IMPORTANT EVENTS - SPRING 2009
April 10th: Gender on the Frontiers Symposium, Journal of Gender and Law
March 12th: Barbara Black Lecture, Angela Harris, Professor of Law, UC-Berkeley, Color Chart & Gender Spectrum: Trans-forming Race and Gender in a Post-Obama World
March 10th, 6:30pm, Casa Italiana: Myra Bradwell Dinner honoring Susan Lindenauer '64.
SPRING 2009 COLLOQUIUM
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 4:10 p.m.,
Anna Marie Smith, Senior Fellow, Columbia Law School Program for Gender & Sexuality Law, Professor, Government Department, Cornell University
Reproductive Technology, Family Law, and the Post-welfare State: The California Same-Sex Parents’ Rights “Victories” of 2005
Commentator: Sudhir Venkatesh, Director of the Center for Urban Research and Policy, and Director of the Charles H. Revson Fellowship Program Columbia University
Monday, March 9, 2009, 4:10 p.m., Room 600, Warren Hall, 115th & Amsterdam
Amy Adler, Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Medusa: A Glimpse of the Sexualized Female Body in First Amendment Law
Commentator: Philip Hamburger, Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Monday, April 6, 2009, 4:10 p.m., Case Lounge, Room 701 Jerome Greene Hall
Khiara Bridges, Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellow
Capturing the Judiciary: Carhart and the Undue Burden Standard
Commentator: Ariela Dubler, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
This symposium will recognize Martha Nussbaum’s contributions to gender and sexuality law. Papers will be published in a special issue of the Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law.
The symposium will run all day and will be composed of three panels and an address by Martha Nussbaum. Panels and speakers will include:
Feminism as Liberalism Panel
Carlos Ball, Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School
Nancy Levit, Curators’ and Edward D. Ellison Professor of Law at University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Tracy Higgins, Professor of Law at Fordham Law School
History, Identity and Sexuality Panel
Mary Anne Case, Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law at University of Chicago Law School
Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University
Janet Jakobsen, Director, Barnard Center for Research on Women
Gender and Development Panel
Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University
Amrita Basu, Domenic J. Paino 1955 Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies at Amherst College
Aili Tripp, Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fall 2008 Colloquium
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Wednesday, September 24th: 4:10 pm, Jerome Greene Annex
Elizabeth Schneider, Visiting Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
“The Dangers of Summary Judgment: Gender and Federal Civil Litigation”
Ted Shaw, Commentator, Professor of Practice, Columbia Law School
Wednesday, October 15th: 4:10 pm, Warren Hall Rm 600, 115th & Amsterdam
Ed Stein, Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School
“Born That Way? Not A Choice?: Problems with Biological and Psychological Arguments for Gay Rights”
Elizabeth Emens, Commentator, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Wednesday, November 12th: 4:10 pm, Warren Hall Rm 600, 115th & Amsterdam
Neferti Tadiar, Professor of Women’s Studies, Barnard College
If Not Mere Metaphor - Sexual Economies Reconsidered
Katherine Franke, Commentator, Professor of Law, Director, Gender and Sexuality Law Program, Columbia Law School