Balkinization: Conference Announcement: Liberty/Equality: The View from Roe’s 40th and Lawrence’s 10th Anniversaries

Conference Announcement: Liberty/Equality: The View from Roe’s 40th and Lawrence’s 10th Anniversaries

Liberty/Equality: The View from Roe’s 40^th and Lawrence’s 10^th Anniversaries

January 18-19, 2013

UCLA School of Law

The American Constitution Society, the Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, the Yale Information Society Project, and the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice announce the upcoming co-sponsored conference, Liberty/Equality: The View from Roe’s 40^th and Lawrence’s 10^th Anniversaries, to take place January 18-19, 2013, at the UCLA School of Law. (Information about registration is available here.) This conference is the fourth in a series of academic events in the Constitution in 2020 project.

As we commemorate the anniversaries of two landmark Supreme Court decisions, Roe and Lawrence, the conference will bring together leading experts on gender and sexuality to analyze the past, situate current conflicts, and contemplate the future.

During the next week and a half, participants in the conference will be posting commentary here on Balkinization.

The tentative conference schedule includes the following panels and speakers:

Friday, January 18

Panel I – Sexual Freedom, 9 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

· Reva Siegel, Yale Law School (moderator)

· Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School

· Nan Hunter, Georgetown Law Center/Williams Institute

· Kristin Luker, University of California, Berkeley

· Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law

Panel II – Constitutional Frameworks, 11 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

· Dawn Johnsen, University of Indiana Maurer School of Law (moderator)

· Jack Balkin, Yale Law School