Economic Discourse and the Family (1998)

Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop

Economic Discourse and the Family

Columbia University Law School

March 13 & 14, 1998

Jerome Greene Lounge at Wien Hall

Sponsored by Professor Martha Fineman

FRIDAY 4 - 6:30 PM

Lisa Brush, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Sociology

"Gender" in Feminist Theory on Work and Family

Katharine Silbaugh, Boston University, School of Law

Rejecting Contractualization of Marriage: An Economic Perspective

Amy Wax, Univerity of Virginia, School of Law

Is There a Future for Egalitarian Marriage?

Commentator - June Carbone,University of Santa Clara, School of Law

FRIDAY 7-- 9:30 PM Dinner at Martha Fineman's home, 15 Claremont Ave., #91

SATURDAY 10 - 12:30

Barbara Stark, University of Tennessee,College of Law

Colonial Women and Their Families: The Redundant Denial of Economic Rights

Brian Bix, Quinnipiac College, School of Law

Bargaining in the Shadow of Love: Premarital Agreements and Views of Marriage

Lisa Philipps, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Re-Privatizing Women: Tax Law and Family Economies

Martha Ertman, University of Denver, School of Law

Commercializing Marriage: A Proposal for Valuing Women's Work

SATURDAY 2 - 4:30 PM

Mary Ann Case, University of Virginia, School of Law

Family and Corporation

Mary Condon, York University, School of Law

Business as Family?

Carol Sanger, Columbia University, School of Law

The Family as Corporation

Commentator - Clark Freshman, University of Miami, School of Law