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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>LAW LUNCH Oct
12</b></font>: Marriage for Same-Sex Couples: Where Are We and Where
Are We Going?</div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">Jennifer Levi of
Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), Boston, and co-counsel
on the landmark Goodrich case that established equal access to legal
marriage for same-sex couples in Massachusetts, will join us for an
informal talk on the current status and future direction of queer
family law.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">This is the first
of three events this semester examining the importance of legal
recognition for queer relationships, co-sponsored by the Law Program
and the QCA. On October 17 at 5pm Jim de Seve speaks and screens his
powerful documentary about the impact of the denial of legal status on
working class queers, "Tying the Knot", and in November we
will have a guest speaker with a critical take on what the
prioritizing of equal marriage means for a more progressive queer
agenda.</font></div>
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Please join us!<br>
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This event is on Thursday, October 12th, 2006.<br>
It is held at : Dakin Living Room, Hampshire College</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">This event starts
at 12:00pm and ends at 1:00pm</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-2"
color="#000000">Biography:</font></div>
<div><font face="Verdana" size="-2" color="#000000">J</font><font
face="Arial" size="-2" color="#000000">ennifer L. Levi works on a wide
range of cases defending the civil rights and civil liberties of gay
men, lesbians, and transgender people. She was co-counsel in the
case of<i> Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health</i> in which she
successfully represented seven same-sex couples denied the right to
marry in Massachusetts. She was lead counsel in the cases of<i>
Albano et al. v. Reilly</i>, challenging the Massachusetts
anti-marriage ballot initiative, and<i> Doe v. Yunits</i>,
representing a transgender student denied the right to attend school
because of the clothing she wore, among many others.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2" color="#000000">Jennifer is an
Assistant Professor of Law at Western New England College. She
serves on the Legal Committee of the Harry Benjamin International
Gender Dysphoria Association, and is a founding member of both the
Transgender Law & Policy Institute and the Massachusetts
Transgender Political Coalition.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="-2" color="#000000">Jennifer is a
graduate of Wellesley College (1985) and the University of Chicago Law
School (1992). She has also taught law at the Chicago-Kent Law
School and is a former law clerk for Judge Michael Boudin at the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.</font></div>
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