Conference Papers
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Conference Workshop: A Feminist Pedagogy of Family Law
"Feminist Lawyering and Teaching Uncontested Divorces: A Case Study & Discussion" by Myra Berman, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of Collaborative Court, Deseriee Kennedy, Professor, and Deborah Post, Associate Dean and Professor, Touro Law Center
Friday, March 8, 2013
Panel I: Government Regulation of Family Relationships
" The Hyperregulation of the Poor" by Wendy A. Bach, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee College of Law
"A Woman’s Place: Dependent Spouse Visas as Second-Class Citizenship" by Sabrina Balgamwalla, University of Baltimore School of Law
"Regulating the Family: The Impact of 'Pro-Family' Policymaking Assessments on Women and Nontraditional Families" by Robin S. Maril, Legislative Counsel for Administrative Advocacy, Human Rights Campaign
Panel II: How Law Defines Families Based on Genetics, Parenting, and Marriage
"Avoiding Marriage Tunnel Vision: Why the Same-Sex Marriage Movement Need Not and Should Not Undermine the Advancement of Non-Marital Relationship Recognition " by Jessica R. Feinberg, Assistant Professor, Mercer University School of Law
"The Family Law of Genetic Information" by Rachel Rebouche, Assistant Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Panel III: Abuse Within Families in the Context of of the Military Mental Health Crisis, Incarceration, and Pregnancy
" Masculinities at War: What ‘Invisible Wounds’ Reveal About Achieving Substantive Military Equality" by Jamie R. Abrams, Assistant Professor, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
"Pregnancy as Harm" by Rachel Camp, Visiting Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
"Battered Autonomy: Incarcerated Domestic Violence Survivors and the Fetishization of Personal Responsibility in the California Parole System" by Marisa F. Gonzalez, Clinical Teaching Fellow, Georgetown University Law Center
Panel IV: New Framework for Conceptualizing and Supporting Today’s Families
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Matriarchy" by Tonya Brito, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
"Improving Ordinary Family Law Through Love and Contracts" by Martha M. Ertman, Carole & Hanan Sibel, Research Professor of Law, University of Maryland Law School
"Flourishing Families: Harnessing Law to Foster Strong, Stable, Positive Relationships" by Clare Huntington, Associate Professor, Fordham Law School