Holning S. Lau
2006 - 2007 Harvey S. Shipley Miller Teaching Fellow

Holning Lau completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude.  He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, where he served as the Executive Topics & Comments Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and as a staff member of the Chicago Journal of International Law.  At the University of Chicago, Professor Lau was named a Stonewall Scholar for excellence in his work related to sexual orientation rights and was awarded the Ignacio Martín-Baró Award for the best human rights paper by a professional or master’s degree student.     

Prior to becoming the Harvey S. Shipley Miller Teaching Fellow, Professor Lau served as a Public Policy Fellow at the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public Policy.  Before joining UCLA, he had worked for the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, Children’s Rights, and the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. 

While serving as the Harvey S. Shipley Miller Teaching Fellow, Professor Lau taught Law & Sexuality at the UCLA School of Law.  He also taught International and Comparative Perspectives on Law & Sexuality, an undergraduate course offered through the UCLA LGBT Studies Program.  During his fellowship, Professor Lau spent ten weeks as a visiting fellow at the University of Hong Kong’s Centre for Comparative and Public Law. 

Professor Lau is currently an Associate Professor at the Hofstra University School of Law.  At Hofstra, he teaches Law & Sexuality, Criminal Law, and Transnational Law.  He also co-directs Hofstra Law School’s LGBT Advocacy Fellowship.  Although Professor Lau is now based at Hofstra, he continues to collaborate with Williams Institute staff. 

Professor Lau’s research covers a range of issues concerning equality theory and antidiscrimination law.  His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including the California Law Review, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, the University of Chicago Law Review, and the Chicago Journal of International Law.  In 2007, Professor Lau received a Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the best scholarship on sexual orientation law from the previous year, for his article, “Transcending the Individualist Paradigm in Sexual Orientation Antidiscrimination Law.”
  

JOURNAL AND BOOK PUBLICATIONS

·         “Law & Sexuality: American Law in Light of East Asian Developments,” 31 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender __ (forthcoming January 2008).

·          “Pluralism: A Principle for Children’s Rights,” 42 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review __ (forthcoming, summer 2007)

·         “Transcending the Individualist Paradigm in Sexual Orientation Antidiscrimination Law,” 94 California Law Review 1271 (2006).

·         “Asians and Pacific Islanders in Same-sex Couples in the United States: Data from Census 2000,” 32 Amerasia Journal 15 (2006) (with Gary Gates & R. Bradley Sears).

·         Comment, “Rethinking the Persistent Objector Doctrine in International Human Rights Law,” 6 Chicago Journal of International Law 495 (2005).

·         Comment, “Sexual Orientation: Testing the Universality of International Human Rights Law,” 70 University of Chicago Law Review 1689 (2004).

OP-EDS & PUBLIC POLICY PAPERS

·         “Bias in the Workplace: Consistent Evidence of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination,” released by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public Policy (2006) (with M.V. Lee Badgett, R. Bradley Sears & Deborah Ho).

·         “Gay or Straight, Domestic Violence Affects Us All,” South China Morning Post, May 17, 2007, at A11.

·         “Assessing the Harms of Noncompliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Right’s Protections of Sexual Minorities,” released by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public Policy (2006).

·         “Impact on Washington State’s Budget of Allowing Same-sex Couples to Marry,” released by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public Policy (2006) (with M.V. Lee Badgett, R. Bradley Sears & Elizabeth Kukura).

·         “Race and Ethnicity of Same-sex Couples in California,” released by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law & Public Policy (2006) (with Gary Gates & R. Bradley Sears).

·         “Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in Hong Kong,” released by the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor (2005).