
Shannon Gilreath
Wake Forest Fellow for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law
Phone: 336.758.6114
Email: gilreasd@wfu.edu
- bio
- cv
- courses
- in the media
- publications
- presentations
Books
- "Sexuality and the Law in Context: Cases and Materials," (West, American Casebook Series, 2007)
- "Sexual Politics: The Gay Person in America Today," (University of Akron Press, Law, Politics, and Society Series, 2006). Nominated for the ALA Stonewall Prize for Gay/Lesbian Non-Fiction and 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).
Articles
- ""Tell Your Faggot Friend He Owes Me $500 for My Broken Hand": Thoughts on a Substantive Equality Theory of Free Speech," 44 Wake Forest Law Review 557-615 (2009).
- "Transforming Teenagers into Oral Sex Felons: The Persistence of the Crime Against Nature after Lawrence v. Texas," 43 Wake Forest Law Review 155-221 (2008) (with Michael Kent Curtis).
- "Sexually Speaking: "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and the First Amendment after Lawrence v. Texas," Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy, 2007.
- 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 U. Pennsylvania Law School (Summer 2006).
- 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).
- 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).
- Book Review: Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America's Courts, International Journal of Legal Information, Fall 2003.
CLE
- "42 U.S.C. Section 1983 in the Courts," North Carolina Bar Association program on litigation under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, March 2003. (discussing the history of the anti-discrimination protection of Section 1983).
- "Vocational Experts versus Vocational Specialists: To Object or Not to Object," North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers (2002) (with Deborah F. Maury).
- "Artists and the First Amendment," North Carolina Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, June 2004.
Selected Essays and Op-eds
- Know Thine Enemy, PRIDE and Equality Magazine (Jan./Feb. 2006) (discussing gay service men and women in the Iraq war effort).
- Why Marriage? PRIDE and Equality Magazine (July/August 2005) (discussing the importance of civil marriage to the socio-legal status of lesbian and gay Americans).
- First Amendments, New Humanist Magazine, Vol. 120, no. 3, 10-11, May/June 2005. (discussing the intermingling of religion and American politics).
- "Gay Rights and the Religious Right (and Left?)," Whosoever Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 5, March 2005.
- "Outing Sponge Bob: The Mis-Education of America's Gay Youth," Queer Day, February 21, 2005.
- "Don't Use the Constitution to Fight Culture Wars," Winston-Salem Journal, guest columnist, 02-19-2003, page 11A. (discussing the proposed North Carolina and federal marriage amendments).
- "State Law Should Reflect High Court Ruling," Winston-Salem Journal, guest columnist, 07-05-2003, page 11. (discussing the application of Lawrence v. Texas to N.C. law).
Other
- Poetry, "Judas Kiss," in Poetic Voices without Borders 2 (Gival Press, 2007).

