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July 23-25, 2008
MCLE Program: International Perspectives on Sexual
Orientation and Gender Identity Law
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Co-sponsored by the Williams Institute, Whittier Law
School and Hofstra Law School, this three-day program will
offer attorneys the opportunity to earn up to 17 units of MCLE credit (including elimination of bias (CA only), ethics in the
profession and substance abuse credits) while studying
International LGBT legal issues in historic Amsterdam. The
program will be led by leading experts in LGBT legal issues
from the United States and Europe. Participants will also
have the chance to interact with over twenty-five law
students and lawyers from around the world attending a
month-long summer program co-sponsored by Whittier Law
School and the Williams Institute. Credits will be
approved in advance for California and New York and will
include one unit of elimination of bias, three units of
ethics, and one unit of substance abuse credit.
Click here for more information or to register.
June 22, 2008
Please join us for a cocktail party at the home
of Norm Blachford and Peter Cooper to introduce the
Williams Institute to the San Diego, California
community.
Click here to RSVP
June 18, 2008
Zocalo: Gay L.A. vs. Gay San Francisco
Hollywood, California
Gary J. Gates, Williams Institute Senior Research
Fellow, participates on a panel as part of the Zocalo
Public Lecture Series at the Arclight Theaters in
Hollywood.
Click here to watch.
June 4-7, 2008
This event has been postponed
until Spring 2009
International Lesbian and Gay Lawyers Conference
Co-sponsored by the Williams Institute
Los Angeles
The International Lesbian and Gay Law Association (ILGLaw)
unites people around the world who are dedicated to the
principle of equality under the law for lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender people. Held every three years,
the ILGLaw Conference brings together attorneys,
academics and activists from around the globe to discuss
developments in sexual orientation and gender law, and
honors an individual with the Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
award for an important contribution to the cause of
legal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people. This year's conference will take
place in Los Angeles and will feature panels and
presentations on topics including the continuing
criminalization of same-sex intimacy in many countries,
pension benefits eligibility, and legal partnership
recognition and other family law matters. For more
information or to register, please visit
www.ilglaw.org early
in 2008.
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Is Gay the New Straight?
Gary J. Gates, Senior Policy Fellow, The Williams
Institute
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA School of Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Regulating the Sexuality of Minors
Douglas NeJaime, Law Teaching Fellow, The Williams
Institute
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA School of Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Friday, April 11, 2008
Antidiscrimination Law as Disruption: The Emergence
of a New Paradigm for Understanding and Addressing
Discrimination
Vicki Schultz, Ford Foundation Professor, Yale Law
School
Works-in-Progress Series, Faculty Colloquium
Presentation
UCLA School of Law, Library Tower, 4th Floor
12:20-1:45pm
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Black “Tops” and Asian “Bottoms”: The Impact of Race and
Gender on Coupling in Queer Communities
(Click here to download a draft of the paper - PDF)
Russell Robinson, Professor, UCLA School of Law
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA School of Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
When Family Fails
Adam Romero, Public Policy Fellow, The Williams
Institute
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA School of Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Acting White: What's Sexual Orientation Got to Do With
it?
Devon Carbado, Professor, UCLA School of Law
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA School of Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Monday, March 10, 2008
The Center for Information as
Evidence presents Dean Spade
“Documenting Gender”
12-1:30 pm
UCLA’s Moore Hall, Room 3027
Taking as its starting point the incoherent matrix of
hundreds of conflicting gender (re)classification rules
operating across the US in departments of motor
vehicles, public benefits systems, prisons, shelters,
group homes, federal, state, and local data collection
contexts, this paper asks what a transgender politics of
War on Terror surveillance practices, and government
data collection and administration of identity
generally, might demand. Such a project entails a
recognition of the interwoven politics of mass
imprisonment, national standardization and consolidation
of identity documentation and data, the cri
criminalization of poverty, and the neoliberal
cooptation of social movements.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Race, Sexuality & the Law: Abercrombie, Imus and Beyond
Second Annual CRS Symposium and Reunion
UCLA School of Law
9:00-5:00pm
Moderated by faculty members of CRS Program at UCLA,
"Race, Sexuality & the Law: Abercromie, Imus and Beyond"
will feature interdisciplinary academic panels exploring
the role of law, culture, media and communities in
shaping representations of race, gender and sexual
orientation. Sponsored in conjunction with the Williams
Institute, the Symposium will foreground current events
and questions.
