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April 19, 2024

With Pride: LGBTQ+ Rights & Advocacy in Legal Education Summit

Event Details

Date & Time

Friday, Apr 19, 2024 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Department

Law School

Cost

$60 Summit Registration *Additional fees for CLE credits

Location

Gonzaga School of Law

Event Type & Tags

  • Diversity Inclusion
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About This Event

The Center for Civil & Human Rights at Gonzaga University School of Law is pleased to host the first of its kind summit addressing LGBTQ+ rights, issues, and advocacy efforts.

  • Join a safe space to learn about the legal and systemic barricades facing the LGBTQ+ community and efforts to move this area of law forward.

  • Three diverse panels of LGBTQ+ faculty advocates from top tier law schools, practitioners, and keynote speaker Kellye Testy, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Law School Admission Council (LSAC).

  • Attendees also will have the chance to network and earn 5.0 CLE credits focusing on ethics, equity, inclusion, and the mitigation of implicit and explicit bias in the legal profession and practice of law.

Panel Speakers + Topics

Panel 1: From the Classroom to the Courtroom 

  • Heather Johnson, Michigan State University College of Law, Fixed-Term Faculty and Program Director, Gender and Sexuality Moot Court Competition: On inclusion and retention of LGBTQ+ students and faculty based on anti-oppressive legal teaching strategies

  • Danaya Wright, University of Florida College of Law, T. Terrell Sessums and Gerald Sohn, Professor in Constitutional Law: Current attacks in higher education on LGBTQ Individuals

  • Sarah Harmon, Gonzaga University School of Law, CCHR Staff Director and Supervising Attorney, Lincoln LBTQ+ Rights Clinic: On Gonzaga University School of Law’s efforts to serve the LGBTQ+ community through pop-up clinics and direct client legal representation

  • Ashlyn Hannus, Gonzaga University School of Law, Student Class of 2024: On her experience litigating for LGBTQ+ clients

  • Justice Mary I. Yu, Washington State Supreme Court

Panel 2: Making Change in the Community

  • Ikál Quintana, Lavender Rights Project, Lead Attorney: Movement lawyering

  • Dallas Martinez, Qlaw, Co-Executive Director: On QLaw initiatives and work

  • Brad Sears, UCLA School of Law, Founding Executive Director and Roberta A. Conroy, Distinguished Scholar of Law and Policy at the Williams Institute

  • Kyle C. Velte, Associate Dean for Faculty and Professor of Law

  • Sarah Steadman, University of New Mexico School of Law, Professor: On legal reformation for the underserved trans and nonbinary youth

Panel 3: Advancing Goals for the Future

  • Luke Boso, Southwestern Law School, Professor: LBGTQ Equality and the First Amendment

  • Sheldon Lyke, Loyola University, Chicago School of Law, Associate Professor

  • Stewart Chang, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Law, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law: On LGBTQ+ Rights in Singapore and Taiwan

  • Courtney Joslin, UC Davis School of Law, Professor: Gamete Regulation and Family Protection in a Post-Dobbs World