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SEXUAL ORIENTATION LAW 2006

Fifth Annual Update on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy
February 24, 2006
UCLA School of Law, Room 1347
1:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

The Williams Institute Inauguration
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
UCLA School of Law, Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library

Click here to register online for the Annual Update and/or Institute Inauguration.

Please join us for the 5th Annual Update on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy. Immediately after the Annual Update will be the Williams Institute Inauguration.

This year's Update will feature:

A keynote address by Kathleen Sullivan,  Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and former Dean of Stanford Law School;

A reading of his new book "Covering" by Kenji Yoshino, Professor of Law and Deputy Dean of Intellectual Life, Yale Law School;

The final round of the 2nd Annual National Sexual Orientation Law Moot Court Competition, with the Honorable Steven H. Levinson, Associate Justice of the Hawai'i Supreme Court and author of Baehr v. Lewin (1993); and the Honorables J. Spencer Letts and Dean D. Pregerson of the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California;

The inauguration of the Williams Institute with UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale and UCLA School of Law Dean Michael Schill;

And a number of other presenters including:

Lee Badgett, Professor of Economics University of Massachusetts-Amherst and 2005 Williams Institute Visiting Scholar

Dale Carpenter, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School

Gary Gates, Williams Institute Senior Researcher

Patrick Guerriero, Executive Director of the Log Cabin Republicans

Cheryl Harris, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Nan Hunter, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Courtney Joslin, Staff Attorney, National Center for Lesbian Rights

Geoff Kors, Executive Director of Equality California

Gregory Lewis, Professor of Public Administration and Urban Studies, Georgia State University

Christine Littleton, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Pacy Markman, Principal, Zimmerman and Markman

Nathaniel Persily, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

H. Alexander Robinson, Executive Director, National Black Justice Coalition

Russell Robinson, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Bill Rubenstein, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law and Williams Institute Faculty Chair

Brad Sears, Williams Institute Executive Director

REGISTRATION

The Annual Update is free and open to the public. However, space is limited. We therefore request that you register in advance. Please RSVP with our webform or RSVP to The Williams Project at (310) 267-4382 or via e-mail at williamsinstitute@law.ucla.edu. Please specify whether you are registering for the 1) Annual Update, 2) Institute Inauguration, or 3) both. Please also specify whether you are registering for CLE credit.

DIRECTIONS AND PARKING:

Take the 405 San Diego Freeway to Sunset Blvd., and then head east on Sunset Blvd. Next, turn right on Hilgard Ave. and then turn right on Westholme. Parking is available in Parking Lot 2 on the UCLA campus for $8.00. You can purchase a parking pass from the Parking Kiosk just inside the UCLA campus on Westholme. Walk north to the UCLA School of Law. Room 1430 is on the first floor of the building's main hallway.

 


ANNUAL UPDATE SCHEDULE

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Opening of the Williams Institute Reading Room
Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library, 3rd Floor

 

A light lunch will be served starting at 11:30a.m.

 

A reading from Covering, The Hidden Assault on Our civil Rights

 

Kenji Yoshino

Professor of Law and Deputy Dean of Intellectual Life, Yale Law School

 

introduction by

Brad Sears

Executive Director, The Williams Institute

 

and

Cheryl Harris

Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

 

1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

5th Annual Update Keynote Address

UCLA School of Law, Room 1347

 

Kathleen Sullivan

Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and former Dean of Stanford Law School

 

introduction by

William B. Rubenstein

Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Faculty Chair, the Williams Institute

2:00 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.
California 2006
UCLA School of Law, Room 1347

moderated by
Geoffrey Kors
Executive Director
Equality California

Patrick Guerriero
Executive Director
Log Cabin Republicans

Courtney Joslin
Staff Attorney
National Center for Lesbian Rights

Pacy Markman
Principal
Zimmerman and Markman

H. Alexander Robinson
Executive Director
National Black Justice Coalition

3:30 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.
Recent Scholarship

Law: Looking at Lawrence
UCLA School of Law, Room 1430

moderated by
Russell Robinson
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Dale Carpenter
Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School

Nan Hunter
Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Policy: Public Opinion and LGBT Rights
UCLA School of Law, Room 1447

moderated by
M. V. Lee Badgett
Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2005 Williams Institute Visiting Scholar

Gary Gates
Senior Research Fellow, The Williams Institute

Gregory Lewis
Professor of Public Administration and Urban Studies, Georgia State University

Nathaniel Persily
Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School

5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Final Round of the 2nd Annual National Sexual Orientation Law Moot Court Competition

UCLA School of Law, Room 1347

The Honorable Steven H. Levinson
Hawaii Supreme Court
Author of Baehr v. Lewin

The Honorable J. Spencer Letts
U.S. District Court of the Central District of California

The Honorable Dean D. Pregerson
U.S. District Court of the Central District of California

introduction by
Christine Littleton
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

6:30 p.m.
The Williams Institute Inauguration

Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library, Main Reading Room

Albert Carnesale
Chancellor, UCLA

Michael H. Schill
Dean, UCLA School of Law

Assemblymember Mark Leno
California State Assembly

Senator Barbara Boxer
United States Senator

The Honorable Steven Levinson
Hawaii Supreme Court