Dear Friends,
You may be interested in these great feminist panels to be held at the upcoming Law & Society meeting (note the work of the new Feminist CRN!) Here are the details:
Violence Against Women panels
Saturday, June 4, 10:15-12:00
Author-Meets-Reader – Restorative Justice & Violence Against Women, edited by James Ptacek, LSA 3220
Authors: Rashmi Goel, Mimi Kim, James Ptacek
Readers: Madelaine Adelman, Lynne Henderson, Leigh Goodmark, Chair & Reader: Donna Coker
Saturday, June 4, 4:30-6:15
Structural Inequalities & Violence Against Women, 3527 Organizers: Donna Coker & Deborah Weissman Chair/Discussant: Liz Schneider
Elizabeth MacDowell and Ann Cammett, Structural Inequality and Violence Against Women: Models of Invisibility (discussing the work of their UNLV clinic that assists poor families affected by incarceration and the potential for clinical pedagogy to teach students about intersectional issues, and the possibilities for advocacy and social change.)
Madelaine Adelman, Title: TBA (The relationship between the state and domestic violence is multidimensional, contested and contradictory. In this study based in Israel and the US, I trace how the state has been mobilized and reconfigured to intervene into and prevent domestic violence, but I also demonstrate how the state engenders domestic violence.)
Carrie Bettinger-Lopez, Gender Justice and Human Rights: Revisiting the Links between Domestic Violence & Reproductive Rights Advocacy (courts, advocates, and academics view domestic violence and reproductive rights as separate spheres of women’s rights advocacy in the U.S., and fail to recognize their common ground: the expropriation of women’s sexuality by a patriarchal system that dominates the family and the law.)
Donna Coker, Teaching Domestic Violence Through the Lens of Structural Inequality in a Non-Clinical Domestic Violence Law School Class (discussing in particular the challenges of teaching class and economic rights.)
Deborah Weissman, From the Politics of Denunciation to the Politics of Redistributive Justice (addressing the failure of feminist activism to sufficiently engage in a critique of political economy and how such failure has materialized in troubling response to the crises in Mexico – femicides and drug cartel violence– both of which have consequences for feminism.)
Sunday, June 5, 8:15-10:00 a.m. Respecting and Contesting the Rights of Women and Children 4116
SESSION PARTICIPANTS:
Session Organizer: Mindie Lazarus-Black
Chair/Discussant: Donna Coker
Contradictions in Children’s Rights in Peru: The Right to Work or the Right Not to Work? – Dena Aufseeser
From Gender-Based Violence to Women’s Violence in Haiti – Benedetta Faedi Duramy
Rights, Resources, and the Vulnerability of Children in Post-Disaster Settings – Jonathan Todres
The Diffusion of Disability Rights Policy: A Focus on Special Education in South Korea -Elizabeth Palley and Joan Yoo
Translating the UN Convention: Language and Inclusive Education Rights in Germany – Katharina Heyer
Who Benefits from Constitutional Equality Rights? An Empirical Overview of Canadian Court Rulings Since 1989 – Bruce Ryder
Feminist Legal Theory CRN
Friday, June 3rd
8:15 to 10:00 AM Marriage, Divorce, Parenting, and Sexuality
Chair: Nancy Knauer
Modernizing Divorce Jurisdiction, Courtney Joslin
Commentator: Susan Appleton
Changing the Marriage Equation, Deborah Widiss
Commentator: Alicia Kelly
The Neutered Parent, Suzanne Kim
Commentator: Eleanor Brown
June Cleaver, Mommie Dearest, the Lone Wolf, and the Family Man: How Constructions of Gender, Marriage, Love, and Parenthood Influence Penal Attitudes, Jody Madeira
Commentator: Zvi Triger
10:15 to 12:00 PM
The “Economics” of the Family
Chair: Noah Zatz
Mobility Mandates, Naomi Schoenbaum
Commentator: Gillian Lester
An Unusual Theory for the Economic Success of Jamaican Migrant Families: The Grant of Constructive Property and Contract Rights to Jamaican Slave Women, Eleanor Brown
Commentator: Nestor Davidson
Navigating Gender, Vulnerability and Connection, Alicia Kelly
Commentator: Laura Kessler
The Family and the Market: Redux, Maxine Eichner
Commentator: Noah Zatz
2:30 to 4:15 PM
Business Meeting
Discussion facilitator: Kathryn Abrams
4:30 to 6:15 PM
Challenging the Canons of Family Law and Feminist Legal Theory
Chair: Susan Appleton
Disenchanting the Public-Private Distinction, Kathryn Abrams
Commentator: Pat Cain
Family Law Reimagined: Recasting the Canon of Family Law, Jill Hasday
Commentator: Dorothy Roberts
The Performative Family, Clare Huntington
Commentator: Susan Stiritz
Work Wives, Laura Rosenbury
Commentator: Martha Chamallas
7:00 PM
Pay-your-own-way dinner at Straits Café, 845 Market Street, prix fixe menu (including numerous vegetarian options), $45/person (drinks excluded). RSVP by May 27th to Maya Manian, at mmanian@usfca.edu. Guests welcome.
Saturday, June 4
8:15 to 10:00 AM
Selected Topics: Sexualities, Domestic Violence, and Mothering
Chair: Deborah Widiss
Sex Ed for Tomorrow’s Lawyers: Regulation and Revision, Susan Appleton & Susan Stiritz,
Commentator: Jody Madeira
Reimagining Domestic Violence Law and Policy through an Anti-Essentialist Lens, Leigh Goodmark
Commentator: Deborah Widiss
Of Woman Born? Technology, Relationship and the Right to a Human Mother, Jennifer Hendricks
Commentator: Maya Manian
4:30 to 6:15 PM
The Future of Fatherhood
Chair: Maxine Eichner
Legal Lessons from the Media, Masculinities, and Mr. Mom, Beth Burkstrand-Reid
Commentator: Courtney Joslin
The Paternity Riddle, Melanie Jacobs
Commentator: Maxine Eichner
Absent and Unnatural Fathers: The False Competition between Black Dads and Gay Dads, Kim Pearson
Commentator: Prabha Kotiswaran
The First Father, Jessica Dixon Weaver
Commentator: Jennifer Hendricks
Sunday, June 5th
8:15 to 10:00 AM
The Law and Economics of Family Obligation
Chair: Laura Kessler
Discussant: Martha Ertman
Fairness and Formulas: The Standardization of Family Law When There Is No Standard Family, Katharine Baker
When Someday Is Today: Updating Hartog’s History into the Era of Medicaid and Modern Marriage, Mary Anne Case
The Reluctant Caregiver, Laura Kessler
Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents: Proximity, Co-residence, and Introa- and Inter-Household Transfers, Liliana Pezzin, Robert Pollak (presenter), & Barbara Schone
When the Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary: Compensating Family Caregivers in the Workers’ Compensation Context, Peggie Smith
