Professor Soucek gives talk based on article 'The Case of the Religious Gay Blood Donor'

On Oct. 15, Professor Brian Soucek gave a lecture as part of the Rutgers Law School’s Faculty Colloquium Series, in connection with the Rutgers Center for Gender, Sexuality, Law and Policy.

Soucek’s talk was based on his article “The Case of the Religious Gay Blood Donor,” forthcoming in the William & Mary Law Review. The article envisions an original legal challenge to the Food and Drug Administration rule that prohibits sexually active gay men from giving blood - a religious-freedom claim from a gay man who wants to give blood as an act of charity.

Professor Soucek’s primary teaching and research interests are antidiscrimination law, civil procedure, constitutional law, and refugee/asylum law. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D from Columbia University. He has clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Mark R. Kravitz in Connecticut, and Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.