Politics of Gender Credibility
On October 20, Professor Julia Simon-Kerr will present "Congressman Akin Said What? The Politics of Gender Credibility: A Cultural and Legal History" during a seminar at reunion weekend at Wesleyan University (CT).
Professor Simon-Kerr joined the Law School faculty in fall 2012 and is an associate professor of law and the Ralph and Doris Hansmann Scholar. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as the Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. While in law school she worked on women's rights issues in Argentina and at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. After receiving her J.D., she served as a law clerk to Justice Jaynee LaVecchia of the New Jersey Supreme Court and Judge Kermit V. Lipez of the First Circuit Court of Appeals. She began her law teaching career as a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Her scholarship focuses on questions raised by the truth-seeking function of the legal system and the mechanisms the system uses to assess credibility. She has also written on education law and law and literature.
Recent Homepage Highlights
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On May 21, Professor Richard A. Wilson will present "International Law of Speech Crimes" as part of a series of guest lectures at the International Criminal Court, The Netherlands.
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On May 20, the Law School's Insurance Law Center will present a symposium on Lawyers Professional Liability. The event is being presented in cooperation with the Hartford Chapter of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society.
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On May 17, Professor Richard Pomp will be a presenter at the 10th Annual New Mexico Tax Policy Conference in Albuquerque.
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On May 15, Professor Darcy Kirk will be the luncheon speaker at the annual meeting of the New Jersey Law Librarians Association where she will update the group on the activities of the Association of American Law Libraries (AALL). Kirk currently serves as president of the AALL.
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Professor Richard A. Wilson will deliver three talks in Oslo, Norway on May 14 and 15 including "Gangster's Paradise? Framing Crime in Sub-Saharan Africa" at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo.
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On May 10, Professor Bethany Berger will moderate a discussion at the Progressive Property 2013 faculty workshop at the Loyola University, New Orleans, College of Law.
