2013 HER HONOR: Women in the Judiciary
Honored Guest: U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Susan Williams
Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Keynote Address: “Women and Judging: A Feminist Approach to Judgment and the Issue of Customary Law”
2012 Reproductive Justice: Examining Choice and Autonomy in the New Millennium
(co-sponsored by Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Dr. Sarah Weddington
Professor, Attorney, Legislator, Presidential Advisor and Lead Counsel, Roe v. Wade
Keynote Address: “Women Lawyers: The Importance of Leadership”
2011 Gender Justice and Indian Sovereignty: Native American Women and the Law
(co-sponsored by the California Indian Association)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor and Justice Stacy L. Leeds
Interim Associate Dean and Professor, University of Kansas School of Law
Chief Justice, Supreme Court for the Kickapoo Tribe
Chief Justice, Supreme Court for the Kaw Nation
Chief Judge, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation District Court
Keynote Address: “Resistance, Resilience, and Reconciliation: Reflections on Native American Women and the Law”
2010 Women of Color and Intersectionality
(co-sponsored by UCLA School of Law’s Critical Race Studies Program)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw
UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School
Keynote Address: “Intersectionality and Women of Color”
2009 Confronting Domestic Violence Head On: The Role of Power in Domestic Relationships
(co-sponsored by The Relationship Training Institute of San Diego)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Cheryl Hanna
Vermont Law School
Keynote Address: “Behind the Castle Walls: Balancing Privacy and Security in Domestic Abuse Cases”
2008 Women in Politics: The Role of Gender in Political Decision-Making
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Barbara Palmer
Department of Government, American University
Keynote Address: “Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling: Incumbency, Redistricting, and the Success of Women Candidates”
2007 Virtual Women: Emerging Issues in Gender and Intellectual Property Law
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Rochelle Dreyfuss
Pauline Newman Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Keynote Address: “Girls Just Want to Have Fun: What Can Feminist Theory Tell Us About Incentives?”
2006 Sexuality at Work
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Vicki Schultz
Ford Foundation Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Keynote Address: “The Sanitized Workplace”
2005 The Global Impact of Feminist Legal Theory
(co-sponsored by Emory University’s Feminism and Legal Theory Project)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Kathryn Abrams
Associate Dean and Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Keynote Address: “Work in the Global Context”
2004 What U.S. Lawyers Can Learn from International Law: Concepts of Gender Equality Across Legal Cultures
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Martha Albertson Fineman
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law
Keynote Address: “Comparative Concepts of Equality Across Legal Cultures: The Use of International and Human Rights Ideas, Norms, and Concepts in U.S. Jurisprudence”
2003 Women and the Maternal Wall
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Joan Williams
American University Washington College School of Law presently at U.C. Hastings College of the Law
Keynote Address: “Beyond the Glass Ceiling: The Maternal Wall as a Barrier to Gender Equality”
2002 Women and Family Law
Keynote Speaker: Justice Judith McConnell
California Fourth District Court of Appeal
Keynote Address: “Women in the Law: Changing the Way Courts Do Business”
2001 Women as Workers
Keynote Speaker: Professor Deborah L. Rhode
Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Keynote Address: “Women in the Law: The Unfinished Agenda”
