Janet E. Halley, professor of law at Harvard University, will deliver three Messenger Lectures at Cornell this fall. The theme of the lectures will be "Sexuality Harassment/Same-Sex Marriage."
All of the lectures are free and open to the public; they are:
Halley, who joined the faculty of Harvard Law School in 2000 and teaches courses on family law, is a leading scholar on the law, politics and theory of sexual orientation and group identity. Says Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark: "She is renowned for her work in family law, the theory of social movements and law and culture. She is both an experienced attorney and a bridge between the worlds of law and literary criticism."
Previously, Halley was on the faculty at Stanford Law School, where she was named the Robert E. Paradise Faculty Scholar for Excellence in Teaching and Research in 1996. At Stanford, she taught civil procedure, family law and a course titled Races, Communities and Nations: Identity in Law and Culture.
Halley is the author of Don't: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay Policy (Duke University Press, 1999) and a series of law review articles on equal protection for sexual minorities. She also has published widely on heresy and orthodoxy in early modern England and on 17th-century English literature. She has four books in progress, including Suspect Class(ifications): Rights and the Problem of Sexual Orientation Identity and Sexuality Harassment: A Critique of Sex Harassment Law.
The Messenger Lectures were established in 1924 by a gift from Cornell graduate Hiram Messenger 1880, with the intent of raising the moral standards of political, business and social life.
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