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Doriane Lambelet Coleman

Thomas L. Perkins Distinguished Professor

dlc@law.duke.edu

Duke Law School Room 4177, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708-0362

Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

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Selected Publications

Torts: Doctrine and Process

Book · 2024 Link to item Cite

Title IX Sports Are Booming. They’re Also a Legal House of Cards

Other The Hill · 2024 Cite

On Sex and Gender: A Commonsense Approach

Book · 2024 Link to item Cite

XY Athletes in Women’s Olympic Boxing: The Paris 2024 Controversy Explained

Other Quillette · 2024 Cite

Why Elite Women’s Sports Need to Be Based on Sex, Not Gender

Other Washington Post · 2024 Cite

Wrong About Me and Wrongheaded About Duke

Other Chronicle (Duke) · 2024 Cite

Sex Differences in Youth Elite Swimming Performance

Journal Article Physiology · 2024 Link to item Cite

Case Studies in Physiology: Male To Female Transgender Swimmer in College Athletics

Journal Article Journal of Applied Physiology · 2023 Link to item Cite

Why Biden’s New School-Sports Rule Matters

Other The Atlantic · 2023 Cite

Yes, Kamila Valieva Should Be Skating in Beijing

Other Washington Post · 2022 Link to item Cite

Sex Neutrality

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2022 Link to item Cite

Foreword: Sex in Law

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2022 Link to item Cite

Conservatorship of Valerie N., 707 P.2d 760 (Cal. 1985)

Chapter · 2022 Link to item Cite

Foreword: Two Americas

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2022 Link to item Cite

On the Issue of Female Athletics, the IOC Has Shirked Its Duty to Lead

Other Quillette · 2021 Link to item Cite

N.C. Bill Goes Too Far in Banning Transgender Girls From Female Sports. There Are Options

Other News & Observer · 2021 Cite

Adolescent Medical Decisionmaking Rights

Journal Article American Journal of Law & Medicine · 2021 Link to item Cite

Re-Affirming the Value of the Sports Exception to Title IX’s General Non-Discrimination Rule

Journal Article Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy · 2020 Link to item Cite

The enhanced danger of physicians' off-label prescribing during a public health emergency.

Journal Article J Law Biosci · 2020 Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Divergence in Timing and Magnitude of Testosterone Levels Between Male and Female Youths

Journal Article Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA) · 2020 Link to item Cite

Experts in the Hot Tub at the Court of Arbitration for Sport

Journal Article Judicature · 2020 Link to item Cite

The Olympic Movement in International Law

Journal Article AJIL Unbound · 2020 Link to item Cite

Science, Sport, and Sex

Other Issues in Science and Technology · 2020 Link to item Cite

Religious Exceptions to COVID Vaccine Mandates

Chapter · 2020 Cite

This Is Not a Normal Moment

Other Kenan’s COVID Commentaries · 2020 Cite

It’s Not Wrong to Restrict Transgender Athletes. But Base It on Evidence, Ethics

Other Arizona Republic · 2020 Cite

US Soccer Is Misusing My Work to Say the Women’s Team Doesn’t Deserve Pay Equality

Other Washington Post · 2020 Cite

Transgender Children, Puberty Blockers, and the Law: Solutions to the Problem of Dissenting Parents

Journal Article The American Journal of Bioethics · 2019 Link to item Cite

A Victory for Female Athletes Everywhere

Other Quillette · 2019 Cite

Semenya and ASA v IAAF: Affirming the Lawfulness of a Sex-Based Eligibility Rule for the Women’s Category in Elite Sport

Journal Article Sweet & Maxwell’s International Sports Law Review · 2019 Link to item Cite

If Sex Matters Less

Other Duke Magazine · 2019 Cite

Pass the Equality Act but Don’t Abandon Title IX

Other Washington Post · 2019 Cite

Sex, Sport, and Why Track & Field’s New Rules on Intersex Athletes Are Essential

Other New York Times · 2018 Cite

Sex in Sport

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2017 Link to item Cite

Foreword

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 2017 Link to item Cite

The Lesson of HB2: We Are Different, but Equal

Other News & Observer · 2016 Cite

Testing the Boundaries of Family Privacy: The Special Case of Pediatric Sibling Transplants

Journal Article Cardozo Law Review · 2014 Link to item Cite

The legal authority of mature minors to consent to general medical treatment.

Journal Article Pediatrics · April 2013 The nature and scope of mature adolescents' legal authority to consent to general medical treatment without parental involvement is often misrepresented by commentators. This state of affairs is further complicated by the law itself, which has developed a ... Full text Link to item Cite

Getting Juvenile Life Without Parole "Right" After Miller v. Alabama

Journal Article Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy · 2012 Link to item Cite

Getting Juvenile Life Without Parole "Right" After Miller v. Alabama

Journal Article Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy · 2012 Link to item Cite

The Case for Legal Regulation of Physicians' Off-Label Prescribing

Journal Article Notre Dame Law Review · 2011 Link to item Cite

Where and How to Draw the Line Between Reasonable Corporal Punishment and Abuse

Journal Article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2010 Open Access Link to item Cite

Foreword: Corporal Punishment of Children

Journal Article Law & Contemporary Problems · 2010 Open Access Link to item Cite

Innovations in Child Maltreatment Prevention: Resolving the Tension Between Effective Assistance and Violations of Privacy

Chapter · 2009 Cite

Preventing Child Maltreatment: Community Approaches

Book · 2009 Link to item Cite

The Problem of Doping

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2008 Link to item Cite

The Role of the Law in Relationships within Immigrant Families: Traditional Parenting Practices in Conflict with American Concepts of Maltreatment

Chapter · 2007 Cite

The Legal Ethics of Pediatric Research

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 2007 Link to item Cite

Storming the Castle to Save the Children: The Ironic Costs of a Child Welfare Exception to the Fourth Amendment

Journal Article William & Mary Law Review · 2005 Link to item Cite

The Alchemy of a Moral Discourse about the Biology of Gender: Historical Sensitivity, Genetic Literacy, and the Will to Imagine a Different Equality

Journal Article Cardozo Women's Law Journal · 2005 Link to item Cite

Catch the High Court's Eye With a Compelling Petition

Journal Article Trial · 2005 Cite

Teaching Genetics and the Law

Journal Article Jurimetrics · 2003 Link to item Cite

Fixing Columbine: The Challenge to American Liberalism

Book · 2002 Link to item Cite

Culture, Cloaked in Mens Rea

Journal Article Mens Rea · 2001 Link to item Cite

The Seattle Compromise: Multicultural Sensitivity and Americanization

Journal Article Duke Law Journal · 1998 Link to item Cite

Individualizing Justice Through Multiculturalism: The Liberals' Dilemma

Journal Article Columbia Law Review · 1996 Link to item Cite

The Contradiction Between Soviet and American Human Rights Doctrine: Reconciliation Through Perestroika and Pragmatism

Journal Article Boston University International Law Journal · 1989 Link to item Cite

Note, Internationalizing The Copyright Code: An Analysis of Legislative Proposals Seeking Adherence to the Berne Convention

Journal Article Georgetown Law Journal · 1989 Link to item Cite