Jessica Knouse Assistant Professor of Law E-Mail:  Jessica.Knouse@utoledo.edu Secretary:  Diane Bohn (419) 530-2958

Professor Jessica Knouse joins the College of Law faculty in fall 2007. She teaches Constitutional Law I, Family Law, and Sexuality and the Law. Her research interests include legal philosophy, particularly postmodern feminist theories of justice, and the impact of legal categories on individual and group identity, with a focus on the categories of sex and sexuality.

Professor Knouse received her B.A. from Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences, where she concentrated in Latin and English. Following college, she worked as Assistant Director of Boston University's College Honors Program. She received her J.D. from Albany Law School, where she was Production Editor of the Albany Law Review, a Dean Sponsler Honors Teaching Fellow, and valedictorian of her graduating class. Following law school, she worked as an Appellate Court Attorney for the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department, and then as a Law Clerk for Justice Howard H. Dana Jr. of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. She received her LL.M. from Yale Law School, where her studies included legal philosophy, constitutional theory, and anti-discrimination law.

Publications

Using Postmodern Feminist Legal Theory to Interrupt the Reinscription of Sex Stereotypes through the Institution of Marriage, 16 HASTINGS WOMEN’S L.J. 159 (2005).

Intersexuality and the Social Construction of Anatomical Sex , 12 CARDOZO J.L. & GENDER 135 (2005).

Symposium Appearances

"Next Generation Legal Scholarship: A Works-in-Progress Symposium of the Graduate Programs at Yale Law School" (Yale Law School, 2007).

"Intersex Education, Advocacy, & the Law" (Cardozo Women’s Law Journal, 2005).

Works in Progress

From Identity Politics to Ideology Politics

 Employer Control over Employee Gender Identity and its Effects on Democratic Participation