Please click the name of each segment to watch the corresponding webcast.
11:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Presentation of Legal Momentum Hero Award to Vice President Joseph Biden for Initiating and Championing the Violence Against Women Act (Linked Above)
9:15 - 9:30 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks
T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center
Irasema Garza, President, Legal Momentum
Jessica N. Heaven, Symposium Editor, Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law
Lynn Hecht Schafran, Director, National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts, Legal Momentum and Symposium Chair
9:30 - 10:30 a.m.
Panel 1: Present at the Creation: Drafting and Passing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) (Linked with Welcoming Remarks)
Victoria Nourse, Professor, Emory University School of Law and former Special Counsel to then-Senator Joseph Biden
Sally Goldfarb, Professor, Rutgers University School of Law and former Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Momentum
Patricia Reuss, Senior Policy Analyst, National Organization for Women and former Vice President for Government Relations, Legal Momentum
Hillary Shelton, Director, NAACP Washington Bureau
Helen Neuborne, Director, Quality Employment, Ford Foundation and former President, Legal Momentum (Moderator)
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Panel 2: The VAWA Civil Rights Provision: Shaping It, Saving It, Litigating It, Losing It
Mary Schroeder, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Julie Goldscheid, Professor, City University of New York Law School and former Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Momentum
Judith Resnik, Professor, Yale Law School
Fred Strebeigh, Author, "Equal: Women Reshape American Law"
Martha Davis, Professor, Northeastern University School of Law and former Legal Director, Legal Momentum (Moderator)
1:45 - 2:45 p.m.
Panel 3: The Impact of VAWA: Billions (yes, with a B) for Prevention, Victim Services, Law Enforcement, Underserved Populations and the Courts, and Looking Ahead to VAWA IV
Claudia Bayliff, Project Attorney, National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts, Legal Momentum and former Assistant Director, Boulder County, Colorado, Rape Crisis Team
Lisalyn Jacobs, Vice President for Government Relations, Legal Momentum
Leslye Orloff, Director, Immigrant Women Program, Legal Momentum
Lynn Hecht Schafran, Director, National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts, Legal Momentum and Symposium Chair
Juley Fulcher, Director of Policy Programs, Break the Cycle; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University; and former Consultant to Legal Momentum on VAWA Reauthorization (Moderator)
2:55 - 3:00 p.m.
Closing (Linked with Panel 3)
Irasema Garza, President, Legal Momentum
This symposium is sponsored by the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law and Legal Momentum. |
