Category: Conferences

The Global Impact of Feminist Legal Theory (co-sponsored by Emory University’s Feminism and Legal Theory Project) Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Kathryn Abrams, Associate Dean and Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law In 2005, Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s Women and the Law Project joined […]

What U.S. Lawyers Can Learn from International Law: Concepts of Gender Equality Across Legal Cultures Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Martha Albertson Fineman Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University The Fourth Annual Women and the Law Conference in 2004 focused on What U.S. Lawyers Can Learn from International Law: Concepts of Gender Equality […]

Women and the Maternal Wall Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Joan Williams University of California, Hastings College of Law In 2003, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited Thomas Jefferson School of Law and delivered an address titled, “Workways of the Supreme Court.” After this visit, Justice Ginsburg generously created the Thomas Jefferson School […]

Women and Family Law Keynote Speaker: Justice Judith McConnell California Fourth District Court of Appeals The Second Annual Women and the Law Conference theme was Women and Family Law. The Honorable Judith McConnell, presiding Justice of the California Fourth District California Court of Appeal, delivered the keynote address, titled “Women in the Law: Changing the […]

Women as Workers Keynote Speaker: Professor Deborah L. Rhode, Stanford Law School The Thomas Jefferson School of Law’s inaugural Women and the Law Conference in 2001, Women as Workers, featured as keynote speaker Professor Deborah Rhode, the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, former president of the Association of American Law […]