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Wednesday,
May 27, 2009
Williams Institute Spring Reception
Embassy of Finland
3301 Massachusetts Avenue
Washington
D.C. 20008
Click here for CLE Materials
Educational Program (CLE): 5:30–6:30pm
Cocktail Reception: 6:30–8:00pm
Special performance by the Gay Men’s Chorus of
Washington’s Potomac Fever!
For more information or to RSVP, please call
(310) 267-4382
or email Louise Lee at:
Leed@law.ucla.edu
Wednesday,
May 6, 2009
"I want to be just like you,
Mommy": Anxiety Over the Mimetic Reproduction of
Parents' Identities
Work-in-Progress Series
Kim Pearson, Law Teaching Fellow, The Williams Institute
UCLA School of Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Friday, May 1, 2009
National Legal Panel - As part of the Equality Forum
2009
Prince Music Theater
1412 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
3:00-4:45pm
Moderated by: Nan Hunter, Legal Scholarship
Director, Williams Institute, Professor of Law,
Georgetown University Law Center
Panelists: Chris Anders, Senior Legislative Counsel,
ACLU; Chai Feldblum, Director, Federal Legislation
Clinic, Georgetown University; Hayley Gorenberg, Deputy
Legal Director, Lamda Legal; and, Tobias Wolff,
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
For more information on Equality Forum 2009, click
here.
April 20-21, 2009
A Primer on Empirical Research on Sexual
Orientation
By Application Only
Presented annually by the Williams Institute's M.V.
Lee Badgett and Gary J. Gates, this training is directed
at graduate students who are or will be conducting
empirical research on sexual orientation. The two-day
workshop provides participants with the skills to
identify the principal ways in which sexual orientation
is identified on surveys; critically examine data that
include identification of sexual orientation; and
identify and access existing empirical data, including
U.S. Census data, that permit the identification of
sexual orientation. Susan Cochran, professor of
Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health will also be
presenting.
Monday, April
20, 2009
How Big Are Gay/Straight Gaps in Outcomes? Evidence from
Orientation, Attraction, Behavior, and Partnership
Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter, Assitant Professor of of
Economics/Public Policy, University of California,
Irvine
Work-in-Progress Series
UCLA School of Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
* presentation part of A Primer on Empirical Research on Sexual
Orientation training.
Wednesday, April 22,
2009
The Business Impact of Extending Marriage, Civil
Unions, and Domestic Partnerships to Same-Sex Couples
UCLA Anderson School of
Management, Korn Auditorium
6:00-7:30 PM
For more information or to
RSVP, click
here.
Co-sponsored by:
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Friday, April 17th
Mapping LA: Bringing Visibility to Same-Sex Families
as part of Women, Genders and Sexualities Studies
Consortium Series
Christopher Ramos, Researcher, The Williams Institute
Naomi Goldberg, Public Policy Fellow, The Williams
Institute
CSU Los Angeles IHC seminar room, King Hall Room 4050
10:30am -1:00 pm
Talk will also include Towards an Intersectional
Transfeminism: A Politico-Theoretical Model
Talia Bettcher, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Cal
State L.A.
Please RSVP by April 9th to
AMarche@exchange.calstatela.edu
April 17-18, 2009
OUT for Work
UCLA Campus
The OUT for Work organization is dedicated to educating,
preparing, and empowering LGBT college students and
their allies for the workplace. Gary J. Gates,
Williams Institute Senior Research Fellow will speak on
the UCLA campus. For more information and updates,
please visit:
http://www.outforwork.org
A dynamic
discussion with
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI
Thursday, April 16th
6:00-7:30 PM
UCLA, Dodd Hall 147
For more information click here.
To see pictures from the event, click
here.
Wednesday, April 15,
2009
Lesbians and Gay Men in Federal, State, and Local
Government: Under-Represented and Underpaid?
