Law Students Tell Justices How Same-Sex Marriage Bans Harm Careers

National Law Journal
Law Students Tell Justices How Same-Sex Marriage Bans Harm Careers

That coveted judicial clerkship, big firm job, or—your marriage. That's the unfair calculus facing a number of law students under the patchwork of same-sex marriage laws, LGBT law school groups tell the U.S. Supreme Court.

In an amicus brief in the high court's same-sex marriage challenges, ten LGBT student organizations—six from law schools at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, University of California at Los Angeles and New York University—argue that so-called nonrecognition laws impose special harms on their members as they try to begin new careers in a highly mobile nation.

"We think it is important our perspective is included," said Adam Amir (left), a Stanford 3L and member of the executive board of Stanford OutLAW. "A lot of the [news] coverage has been of incredibly romantic stories about couples together for years and years who can't get married or whose marriages aren't recognized. But the state of gay rights really affects students, too."

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