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12 Dukeminier Awards: Best Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law Review 1 (2012-2013)

handle is hein.journals/dukemini12 and id is 1 raw text is: SINSTiUTl INTRODUCTION Welcome to the eleventh annual publication of The Dukeminier Awards: Best Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law Review Articles. Each year, hundreds of scholars, lawyers, judges, and law students publish articles on law and policy regarding sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity. The Dukeminier Awards, produced by The Williams Institute and students at the UCLA School of Law, recognizes the best among these articles. We publish The Dukeminier Awards to advance the following goals: * To encourage scholars to begin or continue writing about sexuality and gender identity law and public policy, and to provide valuable support and recognition to those who do so; * To disseminate superb scholarship regarding sexuality and gender identity to the general public, as well as to lawyers, judges, legislators, and policymakers; and * To encourage critical thought on cutting-edge topics in legal, political, and academic debate. Producing The Dukeminier Awards also offers a unique educational experience to students here at UCLA. Among the numerous courses at the UCLA School of Law that address sexuality and gender, the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Workshop is an annual seminar, taught by the senior Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow, which focuses specifically on legal scholarship. Students in this seminar read, think critically about, and ultimately vote on which articles constitute the best sexuality and gender identity scholarship of the year. This year, the seminar's structure was overhauled to improve the student learning experience and the process for selecting Dukeminier Award winners. In fall 2012, a committee of law professors from various institutions reviewed every legal article published between January 2012 and September 2012 that substantially relates to sexuality and gender identity law. 1 From an initial pool of over 100 articles, this committee, as well as students and professors from all over the country, nominated approximately twenty-five articles for a Dukeminier Award. An additional panel of law professors then reviewed that list and selected thirteen articles to advance to the final stage of review-the Sexual Orientation Workshop. These thirteen finalists thus comprised the core readings for the seminar. 1 The faculty committee reviewed articles that were published during a truncated period in 2012 because of a new change in the timeframe for when articles qualify for an award in any given year. Previously, The Dukeminier Awards operated on a calendar year; going forward, The Dukeminier Awards will operate on an academic year. For example, in 2014, The Dukeminier Awards will recognize articles that were published between September 2012 and August 2013.

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