Libby
Adler
Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Libby Adler in the Press
Boston.com
Meet the Newton native who became the first transgender lawyer to argue before the Supreme Court
“I don’t think he’ll stop fighting until he’s out of breath,” Strangio’s former Northeastern University Law professor Libby Adler told Boston.com. “He’s a model for what [law students] are training for, and what they can go out there and do.”
Fifty Years On, Title IX’s Legacy Includes Its Durability
Most experts agree that Title IX, given its widespread support, is not likely to meet similar fates as the Equal Rights Amendment or Roe v. Wade. If and how Title IX could be weakened “is in the eyes of the beholder,” said Libby Adler, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University.
Trump moves to bar transgender Americans from serving ‘in any capacity’ in the military
Legal scholars said it’s not clear whether the president can reimpose discrimination in a federal department. “There is a strong argument that substantively speaking the policy change would violate [the] law against sex discrimination,” said Libby Adler, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University’s School of Law. “It depends on what prohibitions against ‘sex’ discrimination […]
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Huckabee, the Holocaust, and the politics of fear
When Mike Huckabee uttered his inflammatory remark that with the Iran nuclear deal, President Obama is “marching the Israelis to the door of the oven,” national director of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan A. Greenblatt responded “Whatever one’s views of the nuclear agreement with Iran – and we have been critical of it… comments such as […]
