Associate Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-8348
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: douglas.nejaime@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
BA, magna cum laude, Brown University
JD, cum laude, Harvard Law School
Douglas NeJaime joined the Loyola faculty in 2009. He teaches in the areas of family law, law and sexuality, and legal ethics. His research focuses on law and social movements, cause lawyering, and sexual orientation discrimination. NeJaime’s scholarship has appeared in the UCLA Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, and Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. In 2008, he was honored with a 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. Before that, he was a litigation associate at the law firm of Irell & Manella.
NeJaime graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as a Senior Editor on the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and as a Teaching Fellow to Professor Lani Guinier. He received his B.A. with Honors in American Civilization from Brown University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude.
Professional Memberships and Activities
Member, Board of Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice
Marriage Inequality: Religious Exemptions and the Production of Sexual Orientation Discrimination, 100 California Law Review (forthcoming 2012)
The Legal Mobilization Dilemma, 61 Emory Law Journal (forthcoming 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)
Family Law; Law and Sexuality; and Ethical Lawyering