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Julie A. Greenberg, Professor of LawJulie A. Greenberg

Professor of Law

J.D., University of Michigan,
cum laude;
B.A., University of Michigan,
cum laude

Telephone: 619.374.6931
Email: julieg@tjsl.edu

Professor Greenberg is an internationally recognized expert on the legal issues relating to gender, sex, sexual identity and sexual orientation. Her path-breaking work on gender identity has been cited by a number of state and federal courts, as well as courts in other countries. Her work has been quoted in hundreds of books and articles and she has been invited to speak at dozens of national and international conferences on the subject. She joined the Thomas Jefferson faculty in 1990 and was the Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 2003-2005. She serves on a number of nonprofit organizations’ boards of directors and has also been involved in a variety of community service projects relating to the rights of women and sexual minorities. Professor Greenberg’s work on behalf of LGBTI rights was recognized by the Tom Homann Association in 2006 when it presented her with the “Friend of the Community” award. She also was voted by her peers as one of San Diego’s Top Attorneys in Academics for 2006.

Scholarship

Books

Sex Matters: Intersexuality and the Law (NYU Press, forthcoming 2008) 

Articles, Book Chapters and Other Article-Length Works 

The Road Less Traveled: An Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Analysis of Binary Sex Catagories, in Transgender Rights: History, Politics, and Law, (Paisley Currah & Shannon Minter, eds., Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006)

Intersex and Intrasex Debates: Building Alliances to Challenge Sex Discrimination, 13 Cardozo J. of L. And Gender 101 (2006)

International Legal Developments Protecting the Autonomy Rights of Sexual Minorities, 87 in Ethics and Intersex, (Sharon Systma ed., 2006)

You Can’t Take it With You: Constitutional Consequences of Interstate Gender Identity Rulings, 80 Wash. L. Rev. 819 (with Marybeth Herald) (2005)

When Is a Same-Sex Marriage Legal? Full Faith and Credit and Sex Determination, 38 Creighton L. Rev. 289 (2005)

Because of Sex, San Diego Lawyer, 50 (Nov./Dec. 2004)

Gender Nonconformity: A Comprehensive Theoretical Approach to Break Down the Maternal Wall and End Discrimination Against Gender Benders - Commentary on Keynote Speaker Joan Williams's "Beyond the Glass Ceiling,"  26 T. Jefferson L. Rev. 37 (2003)

Legal Aspects of Gender Assignment, 13 Endocrinologist 276 (2003)

Definitional Dilemmas: Male or Female? Black or White? The Law's Failure to Recognize Intersexuals and Multiracials (ch. 5), In Gender Nonconformity, Race, and Sexuality: Charting the Connections 102 (Toni Lester, ed., Wisconsin Univ. Press, 2002)

What Do Scalia and Thomas Really Think About Sex? Title VII and Gender Nonconformity Discrimination: Protection for Transsexuals, Intersexuals, Gays, and Lesbians, 24 T. Jefferson L. Rev. 149 (2002)

Deconstructing Binary Race and Sex Categories: A Comparison of the Multiracial and Transgendered Experience, 39 San Diego L. Rev. 919 (2002)

When Is a Man a Man and When Is a Woman a Woman?, 52 Fla. L. Rev. 745 (2000)

Defining Male and Female: Intersexuality and the Collision Between Law and Biology, 41 Ariz. L. Rev. 266 (1999)

Reconceptualizing Preconception Torts, 64 Tenn. L. Rev. 315 (1997)

Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress: A Proposal for a Consistent Theory of Tort Recovery for Bystanders and Direct Victims, 19 Pepperdine L. Rev. 1283 (1992)

List of Works

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Subjects include:

Business Associations, Corporate Finance, Sexuality, Gender & the Law, Women & the Law.



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