Discrimination and Inequality II (1999)

FEMINISM AND LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP - JUNE 17 - 19,1999

"DISCRIMINATION AND INEQUALITY"

Myron Taylor Hall, Cornell University School of Law

Sponsored by Martha Fineman and the

"Dorthea S. Clarke Fund in Women and the Law"

Volume Two

THURSDAY, June 17th - 4:00 - 6:30 PM - PRODUCING SUBJECTS

Kristen L. Walker (Law, Columbia)

"A Queer Critique of Rights"

Darren Lenard Hutchinson (Law, Southern Methodist)

"The Costs of White Gay and Lesbian Normativity: Race, Class and the Juridical Construction of Homosexuality"

Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati (Law, UCLA)

"Working Identity"

Nancy Barta-Smith (English, Slippery Rock)

"Protecting Rights and Tolerating Differences: Meeting the Challenge of Giving Up the Patriarchal Ground of Identity Politics"

DINNER AT MARTHA FINEMAN'S HOME - 205 STONE QUARRY ROAD

FRIDAY, June 18th - 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM - THE LIMITS OF LAW

Laura Rosenbury and Tracy Higgins (Law, Fordham)

"Agency, Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law"

Beverley Baines (Law, Queen's)

"Owning the Right to Discriminate"

Julie A. Nice (Law, Denver)

"The Emerging Third Strand in Equal Protection Jurisprudence: Recognizing the Co-Constitutive Nature of Rights and Classes"

Mary Anne Case (Law, Chicago)

"The Very Stereotype the Law Condemns': Constitutional Sex Discrimination as a Quest for Perfect Proxies"

LUNCH IN ATRIUM - Kathy Abrams (Law, Cornell) - "Changing the "Subject" of Inequality"

FRIDAY, June 18th - 2:30 - 5:00 PM -AGENTS OF CHANGE AND RESISTANCE

Sybil Lipschultz (History, Miami)

"A Tale of Two Briefs"

Clark Freshman (Law, Miami)

"Lawyers as Architects of Community: The Role of Transactional Lawyers"

Jennifer Brown (Law, Quinnipiac)

"Ethics and Equal Protection: Anti-bias Rules as Imperfect Substitutes for Heightened Scrutiny"

Isabel Marcus (Law, SUNY-Buffalo)

"Dark Numbers: Law, Public Policy and Domestic Violence in Central and Eastern Europe"

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

SATURDAY, June 19th - 9:00 - 11:30 AM - CONCEPTS, FRAMEWORKS AND THEORY

Patricia Hughes (Law, New Brunswick)

"Why Anti-Discrimination Theory is Inadequate for Equality Practice"

Radha Jhappan (Law, Carleton)

"Feminist Approaches to Justice"

Linda McClain (Law, Hofstra)

"Some Thoughts About Facts, Sex/Gender Equality and Constitutional Theory"

Devon Carbado (Law, UCLA)

"Straight Out of the Closet"

LUNCH IN THE ATRIUM

SATURDAY, June 19th - 1:00 - 3:30 PM -- CASE STUDIES IN INEQUALITY

Francine Moccio (ILR, Cornell)

Feminism and Fraternalism: A Case Study of Women's Attempt to Integrate the Electrical Construction Industry

Eileen Boris (History, Virginia)

"The Gender of Discrimination: Men, Women and Fair Employment"

Miranda Stewart (Law, NYU)

"Domesticating Tax Reform: Feminist and Queer Strategies of Reform and the Ideal Family in US Tax and Transfer Law"

Risa L. Lieberwitz (ILR, Cornell)

"Equalizing Power in the Workplace: Broadening Academic Freedom to Freedom of Speech for All Employees"