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Marginal Subjects of Law

 “The Semiotics of Consent and The American Law Institute’s Reform of the Model Penal Code’s Sexual Assault Provisions,” 1(1) (2021) Undecidables and Law: The Coimbra Journal for Legal Studies 49-83. Access HERE

“From Hatuey to Che: Indigenous Cuba Without Indians and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,” American Indian Law Review 33(1):201-238 (2008-2009). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 33AmIndLRev201(2009)HatueyChe

Emasculated Men, Effeminate Law in the United States, Zimbabwe and Malaysia,”  Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 17:1 (2005). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 17YaleJLaw&Fem1(2005)EmasculMen

“Director Independence and the Duty of Care:  Race, Gender, Class and the Disney-Ovitz Litigation,” St. John’s Law Review 79:1011-1103 (2005). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE79St.John’sLRev1011(2005)Disney

“Religion and the Discursive Language of Same Sex Marriage,”  Capital University Law Review 30(2):221-278 (2002). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 30CapitalULRev221(2002)ReligionSameSexMar

“Race, ‘The Race,’ and the Republic: Reconceiving Judicial Authority After Bush v. Gore,  Catholic University Law Review 51(4):1057-1113 (2002). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 51Catholic Univ 1057(2002)

“Measuring the Penetration of Outsider Scholarship in the Courts: Indifference, Hostility, Engagement,” 33 U.C. Davis Law Review 1173–1226 (2000).DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 33UCDavisLRev1173(2000)

“Toleration, Suppression and the Public/Private Divide: Homosexuals Through Military Eyes,” 34 Tulsa Law Journal 537 (1999). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 34TulsaLRev537(1999)Military

“Altheimer Symposium on Racial Equity in the 21st Century: Culturally Significant Speech: Law, Courts, Society and Racial Equity,” 21 U. Arkansas Little Rock Law Journal 845(1999). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE:21UArk(LittleRock)LRev845(1999)CultSigSpeech

“Tweaking Facts, Speaking Judgment: Judicial Transmogrification of Case Narrative as Jurisprudence in the United States and Britain,” 6 S. California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 611-662 (1998). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 6SoCalInterdiscLJ611(1998TweakingFacts

“Not a Zookeeper’s Culture: LatCrit Theory and the Search for Latino/a Authenticity in the U.S.,” 4 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy 7-27 (1998).DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE:  4TexHispJLPoly7 (1998)Zookeeper

“Inventing a ‘Homosexual’ for Constitutional Theory: Sodomy Narrative and Antipathy in U.S. and British Courts”, 71 Tulane Law Review 529-596 (1996).DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 71TulaneLRev529(1996)InventHomosex

“Exposing the Perversions of Toleration: The Decriminalization of Private Sexual Conduct, The Model Penal Code, and the Oxymoron of Liberal Toleration Oxymoron of Liberal Toleration,” 45(5) Florida Law Review 755-802 (1993). Download Article HERE.

“Raping Sodomy and Sodomizing Rape: A Morality Tale About the Transformation of Modern Sodomy Jurisprudence,” 21(1) American Journal of Criminal Law 37-125 (1993). Download the Article HERE

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