Michael Boucai

AREAS OF INTEREST

GENDER, SEXUALITY, & LAW FAMILY LAW CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CRIMINAL LAW LEGAL HISTORY PROFESSOR

MPhil, University of Cambridge JD, Georgetown University Law Center BA, Yale University

(716) 645-1743 mboucai@buffalo.edu

ARTICLES Topology of the Closet, Journal of Homosexuality (2021) doi.org/ 10.1080/00918369.2020.1851957.

Before Loving: The Origins of the Right to Marry, 20 Utah Law Review 69 (2020). My scholarship lies mainly in two fields. I study the law of marriage, family, gender, and sexuality, and I study queer history. The first branch of my research is strongly influenced by critical and sociolegal approaches to law; and it traverses multiple bodies of legal doctrine, most prominently constitutional, criminal, and family law. The second branch focuses on queer identities, communities, and politics since the mid-nineteenth century. My research in one area powerfully informs what I do in the other. I see law through a historian’s eyes and history through the eyes of a legal scholar. At the same time, I welcome frameworks and insights from other disciplines. Hence my scholarship’s intense engagements with work in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, critical theory, and literature.”