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Daniel Del Gobbo

@danieldelgobbo.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof. & Chair in Law, Gender & Sexual Justice @WindsorLaw | Banting Postdoc @LawMcGill | SJD @UofTLaw | LLM @Harvard_Law | Civ Pro + ADR/RJ + Human Rights + Gender/Sexuality (he/him) 🌈

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This would be a great opening reading for a legal theory course criticallegalthinking.com/2026/07/27/k...
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Key Concept: Law’s Violence
The conventional story runs like this: violence is what happens where law ends. Law is the alternative to the feud, the pacifier of the state of nature,
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Slate @slate.com · 27/02/2026
Kansas Republican lawmakers couldn't find a way to make being trans illegal, but they're doing their best to make trans people's lives impossible. slate.trib.al/cVxmwZl
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Kansas’ Anti-Trans Driver’s License Law Was Cruel Enough. This Detail Makes It So Much Worse.
Kansas Republican lawmakers couldn't find a way to make being trans illegal, but they're doing their best to make trans people's lives impossible.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
My book is published! It’s a critical take on how emotions shape conflicts about LGBT rights and repair in equality law, gender recognition, bans on conversion practices, and sex education in schools. You can download it free via @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-emo...
Author wearing a rainbow dyed t-shirt takes a photo of them showing off their book, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law.
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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 02/09/2025
A pause while they draw up more specific guidelines is not a win. This needs serious pushback to reverse all attempts to censor 2SLGBTQIA+ material.
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Daniel Del Gobbo @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Excellent piece by Jennifer Llewellyn @restorativelab.bsky.social about how restorative justice offers a better way to address harm, engage communities, and bring about culture change in sexual violence cases.
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Opinion: Restorative justice could have offered a better path for everyone involved in the Hockey Canada trial
Despite myths that restorative justice is about leniency for the accused, Canada is well placed to invest in a rigorous process that offers a path to accountability and meaningful change
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Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Six takeaways from Skrmetti are circulating widely. All six contain errors: 1. The first takeaway quotes a law professor suggesting that a loss in Skrmetti will make other trans rights cases harder. In fact the opinion is narrow.
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Daniel Del Gobbo @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I'm excited to announce that my article "Pedagogies in the Meantime: Reflections on ADR and Restorative Justice in U.S. and Canadian Legal Education," co-authored with the brilliant Amy Cohen @templelaw.bsky.social, is available here on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 1/4
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Pedagogies in the Meantime: Reflections on ADR and Restorative Justice in U.S. and Canadian Legal Education
<p>In a moment when restorative justice stands poised to mainstream in U.S. and Canadian legal education, this essay recalls some intellectual history of ADR as
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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I will be watching the development of these new guidelines closely to ensure they do not unduly target 2SLGBTQ+ books. The vast majority of which are entirely appropriate for all K-12 schools. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
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Alberta to hold public consultation on which books should be banned from school libraries
The province will now require school boards to implement new age-appropriate standards for books by the start of the 2025-26 school year
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Emily Kidd White @emilykiddwhite.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Seething with rage. To those who spread hate to win points in your drummed-up-of-a-distraction culture war, this was always the well-foreseen end of your vile rootless obsession. I am so sorry, Kady. We failed you.
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Bruce B Ryder @bbryder.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Congrats to shortlisted authors & presses! Margaret Boittin ‪@cambridgeup.bsky.social‬‬ Elaine Craig @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social A Iavarone-Turcotte @pulaval.bsky.social @james-kelly.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @jcyliew.bsky.social @fernpub.bsky.social MJ Mossman @wlupress.bsky.social
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Jennifer Koshan @jenniferkoshan.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Many thanks to @albertaviews.bsky.social for excerpting the open letter of Alberta law profs and staff on the rights of 2S, trans, and gender diverse youth in its latest issue. Those wanting to read the full letter can find it on @ablawg.bsky.social. @annajanel.bsky.social @floralashes.bsky.social
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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Feminist Legal Studies (FLS) is now on Bluesky. FLS is committed to an international and interdisciplinary perspective and to the promotion of feminist work in all areas of law, legal theory and legal practice. We publish material in a range of formats. Follow us! link.springer.com/journal/10691
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Feminist Legal Studies
Feminist Legal Studies is committed to an international perspective and to the promotion of feminist work in all areas of law, legal theory and legal ...
