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2008 Symposium
SOUTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW The Roberts Court and Equal Protection: Friday, February 29, 2008 Free & Open to the Public CLE Credit Available Please download the registration form and return it to the South Carolina Law Review. Our mailing address is listed on the right. The South Carolina Law Review and the University of South Carolina School of Law invite you to attend our 2008 symposium, The Roberts Court & Equal Protection: Gender, Race, and Class. The symposium will address recent Supreme Court decisions regarding equal protection, including the school desegregation cases and the partial-birth abortion case, and possible areas for new litigation. The presenters will focus on the Court’s constitutional philosophy regarding equal protection in the areas of gender, race, and class. The symposium will be held in the auditorium at the University of South Carolina School of Law, 701 South Main Street in Columbia. It is free and open to the public, unless you are registering for CLE credit. The following cases will be discussed extensively: For more information, contact: SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
9:00 am – 10:15 am - The Roberts Court Overview
10:30 am – 12:00 pm - Gender
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm - Race
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm - Class HOTEL INFORMATION
Courtyard by Marriott Columbia Downtown at USC
Hampton Inn Columbia- Downtown
The Inn at USC PARKING SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Pamela Bridgewater, Professor of Law Professor Pamela D. Bridgewater is a lawyer, reproductive rights advocate and activist. She teaches property law, inheritance law and reproduction and the law. She has been involved in the women's health movement for many years providing legal defense of reproductive health care clinics, service providers and activists. Professor Bridgewater also assisted federal and state lawmakers on issues ranging from clinic violence to contraceptive and sterilization abuse. Prior to teaching law, Professor Bridgewater worked as a legal aid lawyer, a judicial law clerk and an advocate for indigenous property rights. Professor Bridgewater currently provides pro bono legal service and consultation on matters such as estate planning for poor people and people living with HIV/AIDS as well as legal services for peace activists and activists within the fair trade and globalization movements. Her work in the area of reproduction, sexuality, identity, poverty and women's health care has led her to work with leading legal scholars, policymakers, activists and advocates from North America, Europe, Latin America and South Africa. Professor Bridgewater is on a number of advisory boards including the Our Bodies Ourselves (formerly Boston Women's Health Book Collective), WAGADU: Journal for Transnational Feminisms, and the Kopkind Project for Journalists and Activists. Her past committee service includes the Law School Admissions Sub Committee on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues, the Law and Society Association's Student Writing Competition Committee. She is a member of Law and Society, the Society of American Law Teachers, Critical Legal Studies Association and the National Lawyers' Guild. Her book, Breeding a Nation: Reproductive Slavery and the Pursuit of Freedom (exploring the practice and legacy of slave breeding during the American slavery era) was published by South End Press in 2006.
Caitlin Borgmann, Associate Professor of Law Professor Borgmann graduated from Yale College and earned a J.D. from New York University, where she was executive editor of the New York University Law Review. She clerked in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York and spent four years as a litigator at Davis Polk & Wardwell, after which she was the State Strategies Coordinator at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the ACLU for six years. In this capacity she was responsible for legislative and affiliate support, provision of legal advice, legislative strategy and communications support. She also litigated reproductive rights cases. She has spoken and written widely about reproductive rights and given testimony before several state legislatures on this issue. She has taught at Rutgers School of Law-Newark. Professor Borgmann is the editor of the Reproductive Rights Prof Blog.
Deborah L. Brake, Professor of Law Professor Brake is on the law faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Prior to joining the University of Pittsburgh, she worked at the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C., where she litigated cases challenging sex discrimination in education, employment, housing and prisons, and worked on policy issues affecting women in Congress and administrative agencies. Her public interest career has included fellowships to work in public interest law sponsored by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and the Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program at Georgetown University Law Center. She is a former law clerk to the Hon. Constance Baker Motley of the Southern District of New York, and a former Office Chair of the Harvard Law Review. She has published articles on anti-gay harassment, sexual harassment in schools, and sex equality in sport. She completed her undergraduate work at Stanford University and her J.D. at Harvard Law School. She specializes in gender discrimination, constitutional law, and employment discrimination.
