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Christine Littleton Professor of Law and
Women's Studies |
B.S.
Pennsylvania State University, 1974
J.D. Harvard, 1982
UCLA Law faculty since 1983; Women's Studies faculty since 2008
Christine Littleton regularly teaches courses on women and the law, sexual harassment and feminist legal theory in the Law School and in Women’s Studies. From 1993 to 1996, she served as Director of the undergraduate Women's Studies Program; in 1999 she returned to oversee both graduate and graduate programs in women’s studies; and in 2008 became the inaugural chair of the new Department of Women’s Studies in the Division of Social Sciences. She currently holds a split appointment in both the School of Law and the Department of Women’s Studies.
Prof. Littleton has been active in many UCLA programs, including the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program; the Disability Studies Program; the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Disability; and the 2006 Gender Equity Summit. She was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the California Women's Law Center, and still participates as a volunteer attorney and consultant there. An active member of the California Bar since 1982, she has assisted numerous public interest organizations and attorneys in cases involving discrimination on the basis of sex, race, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and HIV status, and has received awards for public interest legal work and feminist education. She has served on the editorial board of the feminist academic journal Signs and is currently a regional co-editor for the Women’s Studies International Forum.
Books
EEO Update: Sexual Harassment: Employer Liability and “Hostile” Work Environment: A Discussion of Federal and California Laws (with Brian Hembacher). Los Angeles: Institute of Industrial Relations, Univ. of California (1987).
Articles and Chapters
Review Essay: Thank You, You're Unwelcome, 19 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 150-69 (2004). Reviewing Directions in Sexual Harassment Law, by Catharine MacKinnon and Reva Siegal.
Review Essay: Whose Law Is This Anyway?, 95 Michigan Law Review 1560-77 (1997). Reviewing Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary, by Katharine T. Bartlett; Sex Discrimination and the Law: History, Practice, and Theory, 2nd ed. by Barbara Allen Babcock, Ann E. Freedman, et al.; Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously: Cases and Materials, by Mary Becker, Cynthia Grant Bowman, and Morrison Torrey; Women and the Law, by Mary Joe Frug; and Sex-based Discrimination, 4th ed., by Herma Hill Kay and Martha West.
Double and Nothing: Lesbian as Category, 7 UCLA Women’s Law Journal 1-25 (1996).
Rethinking the Values of Work and Economic Measures of Costs and Benefits (with B. Friedan et al.), 37 American Behavioral Scientist 1074-89 (1994).
Dispelling Myths about Sexual Harassment: How the Senate Failed Twice, 65 Southern California Law Review 1419-29 (1992).
Does It Still Make Sense to Talk about “Women?,” 1 UCLA Women’s Law Journal 15-52 (1991).
Q & A: Why a Women’s Law Journal?, 1 UCLA Women’s Law Journal 3-6 (1991).
Review Essay: Old Wine in Nude Skins, 69 Texas Law Review 497-513 (1990). Reviewing The New Politics of Pornography, by Donald A. Downs.
Due to Forces Beyond Our Control: The Failure of Equal Employment Opportunity Law, 51 Monograph and Research Series 84-91 (1989).
Review Essay: Feminist Jurisprudence: The Difference Method Makes, 41 Stanford Law Review 751-84 (1989). Reviewing Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law, by Catharine A. MacKinnon.
Women’s Experience and the Problem of Transition: Perspectives on Male Battering of Women, 1989 University of Chicago Legal Forum 23-57 (1989).
Equality and Feminist Legal Theory, 48 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 1043-59 (1987).
Equality Across Difference: A Place for Rights Discourse? (Papers from the 1986 Feminism and Legal Theory Conference), 3 Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal 189-212 (1987).
In Search of a Feminist Jurisprudence, 10 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 1-7 (1987).
Reconstructing Sexual Equality, 75 California Law Review 1279-337 (1987).
Contributor, Help Yourself: A Manual for Dealing with Sexual Harassment (edited by Mary T. Lebrato, Sacramento: Sexual Harassment in Employment Project of the California Commission on the Status of Women, 1986).
Review Essay: 7 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 323-32 (1984). Reviewing Terminal Degrees: The Job Crisis in Higher Education, by Emily K. Abel.
Toward a Redefinition of Sexual Equality, 95 Harvard Law Review 487-508 (1981).
Other
Book Review, Jurist, Books on Law, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Apr. 1999). Reviewing Sex Wars Redux: Fear & Loathing in Massachusetts, by Daphne Patai.
Book Review, 17 Signs 852-54 (1992). Reviewing The Female Body and the Law, by Zillah R. Eisenstein.
Book Review, 40 Harvard Law Bulletin 32-33 (1989). Reviewing Surrogate Motherhood, by Martha A. Field.
Book Review, 5 Harvard Women’s Law Journal 168-71 (1982). Reviewing Women, Power and Politics, by Margaret Stacey and Marion Price.
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