11th Feminist Legal Theory Conference
Applied Feminism and #MeToo
We are happy to announce the Eleventh Feminist Legal Theory Conference sponsored by The University of Baltimore School of Law's Center on Applied Feminism and The University of Baltimore Law Review. The theme of this year's conference is Applied Feminism and #MeToo and it will be held at the University of Baltimore School of Law in Baltimore, MD, on April 11 and 12, 2019. The conference will focus on the #MeToo social movement, and its impact and limitations nationally and internationally. The conference will examine emerging proposals to change institutions where gender-based harassment and assault occur, are investigated, or are adjudicated, such as workplaces, universities, and courts. The conference will also explore and offer reforms regarding critical issues such as credibility discounting, survivor trauma, anger, contrition, restorative approaches for accountability, and the lack of visibility for all persons subjected to gender-based harassment and assault, such as those who are of color, immigrant, young, involved in the criminal justice system, and male or a gender minority.
The conference will begin at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, 2019, with a panel and facilitated discussion. The conference then continues all day Friday, April 12, 2019, with national and international academics, practitioners, and activists presenting their academic papers. The Center on Applied Feminism, co-directed by Professors Margaret Johnson and Michele Gilman, is grounded in clinical practice and theory and examines how feminist and other critical legal theories can benefit legal practitioners in representing clients, shape legal doctrine and play a role in policy debates and implementation.
11th Feminist Legal Theory Conference:
Applied Feminism and #MeToo Schedule (pdf)
Thursday, April 11, 2019
(12th Floor Reading Room, University of Baltimore School of Law)
3:30-4 p.m. Registration
4-6:00
p.m. Facilitated Discussion regarding #MeToo: Yesterday, Today,
and Tomorrow
Facilitator: Margaret E. Johnson, Professor of Law and Co-Director,
Center on Applied Feminism, University of Baltimore School of Law
Friday, April 12, 2019
(Moot Court Room, University of Baltimore School of Law)
8:30-9:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00-9:15 a.m. Conference Welcome
Dean Ronald Weich, University of Baltimore School of Law
Matthew Allison, Editor-in-Chief, University of Baltimore Law Review
Tia Holmes, Symposium Editor, University of Baltimore Law Review
Conference Opening Remarks
Margaret E. Johnson, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center on
Applied Feminism, University of Baltimore School of Law
9:15-10:45 a.m. Panel I: Exploring Comparative Perspectives on #MeToo
Moderator: Nienke Grossman, Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
School of Law
Indigenizing The #Me Too Campaign: A South African Perspective
,
Penelope Andrews, Sabbatical Scholar, Columbia Law School,
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, New York Law School
#MeToo and the Pursuit of Women’s International Human Rights,
Benedetta Faedi Duramy, Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Faculty
Scholarship, Golden Gate University School of Law
Recognizing Rage Surrounding the #MeToo Movement and Differing
Approaches to Address It,
Johanna Gusman, Visiting Research
Scholar, Georgetown University Legal Center
Misdirection and Misogyny: Political Deployment of "Women's
Issues" to Justify Nativist Goals,
Dina Francesca Haynes,
Professor of Law, New England Law
10:45-11 a.m. Break
11-12:30 p.m. Panel II:
Interrogating Intersectional Identities of #MeToo
Moderator: Elizabeth Keyes, Associate Professor of Law, University of
Baltimore School of Law
Immigrant Women in the Shadow of the #MeToo Movement,
Nicole
Hallett, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, University at Buffalo School
of Law
There Are No Outsiders Here: Rethinking Intersectionality as
Hegemonic Discourse in the Age of #MeToo,
Teri McMurtry-Chubb,
Professor of Law, Mercer University Law School
Applying Lessons from #MeToo to Abusive Policing,
Josephine Ross,
Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law
#WhoAmI? Harm & Remedy for Youth of the #MeToo Era,
Charisa Smith, Associate Professor, City University of New York
School of Law
12:30-2:00 p.m. Lunch Program (12th Floor)
Keynote Speaker: Debra Katz, Founding Partner, Katz, Marshall &
Banks, LLP
2-3:30 p.m. Panel III:
Tackling #MeToo Inside and Outside the Courtroom
Moderator: Shanta Trivedi, Clinical Teaching Fellow, University of Baltimore
School of Law
Third Generation Discrimination Part II: An Empirical Analysis of
Judicial Decision Making,
Catherine Dunham, Professor of Law, Elon
University School of Law and Chris Leupold, Associate Professor of
Psychology and Faculty Fellow for Law and Leadership, Elon University
School of Law
#MeToo: The Path from Credibility Discounting to Systemic Change,
Deborah Epstein, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Domestic Violence
Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center
#MeToo, Sexual Harassment and Accountability: Considering the Role
of Restorative Approaches, Julie Goldscheid, Professor of Law,
CUNY Law School
Restorative Justice through Administrative Law: Male Military Sexual
Assault and the Veterans Administration,
Elizabeth Tarloski, Staff
Attorney/Adjunct Professor, William and Mary Law School-Lewis B. Puller Jr.,
Veterans Benefits Clinic
3:30-3:45 p.m. Break
3:45 -5:15 p.m. Panel IV:
Exploring #MeToo Relational Dynamics in the Workplace
and Beyond
Moderator: Zina Makar, Clinical Teaching Fellow, University of Baltimore
School of Law
Sorry Not Sorry,
Jamie Abrams, Associate Professor, University of
Louisville Brandeis School of Law
Peer Retaliation in the Post #MeToo Era,
Deborah Brake, Professor of
Law and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, University
of Pittsburgh School of Law
#SororityToo: Breaking the Code of Silence about Relationship
Violence in Collegiate Greek Life,
Tanya Cooper, Director, Restoration
and Justice Clinic; Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Pepperdine
University School of Law
Rethinking Institutional Response to Sexual Harassment in the Wake
of #MeToo,
Joanna Grossman, Ellen K. Solender Endowed Chair in
Women and Law & Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
5:15 p.m. Closing Remarks
Michele Gilman, Professor of Law and Co-Director Center on
Applied Feminism, University of Baltimore School of Law
This conference is supported in part by CLEA, the Clinical Legal Education Association, cleaweb.org.