Colloquia & Symposia

Friday, February 10

Symposium Honoring the 40th Anniversary of 
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Joining the Columbia Law Faculty 

This all-day symposium will recognize the 40th anniversary of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joining the Columbia law faculty as the first female tenure-track professor. This gathering will mark not only this important milestone, but also the foundational contributions Justice Ginsburg has made, as jurist, as advocate, and as scholar, to the law of gender-based justice and equality.

To register for the event, please RSVP to Gender_Sexuality_Law@law.columbia.edu. Due to limited space and tight security measures, seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Your RSVP does not guarantee you a seat. 

Schedule:

10:30  |  Welcome

David Schizer, Dean and the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, and Katherine Franke, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

11:00 - 12:00  |  A Conversation with Justice Ginsburg

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

in conversation with Gillian Metzger, Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law and Vice Dean, Columbia Law School, and Abbe Gluck, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

12:00 - 12:45  |  Q & A with Justice Ginsburg

2:15 - 3:30  |  Sex Discrimination Litigation in the 1970s, moderated by Ariela Migdal, Women's Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union

Kathleen Peratis, Outten & Golden LLP
Wendy Webster Williams, Georgetown Law School
Harriet S. Rabb, Vice President and General Counsel, The Rockefeller University
Herma Hill Kay, Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School

3:45 - 5:00  |  Transnational/International Perspectives on Gender Justice, moderated by Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Hon. Susanne Baer, Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
Hon. Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Hon. Kate O’Regan, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Hon. Yvonne Mokgoro, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

5:00 - 6:00  |  Closing and Adjournment to Cocktail Reception

 

Wednesday, February 15
12:00-1:15 p.m., Case Lounge, Room 701, Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School
Rethinking Civil Rights and Gender Violence
Julie Goldscheid
CUNY School of Law and Center for Gender and Sexuality Law Senior Fellow

Commentator: Olati Johnson, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

 

Julie Goldscheid is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, and is a Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law.  She writes and speaks widely about gender-based violence, women's economic independence and  gender equality.

 

Please click here to download her paper.  Hard copies are also available outside Room 600.6 (northeast corner cubicle) of Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School.

Wednesday, March 21
12:00-1:15 p.m., William and June Warren Hall, Room 101, Columbia Law School
Registering Relationships
Erez Aloni
2011-2013 Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellow

Commentator: Ariela Dubler, George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History, Columbia Law School

 

Erez Aloni is the 2011-2013 Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellow. He is currently an SJD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he taught a seminar on Sexuality and the Law. His research focuses on the legal recognition of variety of relationships in the United States and Europe, and the intersection between sexual and reproductive rights. He has published articles with the NYU Review of Law and Social Change and the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy and his fields of interest include family law, sexuality and the law, and comparative and constitutional law. Prior to studying at Penn, Erez worked at one of Israel's leading law firms, M. Firon and Co., in the field of constitutional litigation.

 

Please click here to download his paper.  Hard copies are also available outside Room 600.6 (northeast corner cubicle) of Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School.

 

 

Monday, January 23

John S. R. Shad Professor of Lawyering and Ethics and Director, Experiential Learning Lab

Monday, February 6