Professor Julie Greenberg will be a visiting professor at the Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality at Kent and Keele Universities in England this spring.

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 is grateful for the opportunity to do this visiting professorship. “This is an opportunity for scholars from around the world to work to gather share knowledge, enhance scholarship and advance the goal of gender equality,” said Professor Greenberg.

Her latest book Sex Matters: Interesxuality, Transgenderism and the Law will be released by the New York University Press in 2008.
The Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality was founded in 2004 and involves a partnership between the University of Kent – the main physical base for the Centre – and the universities of Keele and Westminster. The overall aim of CentreLGS is to pioneer and facilitate work that analyses, investigates and deepens understanding of the relationship between Law, Gender and Sexuality.
CentreLGS seeks to broaden this field of studies by using humanities methods (philosophical, historical, doctrinal, literary and cultural) to analyze legal issues relating to gender and sexuality. It also seeks to deepen theorization of relations of inequality, in particular to explore how gender and sexuality intersect other social relations, including class, disability, ethnicity, and race.
Professor Greenberg will be in England from May 20 to June 10.