The Fordham Law Review Presents: Gender Equality and the First Amendment

Gender Equality and the First Amendment

November 1–2, 2018

Thursday, November 1
12:30–1 p.m., Check-in • 1–8 p.m., Program

Friday, November 2
8:30–9 a.m., Check-in • 9–5 p.m., Program

Gender equality demands equal opportunity to speak and be heard. Yet, in recent years, the clash between equality and free speech in the context of gender has intensified – in the media, the workplace, college campuses, and the political arena, both online and offline.  The internet has given rise to many novel First Amendment issues that particularly impact women, like nonconsensual pornography, online harassment, and online privacy. This symposium – marking the occasion of 100 years of women at Fordham Law School – will bring scholars and practicing lawyers from around the nation to address many of the pressing challenges facing feminists and free speech advocates today. 

Amy Adler, Emily Kempin Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

Anita Allen, Vice Provost, Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School

Corey Brettschneider, Professor of Political Science, Brown University and Visiting Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Susan Brison, Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College

Susan Buckley, Senior Counsel, Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP

Danielle Citron, Morton & Sophia Macht Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law and Visiting Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Elisa D’Amico, Partner, K&L Gate

Jeanmarie K. Fenrich, Director of Special Projects, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice, Fordham Law School 

Mary Anne Franks, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law and Vice President, Legislative & Tech Policy Director, Cyber Civil Rights Initiative

Abner Greene, Leonard F. Manning Professor, Fordham University School of Law

Carrie Goldberg, Owner, C.A. Goldberg, PLLC

Michele Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UC Irvine Law Schoo

Virginia Heffernan, journalist, critic, and author (MAGIC AND LOSS: The Internet as Art, 2016), WIRED, Los Angeles Times

Kate Klonick, Assistant Professor of Law, St. John’s University School of Law

Sylvia Law, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry, and Co-Director, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, NYU School of Law

Robin Lenhardt, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Linda McClain, Paul M. Siskind Research Scholar, Boston University School of Law

Helen Norton, Ira C. Rothgerber, Jr. Chair in Constitutional Law, University of Colorado Law School

Suzanne Nossel, Chief Executive Officer, PEN America

Catherine Powell, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Virginia Ryan, Assistant General Counsel, Barnard College

Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, New York Law School

Nabiha Syed, Assistant General Counsel, Buzzfeed and Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School

Olivier Sylvain, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Lynne Tirrell, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut

Keith Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Princeton University

Benjamin Zipursky, James H. Quinn Chair in Legal Ethics, Fordham University School of Law