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Child Centered Jurisprudence and Feminist Jurisprudence: Exploring the Connections and the Tensions

University of Houston Law Center
Friday, November 14, 2008
8:30 a.m.

Registration - Foyer


9:00 a.m.

Introductory Remarks

Dean Ray Nimmer, Dean, University of Houston Law Center
Prof. Laura Oren, Law Foundation Professor & Co-Director, Center for Children, Law & Policy, University of Houston Law Center
Prof. Ellen Marrus, George Butler Research Professor of Law & Co-Director, Center for Children, Law & Policy, University of Houston Law Center

9:15 a.m.

Polygamy and Child Welfare

Prof. Martin Guggenheim, Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law

9:45 a.m.

Five Generations: Child Sexual Abuse and the Search for Transformative Justice

Prof. Angela P. Harris, Professor of Law; Executive Committee Member, Center for Social Justice, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley

10:15 a.m. Break

10:20 a.m.

Voice, Vulnerability and Dependency: Politicizing Childhood

Prof. Annette Appell, Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs and Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law

10:50 a.m.

Vulnerability Theory: Beyond Equality in Assessing the Interests of Mothers and Children

Prof. Martha Albertson Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law

11:20 a.m. Break

11:30 a.m.

"A World Fit for Everyone:" The Role of Economic and Social Rights in Resolving the Tensions between Child-Centered and Feminist Jurisprudence

Prof. Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, David H. Levin Chair in Family Law, Director, Center on Children and Families, Fredric G. Levin College of Law

12:00 p.m.

Commentary

Prof. Laura Oren, Law Foundation Professor at the University of Houston Law Center
Prof. Ellen Marrus, George Butler Research Professor of Law & Co-Director, Center for Children, Law & Policy, University of Houston Law Center