To see the full day's schedule or to RSVP,
please click here.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Seventh Annual Update on Sexual Orientation Law and
Policy
CA CLE Credit Available
UCLA School of Law
The Williams Institute's Seventh Annual Update will
feature panels and presentations exploring recent
developments in sexual orientation law and policy.
Panelists include Professor
Stuart
Biegel, UCLA School of Law; Professor Grace Blumberg,
UCLA School of Law; Toni Broaddus, President & Executive
Director of the Equality Federation & the Equality
Federation Institute; Professor Chai Feldblum, Director
of the Federal Legislation Clinic at Georgetown
University Law Center; Matt Foreman, Executive Director
of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; Professor
Cheryl Harris, UCLA School of Law; Fred Hertz, Attorney;
Professor Nan Hunter, Brooklyn Law School; Kate Kendell,
Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian
Rights; Professor Mignon Moore, Sociology Department,
UCLA; Professor Nancy Polikoff, American University
Washington College of Law; Lee Swislow, Executive Director of
GLAD; Kenji Yoshino, Guido Calabresi Professor, Yale Law
School; and Deborah Wald, Founder of The Wald Law Group.
The full-day conference concluded with the final
round of the 4th Williams Institute Moot Court Competition,
with
Arizona State Supreme
Court Vice Chief Justice Rebecca White Berch,
Mississippi State Supreme Court Justice James Graves,
and former Colorado Supreme Court Justice Jean Dubofsky presiding.
The team from University of California - Davis Law
School was awarded a $1000 check from Wells Fargo for
winning the competition.
Photos from the event
CLE materials
Video
of the conference
Thursday, February 21, 2008
VIP Dinner
Guests gathered at the home of Williams
Institute founder Chuck Williams to honor
philanthropists Norm Blachford and Peter Cooper, Mike Gleason
and Dave Kettel, Jim Hooker,
and Chuck Williams for their recent gifts to the
Institute.
Photos from
the event
Thursday and Friday, February 21-22, 2008
A Primer on Empirical Research on Sexual Orientation
- This training is by application only.
UCLA School of Law
Presented 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 workshop will
provide participants with the skills to identify the
principal ways in which sexual orientation is identified
on surveys; critically examine data that includes
identification of sexual orientation; consider strengths
and challenges associated with different methods of
identification; consider the appropriate use of these
data; and identify and access existing empirical data,
including U.S. Census data, that permits the
identification of sexual orientation.
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Fourth Annual Williams Institute Moot Court
Competition, Preliminary Rounds
The UCLA School of Law Moot Court
Executive Board and the Williams Institute host the 4th
Annual Williams Institute Moot Court
Competition. Teams from ABA-accredited law schools from
across the country will gather at UCLA for the
competition.
UCLA School of Law
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Law Moot Court Executive Board
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
LGBT Poverty: Some Surprising Results
M.V. Lee Badgett, Research Director, The Williams
Institute
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Jazz & Champagne Brunch
Please join us to celebrate
the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and
Public Policy at the home of Mike Gleason and David Kettel.
Los Angeles, CA
11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
For more
information, click here.
Photos from the
event.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Williams Institute Program and Reception
Paul Hastings, Washington DC
5:30-6:30pm CLE Presentation
CLE PRESENTATION
MOVED TO:
The District of Columbia Bar
1250 H Street, NW, Sixth Floor (between 12th & 13th
Streets)
Washington, DC 20005
Recent Developments
in LGBT Anti-Discrimination Law and Policy
Featuring
Lee Badgett, Gary J. Gates, and Brad Sears, The Williams
Institute
Nan Hunter, Brooklyn Law School
Winnie Stachelberg, Center for American Progress
Open to the public. One hour of general CLE credit
available for attorneys free of charge.
6:30-8:30pm Reception
THE RECEPTION REMAINS AT
PaulHastings, Washington DC
Click here to see a PDF of the invitation
Click here to RSVP
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
HIV Discrimination in Dental Care
Brad Sears, Executive Director, The Williams
Institute
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Friday,
November 9, 2007
Etiology, Mutability, and the Law: A Critique of
Biological and Psychological Arguments for Lesbian and
Gay Rights
Ed Stein, Associate Professor of Law, Cardozo School
of Law
Visiting Professor, UCLA Law
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Friday - Saturday, November 2-3, 2007
Out &
Healthy: The National LGBT Health Conference
The National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC)
and the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) present the first
annual Out & Healthy: The National LGBT
Health Conference, November 2-3,2007, in
Washington, DC. The event, presented by Aetna, will take
a comprehensive look at the future of healthcare
delivery and business opportunities in the LGBT segment.
