Academic

Touro Law Center?s Journal of Race, Gender and Ethnicity presents ?Transgender Law: Challenging the Boundaries of Law and Gender? Friday, February 20, 2009 8:30 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

By Ann Bartow

REGISTRATION INFORMATION HERE! Co-Sponsored by LeGaL (the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Law Association of Greater New York) and the Long Island GLBT Community Center.

8:30 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.: Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:10 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.: Welcome Remarks
- Dean Lawrence Raful, Touro Law Center
9:20 a.m. ? 10:40 a.m.: Session 1: Gender and Access to Justice
- Moderator: James G. Durham, Head of Public Services, Gould Law Library, Touro Law Center
- Immigration Law and the Transgender Client, Victoria Neilson, Esq., Legal Director, Immigration Equality
- Eight, Hate or too Late? Did California Transsexuals Survive the Proposition Eight Vote?, Katrina Rose, Esq., Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, University of Iowa
- Transgender Issues in Criminal Law: Finding a Place for Transgender Individuals in Prisons, Benish Shah, Esq., Associate, Stroock & Strook & Lavan, LLP
10:40 a.m. ? 10:50am: Break
10:50 a.m. ? 12:10 p.m.: Session 2: Gender as Legal Boundary
- Moderator: Mik Kinkead, Trangender Services Coordinator, Long Island GLBT Community Center
- From Sex-testing to the Stockholm Consensus: The Tenuous Lex Sportiva of the Transgender Athlete, Professor Shayna Sigman, Associate Professor of Law, Touro Law Center
- Transgender Access to Healthcare and the Role of Medicine in Transgender Civil Rights, Michael D. Silverman, Esq., Executive Director, Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund
- Transgender Name Changes and Legal Adjudications of Gender, Franklin Romeo, Esq., Staff Attorney, Sylvia Rivera Law Project
12:00 p.m. ? 1:00 p.m.: Lunch
1:00 p.m. ? 2:50 p.m.: Transgender Identity and Framing Transgender Equality
- Moderator: David Kilmnick, Phd, MSW, Chief Executive Officer, Long Island GLBT Community Center
- The Debate over GID Reform: How does it play out in the Courts?, Dru Levasseur, Esq., Staff Attorney, Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund
- Rights to Gender Self-Determination as a Component of the Constitutional Right to Privacy, Dr. Jillian T. Weiss, Esq., Professor of Law and Society, Ramapo College
- Transitional Discrimination, Professor Elizabeth Glazer, Associate Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School
- Interlocking Systems of Oppression: Disability, Gender and Race in the Context of Transgender Legal Claims, Kyle Kirkup, Candidate for Baccalaureate of Law and Senior Editor of Ottawa Law Review, University of Ottawa
2:50 p.m. ? 3:00 p.m.: Closing Remarks
- Professor Meredith R. Miller, Assistant Professor of Law, Touro Law Center

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on January 25, 2009 (boomark / email).