Join the Williams Institute and the Dukeminier Awards Jounral for a panel presentation of six law review articles selected as this past year’s best legal scholarship concerning LGBTQ issues. Trans issues are well-represented across the articles. Noa Ben-Asher’s article examines how “regret” is used in bans on abortion and gender-affirming care for minors. Ari Waldman’s article shows how the law promotes an automated administrative state that binarizes gender data and erases transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people. Dara Purvis’s article uses student speech cases to demonstrate that current attempts to define gender identity as an inappropriately sexualized topic for children are inconsistent with existing law. And NTBA co-chair D Dangaran’s essay defends the Americans with Disabilities Act as a viable path for trans plaintiffs in prison to seek gender dysphoria accommodations using a critical autoethnographic lens.

The winners will receive their awards and give presentations on September 17 at 12:00pm PT. RSVP at bit.ly/Dukeminier2025. The session is approved for 1 hour of California MCLE credit.