Friday, October 5, 2018 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM (ET)
Fordham University School of Law150 West 62nd StreetNew York NY 10023
Fordham Law Women's Symposium: Public Policy and the Gender Impact Celebrating 100 Years of Women
Friday, 5 October 2018 8:30 – 9 a.m. | check-in 9 – 6 p.m. | program
Fordham Law School 150 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023 Skadden Conference Center, 2nd Floor This event is free and open to the public.
Online Registration is now closed. At Door Registration is available.
Fordham Law Women’s first ever symposium is a collaboration with all six of Fordham Law School’s journals and the 100 Years of Women at Fordham Law Committee. Fordham Law Women invites you to join the journals and our panelists for a day of discussion on legal issues that disproportionately affect women, through the lens of each journal’s specialty area.
AGENDA
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Registration and breakfast
9 – 9:15 a.m. Welcome Matthew Diller, J.D. Dean and Paul Fuller Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Kara Krakower Fordham Law Women's President, Fordham University School of Law 9:10 – 10:25 a.m. Mandatory Arbitration and Workplace Sexual Harassment Presented by Fordham Law Review Deborah Masucci Chair, International Mediation Institute Laurie Berke-Weise '83 Principal, Berke-Weiss Law PLLC
Moderator Elizabeth Shampnoi President & CEO of Shampnoi Dispute Resolution 10:25 – 10:35 a.m. Break 10:35 A.M. – 11:25 p.m. The Gender Gap in Intellectual Property Law Presented by Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal Preetha Chakrabarti '12 Counsel, Crowell & Moring 11:25 – 11:35 a.m. Break 11:35 a.m. – 12:50 p.m. A Girl's Pipeline to Prison: Disciplinary Measures in Primary and Secondary Schools Presented by Urban Law Journal Leah Hill Associate Dean for Experiential Education, Fordham Law School Thalia Gonzalez Associate Professor, Occidental College Rebecca Burney Attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow, Rights4Girls
Moderator Leah Horowitz '06 Director of Student Organizations and Publicity of Public Interest Resource Center, Fordham University School of Law 12:50 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch 2:00 – 3:15 p.m. Human Trafficking: ATLAS & Rescuing Women Victims Presented by Fordham International Law Journal William Jannace LLM '96 Adjunct Professor, Fordham University School of Law Dorchen A. Leidholdt Director of Center for Battered Women's Legal Services, Sanctuary for Families
Kristy Greenberg Assistant U.S. Attorney, United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York 3:15 – 3:25 p.m. Break 3:25 – 4:00 p.m. Corporate Boards and the Gender Gap: Diversity Quotas Presented by Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
Bernice Grant Senior Director of Entrepreneurial Law Program, Fordham University School of Law
Suzie Scanlon Rabinowitz '95 Managing Partner, SRD Legal Group
4:00 – 4:15 p.m. Break 4:30 – 6:00 p.m. Women and Environmental Law Presented by Fordham Environmental Law Review Susan Kath '85 Director of Environmental Program, Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice Tracy Mann Project Director, Climate Wise Women Luciana Tellez Chavez Fellow, Human Rights Watch
This event is presented in conjunction with Fordham Law Review, Fordham Journal of Corporate and Financial Law, Urban Law Journal, Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, Fordham International Law Journal and Fordham Environmental Law Review
