Nan Hunter

Nan Hunter is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and co-director of the Brooklyn Law School's Center for Health, Science and Public Policy.  Her current work in progress is More Than Marriage: Reframing the Debate (tentatively scheduled to appear in the Beacon Press Queer Ideas series, 2006).  She is co-author with William Eskridge of the casebook Sexuality, Gender and the Law, now in its second edition.  In 1986, she founded and became the first Director of the ACLU Lesbian and Gay Rights and AIDS Projects. In 1993, she was appointed Deputy General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, a post she held until 1996, when she returned to teaching.  Her articles on gender and sexuality issues have appeared in the Michigan Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Minnesota Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the NYU Law Review, and the Ohio State Law Journal.  In 2000, she was honored as a “Civil Rights Pioneer” by AmFAR (the American Foundation for AIDS Research).