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Friday, February 22, 2008
Seventh Annual Update on Sexual Orientation Law and
Policy
UCLA School of Law
The Williams Institute's Seventh Annual Update featured panels and presentations exploring recent
developments in sexual orientation law and policy.
Panelists included Professor Jody Armour, USC Gould
School of Law; Williams Institute Research Director Lee
Badgett; 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 David Cruz, USC Gould
School of Law; Jon Davidson, Legal Director, Lambda
Legal; 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; Williams
Institute Senior Research Fellow Gary J. Gates; Professor
Angela Harris, Boalt Hall 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; Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow Doug
NeJaime; Professor Nancy Polikoff, American University
Washington College of Law; Professor Russell
Robinson, UCLA School of Law; Williams Institute Public
Policy Fellow Adam Romero; Williams Institute Law
Teaching Fellow Cliff Rosky; Williams Institute
Executive Director Brad Sears; Williams Institute Law
Teaching Fellow Dean Spade; Lee Swislow, Executive Director of
GLAD; Kenji Yoshino, Guido Calabresi Professor, Yale Law
School; and Deborah Wald, Founder of The Wald Law Group.
Conference Materials (Speaker's Guide, Schedule)
Keynote - The Constitutional Claim for Equality in LGBT
Rights Litigation (Nan Hunter, Kenji Yoshino and
Brad Sears)
Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Couples (Lee Swislow,
Kate Kendell, Gary Gates and Jon Davidson)
Lunchtime Sessions:
California's Comprehensive Domestic Partnership Law -
Implementation Issues (Pat
Cain, Deborah Wald, Fred Hertz and Cliff Rosky)
Trans Awareness in the Legal Profession (Dean Spade
and Adam Romero)
The Right to Be Out in Public Education (Stuart
Biegel and Doug NeJaime)
Beyond Marriage (Grace Blumberg, Nancy Polikoff and
Angela Harris)
Anti-Discrimination Legislation (Toni Broaddus, Matt
Foreman, Dean Spade and David Cruz)
Beyond Anti-Discrimination Legislation (Chai
Feldblum, Lee Badgett, Jody Armour and Russell Robinson)
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