Spring 2009 Symposium | Columbia Law School

Symposium Honoring the Works of Martha Nussbaum

A SYMPOSIUM HONORING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROFESSOR MARTHA NUSSBAUM TO THE SCHOLARSHIP AND PRACTICE OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY LAW
February 13, 2009
Columbia Law School

On Friday, February 13th we held a symposium honoring the important work of Martha Nussbaum to the scholarship of Gender, Sexuality and the Law.

The symposium was a tremendous success, and the proceedings will be published in a special issue of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law.

Videos of each of the panels and Professor Nussbaum’s keynote are now available below.

 
Feminism as Liberalism

• Carlos Ball, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
• Nancy Levit, Curators’ and Edward D. Ellison Professor of Law, UMKC School of Law
• Tracy Higgins, Professor of Law, Fordham Law School

History, Identity and Sexuality

• Mary Anne Case, Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
• Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History, Columbia University
• Janet Jakobsen, Director, Barnard Center for Research on Women

Gender and Development
• Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
• Amrita Basu, Domenic J. Paino 1955 Professor of Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies, Amherst College
• Aili Tripp, Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Keynote - Martha Nussbaum