News
Recent Publications:
Before and After Sappho:
Part 1: Logos, in Trivia: Voices of Feminism (available here).
Part 2: Eudaemonia, is forthcoming in Law & Literature (available on ssrn here)
Part 3: Demokratia, is forthcoming in Stetson Law Review.
A Couple of Questions about Class Mobility, an essay in Harvard Review.
Compulsory Matrimony, in Feminism and Queer Legal Theory (available on ssrn here).
A Servant of One’s Own: The Continuing Class Struggle in Feminist Legal Theories and Practices, an essay-review in
Berkeley Journal of Gender Law and Justice (available here).
Unsettling Sexual Citizenship, an essay-review in McGill Law Journal (available here).
Like Girls, fiction available from Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue.
dinner with anyone, fiction available at the “second helpings” issue of a new lesbian online magazine: read these lips.
any reason, fiction from a new journal, J Journal, a journal of justice, from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY (available here).
WATCH THIS SPOT FOR FUTURE PUBLICATIONS:
A Conversation on Judicial Power and Queer Rights with Justice Michael Kirby is forthcoming in Suffolk University Law Review.
Biography
Ruthann Robson, Professor of Law and University Distinguished Professor, writes legal scholarship and theory, fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
She is the author of SAPPHO GOES TO LAW SCHOOL and LESBIAN (OUT)LAW: SURVIVAL UNDER THE RULE OF LAW, as well as the novel a/k/a and short fiction collection The Struggle for Happiness (both from St. Martin’s Press) and Cecile and Eye of a Hurricane (both from the lesbian-feminist press Firebrand Books).
An annotated bibliography of her work from 1979-2005 by Sanja Zgonjanin appeared in 8 New York City Law Review 682 - 774 (2005).
She has taught at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law since 1990 in the areas of constitutional law, family law, feminist legal theory, and sexuality and the law. The New York City Law Review has published a symposium on her work in volume 8, issue 2. In 2007, the CUNY board of Trustees designated Professor Ruthann Robson a University Distinguished Professor. A profile by Jill Jarvis is featured on the CUNY website. A profile by Emily Sachar is featured in CUNY LAW, the law school magazine.
Other recent activities include being a 2007 Fellow in Nonfiction Literature, New York Foundation for the Arts; Bram Fischer Research Chair, Witwatersrand (WITS) Law School, Johannesburg, South Africa; Collaborative Research Fellowship, University of Sydney; Djerassi Artists Fellowship Residency; and a CALI (Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) Family Law Fellowship.
Her comments on Constitutional Law can be found at Constitutional Law Prof Blog.
Ruthann Robson