Symposium Honoring Martha Nussbaum

The Gender and Sexuality Law Program at Columbia Law School presents:

A Symposium Honoring the Contributions of Professor Martha Nussbaum to the Scholarship and Practice of Gender and Sexuality Law

Feminism as Liberalism
Carlos Ball
Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
Nancy Levit
Curators’ and Edward D. Ellison Professor of Law, UMKC School of Law
Tracy Higgins
Professor of Law, Fordham Law School

History, Identity and Sexuality
Mary Anne Case
Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Alice Kessler-Harris
R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History, Columbia University
Janet Jakobsen
Director, Barnard Center for Research on Women

Gender and Development
Saskia Sassen
Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Amrita Basu
Domenic J. Paino 1955 Professor of Political Science and
Women’s and Gender Studies, Amherst College
Aili Tripp
Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Keynote Lecture
Professor Martha Nussbaum

Katherine Franke and Suzanne Goldberg
Directors, Gender and Sexuality Law Program

Papers to be published in a special issue of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law

The symposium will be held on February 13, 2009, from 9:00 am - 6:00 pm.  More information here.