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Convened by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of
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International Lesbian and Gay Law Association (ILGLaw),
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CALL FOR PAPERS
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT |
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Overview |
The Global Arc of Justice Conference will be a
four-day international conference focused on advances in LGBT
rights around the globe. Convened by the Williams Institute, a
research center on sexual orientation and gender identity law
and policy at UCLA Law; the International Lesbian and Gay Law
Association (ILGLaw); and the City of West Hollywood; the
conference will be held from March 11-14 on the UCLA campus in
Los Angeles and in West Hollywood, California. The conference
will offer simultaneous translation in English and Spanish.
Topics covered at the Global Arc of Justice
Conference 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 and advance LGBT equality; implementation of the
Yogyakarta Principles in litigation strategies and legal
scholarship; 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.
The Global Arc of Justice Conference will cover
developments in LGBT rights from all parts of the world, but
will have a special focus on Latin America. Of the over 90
paper and presentation proposals received so far, over 40% have
been submitted by presenters from Latin America and over 50% are
from the Global South. Presentations will include developments
and challenges in countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,
Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, and Nicaragua.
Conference sessions exploring LGBT issues in Latin America
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* the opening planary panel on recent developments in LGBT rights in
Latin America
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a
plenary panel
on repealing sodomy laws in former British colonies,
including the Caribbean
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a keynote talk from out justices on Argentina’s
and Australia's Supreme Courts
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a working group on strategies for advancing the
rights of same-sex couples in Latin America and around the world |
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a plenary panel highlighting the national
programs and foreign policy initiatives to fight homophobia in
Argentina, Brazil, the Netherlands, and the UK |
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a plenary panel addressing the legal obstacles to
fighting HIV/AIDS across national borders |
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The Global Arc of Justice Conference will be very
much a working conference. The program will include working
groups of experts and activists who will focus on effective strategies for
addressing specific issues in advancing LGBT rights. The
working group members will then share and broaden their
discussion with the entire conference through a series of
plenary panels. The conference’s overarching goals are to
strengthen global alliances and share strategies for advancing
LGBT equality throughout the world.
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Target Audience |
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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 seek to integrate knowledge from those who have
sought legal and policy reform through various methods,
including litigation, legislative efforts, research and
scholarship, education campaigns, and leadership
development programs. We hope you can join us at the
conference. |
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Confirmed Speakers & Attendees include: |
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Justice Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni,
Supreme Court of Argentina
Justice Michael Donald Kirby, High
Court of Australia
Presiding Justice Carol W. Hunstein, Supreme
Court of Georgia
Justice Virginia L. Linder, Supreme
Court of Oregon
Justice Patricio M. Serna, Supreme
Court of New Mexico
Justice
Bala Ram KC,
Supreme Court of Nepal
Jorge Saavedra MD,
General Director, National
HIV/AIDS Programme, Mexico (CENSIDA)
Karen Atala Riffo,
Jueza de Garantía,
Santiago, Chile
Germán Rincón Perfetti, Director,
ILGLaw South America, Human Rights Lawyer, Colombia
Neil Jeffery, Interim Executive Director, INTERIGHTS
Boris
Dittrich, Former Member Parliament, the Netherlands, Advocacy
Director, LBGT Rights Program, Human
Rights Watch
Tatiana
Cordero,
Executive Director, Corporación
Promoción de la Mujer/Taller de Comunicación Mujer, Human Rights
Lawyer, Ecuador
Sonia Corrêa, Research
Associate, Brazilian Interdisciplinary AIDS Association
(ABIA), Co-Chair, Sexuality Policy Watch
Aeyal M. Gross, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv
University Buchmann Faculty of Law & Vice President, ILGLaw
Tamara Adrián Hernández, Professor of
Law, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Director, ILGLaw South
America
Marcelo Ernesto Ferreyra, Coordinator del
Programa para America Latina y el Caribe de la
Comision Internacional de los Derechos Humanos
para Gays y Lesbianas, IGLHRC
Mauro Cabral, Professor, National
University of Córdoba, Argentina
Marcela Romero, Regional Coordinator, Latin
American and Caribbean Network of Transgender
People
Hari Phuyal, Human Rights Attorney in
Nepal, International Commission
of Jurists
Richard Green, Faculty of Medicine,
Imperial College London
Alice Miller, Lecturer in Residence;
Senior Fellow, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social
Justice, UC Berkeley School of Law
Lee Badgett, Professor of Economics,
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Research Director, The Williams Institute
Andrés Duque, Latino LGBT rights
advocate, blogs at blabbeando.blogspot.com"
Douglas Elliott, Partner, Roy Elliott O'Connor LLP,
Past President, ILGLaw
Gary J. Gates, Senior Research
Fellow, The Williams Institute
Nan Hunter, Professor of Law,
