The Center for Social Justice and Public Service at Santa Clara University School of Law would like to invite you to the 2007 Gender and Law Conference: The Power of Women’s Stories: Examining Women’s Role in Law and the Legal System on Friday, April 20, 2007 at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.
The day-long conference will feature a keynote address by Professor Elizabeth M. Schneider, Rose L. Hoffer Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, followed by a series of panels and a closing roundtable. For the program schedule please visit www.scu.edu/law/genderlaw07/conferenece-schedule.html.
Law schools began offering Women and Law courses in the early 1970s. Since that time, many textbooks have examined law through the lens of feminist legal theory. Changing legal developments in areas as disparate as violence against women, sexual harassment, discrimination at work, mothering and reproduction, families, women and the legal profession, education, health, and tax continue to impact women. Yet scholars have often neglected the power of women’s stories and what these stories teach us about law and social change. This conference will focus on the women whose lives led to these legal changes and who continue to inspire the need for further progress.
Join this summit of top scholars from across the nation to explore these issues, the power of women’s stories, and what these stories teach about law and social change.
The Gender and Law Conference qualifies for 7 hours of MCLE credit.
The conference will be co-sponsored with the SCU Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the Public Interest and Social Justice Coalition, Women and Law, the Women of Color Network, the Campus Violence Prevention Project, and the Dean’s Office, SCU College of Arts & Sciences.
For more information email socialjustice@scu.edu.
