Gender, Parenting and the Law – Palo Alto, CA

On February 7, 2009, the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties will host its 3rd annual symposium. This year’s topic is “Gender, Parenting, and the Law.” The symposium, which will complement the journal’s Spring symposium issue, will create a dynamic forum for academics, legal practitioners, and community organizers and activists to share ground-breaking work on a number of urgent parenthood-related civil rights issues. The Symposium will be open to Stanford students, faculty, and the community at large.

Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland and Ellis Professor at Northwestern University Law School, will give the opening keynote, and other speakers include Nancy Polikoff from American University’s Washington College of Law, Lisa Ikemoto from the UC Davis School of Law, and Laura Rosenbury who is currently visiting at Stanford Law. Panel topics are new reproductive technologies and the law, parenting and the criminal justice system, parenting and labor, and LGBT parenting. Each panel, will discuss issues of gender, state views of parenthood, and the legal rights of parents.

For more information, contact: Katrinar@stanford.edu.