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'''Doriane Lambelet Coleman''' is a professor at Duke Law School, where she specializes in interdisciplinary scholarship focused on women, sports, children, and law. Her work has been published in numerous journals, and she is regularly cited in the press. At Duke, she is on the advisory council of the Kenan Institute for Ethics; a faculty associate of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine; a member of the Athletic Council; and codirector of the Center for Sports Law and Policy. She received a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University. A former collegiate and senior national champion, she ran the 800 meters for Cornell and Villanova, the Swiss and US national teams, Athletics West, the Santa Monica Track Club, the Atoms Track Club, and Lausanne Sports.<ref name="Author Site">{{cite web | title=Doriane Lambelet Coleman| website=Author Site | url=https://www.dorianecoleman.com/ | access-date=2024-01-30}}</ref>


Her most recent scholarship has centered on sex, its evolving definition, and the implications of this evolution for law and society. The first two articles in this series – [https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol80/iss4/5/ Sex in Sport] and [https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/djglp/vol27/iss1/7/ Re-affirming the Value of the Sports Exception to Title IX's General Non-Discrimination Rule] – have been widely read and used in the development of eligibility criteria for the female category. A third article – Sex Neutrality – traces the history of sex in law and addresses the merits of a final move from sex skepticism to sex-blindness. Her book [https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/On-Sex-and-Gender/Doriane-Lambelet-Coleman/9781668023105 On Sex and Gender – A Commonsense Approach (2024)] expands on these themes for a broader audience.
'''Doriane Lambelet Coleman''' is a Swiss-American professor at Duke Law School, where she specializes in scholarship on women, sports, children, and law.<ref name="Author Site">{{cite web | title=Doriane Lambelet Coleman| website=Author Site | url=https://www.dorianecoleman.com/ | access-date=2024-01-30}}</ref> Her most recent writing has centered on sex, its evolving definition, and the implications of this evolution for law and society. The first two articles in this series – "Sex in Sport" and "Re-affirming the Value of the Sports Exception to Title IX's General Non-Discrimination Rule" – have been widely read and used in the development of eligibility criteria for the female category. A third article – "Sex Neutrality" – traces the history of sex in law and addresses the merits of a final move from sex skepticism to sex-blindness. Her book, ''On Sex and Gender – A Commonsense Approach'' (2024), expands on these themes for a broader audience.<ref name="Duke">{{cite web | title=Doriane Lambelet Coleman| website=University School of Law.| url=https://law.duke.edu/fac/colemand/ | access-date=2024-01-30}}</ref>

At Duke, Coleman is a Faculty Fellow and Member of the Advisory Council of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and a Faculty Associate of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at the School of Medicine, and the University’s Initiative for Science & Society. She is also a member of the University’s Athletic Council and co-director of the Law School’s Center for Sports Law and Policy.

She received her Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown Law and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University. She was a litigation associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering before beginning her academic career at Howard University School of Law.

Before law school, Coleman ran the 800 meters in collegiate and international competition. She was a multiple All American, All East, and All Ivy athlete, the U.S. National Collegiate Indoor Champion in the 800 meters in 1982, the U.S. National Indoor Champion in the 4 x 400 meters relay in 1982, and the Swiss National Champion in the 800 meters in 1982 and 1983. Over the course of her athletic career she competed for Villanova and Cornell, the Swiss and U.S. National Teams, Athletics West, the Santa Monica and Atoms Track Clubs, and Lausanne Sports.
<ref name="Duke">{{cite web | title=Doriane Lambelet Coleman | website=Duke University School of Law | url=https://law.duke.edu/fac/colemand/ | access-date=2024-01-30}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Coleman was born in a single parent family in [[Lausanne, Switzerland]].<ref name="Ivy">{{cite web | last=Eschenbach|first=Stephen|title=Ivy Women in Sports | website= Ivy@50 | url=http://ivy50.com/womens/story.aspx?sid=11/28/2006 | ref={{sfnref | Ivy@50 }} | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref>
Coleman was born in [[Lausanne, Switzerland]] as '''Doriane Lambelet'''.<ref name="Ivy">{{cite web | last=Eschenbach|first=Stephen|title=Ivy Women in Sports | website= Ivy@50 | url=http://ivy50.com/womens/story.aspx?sid=11/28/2006 | ref={{sfnref | Ivy@50 }} | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref> She attended [[Villanova University]], becoming one of the first women to receive a track scholarship there.<ref name="ST">{{cite news |last1=Hobson |first1=Will |title=The fight for the future of transgender athletes |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/the-fight-for-the-future-of-transgender-athletes/ |access-date=May 21, 2022 |work=Seattle Times |date=April 15, 2021}}</ref> She then transferred to [[Cornell University|Cornell]] where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1982.<ref name=" Ivy" /> She attended [[Georgetown University Law School|Georgetown Law]], where she was an editor of the ''[[Georgetown University Law Center|Georgetown Law Journal]]'' and earned her Juris Doctor degree in 1988.<ref name="Duke" />


