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The ERA: A New Guarantee of Sex Equality in the U.S. Constitution

March 3, 2022 - March 4, 2022
10:45 AM - 4:00 PM
America/New_York
Online Event Zoom Webinar

Thursday, March 3, 2022 | 10:45am - 3:30pm
Friday, March 4, 2022 | 10:00am - 4:00pm

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in U.S. v. Virginia, and the 50th anniversary of Reed v. Reed, two of the most significant sex-based equality cases to reach the Supreme Court. This symposium will examine what a modern vision of sex/gender equality could embody and how might that vision be realized through a constitutional Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). We will explore how existing equality protections under the 14th Amendment would differ from the protections under an ERA, what higher standard of protection against sex discrimination could the ERA secure, what an anti-subordination approach to equality more generally might look like, and how the ERA could strengthen anti-discrimination protections for other protected classes. Through an intersectional lens, we'll seek to analyze the ERA’s potential in deploying dynamic strategies to advance gender equality norms.

REGISTER

Register to attend virtually: tinyurl.com/ERASymposium2022 (Registration closes at 12:00pm ET on Wednesday, March 2)

INFORMATION REGARDING NY CLE CREDITS

Columbia Law School has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Board as an Accredited Provider of CLE programs. Under New York State CLE regulations, this live simultaneous transmission transitional and non-transitional CLE Program will provide 4 credit hours that can be applied toward the Areas of Professional Practice requirement and 4 credit hours that can be applied toward the Diversity, Inclusion & Elimination of Bias requirement. CLE credit is awarded only to New York attorneys for full attendance of individual Program sessions in their entirety. Attendance is determined by an attorney's completion of polls during the live webinar. Attorneys also should submit their completed Evaluation Form, provided by the program organizers. Please note the NYS Certificates of Attendance will be sent to the email address as it appears in the register unless otherwise noted there.


DOWNLOADS

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This symposium is organized by Columbia Law School's ERA Project and the Journal of Gender and Law.

Contact Information

Lilia Hadjiivanova
212-854-0167