Comparative Concepts of Equality (2000)

"COMPARATIVE CONCEPTS OF EQUALITY"

April 7 and 8, 2000 at Cornell Law School

Myron Taylor Hall, Ithaca, NY

Sponsored by the Feminism and Legal Theory Project

Martha L.A. Fineman, Dorothea S. Clarke Professor of Feminist Jurisprudence

FRIDAY, APRIL 7 - 4:00 - 6:30 PM, Weiss Faculty Lounge

Equality in Theories

Nancy J. Hirschmann, Cornell University, Department of Government:

"Equality as the Context for Freedom."

Keally McBride, Cornell University, Department of Political Science:

"Finding Alternatives to Formal Equality in Feminist Political Science."

Lucinda Finley, SUNY Buffalo School of Law:

"Continuity, Change and Expansion in Women's Demands for Equality: From Seneca Falls to Forum 'P8."

Dalia Tsuk, University of Arizona College of Law:

"Individuals, Entities and the Meaning of Equality."

7 PM - VEGETARIAN DINNER AT MARTHA FINEMAN'S HOUSE - 204 Sunrise Road

SATURDAY, APRIL 8 - 10 AM - 12:30 PM, Weiss Faculty Lounge

Comparative Concepts of Equality

Barbara Stark, University of Tennessee College of Law:

"'Equality' Through a Prism: The Gender Jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice."

Leslye A. Obiora, World Bank Organization, Nigeria:

"A Perspective on Equality."

Melissa Haussman, Suffolk University, Government Department:

"Equality's Promise: The Supreme Court of Canada and Constitutional Gender Rights in Section 15 Since 1989."

Beverley Baines, Queen's University, Faculty of Law: "Another Century of Inequality."

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM LUNCH IN THE STUDENT LOUNGE

Frances L. Raday, Hebrew University of Jerusalem:

"Looking Toward Equality: Achieving Women's Rights in Today's Social, Economic, and Political Environment."

2:00 - 4:30 PM Equality in Certain Spaces

Elizabeth Rapaport, Duke University School of Law:

"Equality of the Damned: "Gender and Execution on the Cusp of the 21" Century."

Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati, UCLA School of Law:

"Conversation at Work."

Chloe Atkins, Cornell Law School:

"The Failure of Formal Rights and Equality in the Clinic."

Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago Law School:

"Toilet Paper Toilets As Gendered Spaces."