Terry S. Kogan
Professor of Law
Professor Kogan clerked for the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and then practiced law in Boston before joining the law school faculty in 1984. He served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1998 to 2003.
Professor Kogan teaches in the areas of Contracts, Trusts & Estates, Art Law, and Sexuality and the Law. He has spent the past decade exploring the rights of transgendered people. This interest has broadened his scholarly agenda into areas of law and architecture and cultural geography. As a result, Professor Kogan's recent scholarship has explored issues surrounding the legal and cultural norm that mandates the segregation of public restrooms by sex, a practice the effectively erases the personhood of gender variant people. His latest work on this issue is a book chapter, "Sex-Separation: The Cure-All for Victorian Social Anxiety," which will appear in TOILET: The Public Restroom and the Politics of Sharing (forthcoming NYU Press late 2010).
Professor Kogan has been active in gay and transgender politics in Utah, having served on the Board of Directors of Equality Utah for over seven years. In his spare time, he plays cello and is an avid swimmer.
Scholarship Highlights
Articles
Transsexuals in Public Restrooms: Law, Cultural Geography and Etsitty v. Utah Transit Authority, 18 Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. 673 (2009)
Sex-Separation in Public Restrooms: Law Architecture, and Gender, 14 Mich. J. Gender & L. 1 (2007)
Transsexuals, Intersexuals, and Same-Sex Marriage, 18 BYU J. Pub. L. 371 (2004)
Competing Approaches to Same-Sex Versus Opposite-Sex Unmarried Couples in Domestic Partnership Law and Ordinances, 2001 BYU L. Rev. 1023
Piercing the Facade of Utah's 'Improved' Elective Share Statute, 1999 Utah L. Rev. 677
Transsexuals and Critical Gender Theory: the Possibility of a Restroom Labeled 'Other,' 48 Hastings L.J. 1223 (1997)
Legislative Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men, 1994 Utah L. Rev. 209
Geography and Due Process: The Social Meaning of Adjudicative Jurisdiction, 22 Rutgers L. Rev. 627 (1991)
A Neo-Federalist Tale of Personal Jurisdiction, 63 S. Cal. L. Rev. 257 (1990)
Toward a Jurisprudence of Choice of Law: The Priority of Fairness over Comity, 62 N.Y.U. Law Rev. 651 (1987)
Book Chapter
Sex-Separation: The Cure-All for Victorian Social Anxiety, in Toilet: The Public Restroom and the Politics of Sharing (NYU Press, forthcoming 2010)
Selected Talks and Presentations
Organizing Committee and Panel Moderator, Tanner Conference on Human Rights, Conflict Resolution, Nonviolence & Peace - Controlling Sexuality Through Violence, Shame and Cultural Oppression - Implications for Human Rights, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (Feb. 2010)
Panelist, Transgender Rights and Comments on Film, Trained in the Ways of Men, Main Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT (Nov. 2008)
Bodies, Architectural Space, and the Law: The Banishment of Transsexuals from the Workplace in Etsitty v. UTA, Temple University Beasley School of Law Symposium on "Intersections of Transgender Lives and the Law," Philadelphia, PA (Nov. 2008)
Transsexuals and Same-Sex Marriage, BYU Law School, Symposium on Same-Sex Marriage (Aug. 2003)
Competing Approaches to Domestic Partnership Law, Symposium on the ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution, BYU Law School (Feb. 2001)
Should Gays and Lesbians Be Allowed To Marry and Adopt Children, Debate (with Lynn Wardle, BYU Law School), University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (Apr. 2000)
A View from Two: Lesbians and Gay Men in America A Legislative and Political Perspective, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (Feb. 1998)
Why Marriage Matters, Intermountain Conference on Homosexuality: Bringing Families Together, University of Utah (May 1997)
Transsexuals and Critical Gender Theory, Intersexions: The Legal and Social Construction of Sexual Orientation Symposium, Hastings College of Law (Mar. 1997)