SJD Candidate
Thesis title:
Queer Reproductive Justice: Time, Border and Affect
Office in Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, M5S 2C5
Email: noy.naaman@mail.utoronto.ca

Noy Naaman is an Ontario Trillium & Connaught International Scholar at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in the collaborative programs of Sexual Diversity Studies and Jewish Studies. His research explores the role of time, borders and affects in conflicts around reproductive rights and parental determination. Noy completed a Master of Law degree (LLM) from Columbia Law School as a Human Rights Fellow and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law.

Education
S.J.D. Candidate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law (2018-present)
LL.M., (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), Columbia Law School, New York (2017)
LL.B. (Magna cum laude), Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, Israel (2014)
Awards and Distinctions
Ontario Trillium Scholarship
Connaught International Scholarship (declined)
Sarah Weddington Writing Prize co-sponsored by If/When/How, the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law
ICON-S-IL: Junior Researcher Award for Outstanding Research in Public Law
Graduate Fellowships In Reproductive Rights For Developing Southern Countries
David Rayside Graduate Students Award
Granovsky-Gluskin Graduate Scholarship Fund
Israel And Golda Koschitzky Fellowship In Jewish Studies
Jack Hallam Uc'52 Graduate Scholarship In Sexual Diversity Studies
Shiff Family Graduate Student Endowment Funds
Tarek Heggy Graduate Scholarship
University of Toronto Faculty of Law Doctoral Fellowship
Professional Affiliations
Israeli Bar Association
The Law and Society Association
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
The Association for Israel Studies
Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network
Selected Publications

Article

The Non-Marital Presumption, _ The American Journal of Comparative Law (co-authored with Ayelet Blecher-Prigat & Ruth Zafran) (forthcoming 2024). 

 Affective Reproductive Legality,  35(1) Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (forthcoming, 2023-4). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4374756

Parenthood Based on Conjugality: Dual Motherhood as a Case-Study, Tel-Aviv University Law Review (Iyunei Mishpat ) (forthcoming, 2023) (first author, co-authored with Ayelet Blecher-Prigat & Ruth Zafran) (cited by the Supreme Court of Israel) [Hebrew]. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4001994

The Paradox of Same-Sex Parentage Equality, 100 (1) Washington University Law Review (2022). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4048052

Bordering Legal Parenthood, 33(3) Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (2022) (recipient of the ICON-S-IL Junior Researcher Award for outstanding research in public law). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4057501

Timing Legal Parenthood, 75 (1) Arkansas Law Review (2022) (recipient of the Sarah Weddington Writing Prize for outstanding student research in reproductive rights). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3993584  

Temporal Analysis of Judicial Parental Order, Mishpat Umimshal (Law and Government) (Haifa University Law Review) (forthcoming, 2022) (cited by the Supreme Court of Israel) [Hebrew]. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3916645

Chapters in Books:

The Abolition of Legal Marriage in Israel as a Potential Queer/Religious Project in Queer and Religious Alliances: Friendship in Family Law and Beyond (eds., Nausica Palazzo & Jeff Redding, forthcoming in Anthem Press, 2022) (co-authored with Ayelet Blecher-Prigat)

Judicial Parental Order as a Means of Recognizing Same-Sex Parenthood – The Israeli View, in 2021 International Survey of Family Law 283 (2021).

Reviews and Comments: 

Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood by Patton-Imani Sandra, Law & Society Review 56 (1)  (2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12596

Research Interests
Contracts
Critical Legal Theory
Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law
Family Law
Feminist Analysis of Law
Legal Theory
Reproductive and Sexual Health Law
Sexuality and the Law
Supervisor
Brenda Cossman
Committee Members
External links
SSRN
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