Shannon Gilreath

Wake Forest Fellow for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law

Phone: 336.758.6114
Email: gilreasd@wfu.edu

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).

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