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Gender Equality and the First Amendment TheFordham Law Review Presents Gender Equality and the First Amendment Thursday, November 1 Friday, November 2 1:30–2 p.m., Check-in 9–9:30 a.m., Check-in 2–7:15 p.m., Program 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m., Program Fordham Law School Fordham University 150 West 62nd Street 140 West 62nd Street Costantino Room (Second Floor) McNally Amphitheatre ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM ABOUT THE FORDHAM LAW REVIEW Gender equality demands equal opportunity to TheFordham Law Review is a scholarly journal serving speak and be heard. Yet, in recent years, the clash the legal profession and the public by discussing between equality and free speech in the context of current legal issues. Approximately 75 articles, written gender has intensified – in the media, the workplace, by students or submitted by outside authors, are college campuses, and the political arena, both online published each year. Each volume comprises six books, and offline. The internet has given rise to many novel three each semester, often totaling over 3,000 pages. First Amendment issues that particularly impact TheLaw Review publishes several symposia within women, like nonconsensual pornography, online each volume, in addition to the The Robert L. Levine harassment, and online privacy. This symposium Distinguished Lecture Series, the Philip D. Reed – marking the occasion of 100 years of women at Lecture Series, and an annual legal ethics colloquium. Fordham Law School – will bring scholars and Papers from this symposium will be published by the practicing lawyers from around the nation to address Fordham Law Review in spring 2019. many of the pressing challenges facing feminists and free speech advocates today. In the United States, the Fordham Law Review is the seventh most cited law review in other legal journals and the fourth most cited law review in judicial decisions, according to a recent study by Washington & Lee University. Managed by a board of twenty student editors, the Law Review is both a working journal and an honor society. For more information, please visit: www.fordhamlawreview.org The A2J Initiative at Fordham Law focuses the collective public service energy of the School to deliver on the promise of equal justice, which lies at the core of our concerns as a service-oriented institution and is the foundational bedrock of our constitutional society, through teaching, direct service, and scholarship, research and advocacy. The following centers and institutes, in particular, pursue access to justice issues in their work: Center on Race, Law and Justice; Coalition for Debtor Education; Feerick Center for Social Justice; Institute on Religion, Law and Lawyer’s Work; Leitner Center for International Law and Justice; National Center for Access to Justice; Public Interest Resource Center; Stein Center for Law and Ethics; and Urban Law Center. Learn more: law.fordham.edu/atoj AGENDA NOVEMBER 1 NOVEMBER 2 1:30–2:00 pm 9:00–9:30 am Registration Registration/Breakfast 2:00–2:10 pm 9:30–11:00 am Conference Welcome Panel Three Clare Huntington, Associate Dean for Research and Power, Media, Women, and the First Amendment Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law (1.0 Professional Practice, 0.5 Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias) Moderator: Jeanmarie Fenrich 2:10–3:45 pm Panelists: Corey Brettschneider Panel One Susan Buckley On Campus: Trigger Warnings, Unsafe Spaces, and Virginia Heffernan Hostile Classrooms Helen Norton (1.5 Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias) Moderator: Abner Greene 11:00–11:15 am Panelists: Michele Goodwin Break Suzanne Nossel Virginia Ryan 11:15 am–12:45 pm Nadine Strossen Panel Four Keith Whittington Words, Images, Misogyny, and the First Amendment (1.0 Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias, 0.5 Professional Practice) 3:45–4:00 pm Moderator: Robin Lenhardt Break Panelists: Anita Allen Linda McClain 4:00–5:30 pm Lynne Tirrell Panel Two Benjamin Zipursky Pornography, Nonconsensual Porn, and Hot Girls Wanted (0.5 Ethics, 1.0 Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias) 12:45–2:15 pm Moderator: Catherine Powell Lunch Panelists: Susan Brison Elisa D’Amico 2:15–3:45 pm Mary Anne Franks Panel Five Amy Adler Being “Female” Online—Reputation, Self-Expression, and Privacy 5:30–6:00 pm (1.0 Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias, 0.5 Professional Practice) Break Moderator: Olivier Sylvain Panelists: Danielle Citron 6:00–6:10 pm Carrie Goldberg Introduction of 2018 Robert L. Levine Lecturer Kate Klonick Linda Sugin, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Nabiha Syed Professor of Law 3:45–4:00 pm 6:10–7:15 pm Closing Reflections Levine Lecture Jeanmarie Fenrich, Professor Benjamin Zipursky, Income Disparity, Gender Equality and Free Speech Professor Danielle Citron Professor Sylvia Law, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry Emerita, and Co-Director, Arthur 4:00 pm Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, NYU School of Law Reception 7:15 pm Reception