- Number of hours
- 24
- Credits
- 5
Information
Description
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? What real novelty in the concept of inclusion?
Prerequisites
Aucun
Assessment
Final paper (email sent by last class; 10 pages minimum (double spaced, no maximum length) on topic of choice, (a case, a law or a controversy). After discussion with me through individual zoom meeting. Outline due by email Evaluation: Commitment 10%; Final Paper 50 % MidTerm: (25%) & questions for each class + controversy: 15%
Readings
Main readings 5
-
D. Banović, Queer Legal Theory. In: Vujadinović, D., Álvarez del Cuvillo, A., Strand, S. (eds) Feminist Approaches to Law. Gender Perspectives in Law, vol 1. Springer, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14781-4_4
-
Janet Halley, Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism (Princeton University Press 2006).
-
Mercat-Bruns, Antidiscrimination law: from equality to inclusion, Société Législation Comparée 2024 (optional in French), on line translation in English available in January
-
Mercat-Bruns, M #Me too in France : a wave of ambivalence, in Noel, Oppenheimer D, The Global #Me too Movement Full Court Press 2020 (free ebook)
-
Mercat-Bruns, Marie. Discrimination at Work: Comparing European, French, and American Law. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. Free ebook: doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/luminos.11 (free e-book to download, mandatory)
Further readings 16
-
Combatting Intersectional Hate Speech at Work in I. Tourkochoriti, Oxford Handbook on Hate Speech, (publication Spring 2026)
-
Daniel Borillo, Le droit des sexualités, PUF 2009
-
Elsa Dorlin, Sexe, Genre et Sexualités PUF 2008
-
F. Valdes, Afterword & Prologue: Queer Legal Theory California Law Review n°83, 1995, p.344
-
Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations Edited by Martha Albertson Fineman, Jack E. Jackson, Adam P. Romero (2009)
-
Katherine Bartlett, Deborah Rhodes, Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, and Commentary Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2006
-
M Mercat-Bruns, Nouveaux modes de détection et de prévention des discriminations et accès au droit : discriminations systémiques et action de groupe ; algorithmes et préjugés ; harcèlement et réseaux sociaux, Société de législation comparée 2020
-
M. Mercat-Bruns, Domestic work and intersectional discrimination Droit social 2022, p.716
-
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, L’histoire de la construction de la discrimination systémique au Canada : l’émergence d’un droit de l’inclusion, RDT 2022, p.184
-
M. Mercat-Bruns, La discrimination intersectionnelle ; une notion émergente en droit du travail Bulletin Joly 2021, p. 52
-
M. Mercat-Bruns, La discrimination intersectionnelle et sa critique : quel intérêt ? RDT 2022, p.289
-
M. Mercat-Bruns, Le droit de la non discrimination : une nouvelle discipline en droit privé ? Recueil Dalloz, janv. 2017, p.224
-
M. Mercat-Bruns, Les inégalités à l’épreuve de la crise sanitaire, JCP Ed G 2021, p.460
-
Mercat-Bruns, Oppenheimer, Sartorius, Enforcement and Effectiveness of Antidiscrimination Law: Challenges and Innovative Tools Springer 2018
-
Shreya Atrey, Intersectional Discrimination Oxford University Press 2019
Teaching units
| Unit no. | Unit type | Teaching units | Teachers | Number of hours | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53594 | Cours séminaire | Gender and Queer Law | Marie MERCAT BRUNS | 24 | 5 |
Teachers
- Marie MERCAT BRUNS
In the curricula
- Bachelor, Programme d'échange, semestre 4, seminaires - 25/26COLLÈGE UNIVERSITAIRE - CAMPUS PARIS
- Bachelor, semestre 4, 25/26 : cours séminairesCOLLÈGE UNIVERSITAIRE - CAMPUS PARIS
Contacts and resources
- Contact
- KERROUCHI Karima