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Tel: 215.262.6554
Office Room: lverman 151
Email: keyer@sas.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Constitutional Law
- Employment Discrimination Law
- Family Law
- Gender Studies
- Sexuality and the Law
- Civil Rights Law
Bio
Katie Eyer’s research focuses on using transcontextual approaches (i.e., approaches that span protected classes and types of claims), to identify and address major under-theorized questions in the area of civil rights law. Current projects involve an investigation of the ways in which family law has historically been treated differently as a locale for civil rights reform (in the race, disability and LGBT contexts), and a series of projects investigating the reasons why discrimination litigants fare so poorly in obtaining successful litigated outcomes. Past work has also focused on the legal rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) workers and on legal obstacles to the full social inclusion of people with disabilities.
Following law school, Ms. Eyer clerked for the Honorable Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced antidiscrimination law as a Skadden Fellow (at Equality Advocates Pennsylvania) and as an attorney in private practice (at Salmanson Goldshaw, PC). She is currently a Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has appointments at the Law School and at the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality.
Representative Publications
That’s Not Discrimination: American Beliefs and the Limits of Anti-Discrimination Law, 96 MINN. L. REV. __ (2012) (forthcoming)
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Essay, Have We Arrived Yet? LGBT Rights and the Limits of Formal Equality, 19 J. OF L. & SEXUALITY 159 (2010).
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Administrative Adjudication and the Rule of Law, 60 ADMIN. L. REV. 647 (2008).
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Protecting Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Workers, American Constitution Society White Paper (2006) (reprinted with updates and supplemental materials in LEGAL ISSUES AFFECTING GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER CLIENTS (PBI Press 2008)).
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Note, Rehabilitation Act Redux, 23 YALE L. & POL’Y REV. 271 (2005).
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Litigating for Treatment: The Use of State Laws and Constitutions in Obtaining Treatment Rights for Individuals with Mental Illness, 28 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 1 (2003).
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Case Note, Related Within the Second Degree? Burns v. Burns and the Potential Benefits of Civil Union Status, 20 YALE L. & POL’Y REV. 297 (2002).
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