Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
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The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy (DJGLP) is an interdisciplinary publication of the Duke University School of Law, publishing on topics relating to gender, sexuality, race, or class in the context of law and public policy. DJGLP is the preeminent publication for its subject matter in the world.
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[edit] Mission
DJGLP's mission is to foster debate, publish work largely overlooked by other law reviews, and encourage scholarship outside the bounds of conventional law school curricula. In so doing, DJGLP takes an expansive view of law, engaging other disciplines including literature, sociology, anthropology, psychology, politics, and critical theory. DJGLP explores not only what the law was and is, but what the law could and should be.
[edit] Issues
Published twice yearly, issues of DJGLP are usually centered on a selected topic. In past years, DJGLP has published outstanding scholarship on such wide-ranging topics as Gender and Race in Adoption, HIV Law and Policy, Gender and Sports, Gender Issues in Divorce, and Queer Theory. In January 2007, DJGLP published Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination, the largest issue ever published by any journal at Duke Law School. In May 2007, DJGLP published Gender, Sexuality & the Military, the second largest issue ever published by any journal at Duke Law School.
[edit] Staff
The staff of DJGLP is thirty-six student editors. Editors are selected for membership based on performance in the 1L Casenote Competition and the 2L Work-on/Note-on Program. DJGLP works closely with faculty advisor Professor Catherine Fisk who, in addition to providing general guidance, advises the editors in topic and author selection.
[edit] Past Editors
| Editor-in-Chief | Volume | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Kathryn Branch | 1 | 1994 |
| Kelly Sather | 2 | 1995 |
| Lynn-Anne M. Schow | 3 | 1996 |
| John Donald | 4 | 1997 |
| Julie M. Riewe | 5 | 1998 |
| Evan W. Fuguet | 6 | 1999 |
| Douglas W. Benson | 7 | 2000 |
| Timothy Johnson | 8 | 2001 |
| Jessica Carter | 9 | 2002 |
| Gina Lucky Dizzia | 10 | 2003 |
| Montaye Sigmon McGee | 11 | 2004 |
| Kendra M. Laffe | 12 | 2005 |
| James R. Nowlin, III | 13 | 2006 |
| Ryan Scott Higgins | 14 | 2007 |
| Ambrea N. Watts | 15 | 2008 |
[edit] Recent Symposia
"Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination"
October 20, 2006
An October 20, 2006, symposium by the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy and led by Professors Catherine Fisk and Mitu Gulati explored the intersections of employer-mandated appearance codes and Title VII’s prohibitions on employment discrimination. In a series of roundtable discussions, 34 top legal and business scholars and practitioners in such areas as employment discrimination, workplace harassment, sexual orientation, race, and organizational behavior discussed the apparent conflict between some recent court decisions that have condemned stereotyping in the workplace and others that have upheld appearance requirements, among other issues. The symposium was cosponsored by Duke Law, Crowell & Moring, and McKee Nelson, and was the largest event of its kind at Duke Law during the 2006-2007 academic year.
“Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination” had its genesis in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Jespersen v. Harrah’s Operating Co., said Fisk. A majority of the court upheld Harrah’s decision to fire a long-time, well-liked bartender because she refused to comply with its requirements that female employees wear makeup. While courts have generally found it to be illegal to stereotype when making employment decisions, they have, as in Jespersen, sometimes upheld sex- or race-specific grooming requirements, said Fisk.
The symposium, which featured Jespersen’s attorney Jennifer Pizer of Lambda Legal Defense Fund and Paul Ades, associate general counsel for Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc., among the panelists, further probed the relevance of appearance as it relates to race, gender, religion, ethnicity, and an individual’s particular way of “performing” his or her racial or gender identity, as well as the organizational interest in and response to these issues. “Our identities are communicative simply as a function of who we are,” Professor Devon Carbado of University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law observed in his closing remarks. “We always have a performative identity whether we intend to or not.” Carbado noted that the day-long conversation “[had] been a manifestation of what we are asking courts to do, which is negotiate difference in a more serious way,” since notions of professionalism, branding, and business judgment cannot always be easily disaggregated from questions of race and gender.
Sixteen scholarly papers from symposium panelists on such topics as appearance as it relates to corporate branding, tattoos and cultural profiling in the workplace, and messages and consequences relating to minority workers’ workplace hairstyles – including braids, dreadlocks, and chemically straightened hair for black women – are collected in DJGLP, Vol. 14, No. 1. The issue is dedicated to Dean Katharine Bartlett, whose scholarly work on the law relating to dress and appearance is considered foundational to the field.
Part I of the symposium may be viewed here and Part II may be viewed here.
"Women in Combat: Is the Current Policy Obsolete?"
April 20, 2007
On April 10, 2007, the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy presented a lunchtime lecture by Colonel Martha McSally, USAF. Col. McSally spoke candidly about her experiences in the United States Air Force and offered her perspectives on the Department of Defense's policy excluding women from direct ground combat units.
In 1994, Col. McSally became the first woman to fly a combat mission and, in 2006, the first woman to lead a combat squadron. She also made headlines in 2002 when she successfully challenged a Department of Defense policy requiring female service members to wear the traditional Muslim abaya when off-based in Saudi Arabia.
Col. McSally's lecture may be viewed here.