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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Criminalizing Dissent? Toronto: join me, @policingblack.bsky.social, @judreb.bsky.social & others for this community teach-in about the city's proposed bubble zone bylaw. Tuesday, May 20, 5:30pm at TMU. Info & RSVP: communityteachin.rsvpify.com
CRIMINALIZING DISSENT? The Truth About the BUBBLE ZONE Bylaw
The City of Toronto has proposed a BUBBLE ZONE bylaw that would restrict protests near so-called “vulnerable” institutions. Join us for a community teach-in exploring its potential harms, featuring leading local voices in law, labour, housing, feminist activism, and disability justice.
May 20th, 5:30pm
Location: Toronto Metropolitan University, PD 457

Brad Evoy, Disability Justice Network Ontario
Dreddz B.L., Voices for Unhoused Liberation
Sid Jackson, Voices for Unhoused Liberation
Irina Ceric, Law Union of Ontario
Robyn Maynard, Another Toronto and Author of Policing Black Lives
Judy Rebick, Feminist, Activist, Journalist, Author and Educator
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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I’m thrilled this is out in the world! It was a joy to collaborate with such incredible co-editors & brilliant contributors. Eternally grateful to @rcalo.bsky.social & @mfroomkin.bsky.social for the opportunity to keep learning from our dear friend Ian’s impact on the field and the community 🤖💜
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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I shared some thoughts on the supreme court, EHRC's interim guidance and the feminist dystopia some call 'gender critical' feminism yesterday. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/meaningles...
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Meaningless Sex
Some thoughts on the Supreme Court, The EHRC and other feminist dystopias
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Y.Y. Brandon Chen @yybrandonc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Supreme Court of Canada is scheduled to hear the Kanyinda case in 2 weeks. I'm honoured to act as counsel for @fcjrefugeecentre.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy & @madhucentre.bsky.social in their joint intervention. We argue the Canadian Charter must meaningfully protect substantive equality of migrants.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 27/04/2025
Somehow only just caught this. Brilliant from Sara Ahmed (@saranahmed.bsky.social) as always. feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...
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Patriarchal Hammers
Some thoughts on the recent judgement by the Supreme Court
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
At no point did Alito—or any other Republican justice—consider the message it sends to the kids of LGBTQ parents when their peers have to walk out of the classroom to avoid exposure to families like theirs. These children will be the victims of the Supreme Court's decision. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Perhaps the plaintiffs think so. But surely a public education system has no obligation to accommodate such extreme convictions. After all, those other families send their kids to public schools, too. The Montgomery County Board of Education adopted these books specifically so that their curriculum would reflect the diversity of their student body. Why shouldn’t children of LGBTQ+ parents see themselves reflected in classroom literature? And what kind of message does it send when a teacher must excuse other students from class before reading a book that features nontraditional families—or cuts it altogether for fear of provoking a federal lawsuit?

Brannen described this stigma as her “great concern.” If the plaintiffs prevail, she told me, the decision will “enable grievous discrimination against LGBTQ families and children.” If schools let children opt out of class to avoid these books, or dump them altogether, it tells a child with LGBTQ+ parents “that there is something wrong with them.” Montgomery County’s school board tried to avoid inflicting such discrimination on its diverse student body. Now the Supreme Court may impose it on the entire country.
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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 19/04/2025
"these are life choices that people make" is straight from ye olde homophobic playbook. It's the thought process that that led to lesbians being treated as predators in women's changing rooms for decades. It is exactly the same and it is just as wrong now as it was then.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Black feminist scholars have written for decades about how the gender/sex binary is a colonial imposition. As Afro-feminist legal scholar Sylvia Tamale says, “sex, gender, and sexualities which do not conform to the institutionalized binaries totally disorganize the capitalist-patriarchal matrix…”
Extract from Sylvia Tamale’s book, Decolonization and Afro-Feminism.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
“Any effective response to the anti-gender movement will entail a critique of the new forms of authoritarianism and the passions they exploit.” Judith Butler shows us how anti-gender rhetoric fuels current authoritarianism by producing social fears/anxieties. We must disrupt the emotional politics.
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Judith Butler · This Is Wrong: Executive Order 14168
When diversity, equity and inclusion become ‘threats’ to the order of society, progressive politics in general is...
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Daniel Del Gobbo @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Grateful for this profile of my recent work on gender equality and trans justice. www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/20...
