RUTGERS SCHOOL OF LAW–NEWARK CELEBRATES WOMEN RESHAPING AMERICAN LAW
Event video recordings:
ORDER OF SPEAKERS
WELCOMING REMARKS
Dean Stuart Deutsch (Rutgers School of Law - Newark)
Associate Professor Suzanne A. Kim (Rutgers School of Law - Newark)
OPENING REMARKS
Fred Strebeigh (Author of Equal: Women Reshape American Law)
PANEL 1: RUTGERS SCHOOL OF LAW - NEWARK AND THE HISTORY OF WOMEN AND THE LAW
Associate Professor Suzanne A. Kim (Rutgers School of Law - Newark) (moderator)
Professor Emerita Annamay Sheppard '58 (Rutgers School of Law-Newark)
Janice Goodman, Esq. (Former Director, Rutgers Women's Rights Litigation Clinic)
Diane Crothers, Esq. '74 (Co-Founder, Women's Rights Law Reporter; New York City's Deputy Commissioner for Citywide Equal Employment Opportunity)
Dr. Diana Guza-Wells '72 (Involved with Justice Ginsburg's first gender discrimination legal work on behalf of Nora Simon)
Professor Esther Canty-Barnes '81 (Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Special Education Clinic, Rutgers School of Law - Newark)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG: "From Muller v. Oregon to the Family and Medical Leave Act: Protective Legislation, Then and Now."
Delivered by Professor Wendy Webster Williams (Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center)
PANEL 2: RESHAPING THE LAW - HISTORY OF PREGNANCY DISCRIMINATION, SEXUAL HARASSMENT, AND VAMA
Fred Strebeigh (Author of Equal: Women Reshape American Law, moderator)
Professor Susan Deller Ross (Professor of Law and Director, International Women's Human Rights Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center)
Professor Wendy Webster Williams (Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center)
Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon (Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, and Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court)
Professor Sarah E. Burns (Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law)
Professor Victoria Nourse (L.Q.C. Lamar Professor of Law, Emory Law School, and Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School)
Professor Sally F. Goldfarb (Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law - Camden)
CLOSING REMARKS: Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon (University of Michigan Law School)
PANEL 3: WOMEN IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION
Lynn Hecht Schafran, Esq. (Senior Vice President and Director, National Judicial Education Program, Legal Momentum, moderator/panelist)
Professor Diana Sclar (Rutgers School of Law- Newark)
Diane Serafin Blank, Esq. (Plaintiff in Blank v. Sullivan & Cromwell)
Professor Twila L. Perry (Rutgers School of Law - Newark)
Ann Berger Lesk, Esq. '77 (Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, and President, New York County Lawyers' Association)