Williams Institute Research Director Lee Badgett and
Winnie Stachelberg, Senior Vice President
for External Affairs for the Center for American
Progress will present findings on a new study detailing
the impact of domestic partner insurance taxation on
access to health insurance during the Conference's
Opening Session.
For more information on the conference or to purchase
tickets, please visit
www.outandhealthy.org.
Friday - Saturday, October 19 - 20, 2007
The Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference 2007
Williams Institute Fellow Amanda Baumle, USC Professor
Timothy Biblarz, and UCLA PhD Candidate Natalya Maisel
will present their research on sexual orientation as
part of a two-day conference held at UCLA and presented
by the LGBT Studies Program.
UCLA Royce Hall, Room 236 1:00-2:30pm Friday, October
19th
Later that day (Friday, October
19th), Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow Dean Spade
will present his work
in a
presentation entitled “Registering Sex
Classification: Biopolitics and the Administration of
Identity” at 4pm in 314 Royce Hall.
Presented by the
UCLA Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and
Transgender Studies Program
Friday,
October 12, 2007
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Health and Social Issues: Using the
California Health Interview Survey to Advance Knowledge
and Policy
This all-day conference is intended for researchers,
funders, policymakers and students and is meant to
promote use of CHIS data for research on gay, bisexual
and lesbian populations, present and discuss research on
sexual orientation using CHIS data, and discuss how CHIS
data can be useful in policy and program development.
Co-Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Health Policy
Research
In Partnership with the California Endowment Center for
Health Communities
The California Endowment Center for Health Communities
1000 N. Alameda Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
9:00am - 5:00pm
For more information, contact Porsche Johnson at
porschej@ucla.edu.
Monday, October 8, 2007
Documenting Gender Identity: Incoherence and Rulemaking
Dean Spade, Law Teaching Fellow, The Williams
Institute
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents: A Social Science
Perspective
Charlotte Patterson, Professor of Psychology,
University of Virginia
UCLA Faculty Center, Downstairs Lounge
12:00pm
Charlotte J. Patterson, is a Professor of
Psychology at the University of Virginia, where much of
her recent work has focused on child development in
lesbian- and gay-parented families. In addition to her
research with children and families, Patterson has
co-edited three books on the psychology of sexual
orientation, served as Associate Editor of the Merrill
Palmer Quarterly of Human Development, been Guest Editor
of a special issue of Developmental Psychology focused
on 'Sexual Orientation Over the Lifespan', and served as
a member of numerous editorial boards. Patterson is a
Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA),
and a past-President of the Society for Psychological
Research on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Issues (APA,
Division 44). She has won a number of awards, including
APA's Committee on Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Concerns
Outstanding Achievement Award, APA Division 44's award
for Distinguished Scientific Contributions, and APA
Division 43's Carolyn Attneave Diversity Award, for
contributions that advance understanding and integration
of diversity into Family Psychology.
Wednesday,
September 26, 2007
Border Identities: Intersections of Ethnicity and Sexual
Orientation on the U.S-Mexico Border
Amanda Baumle, Public Policy Fellow, The Williams
Institute
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Houston
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA Law, Room 2448
12:20-1:45pm
Thursday,
September 20, 2007 THIS EVENT HAS
BEEN CANCELLED
Moral Conflict and Liberty: Gay Rights and Religion
Chai Feldblum, Director, Federal Legislation Clinic,
Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA Law, Room 1314
12:20-1:45pm
Thursday,
September 20, 2007
UCLA LAW
LGBT Open House
UCLA Law, Room 1430
5:30-7:00pm
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Adolescents' Attitudes About Marriage for Same-Sex
Couples
Stephen Russell, Fitch Nesbitt Endowed Chair in
Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Arizona
Works-in-Progress Series
UCLA Law, Room 1457
12:20-1:30pmMonday, August 27, 2007
Whither the Court
UCLA Law's annual review of the
Supreme Court's most recent term and its implications
for lawyers, academics and citizens.
Presenters:
Professor Ann Carlson, UCLA School of Law
Professor Cheryl Harris, UCLA School of Law
Professor Christine Littleton, UCLA School of Law
Professor Gary Rowe, UCLA School of Law
Professor Adam Winkler, UCLA School of Law
Moderated by
R. Bradley Sears, Lecturer in Law
and Executive Director of the Williams Institute on
Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
Introduction by UCLA Law School Dean, Michael Schill.
Co-sponsored by
the UCLA Law:
UCLA School of Law, Room 1347
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
For parking information, click here. To RSVP,
please email
williamsinstitute@law.ucla.edu and indicate
whether or not you are attending for MCLE
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