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Edith House Lecture Series

Speaker Title Date Audio/Video
Prof. Nadine Taub, Rutgers School of Law - Newark Redefining the Equality Principle: Formal Equality, Substantive Equality, and Special Treatment for Women 5/3/83 No
Judge Gladys Kessler, District of Columbia Superior Court The Crisis in Child Support 4/3/84 Audio
Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice and Juror 3/17/85 Audio
Prof. Eliane Vogel-Polsky, University Libre De Bruxelles Positive Action within the European Economic Community 9/25/85 Audio
Antonia H. Chayes, Chairman, ENDISPUTE, Inc. Beyond Negotiation: Alternative Dispute Resolution 3/12/87 Audio - Interview with WUGA only
Prof. R. Lea Brilmayer, Yale Law School International Affairs and the Implausibility of Democracy 4/6/88 Audio
Prof. Martha Minow, Harvard Law School Diversity: Gender, Religion and Race 3/16/89 Audio/Video
Prof. Patricia A. Cain, University of Texas School of Law A Postmodern Feminist Critique of Equal Protection Doctrine 3/15/90 Video
Prof. Mari J. Matsuda, University of Hawaii Schoolof Law Towards a Feminist Theory Interconnecting Subordinations 4/8/91 Audio
Prof. Patricia J. Williams, University of Wisconsin Law School Banished Bodies 3/13/92 Audio
Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law Mainstreaming Feminist Legal Theory and the Production of Legal Knowledge 3/12/93 No
Brooksley Born, Partner, Arnold & Porter, Washinton DC Private Practice/Public Service - Reminiscences About the Women's Rights Movement 3/9/94 Audio
Chief Judge Dorothy T. Beasley, Georgia Court of Appeals Why Are We Here 1/25/95 Audio
Prof. Mary E. Becker, University of Chicago Law School The First Amendment and Sexual Harassment at School and at Work 11/2/95 Audio
Prof. Martha S. West, University of California, Davis, School of Law What's in it for me? Why Don't White Women Support Affirmative Action 10/24/96 Audio
Prof. Anne M. Coughlin, University of Virginia School of Law Sex and Guilt 10/15/97 Audio
Prof. Sarah R. Weddington, University of Texas, Austin Roe v. Wade: 25 Years Later 9/23/98 Audio
Judge Susan Oki Mollway, U.S. District Court of Hawaii Getting Confirmed as a Federal Judge 10/6/99 Audio
Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts, Northwestern University Missing Voices: Black Mothers and the Politics of Child Welfare 2/15/01 Streaming
audio only
Kelly D. Askin, Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University Securing Justice for Women in the United Nations International War Crimes Tribunals and Beyond 3/26/02 Audio
Kathy Hall-Martinez, Director, International Program of the Center for Reproductive Law Using Legal Strategies to Promote Women's Reproductive Rights: Achievements and Challenges 3/3/03 Streaming
audio only
Prof. Linda H. Krieger, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Naturalizing Anti-Discrimination Law 2/25/04 Streaming
audio only
Chief Justice Jean H. Toal, South Carolina Supreme Court Women in the Law 3/24/05 Streaming
Prof. Sarah R. Weddington, University of Texas, Austin Some Leaders Are Born Women 3/23/06 Streaming
Harriet McBryde Johnson, Author and Disability Rights Attorney Disability Rights: A
Liberation Movement for All People
3/21/07
Shirley M. Hufstedler, former U.S. Secretary of Education Freedom and Justice for Some: Federal Judicial Review for Guantanamo Bay Prisoners 3/19/08 Streaming
Prof. Felice J. Batlan, Chicago-Kent College of Law Are We Our Mother's Law Students?: Women's Law School Experiences and an Agenda for Action 4/9/09 Streaming