Photos from Williams Institute Update

Williams Institute Executive Director Brad Sears announced the final round of the 4th Annual Moot Court Competition on national sexual orientation law, which was judged by 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.

Williams Institute Research Director Lee Badgett, USC Law Professor Jody Armour and Georgetown Law Professor (and lead author of the Employment Non-Discrimination Law) Chai Feldblum gave an interesting perspective on the dangers of formal equality in the Beyond Anti-Discrimination Law segment.

UCLA Law Professor Grace Blumberg (left), American University Law Professor Nancy Polikoff and UC Berkeley Law Professor Angela Harris discussed the implications of Polikoff's recently published book Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage.

The winners of the 4th Annual Moot Court Competition,
from the University of California at Davis law school, who won $1000 from Wells Fargo.

Jean Dubofsky, former Colorado Supreme Court justice, who argued the seminal 1996 case Romer v. Evans before the United Supreme Court which ended up ruling 6-3 to invalidate an anti-gay constitutional amendment to the Colorado constitution and declare that gays and lesbians are no longer "strangers before the law"; Mad Professah; Brad Sears, Executive Director of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA Law School.