Women’s Legal History: A Global Perspective
2011 Chicago-Kent Law Review Live Symposium
Presented in partnership with The Institute for Law and the Humanities
Symposium Editor
Professor Felice Batlan, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law
565 West Adams Street
Chicago, Illinois 60661
October 13–14, 2011
Contact: cklawreview.me@kentlaw.iit.edu
Schedule – Day One
| 5:00pm–5:25pm | Symposium Introduction | Marovitz Courtroom |
| 5:25pm–6:15pm | Keynote Address | Marovitz Courtroom |
| 6:15pm–6:30pm | Audience Questions | Marovitz Courtroom |
Keynote Address
Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Holy War: Women, Courts, and Religion in the 1980s
A member of the University of Pennsylvania faculty since 1994, Sarah Barringer Gordon is a widely recognized scholar and commentator on religion in American public life and the law of church and state. Her first book, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), won the Mormon History Association’s and the Utah Historical Society’s best book awards in 2003. Her most recent book, The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2010), explores the world of church and state in the 20th century. Professor Gordon holds a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College, a J.D. and a master’s in divinity from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University.
Schedule – Day Two
| 8:15am–8:40am | Continental Breakfast | 5th Floor |
| 8:40am–8:45am | Opening Remarks | 5th Floor |
| 8:45am–10:15am | Panel 1: Law, Gender, and Politics in the “Old World” | 5th Floor |
| 10:15am–10:30am | Break | |
| 10:30am–12:30pm | Panel 2: Law and Women’s Activism in an International Context | 5th Floor |
| 12:30pm–1:15pm | Lunch Break | Morris Hall |
| 1:15pm–3:15pm | Panel 3: Women Professionals, Law, and the Creation of International and Interdisciplinary Dialogues | 5th Floor |
| 3:15pm–3:30pm | Break | |
| 3:30pm–5:00pm | Panel 4: Women’s Bodies and the Body Politic | 5th Floor |
| 5:00pm–5:10pm | Closing Remarks | 5th Floor |
Panel Participants
Panel 1: Law, Gender, and Politics in the “Old World”
Panel Commentator
Sarah K. Harding, Associate Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Benedetta Faedi Duramy, Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law
Women and Poisons During the 17th Century France
Lloyd Bonfield, Professor of Law, New York Law School
Women in English Courts, 1400–1720
Carla Spivack, Associate Professor of Law, Oklahoma City University School of Law
Law, Land, Identity: The Case of Lady Anne Clifford
Panel 2: Law and Women’s Activism in an International Context
Panel Commentator
Maureen Flanagan, Professor of History, IIT Lewis College of Human Sciences
Adetoun Ilumoka, Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Globalization and the Re-Establishment of Women’s Economic and Social Rights in Nigeria: The Role of Legal History
Susan Hinely, Lecturer, Stony Brook University
The Global “Parliament of Mothers”: History, the Revolutionary Tradition, and International Law in the Pre-War Women’s Movement
Dr. Lily Chang, Henry Lumley Research Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge
Conceptualizing Sexual Hygiene: Gendered Offenses against Children in Wartime China, 1931–1945
Margaret Power, Professor of History, IIT Lewis College of Human Sciences
Puerto Rican Women Nationalists vs. U.S. Colonialism: An Exploration of Their Conditions and Struggles in Jail and in Court
Panel 3: Women Professionals, Law, and the Creation of International and Interdisciplinary Dialogues
Panel Commentator
Christopher W. Schmidt, Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Barbara Babcock, Judge John Crown Professor of Law, Emerita, Stanford Law School
Women Lawyers at the Chicago World’s Fair
Mary Jane Mossman, Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School
Women Lawyers and Women’s Legal Equality: Reflections on Gender and Law Reform at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago
Gwen Jordan, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Springfield
And the World Does Move: Black Women Lawyers in the Long Civil Rights Movement
Karen M. Tani, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Interpreting the Law of the Welfare State: Women Lawyers, Social Workers, and the New Deal Grounding of Poverty Law
Panel 4: Women’s Bodies and the Body Politic
Panel Commentator
César F. Rosado Marzán, Associate Professor of Law, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Deleso A. Alford, Associate Professor of Law, Florida A&M University College of Law
Acknowledging the History of Women in the Tuskegee Study of “Untreated Syphilis in the Male Negro”
Mary Ziegler, Assistant Professor of Law, St. Louis University Law School
The Possibility of Compromise: Antiabortion Moderates After Roe v. Wade
Kara Swanson, Associate Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Reproductive Medicine in the Legal Shadows: Artificial Insemination, 1890–1980
