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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.
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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