Gwendolyn M. Leachman Sears Law Teaching Fellow, The Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
	B.A. UC Santa Cruz, 2004 J.D. UC Berkeley, 2011 Ph.D. UC Berkeley, expected 2012 leachman@law.ucla.edu
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Gwendolyn Leachman is the Sears Law Teaching Fellow with the Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy. Leachman’s research focuses on the influence of law and litigation on the organization of sexual politics and on cultural constructions of sexuality. Her current project, which is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, examines the impact of legal strategies on the LGBT movement’s dominant goals, priorities, and message. Leachman earned a J.D. from UC Berkeley and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2011, and she is currently completing her doctoral dissertation in UC Berkeley’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy program. Leachman’s research has received funding from numerous competitive, campus-wide fellowships from UC Berkeley, including a two-year fellowship at the renowned Institute for the Study of Societal Issues (ISSI). Her work won the Law & Society Association Graduate Student Paper Prize in 2009. During law school, Leachman was a member of the California Law Review and served on the editorial board of two student journals. Her scholarship has appeared in the Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law and the Annual Review of Law & Social Science, and she has publications forthcoming in Studies in Law, Politics, & Society and the International Encyclopedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences.