DDRO 25A16 - Gender and Queer Law

In an era shaped by technological change and growing attention to structural inequality, this course explores how anti-discrimination law seeks to remedy gender-based and queer oppression while confronting its own conceptual and institutional limits. Drawing on feminist, queer, intersectional, and critical legal theories, the seminar examines issues such as systemic discrimination, gender identities, work and economic dependency, sexuality, reproduction, and sexual violence after #MeToo. Through comparative perspectives from the US, Canada, and Europe, students will investigate how law constructs and responds to inequality, and whether legal concepts such as equality, consent, autonomy, and recognition can adequately address structural forms of domination.

No prerequisites

Lectures and practical courses

Mid Term paper by email by 1st nov. 2026: 5 pages minimum (double spaced) on topic of choice, (a case, a law or a controversy), after discussion and validation.

Final Evaluation: A 10-minute oral presentation on a topic covered in class, with 10 minutes of preparation time (on a debate question, a case law, etc.)

Evaluation: Commitment 10%; Final Evaluation 50 % Mid-Term: (20%) & questions for each class + controversy: 10%