Work-in-Progress Series
Gregory B. Lewis, Professor of Public Management &
Policy, Georgia State University
UCLA School of Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Click on the following links for paper drafts of the
presentation:
Document 1
Document 2
Thursday, April 16
DOMA and the Internal Revenue Code
Pat Cain, Santa Clara Law School
UCLA School of Law, Room 2448
3:00-5:00pm
Click
here to RSVP
Related Papers
Click
here for "DOMA And The Internal Revenue
Code" by Pat Cain
Click
here for "SetoPaperApril2007"by Theodore P. Seto
Co-sponsored by: The UCLA Colloquium on Tax Policy & Public Finance
March 11-14, 2009
8th Annual
Update: The Global Arc of Justice: Sexual Orientation
Law Around the World
CA CLE Credit Available
UCLA School of Law & City of West Hollywood
The Global Arc of Justice Conference is a
four-day international conference on LGBT rights with a
special focus on Latin America. Topics covered will
include international efforts to advance legal
recognition for same sex couples; the repeal of sodomy
laws in former British Colonies; efforts by national
governments to end homophobia; implementation of the
Yogyakarta Principles; and advancement of the rights of
transgender people. Conference activities will include
strategy working groups, paper presentations, plenary
sessions, and various networking opportunities and
celebrations. More than 300 speakers and attendees will
participate in the conference, including academics,
litigators, judges, public officials, advocates,
students, and members of the community. The conference
will offer simultaneous translation in English and
Spanish. We hope you can join us at the conference.
Click
here for
the conference website.
(Español/Spanish)
Haz clic
aquí para el sitio web de la conferencia.
Co-sponsored by the International Gay and Lesbian
Law Association (ILG Law) & The City of West Hollywood
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Founder's Dinner
The Williams Institute will also host the Los
Angeles Founder’s Dinner at the home of
Roy Eddleman, a supporter of the Williams Institute and
longtime advocate of the LGBT community.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Annual
Reception
Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library, UCLA Law
6:30-9:00pm
Saturday, February 21, 2009
5th Annual Williams Institute Moot
Court Competition, Preliminary Rounds
UCLA School of Law
Twenty-six teams from law schools across the United
States will gather at UCLA School of Law to compete.
Participants will address the question of the
constitutionality of
Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the use of foreign
precedent by U.S. Courts.
For more information or to
volunteer, click
here.
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Law Moot Court Executive
Board
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Straight Scrutiny
Catherine Smith, 2009 Williams Institute Visiting
Scholar, Associate Professor, Sturm College of Law,
University of Denver
Work-in-Progress Series
UCLA School of Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Saturday, January 31, 2009
The National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating
Change
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
Denver, CO
4:45-6:15pm
Speaker(s):
M.V. Lee Badgett, Research Director, The Williams
Institute
Naomi Goldberg, Peter J. Cooper Public Policy Fellow,
The Williams Institute
Christopher Ramos, Research Assistant, The Williams
Institute
Brad Sears, Executive Director, The Williams Institute
For more information, please visit:
http://www.thetaskforce.org/events/creating_change
Sponsored by The National Gay and Lesbian Task
Force (NGLTF)
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Did the Defense of Marriage Act Repeal the Parental
Kidnapping Prevention Act?
Barbara J. Cox
Work-in-Progress Series
Clara Shortridge Foltz Professor of Law, California
Western School of Law
UCLA School of Law, Room 2326
12:20-1:45pm
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Jazz and Champagne Brunch
Please join us to kick off the 8th Annual Update at
the home of Mike Gleason & Dave Kettel.
For more information or to RSVP, click
here.
To see pictures from the event, click
here.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
The Williams Institute Winter
Reception
Hunt Slonem’s Studio
545 W. 45th St. 4th Flr.
New York, NY 10036
Educational Program (CLE) – 5:00 p.m.
Cocktail Reception – 6:00 p.m.
View Invitation Here
Financial Aid: Please contact Louise Lee
(Leed@law.ucla.edu;
310-267-4382) for information regarding financial aid
for the program.
CLE Credit*: CLE credit in the amount of 1 New
York CLE Credit (Professional Practice - transitional)
and 1 California CLE Credit (General) will be available
for this program. CLE credit provided by Dewey & LeBoeuf
LLP.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Washington, D.C. Policy Circle
New Social Science Research on LGBT Parenting
UC
Washington Center,
Rm AB
6:00-7:00pm
This panel will bring together social scientists who
study children in LGBT families, lawyers, and legal
scholars. The panel will discuss existing studies on
parenting and future research directions. For more
information or to RSVP, call (310) 267-4382 or email
Deseree Fontenot.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Election 2008: A New Administration, the LGBT Vote,
and Proposition 8
UCLA School of Law Room 1347
6:30-8:30pm
The Williams Institute presents a panel of experts discussing the outcome
of Election 2008 and the implications for LGBT rights
legislation. Confirmed panelists include (more to be
announced):
• Jill E. Darling, Associate Director
of Polling, Los Angeles Times
• Patrick Guerriero, Executive
Director, Gill Action
•
Geoff Kors, Executive Director, Equality California
• Patrick Sammon, President, Log Cabin Republicans &
Liberty Education Forum
• Brad Sears, Executive Director, The Williams Institute
• Kenneth Sherrill,
Professor of Political Science, Hunter College
• Winnie Stachelberg,
Senior Vice President for External Affairs, Center for
American Progress
• Tobias Barrington Wolff, Professor of Law, University
of Pennsylvania
For more information or to RSVP, call (310) 267-4382 or
email
Deseree Fontenot. For parking
information, click
here.
