Join us on April 1, 2023, for the CUNY Law Review Symposium, More Than Just a Pipe Dream: Re-imagining Bodily Autonomy. This is a CLE-certified event exploring the recent legal developments in reproductive health care and legislation adversely affecting transgender communities, and discussing what legal advocates should do. Registration is now open.
The impetus for this theme comes after Justice Samuel Alito dismissed proponents of a constitutional right to bodily autonomy as unserious, disingenuous, and naïve in his majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson County Women’s Health Org. Showing his detachment from large segments of the country and any coherent notion of liberty, he argued that bodily autonomy must be nothing than a pipe dream because otherwise it would permit such results as “a fundamental right to [sex work and] illicit drug use.”
If this last year has made anything certain, it is that the individual right to control what happens to one’s own body will be the battleground for wide swaths of progressive legal activism going forward. We at the CUNY Law Review have dedicated our Fall Issue 26.1 and Spring symposium to collectively imagine a world in which an expansive view of the right is respected and protected.
Join us as we gather scholars, activists, and attorneys at the forefront of this discussion. In addition to two keynote address by legal scholar Peggy Cooper Davis and trans activist Ashley Diamond, we will be offering CLE credits for two panels:
Panel 1: Post Roe: Defending Reproductive Rights, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (1.5 credits)
- Keynote speaker: Professor Peggy Cooper Davis, NYU School of Law
- Moderator: Professor Julie Goldscheid, CUNY School of Law
- Panelists:
- Professor Cynthia Soohoo, CUNY School of Law
- Professor Alejandra Caraballo, Harvard Law School
- Kelly Novak, National Institute for Reproductive Health/NIRH Action Fund
Panel 2: The Fight Against Anti-Trans Legislation and Rhetoric, 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (1.5 credits)
- Keynote speaker: Ashley Diamond, Prisoners’ Rights Activist
- Moderators: Karen Adelman & Amelia Mullaney, CUNY Outlaw members & CUNY Law Review Staffers
- Panelists:
- Elias Fox Schmidt, If/When/How Fellow
- Professor Kate Wood, NYU
- Daniella Mendez, Dover, NJ School Board President
- Gabriel Arkles, Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF)
The symposium will be held on Saturday, April 1, 2023, at the CUNY Law School, 2 Ct. Square W., Long Island City, NY 11101. Breakfast and Lunch will be provided. A virtual option is available but unfortunately, we cannot offer CLE credits to virtual attendees.
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All attendees must be vaccinated or show a negative COVID test from a commercial provider within 7 days of the event. This will be a masked event to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Thank you for your understanding and helping to keep our community safe!
CLE Credits are provided by the Community Legal Resource Network at CUNY School of Law.
This CLE program is approved for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. Under Continuing Legal Education regulations, CLE credit will be offered only to those attorneys completing entire sessions; attorneys attending only part of a session are not eligible for partial credit. Attorneys arriving late are welcome to attend the program but will not be eligible for credit.