Kevin Brown, Professor of Law & Director of the Hudson & Holland Scholars Programs Professor Brown teaches Torts, Criminal Law, Law and Education, and Race, American Society, and the Law at Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington where he has been a faculty member since 1987. He also serves as the Director of the Hudson & Holland Scholars Programs. These Programs recruit the high achieving underrepresented undergraduate students and contain over 20% of the black and Hispanic undergraduate students on the Bloomington campus. Brown has been a visiting professor at law schools at the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa, and University of San Diego. He has been affiliated with universities on four different continents including the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, India; the Indian Law Institute in New Delhi, India; the Law Faculty of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa; the Law Faculty of the University of Capetown in Capetown, South Africa; Adilet Law School in Almaty, Kazakhsta,n and the University of Central America in Managua, Nicaragua. While Brown has published several works dealing with the international aspects of the African-American struggle, his primary research interest is in the area of race, law, and education. Brown has published over three dozen articles or comments on issues such as school desegregation, African-American Immersion Schools, Black Male Academies, and increasing school choice. In 2005 his book, Race, Law and Education in the Post Desegregation Era, was published by Carolina Academic Press. A frequent speaker at scholarly conferences, Brown has also spoken on issues of race, law, and education to groups at the annual Convention of the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus Braintrust Meetings, the National Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Justices of the Indiana Supreme Court, and law schools at several universities including Virginia, Duke, Cornell, Northwestern, and Texas.
David S. Cohen, Associate Professor of Law Professor Cohen is a member of the inaugural faculty at Drexel University's College of Law. There, he teaches first year and upper level constitutional law courses. His research interests focus on gender construction, masculinity and the law, Title IX, and constitutional sex discrimination jurisprudence. A graduate of Columbia Law School and Dartmouth College, Professor Cohen spent the seven years before joining Drexel's inaugural faculty in public interest legal practice at the Women's Law Project in Philadelphia, where his practice focused mainly on reproductive rights and Title IX. At Columbia, Professor Cohen was a senior editor on the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and an articles editor on the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. After law school, Professor Cohen clerked for Justice Alan B. Handler of the New Jersey Supreme Court and Judge Warren J. Ferguson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to joining Drexel, Professor Cohen was a lecturer-in-law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law for four years and taught undergraduate courses on sex discrimination and constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences and Long Island University.
Teresa S. Collett, Professor of Law A passionate advocate for the protection of human life, Professor Teresa Collett is a nationally sought-after scholar and speaker on the topics of marriage, abortion and bioethics. She has published numerous legal articles and is the co-author of a law casebook on professional responsibility and co-editor of a collection of essays exploring "catholic" and "Catholic" perspectives on American law. Collett is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and has testified before committees of the United States Senate and House of Representatives and before legislative committees in several states. She represented Congressman Ron Paul in Carhart v. Gonzales seeking to uphold the federal partial-birth abortion ban and the Governors of Minnesota and North Dakota before the United States Supreme Court in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England in defense of the New Hampshire law requiring notice to parents of their daughter's intention to obtain an abortion. She is often asked to represent the interests of legislators before federal appellate courts. She has served as special Attorney General for the States of Oklahoma and Kansas, and assisted other state Attorneys General in defending laws protecting human life and marriage.
Lia Epperson, Assistant Professor of Law Lia Epperson is an assistant professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, where she teaches in the areas of constitutional law, civil rights, and education. Currently, her scholarship centers on constitutional interpretations of educational equity, and the role of public schools and universities in making manifest the Constitution’s promise of equal opportunity. Recent articles include True Integration: Advancing Brown’s Goal of Educational Equity in the Wake of Grutter and Supreme Power: Examining the Executive Branch’s Role in Shaping the Scope and Meaning of School Integration Jurisprudence. Professor Epperson’s research interests are informed by her experiences litigating education cases throughout the country, and lobbying for the maintenance and enforcement of civil rights protections. Prior to joining the faculty in 2005, Professor Epperson directed the education law and policy group of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund (LDF). While there, she litigated in federal and state courts, advocated for federal administrative and legislative reforms, and co-authored multiple amicus briefs to the United States Supreme Court in the areas of education and affirmative action. In addition, she represented LDF in several national civil rights leadership coalitions, including serving as chair of the Education Task Force for the Leadership Conference for Civil Rights, a coalition of nearly 200 national organizations. Prior to her time at LDF, Professor Epperson was an attorney with Morrison & Foerster in Palo Alto, CA, and a law clerk to the Honorable Timothy K. Lewis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She received her law degree from Stanford University, where she served as an editor of the Stanford Law Review as well as the Stanford Law and Policy Review. She earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology, magna cum laude, from Harvard University. Professor Epperson currently serves on the Board Nominating Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California and the Justice Fund Honorary Committee of the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center.
