Celebrity Friday: Queer Lawyers!

Today is the The Williams Institute's 7th Annual Update on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy at UCLA Law School from 10:00am to 6:30pm.

Here are the highlights of the agenda:

10:00 - 10:50 am
Keynote Address: The Constitutional Claim for Equality in LGBT Rights Litigation, A conversation with
Nan Hunter, Professor, Brooklyn Law School
Kenji Yoshino, Guido Calabresi Professor, Yale Law School

10:50 – 11:50 am
Marriage Update
Gary J. Gates, Senior Research Fellow, The Williams Institute
Kate Kendell, Executive Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Lee Swislow, Executive Director, GLAD
Moderated by Jon Davidson, Legal Director, Lambda Legal

1:20 – 2:35 pm
Beyond Marriage
Grace Blumberg, Professor, UCLA School of Law
Angela Harris, Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley
Nancy Polikoff, Professor, American University Washington College of Law

2:50 – 3:50 pm
Discrimination Update
Toni Broaddus, President & Executive Director, Equality Federation & Equality Federation Institute
Matt Foreman, Executive Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task ForceDean Spade, Law Teaching Fellow, The Williams Institute
Moderated by David Cruz, Professor, USC Gould School of Law

3:50 – 5:00 pm
Beyond Anti-Discrimination Legislation
M.V. Lee Badgett, Research Director, The Williams Institute
Chai Feldblum, Director, Federal Legislation Clinic and Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Jody Armour, Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law
Moderated by Russell Robinson, Professor, UCLA School of Law

5:15 – 6:30 pm
Final Round of the 4th Annual Moot Court Competition
The Honorable Vice Chief Justice Rebecca White Berch, Arizona Supreme Court, the Honorable Justice James Graves, Mississippi Supreme Court, and the Honorable Jean Dubofsky, former Justice, Colorado Supreme Court, presiding.

6:30 pm
cocktail Reception Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library, UCLA Law

Mad Professah was a judge in the early round of the Moot Court competition last year and this year, so is looking forward to the final round. I'm also sad that I'm missing the conversation between Kenji Yoshino and Nan Hunter, two of the greatest legal thinkers the LGBT movement has. Hopefully I'll have some pictures of the event to show later on today.