Coleman attended [[Villanova University]], becoming one of the first women to receive a track scholarship there.<ref name="ST">{{cite news |last1=Hobson |first1=Will |title=The fight for the future of transgender athletes |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/the-fight-for-the-future-of-transgender-athletes/ |access-date=21 May 2022 |work=Seattle Times |date=April 15, 2021}}</ref> She then transferred to [[Cornell University|Cornell]] where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1982.<ref name=" Ivy" /> As a college athlete she was the U.S. National Collegiate Indoor Champion in 1982, the U.S. National Indoor Champion (with her team) in the 4 x 400 meters relay in 1982.<ref name="Cornell University Athletics 2021">{{cite web | title=Doriane Lambelet|website=Cornell University Athletics | date=2021-08-16 | url=https://cornellbigred.com/aa.aspx?hid=554 | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref> She moved to Switzerland after college and trained for the Swiss national team while working for the International Olympic Committee Museum in Lausanne.<ref name=" Ivy" /> She was the Swiss National Champion in 1982 and 1983.<ref name="WUNC">{{cite web | title=Track Star Turned Anti-Doping Lawyer: Meet Doriane Lambelet Coleman | website=WUNC | date=2016-08-15 | url=https://www.wunc.org/show/the-state-of-things/2016-08-15/track-star-turned-anti-doping-lawyer-meet-doriane-lambelet-coleman | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref>
Before law school, Coleman ran the 800 meters in collegiate and international competition. She was a multiple All American, All East, and All Ivy athlete, the U.S. National Collegiate Indoor Champion in the 800 meters in 1982, the U.S. National Indoor Champion in the 4 x 400 meters relay in 1982,<ref name="Cornell University Athletics 2021">{{cite web | title=Doriane Lambelet|website=Cornell University Athletics | date=2021-08-16 | url=https://cornellbigred.com/aa.aspx?hid=554 | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref> and the Swiss National Champion in the 800 meters in 1982 and 1983.<ref name="WUNC">{{cite web | title=Track Star Turned Anti-Doping Lawyer: Meet Doriane Lambelet Coleman | website=WUNC | date=2016-08-15 | url=https://www.wunc.org/show/the-state-of-things/2016-08-15/track-star-turned-anti-doping-lawyer-meet-doriane-lambelet-coleman | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref> Over the course of her athletic career she competed for Villanova and Cornell, the Swiss and U.S. National Teams,<ref name="Ivy" /> Athletics West, the Santa Monica and Atoms Track Clubs, and Lausanne Sports.<ref name="Duke" />


==Legal career==
==Legal career==
Coleman attended [[Georgetown University Law Center|Georgetown Law]], where she was editor of the Georgetown Law Review. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown in 1988.<ref name="Duke" /> She worked at the law firm [[Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr|Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering]].<ref name="Duke" /> While there she helped develop the world's first random, out-of-competition drug-testing program for [[USA Track & Field]].<ref name="NPR">{{cite web | title=Some Female Olympians May Undergo Sex Tests | website=NPR.org | date=2008-07-30 | url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93083569 | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref> This got her involved in the [[International Olympic Committee|Olympic Committee's]] anti-doping and eligibility efforts.<ref name="Duke" />
After law school Coleman worked at the Washington, D.C. law firm [[Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr|Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering]].<ref name="Duke" /> While there she helped develop the world’s first random, out-of-competition drug-testing program for [[USA Track & Field]].<ref name="NPR">{{cite web | title=Some Female Olympians May Undergo Sex Tests | website=NPR.org | date=2008-07-30 | url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93083569 | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref>