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Law professor advocates for gender justice and transgender rights
Law professor Daniel Del Gobbo is a leading advocate for human rights and gender equality.
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Thrilled to announce the publication of our new book, Queer Judgments! This collection brings together scholars from around the world to re-imagine and re-write legal judgments that relate to people who experience sexual, gender, and related marginalisation. counterpress.org.uk/publications... 🌈🎓
Author holds copy of book, Queer Judgments, while sitting on a purple chair in front of a wall decorated with the scales of justice.
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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
We’re 10 days from We Robot in Windsor. Register now to save your spot! Join us for a community-building robot art party on Thursday April 3, for dinner downtown on April 4, and for some truly incredible conversations on April 4 & 5 at @windsorlaw.bsky.social. See www.werobot2025.ca for details!
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We Robot Conference 2025
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The political conditions to erase trans people did not just appear. Social anxieties about transition, fears about “trans predators,” and hostilities towards gender fluidity cultivated a climate that degrades trans life. Transphobia dressed up as “legitimate concern” led us to such violent politics.
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Daniel Del Gobbo @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Article drop! In my new paper "Finding Equality" published in the Journal of Law & Equality, I explore the possibilities and limits of feminist judgment projects, with a focus on creative rewriting and poetry as a means of radical legal and political organizing. 1/3 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Finding Equality: A Creative Take on Feminist Judgment Projects and the Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure
Feminist judgment projects have proliferated in recent years, with contributors in over twelve countries rewriting judgments to bring the relationship between l
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
People who seek asylum face political, social, and legal hostilities. In my new article, I explore how such hostilities function as an “emotional grammar” of refugee law in the UK, especially when determining someone’s queerness, credibility, and persecution. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 🌈🎓
Cover page of journal article titled “Legal hostilities: Navigating queerness, emotion, and space in asylum law.”
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Policy Options / Options politiques @policyoptions.irpp.org · 06/03/2025
Canadian universities are required by provincial human rights laws to provide a learning environment free from discrimination, but have failed to do so for trans students & students in gender studies program. It's time to act, argues @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social policyoptions.irpp.org?p=115918
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The pernicious effects of transphobia on campus
Transphobia is rising, threatening student safety on campus. Universities must act now to protect queer and trans students from harm.
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Policy Options / Options politiques @policyoptions.irpp.org · 06/03/2025
Trump & Poilievre have consistently used women’s rights issues to deny the very existence of trans people. In this 2-part series on the increase of transphobia, @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social explores what the panic around trans rights mean for gender equality in Canada. policyoptions.irpp.org?p=115912
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The fight for trans rights is a women’s rights issue
Trump’s executive order and Pierre Poilievre’s stance on trans rights fuel a divide on gender equality. Trans rights and feminism are linked and both must be defended together.
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Daniel Del Gobbo @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In this article, my second in the series, I explain what the rise of transphobic rhetoric means for Canadian universities, with a focus on campus violence. Recalling the UWaterloo attack in a “gender studies” classroom in 2023, schools must act to protect students now. @windsorlaw.bsky.social
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The pernicious effects of transphobia on campus
Transphobia is rising, threatening student safety on campus. Universities must act now to protect queer and trans students from harm.
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Daniel Del Gobbo @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In this article, my first in a two-part series @policyoptions.irpp.org released today, I explain there is a continuity between trans rights and women’s rights in the U.S and Canada. Feminist, queer, and trans struggles for gender equality should be united, not opposed. @windsorlaw.bsky.social
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The fight for trans rights is a women’s rights issue
Trump’s executive order and Pierre Poilievre’s stance on trans rights fuel a divide on gender equality. Trans rights and feminism are linked and both must be defended together.
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Daniel Del Gobbo @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I’ve written three op-eds in response to the mainstreaming of harmful, anti-trans rhetoric in Canadian and U.S. law and society. In my first piece here, Asha Holland and I explore the moral panic around trans athletes and how universities can protect trans students. @windsorlaw.bsky.social
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It’s important to protect trans athletes on campuses, and this benefits all students
Some universities’ non-discrimination and gender-based violence policies have been criticized on equality grounds, and this needs to change.
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Daniel Del Gobbo @danieldelgobbo.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Grateful to be featured on this profile of new University of Windsor law faculty. (Also, this is my first post on Bluesky. How does this app work exactly??!)
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New Faculty 2023
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