Osamudia R. James, William H. Hastie Fellow A native New Yorker, Osamudia James joined the University of Wisconsin Law School as a William H. Hastie Fellow in 2006. She graduated with honors from Georgetown University Law Center in 2004. While at the Law Center, Osamudia cultivated an interest in education and administrative law through coursework and clinic participation. In particular, she co-represented a severely disabled student in an administrative hearing and successfully obtained a compensatory education award as well as private placement. She also worked as a Legal Research and Writing Fellow and a Senior Writing Fellow during her second and third years of law school. Both positions trained her in teaching theory and pedagogy. Osamudia's primary area of research focuses on education law and policy. While at Wisconsin, she will complete a thesis that examines the effects that recent Supreme Court decisions have had on diversity programs at colleges and universities. Osamudia comes to Wisconsin from Washington, D.C., where she worked for two years as an associate on King & Spalding, LLP's Special Matters and Government Investigations team, with a focus on pharmaceutical company promotional practices. She is a member of both the Florida and D.C. Bars. She lives in Madison with her husband Kamal, a 6th grade math and science teacher in the Madison Metropolitan School District.
Eboni S. Nelson, Assistant Professor of Law Professor Eboni S. Nelson is a faculty member at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Her courses consist of Contracts, Sales and Consumer Law. Professor Nelson's scholarly interests include education law and policy. Her recent articles concern affirmative action in higher education and the constitutionality of race-conscious student assignment plans. Professor Nelson graduated summa cum laude from Wake Forest University where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School where she served as a teaching assistant and tutor for law school classes. After graduating from Harvard, she practiced employee benefits in the Houston office of Bracewell & Giuliani, LLP. During her time at the firm, Professor Nelson was an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center where she taught Taxation of Compensation. During the Fall 2004 semester, she was a visiting assistant professor at the Law Center where she taught Contracts and Texas Consumer Law. Prior to joining South Carolina's faculty, she taught Commercial Law and Texas Consumer Law at Thurgood Marshall School of Law in Houston, TX.
Andrew Siegel, Associate Professor of Law Professor Siegel joined Seattle University School of Law as an Associate Professor in the fall of 2007 after five years of teaching at the University of South Carolina School of Law. Before entering the legal academy, Professor Siegel served as a law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court and practiced as a litigation associate in the New York office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Professor Siegel is a graduate of Yale College, has a masters in history from Princeton University, and graduated first in his class from New York University School of Law, where he was also an Executive Editor of the New York University Law Review. Professor Siegel researches and writes about constitutional theory, contemporary constitutional and public law, American legal history, and criminal procedure. His recent articles include "The Court Against the Courts: Hostility to Litigation as an Organizing Theme in the Rehnquist Court's Jurisprudence," 84 Tex. L. Rev. 1097 (2006) and "Equal Protection Unmodified: Justice John Paul Stevens and the Case for Unmediated Constitutional Interpretation," 74 Fordham L. Rev. 2339 (2006). He is currently at work on a variety of projects including a history of the distinction between substantive and procedural due process and a cultural history of the first generation of American law schools. While at the University of South Carolina, Professor Siegel chaired the American Bar Association's South Carolina Death Penalty Assessment Team and served as a member of the Young Scholars and Program Committees of the Southeastern Association of Law Schools. He is also a frequent commentator on constitutional issues and the United States Supreme Court for both local and national news organizations. His articles for the popular press include "Nice Disguise: Alito's Frightening Geniality," The New Republic, November 15, 2005. |
               
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