Douglas NeJaime

BA, magna cum laude, Brown University
JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School 

Background

Douglas NeJaime joined the Loyola faculty in 2009.  He teaches in the areas of family law, law and sexuality, and legal ethics.  In 2011, he received the Excellence in Teaching award from the graduating class.  NeJaime’s research focuses on law and social movements, cause lawyering, and sexual orientation discrimination.  His most recent scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Fordham Law Review, and Emory Law Journal.  He is a two-time recipient of the Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the best sexual orientation and gender identity legal scholarship published in the previous year.  NeJaime has provided commentary on issues relating to sexual orientation and same-sex marriage to numerous press outlets, including the New York Times, L.A. Times, NPR and NBC News.

Before coming to Loyola, NeJaime was the Sears Law Teaching Fellow at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, where he taught courses on law and sexuality and legal scholarship.

Selected Scholarship

• Constitutional Change, Courts, and Social Movements, 111 Michigan Law Review (forthcoming 2013) (reviewing Jack Balkin’s Constitutional Redemption)
• Cause Lawyers Inside the State, 81 Fordham Law Review 649 (2012).
• Marriage Inequality: Same-Sex Relationships, Religious Exemptions and the Production of Sexual Orientation Discrimination, 100 California Law Review 1169 (2012)
• The Legal Mobilization Dilemma, 61 Emory Law Journal 663 (2012)
• Winning Through Losing, 96 Iowa Law Review 941 (2011)
• Convincing Elites, Controlling Elites, 54 Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 175 (2011) (peer-reviewed)
• Lawyering for Marriage Equality, 57 UCLA Law Review 1235 (2010) (with Scott Cummings)
• New Entrants Bring New Questions, 19 Law & Sexuality 181 (2010)
• When New Governance Fails, 70 Ohio State Law Journal 323 (2009)
• Inclusion, Accommodation, and Recognition: Accounting for Differences based on Religion and Sexual Orientation, 32 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 303 (2009)
• Exposing Sex Stereotypes in Recent Same-Sex Marriage Jurisprudence, 30 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 461 (2007)
• Marriage, Cruising, and Life in Between: Clarifying Organizational Positionalities in Pursuit of Polyvocal Gay-Based Advocacy, 38 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 511 (2003)

In the News

Op-eds

• First, Decide DOMA, LA Times (June 8, 2012)
• Married But Unequal, LA Times (July 22, 2011) 

Commentary

• U.S. Marriage Act is Unfair to Gays, Court Panel Says, NY Times (Oct. 19, 2012)
• Same-Sex Marriage to be Issue in Key States, SF Chronicle (June 7, 2012)
• Proposition 8 Moves Closer to Supreme Court, SF Chronicle (June 7, 2012) 
• Appeals Court Turns Back Marriage Act as Unfair to Gays, NY Times (June 1, 2012)
• California Gay-Marriage Opponents Launch a Legal Gambit, LA Times (Feb. 21, 2012)
• Court Strikes Down Ban on Gay Marriage in California, NY Times (Feb. 8, 2012)
• Experts: Gay Marriage Ban’s Path to High Court Unclear, Associated Press (Feb. 8, 2012)
• Divided Court Rejects Proposition 8, L.A. Times (Feb. 8, 2012)
• Ninth Circuit Finds California’s Prop 8 Unconstitutional, To the Point, NPR (Feb. 7, 2012)
• Appeals Court Throws Out Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Associated Press (Feb. 7, 2012) 

Public Service

• Member, Board of Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice