Janet Benshoof speaking at From Page to Practice: Broadening the Lens for Reproductive and Sexual Rights
Friday, February 12, 2010. All day event
New York University Law School
110 West 3rd Street, New York, NY 10012
The Global Justice Center's President Janet Benshoof has been invited to speak as a panelist at From Page to Practice: Broadening the Lens for Reproductive and Sexual Rights at New York University's Review of Law and Social Change. Here is the event's description:
"In recent discussions on reproductive justice a recurring theme has been reframing - reframing who talks about reproduction and sexuality and in what context so that popular attitudes will better reflect the consensus that exists in American society. Through connecting scholarship to practice the N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change will bring together leading academics and practitioners from across fields related to sexuality and reproductive rights to progressively coordinate thinking on the cross-issue impacts of their work. The issues highlighted will include reproductive justice, the role of values and morality in legal struggles for reproductive and sexual rights, and conceptions of reproductive or sexual autonomy as globally influenced. This conference will encourage a critical analysis of the role of litigation and its relationship to legislation, organizing, and education in contributing to a frame shift for reproductive and sexual rights. Further the conference will facilitate consideration of positive rights and strategies that lawyers and scholars may pursue to guarantee those rights through government, individual, and community action."
For the full agenda and to register for the event, please click here.