After her law firm work, she shifted to an academic and teaching career at [[Howard University School of Law]] and then took a job at Duke University.<ref name="Duke" /> At Duke University, Coleman is the co-director of Duke Law's Center for Sports Law and Policy. She serves as a member of the Advisory Council of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University as well as a Faculty Associate of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at the [[Duke University School of Medicine]], an Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, and an Affiliate of the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy.<ref name="Duke" />
She began her academic career at [[Howard University School of Law]] in 1992 and has been at Duke University School of Law since 1994. At Duke University, Coleman is a Faculty Fellow and Member of the Advisory Council of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and a Faculty Associate of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at the School of Medicine. She is also a member of the University’s Athletic Council and co-director of the Law School’s Center for Sports Law and Policy.<ref name="Duke" />


She has published numerous works on parental rights including two on the [[mature minor doctrine]] about whether minors can legally consent to medical treatment without parental consent or over parental objections.<ref name="Coleman2">{{cite journal |title=The Legal Authority of Mature Minors to Consent to General Medical Treatment |first1=Doriane Lambelet |last1=Coleman |first2=Philip M. |last2=Rosoff |journal=[[Pediatrics (journal)|Pediatrics]] |volume=131 |issue=4 |pages=786–793 |date=April 2013 |url=http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1caf/65c110f65f6e0b91c74956043da9cbac0dbb.pdf |doi=10.1542/peds.2012-2470 |pmid=23530175 |s2cid=686006 |accessdate=12 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219235201/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1caf/65c110f65f6e0b91c74956043da9cbac0dbb.pdf |archivedate=2019-02-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She has written about sports governance and the Olympic Movement including about the Court of Arbitration for Sport.<ref name="Coleman">{{cite journal | last=Coleman | first=Doriane Lambelet | title=The Olympic Movement in International Law - American Journal of International Law | journal=American Journal of International Law | volume=114 | date=2020-12-07 | issn=2398-7723 | pages=385–390 | doi=10.1017/aju.2020.75 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/olympic-movement-in-international-law/90CF8B7F4FA64A2EEC49F881606BA225| doi-access=free }} Coleman, Doriane Lambelet (2019). “[https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6699&context=faculty_scholarship Semenya v. IAAF: Affirming the Lawfulness of a Sex-Based Eligibility Rule For the Women’s Category in Elite Sport]”. International Sports Law Review 4: 83-90.</ref>
Coleman is an advocate for protections for the LGBTQIA community in sports, wanting to secure protection for transgender athletes while also maintaining [[Title IX]] protections for female athletes.<ref name="Coleman 2019">{{cite web | last=Coleman | first=Doriane Lambelet | title=If Sex Matters Less | website=Duke | date=2019-08-08 | url=https://alumni.duke.edu/magazine/articles/if-sex-matters-less | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref> She has proposed an "accommodations approach" which creates multiple additional categories of athletes instead of simply having male and female categories.<ref name="Radnofsky">{{cite web | last=Radnofsky | first=Louise | title=The Race to Replace the Binary of Men's and Women's Sports | website=WSJ | date=2020-03-09 | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-race-to-replace-the-binary-of-mens-and-womens-sports-11583769636 | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref> Transgender advocates find these proposals stigmatizing and unfair to transgender athletes.<ref name="ST" /> Coleman was the co-founder, with [[Martina Navratilova]] and others, of the Women's Sports Policy Working Group which has a mission "to find middle ground in the debate over the participation of transgender women in sports," and tries to address and resolve conflicting state laws regarding the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports.<ref name="Women">{{cite web | title=The Issue | website=Women's Sports Policy Working Group | date=2021-02-12 | url=https://womenssportspolicy.org/the-issue/ | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref><ref name="Duke 2">{{cite web | title=Group co-founded by Coleman addresses transgender athletes in girls' and women's sport | website=Duke University School of Law | date=2021-02-03 | url=https://law.duke.edu/news/group-co-founded-coleman-addresses-transgender-athletes-girls-and-womens-sport/ | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref> Coleman is no longer in a leadership position with the Women's Sports Policy Working Group.<ref name="WSPWG">{{cite web | title=About Us | website=Women's Sports Policy Working Group | date=2022-01-21 | url=https://womenssportspolicy.org/about-us/ | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref>


