[Hamp-law] (Update) Talk: Transgender Constitutional Rights: How Justice Kennedy Killed the Sex Police (Dr. Jillian Todd Weiss)

[Jennifer Hamilton]

Update:
Dr. Weiss has posted a case study on her blog to facilitate discussion 
at her talk this coming Friday (April 17th).  Students and faculty are 
invited to read the case study in advance and to post comments, although 
this is not required to attend the talk.  Please visit Dr. Weiss' blog 
here for a link:

http://transworkplace.blogspot.com

Announcement
Please join us for a talk with Dr. Jillian Todd Weiss, Associate 
Professor of Law and Society at Ramampo College:

/*Transgender Constitutional Rights: How Justice Kennedy Killed the Sex 
Police*/

Justice Kennedy wrote the opinion in the 2003 Supreme Court case of 
/Lawrence v. Texas/ that invalidated anti-gay laws. The opinion seemed 
to create a constitutional right of sexual freedom, which might be 
extended to transgender freedom, but it's not exactly clear how.  This 
talk explains how this works.

The talk will take place Friday April 17th at 2pm, West Lecture Hall in 
Franklin Patterson Hall at Hampshire College.

Dr. Weiss will also meet informally with interested students at the 
Women's Center at Hampshire College on April 17th from 11:30am-12:45pm.  
Students from the Five College community are welcome.  Lunch will be 
provided by Fresh Side.  If you would like to attend, please RSVP to 
Jennifer Hamilton at jhamilton at hampshire.edu by April 15th.

Sponsored by the Hampshire College Law Program and Pre-Law Society and 
the Hampshire College Women's Center.

/*Bio*/
Dr. Jillian T. Weiss has a J.D. and a Ph.D. in Law, Policy & Society. 
Currently Associate Professor of Law and Society at Ramapo College of 
New Jersey, she has conducted research involving hundreds of companies 
and public agencies that have adopted "gender identity" policies. She 
publishes a popular blog on the subject of Transgender Workplace 
Diversity, and has numerous research publications on the subject of 
gender identity. Links to these are found below.

Dr. Weiss is also Principal Consultant for Jillian T. Weiss & 
Associates, a consulting firm that works with organizations on 
transgender workplace diversity issues. She has trained hundreds of 
employees at corporations, law firms, universities and governmental 
organizations, including Harvard University, Boeing, HSBC, KPMG, Viacom, 
and the New York City Department of Homeless Services. Her work has been 
featured in news stories by the New York Times, Associated Press, 
Fortune Small Business Magazine, the Society for Human Resource 
Management, Workforce Management Magazine, and HR Executive Magazine, 
which may be viewed below.

You can find out more about Dr. Weiss at her homepage and her blog:

http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~jweiss/home.htm
http://transworkplace.blogspot.com/

-- 
Dr. Jennifer A. Hamilton
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
School of Social Science
Hampshire College
Franklin Patterson Hall 208
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002

(413) 559-5578 (o)
(413) 559-5620 (f)
jhamilton at hampshire.edu
https://hampedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Hamilton

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