Georgetown Law/ The Williams Institute
Karon Monaghan, Director, ILGLaw
Europe, JD, Attorney at Law
Andrew Park, Senior Philanthropic
Advisor, Wellspring Advisors
Clifford J. Rosky, Associate Professor,
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Research Associate,
Waseda University, Japan
Karin Wang, Vice-President of Programs,
Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern
California, Steering Committee,
API Equality-LA
Russell Robinson, Professor of Law, UCLA
School of Law
Cheryl Harris, Professor of Law, UCLA
School of Law
Maximo Lager, Professor of Law, UCLA
School of Law
Tom Coates, Director, UCLA Program in
Global Health Penny Miles, PhD Student, Social Sciences,
Cardiff University
Sueann Caulfield, Associate Professor of
History, University of Michigan
Carlos Villagrasa, Law Professor, Univ. of
Barcelona
Matthew Reeg, Washington University School
of Law
Mónica León, Transactivist, Hotel Gondolin,
Argentina
Frank Evelio Arteaga Flores, Founding
Member, LGBT Equality Foundation, Bolivia
Lucas Paoli Itaborahy, Graduate degree
studies in international human rights, Brazil
Argelis Montano, Legal Advisor, Center for
the Education and Prevention of AIDS, Nicaragua
Danilo González, Outreach Coordinator,
Center for Alternative Education, Nicaragua
Erik Werner Cantor, Professor, National
Pedagogic University, Bogotá, Colombia
Wamala Dennis Mawejje, Icebreakers, Uganda
Pepe Julian Onziema, Human Rights
Defender, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Uganda
Brian Ray, Assistant Professor of Law,
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Daniel Yen-Chun Chen, Law Student,
National Taiwan University
Cheng-Tong Wang, Master's Student, Social
Sciences, University of Chicago
Manav Kapur, Law Student, National Academy
of Legal Studies and Research University of Law
Federico Podeschi, Managing Director, LGBT
Excellence Centre, Wales
Dimitry Kochenov, Assistant Professor,
European Law and Fellow of the Groningen Graduate School
of Law
Nayia Kamenou, Ph.D Candidate, European
Studies Department, King's College London
Maria Gigliola Toniollo, New Rights Officer,
Italian General Confederation of Labor, Italy
Constantin Cojocariu, Lawyer, Europe
Programme, INTERIGHTS
Daniel Ottosson, ILGA Representive
David Scamell, Manager of Policy, Planning,
and Research, AIDS Council of New South Wales, Australia
Nicole LaViolette, Associate Professor &
Vice Dean, Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa,
Canada
Judith Faucette, Law Student, University
of Iowa
Mark Strasser, Law Professor, Capital
University Law School
Robert Leckey, Law Professor, McGill
University, Montreal
James D. Wilets, Professor of Law, Shepard
Broad Law Center
Catherine Connell, PhD Candidate,
University of Texas at Austin
Jill D. Weinberg, M.A. Candidate,
University of Chicago
Kathleen A. Doty, Founding member of
Hawai'I Lesbian and Gay Legal Association
Julie Greenberg, Professor of Law, Thomas
Jefferson School of Law
Anne Tamar-Mattis, Executive Director,
Advocates for Informed Choice
Fatma E. Marouf, Attorney, Adjunct
Professor of Law, University of La Verne School of Law
Nan Palmer, Professor of Social Work,
Washburn University
Charlene L. Smith, Professor, Shepard
Broad Law Center, Co-Director of the Inter-American
Center for Human Rights
Jane Cross, Associate Professor of Law,
Director of Caribbean Law Programs, Shepard Broad Law
Center
Craig Konnoth, Law Student, Yale, National
Co-Chair, Student Congress of the National LGBT Bar Association
Kathleen Lahey, Faculty of Law, Queen's
University
Orly Rachel Rachmilovitz, SJD Student,
University of Virginia School of Law
C. Todd White, Visiting Assistant
Professor, James Madison University
Heloisa Melino de Moraes, Graduate
Student, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Akim Adé Larcher, Equity and Diversity
Coordinator, Egale Canada
Svyatoslav Sementsov, Co-President, TEMA
Information Center, Belarus
Maria Federica Moscati, PhD Candidate,
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London
Eszter Polgári, Lecturer, Legal Studies
Department, Central European University
Tamás Dombos, Junior Research Fellow,
Center for Policy Studies, Central European University
Adam Bodnar, Associate Professor, Human
Rights Chair, Warsaw University
Daniel A. Townsend, Co-Chair, Sexual
Orientation and Gender Identity Task Force of the Youth
Coalition for Sexual Reproductive Rights
Oliver Anene, Programs Manager, Alliance
Rights, Nigeria
Helmut Graupner, Co-Coordinator, European
Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL), Director,
ILGLaw Europe
Martha Miravete Cicero, President, Women’s
Group of Argentina, Forum on HIV, Women, & Family
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Steering Committee |
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Omar Baños, AIDS Project Los Angeles
David B. Cruz, Professor of Law, USC School of
Law & President, ILGLaw
Paula Ettelbrick, Executive Director,
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
Stefano Fabeni, Director, Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Initiative of
Global Rights, Director, ILGLaw
Information and Research
Helmut Graupner, Co-Coordinator, European
Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL), Director,
ILGLaw Europe
John Heilman, West Hollywood City
Councilmember
Holning Lau, Associate Professor of Law, Hofstra
Law
Darren Rosenblum, Associate Professor
of Law, Pace Law School
Lara Stemple, Director of Graduate Studies, UCLA
School of Law
Mónica Taher, Azteca América
Brad Sears, Executive Director, The Williams
Institute
Douglas Sanders, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of
Law, University of British Colombia, Vancouver,
Canada, LL.M. Professor, Chulalongkorn
University
Saúl Sarabia, Lecturer in Law &
Administrative Director, UCLA School of
Law - Critical Race Studies Program
Kees Waaldijk, Faculty of Law, Leiden
University
Robert Wintemute, Professor of Human
Rights Law, King's College London, Member, European
Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL)
Evan Wolfson, Executive Director,
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