Please join us for the Eighth Annual Women and the Law Conference as we explore Women in Politics and The Role of Gender in Political Decision Making.
Women have made enormous strides in the political arena and are enjoying a presence that is unparalleled in the United States. Women are being elected to state and local governments in numbers greater than ever. A record number of women now serve in the 110th Congress: 74 in the House of Representatives and 16 in the Senate. California voters have played a critical role in this progress by electing two female senators and the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
2008 promises to be another exciting political year with the first candidacy of a woman for the office of President of the United States. Women are still a long way, however, from the day in which the ultimate glass ceiling will be easily shattered and a candidate’s gender will be considered truly irrelevant in an election.
Quick Links to More Information Below:
Program (with links to the biographies of each panelist)
History of the Women and the Law Conference
Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit
Registration Information:
Online Registration is Closed
Or Contact Randy Ward at:
Email: rward@tjsl.edu
Tel: 619.297.9700, ext. 1415
Fax: 619.374.6393
Mail:
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Women and the Law Conference
2121 San Diego Ave.
San Diego, CA 92110
Registration Fees:
Conference fee includes lunch, reception and MCLE materials.
General Public: $35
TJSL Alumni and members of the Lawyers Club of San Diego: $25
Students, TJSL Faculty & Staff: No charge to attend the conference and reception, an optional box lunch may ordered for $10.00. Registration is required.
Space is limited. Please register before February 22, 2008.
Online Registration is Closed
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Women and the Law Conference Overview:
This year's Women and the Law Conference brings together an inspirational panel of female politicians and political scientists to examine the role of gender in U.S. politics. The conference speakers will explore a number of topics, including: the intersection of race, class and gender in elections; the role of gender in campaign messages; gender voting patterns; partisan differences in the nomination of women to office, female congressional candidates; and male/female judicial voting patterns.
Program: Biographies of Panelists
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.: Women as Leaders
Moderator: Lorena Gonzalez, Secretary-Treasurer, San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council
Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine, Intersections of Inequality: Race, Class and Gender in Politics
Carol C. Lam, Senior Vice-President, Legal Counsel, QUALCOMM Inc., Building Credibility: What Does It Take?
Sharon Majors-Lewis, Judicial Appointments Secretary to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ronnee Schreiber, Assistant Professor, San Diego State University, Exploring Ideological Differences: Conservative Women Political Leaders
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.:
Getting Elected and Staying In Office: Special Challenges Faced By Women (Part I)
Moderator: Susan Taylor, NBC 7/39 Anchor
Barbara Burrell, Professor, Northern Illinois University, Female Congressional Candidates in Open Seat Primaries and General
Donna Frye, San Diego City Councilwoman and former mayoral candidate, Special Challenges Facing Female Politicians
Midge Costanza, Former Assistant to President Jimmy Carter, Is the United States Ready For a Woman President? Obstacles Women Candidates Face in a Presidential Race
Lynn Schenk, Former Congresswoman, Is the United States Ready For a Woman President? Obstacles Women Candidates Face in a Presidential Race
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.:
Lunch and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture
Barbara Palmer, Assistant Professor, American University,
Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling: Incumbency, Redistricting, and the Success of Women Candidates
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.:
Getting Elected and Staying in Office: Special Challenges Faced By Women (Part II
Moderator: Gloria Penner, KPBS
Bonnie Dumanis, San Diego District Attorney, Tackling Gender Issues During a Campaign
Christine Kehoe, California State Senator, Women in Leadership Roles: Why Aren’t There More of Us?
Valerie O’Regan, Assistant Professor, Cal State Fullerton, Partisan Differences in the Nomination of Women to Office
Stephen Stambough, Associate Professor, Cal State Fullerton, Partisan Differences in the Nomination of Women to Office
3:45 - 5:15 p.m.:
Assessing the Impact (If Any) of Gender on Decision - Making in Law and Politics
Moderator Norma Damashek, President, San Diego League of Women Voters
Dede Alpert, Former California State Senator, Having Women in Elective Office: Does It Make a Difference?
Karen P. Hewitt, United States Attorney, Women and Leadership: The Role of Federal Prosecutors in the Legal Community
Madhavi McCall, Associate Professor, San Diego State University, Structuring Gender’s Impact: Judicial Voting Across Criminal
Melinda Mueller, Professor, Eastern Illinois University, Gender Differences in the 2006 House Elections: The Effect of Gender and Rhetoric on the War in Iraq
5:15 - 6:15 p.m.:
Reception in the Courtyard
History of the Women and the Law Conference:
Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the Women and the Law Project inaugurated the Women and the Law Conference in 2001. Fostered by a committed group of faculty, staff, and students, the series was the first annual event in the western United States focusing exclusively on gender issues and the law. In 2003, with the generous support of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who visited the law school that year, we established the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture Series.
2001
Women as Workers
Keynote Speaker: Professor Deborah L. Rhode
Stanford Law School
2002
Women and Family Law
Keynote Speaker: Justice Judith McConnell
California Fourth District Court of Appeals
2003
Women and the Maternal Wall
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Joan Williams
University of California, Hastings College of Law
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
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, Boalt Hall School of Law
2006
Sexuality at Work
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecturer: Professor Vicki Schultz
Ford Foundation Professor of Law, Yale Law School
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 Law School
Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit (MCLE):
MCLE credit is available upon request. Thomas Jefferson School of Law is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. This program qualifies for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the five (5) hours of which one (1) hour will apply to Elimination of Bias.