Doriane Lambelet 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 law professor known for her work on sex-segregated sports, transgender and intersex athletes. She is co-director of Duke Law's Center for Sports Law and Policy.[1]

Early life and education

Coleman was born in a single parent family in Lausanne, Switzerland.[2]

Coleman attended Villanova University, becoming one of the first women to receive a track scholarship there.[3] She then transferred to Cornell where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1982.[2] 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.[4] She moved to Switzerland after college and trained for the Swiss national team while working for the International Olympic Committee Museum in Lausanne.[2] She was the Swiss National Champion in 1982 and 1983.[5]

Coleman attended Georgetown Law, where she was editor of the Georgetown Law Review. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown in 1988.[1] She worked at the law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.[1] While there she helped develop the world's first random, out-of-competition drug-testing program for USA Track & Field.[6] This got her involved in the Olympic Committee's anti-doping and eligibility efforts.[1]

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.[1] 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.[1]

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.[7] She has proposed an "accommodations approach" which creates multiple additional categories of athletes instead of simply having male and female categories.[8] Transgender advocates find these proposals stigmatizing and unfair to transgender athletes.[3] 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.[9][10] Coleman is no longer in a leadership position with the Women's Sports Policy Working Group.[11]

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.[12] 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 transphobic and eight student editors resigned from the journal rather than be associated with the essay.[13]

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.[1] She has written about the Olympic Movement and the complex problems of international and legal governance.[14] 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 [15] Her op-eds about women in sports have appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times.[16][17]

Publications

  • Coleman, D., and D. Beskind. Torts: Doctrine and Process. Duke University Press, 2021.
  • 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

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Doriane Lambelet Coleman". Duke University School of Law. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  2. 1 2 3 Eschenbach, Stephen. "Ivy Women in Sports". Ivy@50. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  3. 1 2 Hobson, Will (April 15, 2021). "The fight for the future of transgender athletes". Seattle Times. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  4. ↑ "Doriane Lambelet". Cornell University Athletics. 2021-08-16. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  5. ↑ "Track Star Turned Anti-Doping Lawyer: Meet Doriane Lambelet Coleman". WUNC. 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  6. ↑ "Some Female Olympians May Undergo Sex Tests". NPR.org. 2008-07-30. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  7. ↑ Coleman, Doriane Lambelet (2019-08-08). "If Sex Matters Less". Duke. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  8. ↑ Radnofsky, Louise (2020-03-09). "The Race to Replace the Binary of Men's and Women's Sports". WSJ. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  9. ↑ "The Issue". Women's Sports Policy Working Group. 2021-02-12. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  10. ↑ "Group co-founded by Coleman addresses transgender athletes in girls' and women's sport". Duke University School of Law. 2021-02-03. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  11. ↑ "About Us". Women's Sports Policy Working Group. 2022-01-21. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  12. ↑ Pousoulides, Stefanie (2021-04-19). "Duke students advocate for LGBTQ+ community in NC as lawmakers consider discriminatory bills". The Chronicle. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  13. ↑ "The Essay That Prompted an Editorial Revolt". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2022-03-09. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  14. ↑ 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. S2CID 229168822.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ "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.
  17. ↑ 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.
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