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Education:
L.L.M., Cambridge University
J.D., Columbia University
B.A., Tufts University
Professor Carlos Ball teaches property, land use
controls, the theory of property rights, and sexual
orientation and the law. He joined the Penn State
Dickinson faculty in 2003. Previously, he was a professor
of law at the University of Illinois College of Law,
a trial attorney with the New York Legal Aid Society,
and Special Counsel for HIV & Tuberculosis Policy
for the New York City Department of Health. Professor
Ball writes in the areas of gay rights, disability
law, and property law. He is the author of The
Morality of Gay Rights: An Exploration in Political
Philosophy (Routledge, 2003) and the co-editor
of Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation and
the Law (with W. Rubenstein and J. Schacter)
(West, 2007). Professor Ball is a frequent speaker
at symposia and conferences. Since 2003, he has presented
papers at the Alabama, Emory, Georgetown, Harvard,
Minnesota, UCLA, Virginia, and William & Mary
law schools, among others. He has also spoken at the
annual meetings of the Association of American Law
Schools, the Western Political Science Association,
and the American Philosophical Association. In 2004,
Professor Ball received a Dukeminier Award for excellence
in scholarship. In 2005-06, he was a visiting professor
at the Rutgers University at Camden School of Law.
Contact Information:
Email:
cab60@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 865-8965
Selected Publications:
Invisible No More: The Gay Rights Movement and its Lawyers (book project in progress).
Cases and Materials on Sexual Orientation and the Law (3rd. edition), with W. Rubenstein & J. Schacter, St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 2007.
"Against Neutrality in the Legal Recognition of Intimate Relationships," Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, forthcoming 2008.
“What Does Sex Got To Do With It? Disability and Sexual Orientation in Family Law and Policy,” in Choosing Off the Menu: Philosophical Reflections on Disability and the Creation of Non-Standard Families, S. Goering, ed., MIT Press, 2007.
"The Immorality of Statutory Restrictions on Adoption by Lesbians and Gay Men," Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, 2007.
"The Curious Intersection of Nuisance and Takings Law," Boston University Law Review, 2006.
“The Backlash Thesis and Same-Sex Marriage: Learning from Brown v. Board of Education and its Aftermath,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 2006.
“Exactions and Burden Distribution in Takings Law,” with L. Reynolds, William & Mary Law Review, 2006.
“Exactions and the Privatization of the Public Sector,” with L. Reynolds, Journal of Law and Politics, 2005.
“Looking for Theory in all the Right Places: Feminist and Communitarian Elements of Disability Discrimination Law,” Ohio State Law Journal, 2005.
“This is Not Your Father's Autonomy: Lesbian and Gay Rights from a Feminist and Relational Perspective,” Harvard Journal of Gender & Law, 2005.
“The Positive in the Fundamental Right to Marry: Same-Sex Marriage in the Aftermath of Lawrence v. Texas,” Minnesota Law Review, 2004.
“Preferential Treatment and Reasonable Accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act,” Alabama Law Review, 2004.
The Morality of Gay Rights: An Exploration in Political Philosophy, New York: Routledge, 2003.
“Marriage, Same-Gender Relationships, and Human Needs and Capabilities,” in Marriage and Same-Sex Unions: A Debate (L. Wardle et al., eds.), New York: Praeger, 2003.
“Lesbian and Gay Families: Gender Nonconformity and the Implications of Difference,” Capital University Law Review, 2003.
“Sexual Ethics and Postmodernism in Gay Rights Philosophy,” North Carolina Law Review, 2002.
“Essentialism and Universalism in Gay Rights Philosophy: Liberalism Meets Queer Theory,” Law & Social Inquiry, 2001.
“Autonomy, Justice, and Disability,” UCLA Law Review, 2000.
“Communitarianism and Gay Rights,” Cornell Law Review, 2000.
“Warring with Wardle: Morality, Social Science, and Gay and Lesbian Parents,” with J. Pea, University of Illinois Law Review, 1998.
“Moral Foundations for a Discourse on Same-Sex Marriage: Looking Beyond Political Liberalism,” Georgetown Law Journal, 1997.
“The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Society: The Court of Justice, Social Policy, and Individual Rights Under the European Community's Legal Order,” Harvard International Law Journal, 1996.
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