Center for Gender & Sexuality Law | Columbia Law School

Spring 2012 Colloquia

Rethinking Civil Rights and Gender Violence

February 15, 2012
12:00-1:15 p.m., Case Lounge, Room 701, Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School

Julie Goldscheid, CUNY School of Law and Center for Gender and Sexuality Law Senior Fello

Commentator: Olati Johnson, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Julie Goldscheid is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law, and is a Professor of Law at CUNY School of Law.  She writes and speaks widely about gender-based violence, women's economic independence, and gender equality.

Please click here to download her paper.  Hard copies are also available outside Room 600.6 (northeast corner cubicle) of Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School.

Registering Relationships

March 21, 2012
12:00-1:15 p.m., William and June Warren Hall, Room 101, Columbia Law School

Erez Aloni, 2011-2013 Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellow

Commentator: Ariela Dubler, George Welwood Murray Professor of Legal History, Columbia Law School

Erez Aloni is the 2011-2013 Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellow. He is currently an SJD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he taught a seminar on Sexuality and the Law. His research focuses on the legal recognition of a variety of relationships in the United States and Europe, and the intersection between sexual and reproductive rights. He has published articles with the NYU Review of Law and Social Change and the Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy and his fields of interest include family law, sexuality and the law, and comparative and constitutional law. Prior to studying at Penn, Erez worked at one of Israel's leading law firms, M. Firon and Co., in the field of constitutional litigation.

Please click here to download his paper.  Hard copies are also available outside Room 600.6 (northeast corner cubicle) of Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School.