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Courtney Cahill
Courtney Cahill
Professor of Law
Director, Honors Program
J.D., Yale
Ph.D., Princeton University
B.A., Columbia University
Known as one of the nation’s top experts on same-sex marriage, Professor Cahill’s articles have appeared in such prestigious publications as the Georgetown Law Journal, Washington & Lee Law Review and Northwestern University Law Review. While at Yale Law School, Professor Cahill served as the Chief Essays Editor for the Yale Law Journal and won several academic awards. Additionally, Professor Cahill served as a clerk for the Honorable Harold Baer, Jr. United States District Court, Southern District of New York.
Professor Cahill’s areas of specialization include Constitutional Law, Family Law, Sexuality and the Law, and Property. She recently presented her work during a conference honoring Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. A very popular teacher at RWU, she serves as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Brown University where she teaches Constitutional Law for the Department of Political Science.
Professor Cahill has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a B.A. from Columbia University (summa cum laude).
Selected Publications
Articles
Regulating at the Margins: Non-Traditional Kinship and the Legal Regulation of Intimate and Family Life, __ Arizona Law Review __ (forthcoming 2012)
Disgust and the Problematic Politics of Similarity, 109 Michigan Law Review 943 (2011)
Celebrating the Differences That Could Make a Difference: United States v. Virginia and a New Vision of Sexual Equality, 70 Ohio State Law Journal 943 (2010)
(Still) Not Fit To Be Named: Moving Beyond Race To Explain Why 'Separate' Nomenclature for Gay and Straight Relationships Will Never Be 'Equal', 97 Georgetown Law Journal 1155 (2009)
Rhetorical Atavism and the Narrative of Progress in the Debate Over Marriage Equality, 1 Freedom Center Journal 64 (2008)
The Genuine Article: A Subversive Economic Perspective on the Law’s Procreationist Vision of Marriage, 64 Washington and Lee Law Review 393 (2007).
If Sex Offenders Can Marry, Then Why Not Gays and Lesbians?: An Essay on the Progressive Comparative Argument, 55 Buffalo Law Review 222 (2007)
Same-Sex Marriage, Slippery Slope Rhetoric, and the Politics of Disgust: A Critical Perspective on Contemporary Family Discourse and the Incest Taboo, 99 Northwestern University Law Review 1543 (2005)