2018 Symposium: Law in the Era of #MeToo

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Schedule of Events

University of Chicago Law School
Friday, November 2
Room V

Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.

Social Science Approaches to #MeToo
9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

  • Cass Sunstein
  • Joni Hersch
  • Jamillah Bowman Williams

Rhetoric, Media, and #MeToo
10:40 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.

  • Vicki Schultz and Brian Soucek
  • Lesley Wexler
  • Mary Anne Franks

Keynote
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. (in Room II)

Valerie Jarrett
Jarrett is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. She serves on the boards of Ariel Capital Management Holdings, 2U, and Lyft, and she is also a senior advisor to the Obama Foundation and Attn. Ms. Jarrett was the longest serving Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama. She oversaw the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and Chaired the White House Council on Women and Girls. She championed the creation of equality and opportunity for all Americans, and economically and politically empowering women in the United States and around the world. She oversaw the Administration’s advocacy for workplace policies that empower working families, including equal pay, raising the minimum wage, paid leave, paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and affordable childcare, and led the campaigns to reform our criminal justice system, end sexual assault, and reduce gun violence.

Identity and Social Structures
1:20 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

  • Deborah Weiss
  • Camille Gear Rich
  • Melissa Murray
  • Russell Robinson

Institutional Response to Sexual Harassment and Assault
3:05 p.m. – 4:20 p.m.

  • Claudia Flores
  • Anne McGinley
  • Mary Anne Case

Achieving Justice for Survivors
4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.

  • Deborah Tuerkheimer
  • Jessica Clarke
  • Judge Diane Wood

 

Panelists

Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago Law School
Jessica Clarke, Vanderbilt Law School
Claudia Flores, University of Chicago Law School
Mary Anne Franks, University of Miami School of Law
Joni Hersch, Vanderbilt Law School
Ann McGinley, UNLV, William S. Boyd School of Law 
Melissa Murray, NYU School of Law
Camille Gear Rich, USC Gould School of Law
Russell Robinson, UC Berkeley School of Law
Vicki Schultz, Yale Law School
Brian Soucek, UC Davis School of Law
Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School
Deborah Tuerkheimer, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Deborah Weiss, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Lesley Wexler, University of Illinois College of Law
Jamillah Bowman Williams, Georgetown Law
Judge Diane Wood, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

 

Please note: two of this symposium's sessions will be open to the media and will be recorded in their entirety for podcast: 

  • 10:40 am: Panel: "Rhetoric, Media, and #MeToo" with Professors Vicki Schultz, Brian Soucek, Lesley Wexler, and Mary Anne Franks
  • 12:15 pm: Keynote presentation by Valerie B. Jarrett with Professor Emily Buss

All other sessions will be closed to media. The panel presentations at the other sessions will be recorded for possible podcast, but the Q&A will NOT be recorded in any session other than the two listed above.