Story and Photos by Bronte Lawson Silverstein
The USC Gould School of Law’s Critical Legal Studies Association hosted a lecture by Professor Nancy D. Polikoff on her most recent publication, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law.
Professor Polikoff teaches family law, civil procedure, and sexuality and the law at American University Washington College of Law in D.C. She has written several articles pertaining to gay and lesbian families and was instrumental in developing legal theories in support of second-parent adoption and visitation rights for legally unrecognized parents.
Polikoff spoke to an audience of students, staff and faculty about how her book criticizes both the conservative “marriage movement” and the gay rights “marriage equality movement” for leaving out various other types of family structures that would benefit from policy reform.
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