To watch the event, click
here.
Co-sponsored by:
Center for
American Progress Action Fund
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Gender Identity Rights
David B. Cruz, Professor, USC Gould School of Law
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA School of Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
October 12-14, 2008
SAGE's Fourth National Conference -
It's About
Time: LGBT Aging in a Changing World
Williams Institute Research Director Lee Badgett will present recent
data on the LGBT elderly population.
Sponsored by the AARP
Thursday, October 16, 2008
HIV/AIDS Discrimination in Health Care
Brad Sears, Executive Director,
Williams Institute
Burns Building, Loyola Law School
12:00 PM
For more information, please contact
Disability Rights Legal Center (DRLC).
Co-sponsored by the Disability Rights Legal
Center and
The Health Law & Bioethics Association
October 9-11, 2008
2nd Annual NACCS Joto Caucus Conference
California State University Los Angeles
Friday, October 10th, 2:00 p.m.
Christopher Ramos, Research Assistant at the Williams
Institute, will present "California Latinas/os in
Same-Sex Couples: A Demographic and Socio-Economic
Overview" on the Queer Documenting, Archiving,
and Researching panel.
Co-sponsored by: CalStateLA’s Center for the
Study of Genders and Sexualities, Chicano Studies
Department, Communications Department, and Cross
Cultural Center
October 10-11, 2008
Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference
UCLA, Royce Hall
Friday, October 10th, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
The Williams Institute will present a panel on Recent
Scholarship on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy.
Invited speakers include Doug NeJaime (Sears Law
Teaching Fellow, The Williams Institute), Naomi Goldberg
(Cooper Public Policy Fellow, The Williams Institute),
and Michael Steinberger (Public Policy Fellow, The Williams
Institute).
Presented by the
UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual
and Transgender Studies Program
Thursday,
September 25, 2008
UCLA LAW
LGBT Open House
UCLA School of Law, Rm. 1430
5:30-7:00pm
Monday, October 6, 2008
Cause Lawyering in the ‘Culture War'
Douglas NeJaime, Sears Law Teaching Fellow, The Williams
Institute
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA School of Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Washington, D.C.
Policy Circle
A Historic
Summer for Same-Sex Marriage: What Does It Mean? Who's
Marrying? And Why?
For more information, please
email
williamsinstitute@law.ucla.edu.
September 4-6, 2008
Lavender Law
Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
Every year, the sharpest legal minds in the LGBT
community gather at the National Lesbian and Gay Law
Association's annual conference and career fair.
Hundreds of practicing attorneys, dozens of scholars,
over 500 students and many leading members of the
judiciary are expected to attend over the course of this
year's events. Williams Institute Executive Director
Brad Sears will moderate a panel called Social
Science Research and LGBT Litigation/Legislation with
panelists Gary J. Gates (Williams Institute), Aaron
Belkin (Palm Center), Sharon McGowan (ACLU), and Kathi
Westcott (SLDN). Williams Institute Legal Scholarship
Director Nan Hunter will moderate another panel
called Dukeminier Award Winners: New Scholarship,
featuring panelists Sylvia Law (NYU Law), Sonya Shield
(South Brooklyn Legal Services) and Doug NeJaime
(Williams Institute).
Monday, August 25, 2008
Whither the Court
UCLA Law's Annual Review of the
Supreme Court's most recent term and its implications
for lawyers, academics and citizens.
Speakers:
Professor
Stephen Bainbridge
Professor
Sharon Dolovich
Professor Cheryl Harris
Professor David Kaye
Professor
Eugene Volokh
Moderated by Professor Ann Carlson
Welcoming remarks by UCLA Law Dean Michael Schill
Co-sponsored by
the UCLA Law:
UCLA School of Law, Room 1347
6:30-8:30pm
For more information or to RSVP, email
Deseree Fontenot
and indicate whether or not you are attending
for MCLE credit. For parking information, click
here.
July 29, 2008
"Demographics of LGBT People Living in the San
Francisco Bay Area: Why Does It Matter?"
Presented by Commonwealth Club
San Francisco, California
Gary J. Gates, Williams Institute Senior Research
Fellow, participates on a panel organized by the
Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. The event
was recorded and can be watched via the
following six segments:
Segment One
Segment Two
Segment Three
Segment Four
Segment Five
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