The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy (DJGLP) is an interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity involves the combining of two or more academic fields into one single discipline. An interdisciplinary field crosses traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought, as new needs and professions have emerged....

 law journal published by students at the Duke University School of Law

Duke University School of Law

The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...

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The journal describes itself as focusing on topics "relating to gender

Gender

Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...

, sexuality

Human sexuality

Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...

, race, and class

Social class

Social classes are economic or cultural arrangements of groups in society. Class is an essential object of analysis for sociologists, political scientists, economists, anthropologists and social historians. In the social sciences, social class is often discussed in terms of 'social stratification'...

 in the context of law

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

 and public policy

Public policy

Public policy as government action is generally the principled guide to action taken by the administrative or executive branches of the state with regard to a class of issues in a manner consistent with law and institutional customs. In general, the foundation is the pertinent national and...

" and with the mission to "foster debate, to publish work largely overlooked by other law reviews, and to encourage scholarship outside the bounds of conventional law school curricula...[t]aking an expansive view of law, engaging other disciplines including literature

Literature

Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...

, sociology

Sociology

Sociology is the study of society. It is a social science—a term with which it is sometimes synonymous—which uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop a body of knowledge about human social activity...

, anthropology

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humanity. It has origins in the humanities, the natural sciences, and the social sciences. The term "anthropology" is from the Greek anthrōpos , "man", understood to mean mankind or humanity, and -logia , "discourse" or "study", and was first used in 1501 by German...

, psychology

Psychology

Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

, politics

Politics

Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...

, and critical theory

Critical theory

Critical theory is an examination and critique of society and culture, drawing from knowledge across the social sciences and humanities. The term has two different meanings with different origins and histories: one originating in sociology and the other in literary criticism...

. Our goal is not only to explore what the law was and is, but what it could and should be." http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/djglp/about

Published twice yearly, DJGLP issues are usually centered on a selected topic which in past years has included "Gender and Race in Adoption

Adoption

Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting for another and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities from the original parent or parents...

," "HIV

HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...

 Law and Policy," "Gender and Sports," "Gender Issues in Divorce

Divorce

Divorce is the final termination of a marital union, canceling the legal duties and responsibilities of marriage and dissolving the bonds of matrimony between the parties...

," and "Queer Theory

Queer theory

Queer theory is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of LGBT studies and feminist studies. Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorisation of 'queerness' itself...

." In January 2007, DJGLP published "Makeup, Identity Performance & Discrimination," the largest issue ever published by any journal at Duke Law School. In May 2007, DJGLP published "Gender, Sexuality & the Military," the second largest issue ever published by any journal at Duke Law School.

The staff of DJGLP is 36 student editors, selected for membership based on performance in the 1L Casenote Competition and the 2L Work-on/Note-on Program. The faculty advisor is Professor Catherine Fisk, who provides general guidance and advises the editors in topic and author selection.

Editors-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief	Volume	Year
Kathryn Branch	1	1994
Kelly Sather	2	1995
Lynn-Anne M. Schow	3	1996
John Donald	4	1997
Julie M. Riewe	5	1998
Evan W. Fuguet	6	1999
Douglas W. Benson	7	2000
Timothy Johnson	8	2001
Jessica Faye Carter Jessica Faye Carter Jessica Faye Carter is an American lawyer, author, and businesswoman. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Nette Media, a company specializing in social media technologies for women...	9	2002
Gina Lucky Dizzia	10	2003
Montaye Sigmon McGee	11	2004
Kendra M. Laffe	12	2005
James R. Nowlin, III	13	2006
Ryan Scott Higgins	14	2007
Ambrea N. Watts	15	2008
Amelia Hairston-Porter	16	2009
Adam Murad	17	2010
Amy Rublin	18	2011