Events: 2005-2006

July 12, 2006
Wells Fargo L.A. Pride TMRG Mixer
Wells Fargo's L.A. Pride TMRG (Team Member Resource Group) hosted a mixer at Cafe Metropol in Los Angeles with the Williams Institute's Brad Sears and Lee Badgett. A diversity program for Wells Fargo and its employees, TMRGs "promote opportunities for professional growth and development, provide an opportunity for informal networking, and support Wells Fargo's business strategies, and vision and values."
Click here to view the invitation (pdf)

April 28, 2006
Training on Empirical Research on Sexual Minorities with Gary Gates
UCLA School of Law
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April 21-22, 2006
Marriage Debates
5 Law and Policy Debates on Extending Marriage to Same-Sex Couples
UCLA School of Law

Speakers included Lee Badgett, Stuart Biegel, Allan C. Carlson, Stephanie Coontz, Scott Ferrin, Gary Gates, Joan Heifetz Hollinger, Shannon Minter, Jennifer C. Pizer, Andrew Pugno, Richard Redding,  Walter Schumm, Roger T. Severino, Judith Stacey, Monte Stewart, Lynn Wardle, Camille Williams, and Tobias Wolff.

Cosponsored by the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University and the UCLA Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program. Click here for more information.

Click here to view a schedule of the Williams Institute Marriage Debates on UCTV.

April 3, 2006
Can Separate Be Equal Enough? Practical and Principled Alternatives to Marriage
UCLA School of Law Monday Colloqium
Lee Badgett

 

Kellye Testy is Dean of the Seattle University School of Law, a scholar of inequality, social justice, and corporate law and co-author of "Lesbigay Identity as Commodity" California Law Review, 2002). Her presentation will include original historical research from 1960’s California and current lesbian family issues in Washington. Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Women.

Presenters:
Lee Badgett (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Economics)
Gary Gates (UCLA, Williams Project on Sexual Orientation and the Law)

Professor Badgett will discuss her qualitative research about the meaning of marriage among same-sex couples in Europe. Dr. Gates will provide insights about marriage for same-sex couples in the United States based on his demographic research using Census data.

Friday, February 24, 2006

Annual Update on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
1:00 pm - 6:30 pm
UCLA School of Law, Room 1430
5.0 Units of CLE Credit Available
Watch the Williams Institute's Annual Update on UCTV

The Williams Project's 5th Annual Update on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy will feature a keynote address by the leading constitutional law scholar and former Dean of Stanford Law School, Professor Kathleen Sullivan.

Her address will be followed by three separate panels exploring recent developments in sexual orientation law, policy, and advocacy.

The half-day conference will conclude with the final round of the 2nd Annual National Sexual Orientation Law Moot Court Competition.

Other confirmed speakers include: Professors Lee Badgett, Dale Carpenter, Devon Carbado, Nan Hunter, Greg Lewis, Chris Littleton, Nate Persily, Bill Rubenstein, and Brad Sears; Log Cabin Republicans Executive Director, Patrick Guerriero; Equality California Executive Director, Geoff Kors; the Honorable Dean Pregersen and the Honorable J.Spencer Letts from the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California.

Saturday, February 11, 2006
National Sexual Orientation Moot Court Competition
Preliminary, quarter-final and semi-final rounds
UCLA School of Law

The UCLA School of Law Moot Court Executive Board and the Williams Project are hosting the 2nd Annual National Sexual Orientation Law Moot Court Competition. Teams form ABA accredited law schools from across the country will compete against each other, briefing and arguing whether the federal constitution requires that marriage be extended to same-sex couples. The final round will be held during The Williams Project Fifth Annual Update on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy on Friday, February 24. The semi and final rounds of the competition are open to the public.

Kent Greenfield, the attorney who argued the Solomon Amendment case before the Supreme Court last term, will address the implications of the United States Supreme Court's pending ruling which ties federal funding to an educational institution's willingness to allow military recruiters onto its campus. Professor Greenfield is a professor at Boston College Law School, and founder of the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR).

This event is cosponsored by the Williams Project and the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.