Janet Halley

Royall Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Family Law
• Comparative Family Law and Sexuality
• Gender in Transnational Law
• Queer Theory in Legal Studies
• Critical Legal Studies

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Comparative Family Law and Sexuality
• Critical Legal Studies
• Family Law
• Gender in Transnational Law
• Queer Theory in Legal Studies

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Family Law
• Sexuality and the Law

Education

• Princeton University B.A. 1974
• University of California at Los Angeles Ph.D. 1980
• Yale Law School J.D. 1988

Appointments

• Visiting Professor of Law, 1999
• Professor of Law, 2000
• Royall Professor of Law, 2006

Practice Information

Prior to attending law school, Professor Halley taught English at Hamilton College. She is an expert in family law and the legal regulation of gender and sexuality.

Representative Publications

• After Sex? On Writing Since Queer Theory (Janet Halley & Andrew Parker eds., Duke University Press 2011).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  (with an introduction by the editors)
  
• Halley, Janet. "What is Family Law?: Genealogy Part II," 23 Yale J. Law 189 (2011).
  
• Halley, Janet. "What is Family Law?: Genealogy Part I," 23 Yale J. Law 1 (2011).
  
• Halley, Janet. "Rape in Berlin: Reconsidering the Criminalisation of Rape in the International Law of Armed Conflict," 9 Melbourne Journal of International Law 78 (2008).
  Full text: WWW
  
• Halley, Janet. Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism (Princeton University Press 2006).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  
• Halley, Janet. Left Legalism/Left Critique (Wendy Brown ed., Duke University Press 2002).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  
• Halley, Janet. Don't: A Reader's Guide to the Military Anti-Gay Policy (Duke University Press 1998).
  Full text: AMAZON (Purchase)
  

Bibliography

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