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Her academic writing has appeared in many legal and medical journals including in such publications as the ''Columbia Law Review'', ''Duke Law Journal'', ''Notre Dame Law Review'', ''Cardozo Law Review'', ''William and Mary Law Review'', ''Law & Contemporary Problems'', ''American Journal of Law and Medicine'', ''Journal of the American Medical Association'', ''Pediatrics'', ''Journal of Law and the Biosciences'', ''American Journal of International Law Unbound'', and the ''International Sports Law Review''.<ref name="Duke" /> Her op-eds about women in sports have appeared in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref name="NYT">{{cite web | title=Sex, Sport, and Why Track and Field's New Rules on Intersex Athletes Are Essential | website=The New York Times | date=2018-05-01 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/sports/track-gender-rules.html | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref><ref name="WAPO">{{cite news | last=Coleman | first=Doriane Lambelet | title=U.S. Soccer is misusing my work to say the women's team doesn't deserve pay equality | newspaper=Washington Post | date=2020-03-13 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/13/us-soccer-is-misusing-my-work-say-womens-team-doesnt-deserve-pay-equality/ | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref>
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Coleman condemned North Carolina's H.B. 358, a bill that prevented transgender girls from participating in high school girls' sports, for excluding transgender athletes and for drawing unfair conclusions from her research.<ref name="Pousoulides 2021">{{cite web | last=Pousoulides | first=Stefanie | title=Duke students advocate for LGBTQ+ community in NC as lawmakers consider discriminatory bills | website=The Chronicle | date=2021-04-19 | url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2021/04/duke-university-student-advocate-lgbtq-community-transgender-athlete-discriminatory-bill | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref> Coleman was co-chair of the Duke Law's journal ''Law and Contemporary Problems'' when they published a special issue entitled "Sex in Law." The journal contained an essay by [[Kathleen Stock]] that many felt was [[Transphobia|transphobic]] and eight student editors resigned from the journal rather than be associated with the essay.<ref name="chronicle">{{cite web | title=The Essay That Prompted an Editorial Revolt | website=The Chronicle of Higher Education | date=2022-03-09 | url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-essay-that-prompted-an-editorial-revolt | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref>


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In 2016, Coleman authored an op-ed arguing against a North Carolina law that barred transgender people from using bathrooms that match their gender identity.<ref name="newsobserver">{{cite web | title=The lesson of HB2: We are different, but equal | website=The News & Observer | date=2016-10-08 | url=https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article106791322.html | access-date=2024-02-19}}</ref> In 2021, she co-authored an op-ed arguing that North Carolina should not bar transgender girls from all female sports.<ref name="Duke3">{{cite web | title=N.C. bill goes too far in banning transgender girls from female sports. There are options.| website=The News & Observer | date=2016-10-08 | url=https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article106791322.html | access-date=2024-02-19}}</ref> In 2022, she condemned North Carolina's H.B. 358, a bill that prevented transgender girls from participating in high school girls' sports, for drawing unfair conclusions from her research.<ref name="Pousoulides 2021">{{cite web | last=Pousoulides | first=Stefanie | title=Duke students advocate for LGBTQ+ community in NC as lawmakers consider discriminatory bills | website=The Chronicle | date=2021-04-19 | url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2021/04/duke-university-student-advocate-lgbtq-community-transgender-athlete-discriminatory-bill | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref> She was co-chair of Duke Law's ''Law and Contemporary Problems'' when they published a special issue entitled "Sex in Law."<ref name="Duke4">{{cite web | title=Sex in Law| website=Law and Contemporary Problems | date=2022 | url=https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol85/iss1/ | access-date=2024-02-19}}</ref> The journal contained an essay by [[Kathleen Stock]] that some claimed was [[Transphobia|transphobic]] and eight student editors resigned rather than be associated with the essay.<ref name="chronicle">{{cite web | title=The Essay That Prompted an Editorial Revolt | website=The Chronicle of Higher Education | date=2022-03-09 | url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-essay-that-prompted-an-editorial-revolt | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref>
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Her writing has appeared in many legal and medical journals including in the Columbia Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Georgetown Law Journal, the Notre Dame Law Review, the Cardozo Law Review, the William and Mary Law Review, Law & Contemporary Problems, the American Journal of Law and Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, Pediatrics, the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, the American Journal of International Law Unbound, and the International Sports Law Review.<ref name="Duke" /> She has written about the Olympic Movement and the complex problems of international and legal governance.<ref name="Coleman">{{cite journal | last=Coleman | first=Doriane Lambelet | title=The Olympic Movement in International Law - American Journal of International Law | journal=American Journal of International Law | volume=114 | date=2020-12-07 | issn=2398-7723 | doi=10.1017/aju.2020.75 | pages=385–390 | s2cid=229168822 | doi-access=free }}</ref> She has also published works on the [[mature minor doctrine]] about whether minors can legally consent to medical treatment without parental consent or over parental objections <ref name="Coleman2">{{cite journal |title=The Legal Authority of Mature Minors to Consent to General Medical Treatment |first1=Doriane Lambelet |last1=Coleman |first2=Philip M. |last2=Rosoff |journal=[[Pediatrics (journal)|Pediatrics]] |volume=131 |issue=4 |pages=786–793 |date=April 2013 |url=http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1caf/65c110f65f6e0b91c74956043da9cbac0dbb.pdf |doi=10.1542/peds.2012-2470 |pmid=23530175 |s2cid=686006 |accessdate=12 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219235201/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1caf/65c110f65f6e0b91c74956043da9cbac0dbb.pdf |archivedate=2019-02-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her op-eds about women in sports have appeared in [[The Washington Post]] and [[The New York Times]].<ref name="NYT">{{cite web | title=Sex, Sport, and Why Track and Field's New Rules on Intersex Athletes Are Essential | website=The New York Times | date=2018-05-01 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/sports/track-gender-rules.html | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref><ref name="WAPO">{{cite news | last=Coleman | first=Doriane Lambelet | title=U.S. Soccer is misusing my work to say the women's team doesn't deserve pay equality | newspaper=Washington Post | date=2020-03-13 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/13/us-soccer-is-misusing-my-work-say-womens-team-doesnt-deserve-pay-equality/ | access-date=2022-05-21}}</ref>


