Professor Soucek writes about 'Queering Sexual Harassment' for Stanford-Yale #MeToo collection

Professor Brian Soucek made key contributions to a first-of-its-kind collaboration between the Stanford Law Review and Yale Law Journal titled “#MeToo and the Future of Sexual Harassment Law.”

Soucek helped organize the Yale and Stanford collections, which aim to draw lessons from the #MeToo movement for policy makers, lawyers and judges, and wrote one of its 13 essays.

Soucek’s “Queering Sexual Harassment Law,” in the Yale collection, addresses Franchina v. City of Providence, a recent First Circuit case decided in favor of a lesbian firefighter who said she had experienced chronic harassment from male subordinates based on her sexual orientation and gender. The case “describes harassment that is sex based without always being sexualized, thereby supplementing the stories of unwelcome sexual advances and assaults that #MeToo has emphasized,” Soucek writes.

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.