SPEAKERS Self-Government (Princeton University Press, 2007). Brettschneider is the author of a casebook, Constitutional Law and American Democ- racy: Cases and Readings (Aspen Publishers/Wolters Kluwer Law and Amy Adler Business, 2011). His articles have appeared in the Texas Law Review, Amy Adler is the Emily Kempin Professor of Law at New York Uni- Northwestern Law Review, Political Theory, and American Political versity School of Law, where she teaches Art Law, First Amendment Science Review. His writing for a popular audience has appeared in the Law, and Feminist Jurisprudence. NYU awarded her its Podell Distin- New York Times, Politico Magazine, and Time. He is also a frequent guished Teaching Award in 2015. Adler’s recent scholarship addresses commentator on constitutional issues for BBC Newshour and BBC an array of issues such as the legal regulation of pornography, the First World News. Amendment treatment of visual images, and the moral and intel- lectual property rights of artists. A leading expert on the intersection Susan J. Brison of art and law, Adler has lectured about these topics to a wide variety Susan J. Brison is the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of audiences, from attorneys general to museum curators to the FBI. of Ethics and Human Values and Professor of Philosophy at Dart- Adler graduated from the Yale Law School, where she was a senior mouth College. She has held visiting positions at Tufts, New York editor of the Yale Law Journal. She graduated summa cum laude from University, and Princeton, where she is currently a Visiting Professor Yale University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and where of Philosophy, and has been a Mellon Fellow, a National Endowment she received the Marshall Allison Prize in the arts and letters. Adler for the Humanities Fellow, and a Member of the School of Social clerked for Judge John M. Walker Jr. of the US Court of Appeals for Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. the Second Circuit and worked as an associate at Debevoise & Plimp- The author ofAftermath: Violence and the Remaking of a Self (Princ- ton before joining the NYU Law faculty. eton University Press) and co-editor of Contemporary Perspectives on Constitutional Interpretation (Westview Press) and Free Speech in Anita Allen the Digital Age (forthcoming, Oxford University Press), she has also Anita L. Allen is an expert on privacy law, the philosophy of privacy, published numerous articles on gender-based violence and on free bioethics, and contemporary values, and is recognized for scholarship speech theory. about legal philosophy, women’s rights, and race relations. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and received her PhD in Philosophy Susan Buckley from the University of Michigan. She was the first African Ameri- Susan Buckley is Senior Counsel in Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP’s can woman to hold both a PhD in philosophy and a law degree. She litigation practice group. She has a national litigation practice with was an Associate Attorney with Cravath, Swaine and Moore. At a particular emphasis on communications law and the rights of the Penn she is the Vice Provost for Faculty and the Henry R. Silverman press. During the course of her career, Susan has represented media Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy. She was elected to the entities and journalists in cases involving the prior restraint doctrine, National Academy of Medicine in 2016. In 2010 she was appointed press access issues and the reporter’s privilege and has defended by President Obama to the Presidential Commission for the Study of journalists in defamation and privacy cases, copyright matters and Bioethical Issues. Her books include Unpopular Privacy: What Must litigation concerning restrictions on newsgathering activities. Susan We Hide (Oxford, 2011); The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st has served on the Governing Board of the American Bar Associa- Century Moral Landscape (Miramax/Hyperion, 2004); Why Privacy tion’s Forum on Communications Law, the Communications and Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (Row- Media Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of man and Littlefield, 2003); andUneasy Access: Privacy for Women in New York and the Media Law Committee of the New York State Bar a Free Society (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988), the first monograph Association. Susan is named among the top First Amendment litiga- on privacy written by an American philosopher. Allen, who has tors in New York by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 and Euromoney’s published more than a hundred scholarly articles, book chapters and Benchmark Litigation and has been listed among the Best Lawyers in essays, has also contributed to popular magazines, newspapers and America in the field of First Amendment Law for more than ten years. blogs, and has frequently appeared on nationally broadcast television Susan received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke Col- and radio programs.
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