"Gender and the Law: Unintended Consequences, Unsettled Questions"

Videos
Description
Schedule
Speakers' Biographies
Related Exhibition: A Case for Women

Videos

Experience the conference on-line. Streaming videos are now available:

Welcome and Introduction
Video (8 minutes)

Session I: In Conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Video (1:12 minutes)

Session II: Gender and Schooling
Video (1:23 minutes)

Session III: The Market, the Family, and Economic Power
Video (1:08 minutes)

Roundtable Discussion: The Market, the Family, and Economic Power (Session III continued)
Video (2:01 minutes)

Session IV: Gendered Bodies, Legal Subjects
Video (1:38 minutes)

Session V: Gendered States of Citizenship
Video (1:49 minutes)

To view post-conference interviews with panelists and conveners, see the Interview Videos page.

Description

Unsettled questions of gender and the law present a broad range of challenges in courtrooms, legislatures, and everyday lives. Laws meant to protect or promote gender equality may have unintended consequences, and laws that seem irrelevant to gender may nonetheless significantly impact gender issues. This conference will convene judges; legal practitioners; and scholars of law, the humanities, and the social sciences from around the world to explore the ways in which legal regulations and gender influence each other. From varying historical and cultural perspectives, participants will address legal encounters with gender in the essential spaces of daily life: the body, the home, school, work, the nation, and the world.

See: "Ruth Bader Ginsburg Opens Gender and the Law Conference"

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Schedule

Thursday, March 12, 2009

2 p.m.	Welcome and Introduction Barbara J. Grosz, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
2:15 p.m.	Session I:  In Conversation with Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court Nancy Gertner, Judge, US District Court, District of Massachusetts Linda Greenhouse ’68, Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow in Law, Yale Law School Sandra L. Lynch, Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
3:15 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	Session II: Gender and Schooling Convener: Martha Minow, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Panelists: Katharine T. Bartlett, A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law Sandra L. Lynch, Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Emily J. Martin, Deputy Director, Women's Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, Associate Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law
5 p.m.	Reception

 Friday, March 13, 2009

9 a.m.	Session III: The Market, the Family, and Economic Power Convener: Janet Halley, Royall Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Panelists: Beshara Doumani RI ’08, Associate Professor of Middle East History, University of California at Berkeley Gillian Lester, Sidley Austin Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law Vicki Schultz RI ’01, Ford Foundation Professor of Law and the Social Sciences, Yale Law School Chantal Thomas, Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
10:15 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	Roundtable Discussion: The Market, the Family, and Economic Power (Session III continued) Convener: Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Panelists: Lisa Duggan, Professor of American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies, New York University Alice Kessler-Harris RI ’02, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History and Professor in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University Sharon Rabin-Margalioth, Professor of Law, Radzyner School of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya (Israel), and Global Visiting Professor of Law, New York University School of Law Ying Sun, Senior Consultant, Trainer, and Program Manager, TAOS Network (China) Philomila Tsoukala, Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Mona Zulficar, Senior Partner, Shalakany Law Office (Egypt)
12:30 p.m.	Break
1:45 p.m.	Session IV: Gendered Bodies, Legal Subjects Convener: Jeannie Suk, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School Panelists: Karen Engle, Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law, University of Texas School of Law Maggie Gallagher, President, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy Hauwa Ibrahim RI ’09, 2008–2009 Rita E. Hauser Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Defense Lawyer, Aries Law Firm (Nigeria) Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
3:30 p.m.	Break
3:45 p.m.	Session V: Gendered States of Citizenship Convener: Jacqueline Bhabha, Director, Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies; Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School; and Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School Panelists: Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Professor of English, University of Chicago Brenda Marjorie Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, House of Lords (United Kingdom) Linda K. Kerber RI ’03, May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa Ayelet Shachar, Professor of Law and Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Reva Siegel, Deputy Dean and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Speakers' Biographies

See the Gender and the Law speakers' biographies page.

Related Exhibition: A Case for Women

In conjunction with the conference “Gender and the Law: Unintended Consequences, Unsettled Questions,” the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America presents its spring 2009 exhibition, A Case for Women (March 9, 2009–October 9, 2009), which draws on materials from the library’s collections to explore four themes in United States law as they relate to gender: education, economics, women's bodies, and citizenship.