Law

The legislature introduced a bill requiring public schools to provide “religious accommodations” for students who object to sharing restrooms with trans classmates.

Activists welcomed China’s first anti-domestic violence law on Monday, though some criticized the apparent omissions of sexual violence and gay couples.

The Malawian government will not arrest or prosecute gay citizens while lawmakers review existing anti-gay laws, the country’s justice minister said.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The B.C. government has approved the creation of a new law school at Trinity Western University in Langley B.C., despite concerns from gay rights advocates over its plans to enforce a policy prohibiting “gay intimacy” among staff and students.

More than 100 University of Michigan Law School graduates on Saturday staged a walk out during Ohio Sen. Rob Portman’s commencement speech in protest of his anti-LGBT voting record.

Students at the University of Michigan Law school have expressed outrage over the selection of Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) to deliver the commencement address, saying his “openly hostile” position on gay rights makes him an inappropriate choice.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Mitchell Reich, a second year at Harvard Law School, has been elected the first openly gay president of the Harvard Law Review, a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School.