| Expertise: - Same-sex marriage
- LGBT family law – custody, visitation and adoption
- Lesbian and gay parenting and child development
Additional Information:
Dr. Richman’s PhD is in Criminology, Law and Society. Her forthcoming book analyzes the role of judicial narratives in the construction of legal and social meanings, rationales, and outcomes in child custody, adoption, and visitation cases involving gay and lesbian parents. She is also engaged in a large-scale, federally funded study of the legal same-sex marriage experience in San Francisco and Massachusetts.
Selected Publications: Richman, Kimberly. In Press. Courting Change: Gay and Lesbian Parents Navigating Custody and Adoption Law. New York University Press. Richman, Kimberly. 2007. “What’s in the Rite: Same Sex Marriage and Legality Outside of Law.” Review of Hull, Same Sex Marriage: The Cultural Politics of Love and Law. Contemporary Sociology. Richman, Kimberly. 2007. “Talking Back: The Discursive Role of the Dissent in Gay and Lesbian Parents’ Custody and Adoption Cases.” Law & Sexuality, Volume 16. Richman, Kimberly. 2005. “Same Sex Marriage and Civil Unions”, Fact Sheet for Sociologists for Women in Society. • Reprinted in Wortmann, Introduction to Sociology Reader (2006) Richman, Kimberly. 2006. “LGBT Family Rights, Legal Consciousness, and the Dilemma of Difference.” In A New Civil Rights Research: Rights Consciousness and Claiming in the United States, edited by Benjamin Fleury-Steiner and Laura Beth Nielsen. Dartmouth/Ashgate Press. Richman, Kimberly. 2005. “Judging Science: The Court as Arbiter of Social Scientific Knowledge and Expertise in LGBT Parent’s Child Custody and Adoption Cases.” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 35: 3-28. Richman, Kimberly. 2005. “(When) Are Rights Wrong?: Rights Discourses and Indeterminacy in Gay and Lesbian Parents’ Custody Cases.” Law & Social Inquiry 30(1): 137-176. Richman, Kimberly. 2004. “Homosexuality.” In The Encyclopedia of Criminology, edited by Richard A. Wright and J. Mitchell Miller. New York: Routledge. Richman, Kimberly. 2002. “Lovers, Legal Strangers, and Parents: Negotiating Parental and Sexual Identity in Family Law.” Law & Society Review 36(2): 285-324. • Recipient of the Lindesmith Award from the Law and Society Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
• Recipient of the Student Paper Award from the American Society of Criminology Division on Women and Crime
• Recipient of the Sally Hacker Award from the Sex and Gender Division of the American Sociological Association Jenness, Valerie and Kimberly Richman. 2002. “Anti-Gay and Lesbian Violence and its Discontents.” In The Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies, edited by Diane Richardson and Steven Seidman. London: Sage Publications.
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