Janet Halley

Royall Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Comparative Family Law and Family Law in Globalization
• Discrimination
• Family Law
• Law and Social Theory
• Law and the Humanities
• Legal Theory
• The Legal Regulation of Sexuality
• What is Critique?

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Comparative Family Law and Family Law in Globalization
• Creative Writing by Law Students
• Discrimination
• Family Law
• Law and Literary Theory
• Law and Social Theory
• Legal Theory
• The Legal Regulation of Sexuality
• What is Critique?

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

• 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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