06/29/2026
We're proud to be publishing “Autonomous Contracts and Transformative Justice: Practicing Family Law Without Court Intervention” by D Dangaran & Andy Izenson in Volume 47 of Cardozo Law Review!
D Dangaran is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, where they teach and research Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, and Family Law. Their scholarship applies “abolitionist q***r theory,” critiquing the carceral state from a q***r/trans-centered frame. Their Essay, Bending Gender: Disability Justice, Abolitionist Q***r Theory, and ADA Claims for Gender Dysphoria, received a 2025 Dukeminier Award. Before teaching, they were the Director of Gender Justice at Rights Behind Bars, where they specialized in helping incarcerated trans people access gender-affirming care and safer housing conditions. D serves as co-chair of the National Trans Bar Association.
Andy (they/he) is the Senior Legal Director of Chosen Family Law Center and Partner at Diana Adams Law & Mediation, where they provide direct attorney and mediation services in the field of q***r and chosen family law, trans autonomy, and end-of-life agency, as well as extensive education around restorative and transformative justice. Andy is a member of the National Lawyers Guild, including a ten-year service on the NYC Chapter’s Executive Board and three years as President, the Family Law Institute of the National LGBT Bar Association, and the Rêve, the trans anarchist commune which they co-founded and on which they currently live with their own chosen family. Andy’s writing can be found in a variety of law journals and movement publications, including the Advocate, Scarleteen, and the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, and their first poetry collection was published by Listen To Your Skin Press earlier this year.
Read the full article here: https://www.cardozolawreview.com/autonomous-contracts-and-transformative-justice-practicing-family-law-without-court-intervention/