==Publications==
==Publications==
* Coleman, D., and D. Beskind. ''Torts: Doctrine and Process''. Duke University Press, 2021.
* Coleman, D., and D. Beskind. ''Torts: Doctrine and Process''. Duke University Press, 2023.
* Coleman, D., and K. Dodge. ''Preventing Child Maltreatment: Community Approaches''. Guilford Press, 2009.
* Coleman, D., and K. Dodge. ''Preventing Child Maltreatment: Community Approaches''. Guilford Press, 2009.
* Coleman, D. ''Fixing Columbine: The Challenge to American Liberalism''. Carolina Academic Press, 2002.
* Coleman, D. ''Fixing Columbine: The Challenge to American Liberalism''. Carolina Academic Press, 2002.


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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Coleman lives in Durham, North Carolina and is married to attorney and law professor [[James Earl Coleman]]. They have two children.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}
Coleman lives in [[Durham, North Carolina]] and is married to attorney and law professor [[James Earl Coleman]]. They have two children.


==References==
==References==
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Doriane Coleman
Born
Doriane Lambelet

Lausanne, Switzerland
NationalityAmerican, Swiss
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Law professor, Writer
SpouseJames Earl Coleman
Children2

Doriane Lambelet Coleman is a Swiss-American professor at Duke Law School, where she specializes in scholarship on women, sports, children, and law.[1] Her most recent writing has centered on sex, its evolving definition, and the implications of this evolution for law and society. The first two articles in this series – "Sex in Sport" and "Re-affirming the Value of the Sports Exception to Title IX's General Non-Discrimination Rule" – have been widely read and used in the development of eligibility criteria for the female category. A third article – "Sex Neutrality" – traces the history of sex in law and addresses the merits of a final move from sex skepticism to sex-blindness. Her book, On Sex and Gender – A Commonsense Approach (2024), expands on these themes for a broader audience.[2]

Early life and education

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Coleman was born in Lausanne, Switzerland as Doriane Lambelet.[3] She attended Villanova University, becoming one of the first women to receive a track scholarship there.[4] She then transferred to Cornell where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1982.[3] She attended Georgetown Law, where she was an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal and earned her Juris Doctor degree in 1988.[2]

Before law school, Coleman ran the 800 meters in collegiate and international competition. She was a multiple All American, All East, and All Ivy athlete, the U.S. National Collegiate Indoor Champion in the 800 meters in 1982, the U.S. National Indoor Champion in the 4 x 400 meters relay in 1982,[5] and the Swiss National Champion in the 800 meters in 1982 and 1983.[6] Over the course of her athletic career she competed for Villanova and Cornell, the Swiss and U.S. National Teams,[3] Athletics West, the Santa Monica and Atoms Track Clubs, and Lausanne Sports.[2]

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After law school Coleman worked at the Washington, D.C. law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.[2] While there she helped develop the world’s first random, out-of-competition drug-testing program for USA Track & Field.[7]

