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Women's & Gender Studies Program
Wake Forest University
Tribble Hall, A106A
P.O. Box 7365
Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Phone: 336-758-3758
Fax: 336-758-4143
wgs@wfu.edu

Dr. Shannon Gilreath - Professor for Interdisciplinary Study & University Fellow in Law

School: Wake Forest School of Law
Office: 2214 Worrell Professional Ctr
Phone: (336) 758-6114
Email: gilreasd@law.wfu.edu

Education:

J.D.: Wake Forest University School of Law

B.A.: Lenoir-Rhyne College

Courses Taught for WGS:

WGS 377: Special Topics: Sexuality and the Law

WGS 377E/WFU Law: Special Topics: Pornography - A Discussion of Equality, Speech, and Harm

Professional Research/Focus:

Constitutional Law

Sexuality and the Law

Law and Religion/Morality

Law and Society/Social Change

Selected Publications:

Completed Works

Books and Parts of Books

• Sexual Identity Law in Context: Cases and Materials (West, American Casebook Series, 2007)(Editor)
• Sexual Politics:  The Gay Person in America Today (University of Akron Press, Law, Politics, and Society Series, 2006).

Nominated for the American Library Association Stonewall Prize for Gay/Lesbian Non-fictionand the Lambda Literary Foundation Award for Non-Fiction

• “Constitutional Status of Gay Marriage,” in Michael K. Curtis, J. Wilson Parker, et al, Constitutional Law in Context 2nd ed. (Carolina Academic Press, 2006). 

Law Journal Articles

• Transforming Teenagers into Sex Felons: The Persistence of “Crime Against Nature” Prosecutions after Lawrence v. Texas (with Michael Kent Curtis) (Wake Forest Law Review, Spring 08). 
• Sexually Speaking: “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the First Amendment after Lawrence v. Texas, 14 Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy 953-976 (May 2007) (Gender, Sexuality & the Military Issue) (draft available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=982195)
• Of Fruit Flies and Men: Rethinking Immutability in Equal Protection Analysis—with a View toward a Constitutional Moral Imperative, 9 Journal of Law and Social Change 1- 39 (U. Pennsylvania Law School) (Summer 2006) (draft available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=898856)
• The Technicolor Constitution:  Popular Constitutionalism, Ethical Norms, and Legal Pedagogy, 9 University of Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights 23-44(Winter 2003). (draft available via the Social Science Research Network at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=607881) 
• Cruel and Unusual Punishment and the Eighth Amendment as a Mandate for Human Dignity:  Another Look at Original Intent, lead article, 25th Anniversary edition, 25 Thomas Jefferson Law Review 559-592 (Summer 2003). (draft available via the Social Science Research Network at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=413121)
• Book Review:  Holocaust Justice:  The Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts, International Journal of Legal Information, Fall 2003. 

Works-in-Progress

            Books

• The Constitutional Legacy of John Bingham (Richard Aynes, Shannon Gilreath, and Michael Kent Curtis, eds.)
• The Moral Constitution: Dignity, Equality, and Humanity as Interpretive Theory
• Neither Victims Nor Executioners: Sources for Abolitionist Thought and Discourse on the Death Penalty (Editor)

Recent News Articles:

"Redefining Rape?" - October 5, 2009