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Judge Karen Atala to speak at Atala v. Chile panel on April 19th. Watch the live webcast!
In 2004, the Supreme Court of Chile denied Judge Karen Atala custody of her three daughters because she is a lesbian and was living with her same-sex partner. In February 2012, the Inter-American Court issued a final decision finding that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is forbidden by the American Convention on Human Rights. Please join us for a discussion of this groundbreaking case featuring Macarena Saez, who was one of the attorneys who represented Judge Atala, and a video conference with Judge Atala herself.
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October 5-6, 2012
She Leads! MsJD's 5th Annual Conference on Women and Law
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The Women and the Law Program
Since 1984 the Women and the Law Program has promoted the integration of women's rights and gender studies into legal education, practice and doctrine. To foster the study and teaching of gender and international or comparative law, the program expanded to include a Women and International Law Program in 1994.
The Women and the Law Program emphasizes the role of law and legal education in transforming women's status around the world. The program challenges assumptions about the role of women in the family, civil society, and governance in domestic, international and transnational institutions. However, engaging in either academic study or advocacy alone is not enough if the people who make the legal and political decisions that shape women's lives- judges, lawyers and policy makers- ignore the concerns of women. Therefore, the program seeks to influence the thinking of political and social leaders who hold the power to address the legal dimensions of gender inequality. We aim to transform the training of lawyers and scholars so that they leave law school with an awareness of their power and obligation to remove the legal barriers to women's full participation in society.
Our program works at multiple levels to integrate gender into legal education by:
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Encouraging the development of feminist legal thought;
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Educating emerging legal scholars in gender studies;
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Creating supportive networks of feminist scholars, practitioners and activists;
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Disseminating scholarly and teaching materials that integrate gender into the study of law in specific contexts.
Women and the Law Program Special Projects
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Gender, Health & Justice |
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Gender & International Criminal Law |
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Integrating Gender Into Legal Education |
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Comparative Family Law |
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IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections |
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Interdisciplinary Project on Human Trafficking |
