About
David A.J. Richards is Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University, where he has taught Constitutional Law and Criminal Law for forty-five years and co-taught a seminar Resisting Injustice with the developmental psychologist Carol Gilligan and a seminar Retributivism in Criminal Justice (Shakespeare) with the psychiatrist Jim Gilligan. He has written over twenty books on the basic rights of American constitutionalism, including his prominent defense of gay rights and (with Carol Gilligan) a feminism which joins men and women in resisting patriarchy, because patriarchy harms men as well as women (his work on gay rights was prominently cited by the Indian Supreme Court decision recently recognizing gay rights as human rights). He lives in New York City with his partner of forty-five years, Donald Levy.
Featured Work
Boys' Secrets and Men's Loves: a Memoir
Boys' Secrets and Men's Loves: a Memoir is the memoir of a law professor who has written over twenty books on the basic rights of American constitutionalism. He has been a prominent advocate of gay rights and feminism, which joins men and women in resistance. A gay man born in an Italian American family in New Jersey, he relates in his book his own experience and how the initiation of boys into patriarchy inflicts trauma, leading them mindlessly to accept patriarchal codes of masculinity, and how (through art, philosophy, and experience--including mutual love) he and others (straight and gay) come to join women in resisting patriarchy through the discovery of how deeply it harms men as well as women.
