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Friday, October 24, 2003

Jennifer Gerarda Brown (Quinnipiac Law School)
"Straightforward: Mobilizing Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights"
2:00-3:30 pm.
Tower Room, 4th Floor, Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library

Join Professor Jennifer Brown as she presents her paper, Straightforward: Mobilizing Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights, as part of the 2003 - 2004 Williams Project Scholars Speakers Series and the UCLA School of Law Faculty Colloquium.

For more information, please contact the Williams Project at (310) 267-4382 or williamsinstitute@law.ucla.edu.

Jennifer Brown is a Professor of Law and the Director of the Center on Dispute Resolution at Quinnipiac University School of Law. She holds degrees from Bryn Mawr (A.B. 1982, magna cum laude) and University of Illinois College of Law (J.D. 1985). Professor Brown has taught at University of Chicago, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)-Cardozo Law Institute, University of Iowa, Santa Clara University, Emory University, University of Illinois, and Yale. Her areas of expertise include alternative dispute resolution, economic analysis of sexuality and gender in the law, feminist jurisprudence, civil procedure, negotiation, and remedies. Her publications include

* Facilitating Boycotts of Discriminatory Organizations through an Informed Association Statute, 87 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 481 (2002);
* To “Give Them Countenance”: The Case For a Women’s Law School, 22 HARVARD WOMEN'S LAW JOURNAL 1 (1999), reprinted in WOMEN & THE LAW, release #13 (West Publishing 1999); and
* Extraterritorial Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage: When Theory Confronts Praxis, 16 QLR 1 (1997).

MEMO FROM JENNIFER BROWN

Below are the chapters I will discuss on the 24th. They are part of my ongoing book project provisionally entitled “Straightforward: Mobilizing Heterosexual Support for Gay Rights.”

The two chapters are related in the following way: Chapter 7 introduces a strategy of “Ambiguation” in the context of gay rights advocacy, and Chapter 8 proposes a system for integrating sexual minorities into the U.S. military that turns, at least in part, upon the willingness of some service members to ambiguate. Although these are a fair number of pages, I encourage readers not to be unduly daunted. Chapter 7 makes for pretty breezy reading.

Click below to download papers for Professor Brown's talk. (Same readings in two different formats)

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