She began her academic career at Howard University School of Law in 1992 and has been at Duke University School of Law since 1994. At Duke University, Coleman is a Faculty Fellow and Member of the Advisory Council of the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and a Faculty Associate of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine at the School of Medicine. She is also a member of the University’s Athletic Council and co-director of the Law School’s Center for Sports Law and Policy.[2]

She has published numerous works on parental rights including two on the mature minor doctrine about whether minors can legally consent to medical treatment without parental consent or over parental objections.[8] She has written about sports governance and the Olympic Movement including about the Court of Arbitration for Sport.[9]

Her academic writing has appeared in many legal and medical journals including in such publications as the Columbia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Notre Dame Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, William and Mary Law Review, Law & Contemporary Problems, American Journal of Law and Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Pediatrics, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, American Journal of International Law Unbound, and the International Sports Law Review.[2] Her op-eds about women in sports have appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times.[10][11]

In 2016, Coleman authored an op-ed arguing against a North Carolina law that barred transgender people from using bathrooms that match their gender identity.[12] In 2021, she co-authored an op-ed arguing that North Carolina should not bar transgender girls from all female sports.[13] In 2022, she condemned North Carolina's H.B. 358, a bill that prevented transgender girls from participating in high school girls' sports, for drawing unfair conclusions from her research.[14] She was co-chair of Duke Law's Law and Contemporary Problems when they published a special issue entitled "Sex in Law."[15] The journal contained an essay by Kathleen Stock that some claimed was transphobic and eight student editors resigned rather than be associated with the essay.[16]

Publications

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  • Coleman, D., and D. Beskind. Torts: Doctrine and Process. Duke University Press, 2023.
  • Coleman, D., and K. Dodge. Preventing Child Maltreatment: Community Approaches. Guilford Press, 2009.
  • Coleman, D. Fixing Columbine: The Challenge to American Liberalism. Carolina Academic Press, 2002.

Personal life

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Coleman lives in Durham, North Carolina and is married to attorney and law professor James Earl Coleman. They have two children.

References

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  1. ^ "Doriane Lambelet Coleman". Author Site. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Doriane Lambelet Coleman". University School of Law. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  3. ^ a b c Eschenbach, Stephen. "Ivy Women in Sports". Ivy@50. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  4. ^ Hobson, Will (April 15, 2021). "The fight for the future of transgender athletes". Seattle Times. Retrieved May 21, 2022.
  5. ^ "Doriane Lambelet". Cornell University Athletics. 2021-08-16. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  6. ^ "Track Star Turned Anti-Doping Lawyer: Meet Doriane Lambelet Coleman". WUNC. 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  7. ^ "Some Female Olympians May Undergo Sex Tests". NPR.org. 2008-07-30. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  8. ^ Coleman, Doriane Lambelet; Rosoff, Philip M. (April 2013). "The Legal Authority of Mature Minors to Consent to General Medical Treatment" (PDF). Pediatrics. 131 (4): 786–793. doi:10.1542/peds.2012-2470. PMID 23530175. S2CID 686006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-19. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  9. ^ Coleman, Doriane Lambelet (2020-12-07). "The Olympic Movement in International Law - American Journal of International Law". American Journal of International Law. 114: 385–390. doi:10.1017/aju.2020.75. ISSN 2398-7723. Coleman, Doriane Lambelet (2019). “Semenya v. IAAF: Affirming the Lawfulness of a Sex-Based Eligibility Rule For the Women’s Category in Elite Sport”. International Sports Law Review 4: 83-90.
  10. ^ "Sex, Sport, and Why Track and Field's New Rules on Intersex Athletes Are Essential". The New York Times. 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  11. ^ Coleman, Doriane Lambelet (2020-03-13). "U.S. Soccer is misusing my work to say the women's team doesn't deserve pay equality". Washington Post. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  12. ^ "The lesson of HB2: We are different, but equal". The News & Observer. 2016-10-08. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  13. ^ "N.C. bill goes too far in banning transgender girls from female sports. There are options". The News & Observer. 2016-10-08. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  14. ^ Pousoulides, Stefanie (2021-04-19). "Duke students advocate for LGBTQ+ community in NC as lawmakers consider discriminatory bills". The Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  15. ^ "Sex in Law". Law and Contemporary Problems. 2022. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  16. ^ "The Essay That Prompted an Editorial Revolt". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2022-03-09. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
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