Washington and Lee University School of Law
Friday, November 6, 2009 - Lexington, VA - Millhiser Moot Court Room
Violence on college campuses, whether in the form of student suicide or a student endangering the lives of others, is an all too common phenomenon. In the wake of these tragedies, institutions of higher education come under intense scrutiny for both their preparedness and their responses to such incidents.
Our symposium will explore what the fields of psychology, medical science, and law can teach us about these tragedies and will attempt to gauge a consensus on appropriate institutional responses. The morning will lead off with Gary Pavela, author of Questions and Answers on College Student Suicide: A Law and Policy Perspective. Ensuing discussion will concentrate on students who are a danger to themselves and examine interventions that campus personnel might make to identify at-risk students and help them before disaster strikes. The afternoon session will be keynoted by Lucinda Roy, Seung-Hui Cho's English tutor at Virginia Tech and author of No Right to Remain Silent. The following panel will focus on students who pose a threat to others and the steps that institutions of higher education should take to ensure their students' safety.
Friday, April 3, 2009-Lexington, VA
In Spring 2009, the Frances Lewis Law Center and the Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice will present a symposium titled "Reproductive and Sexual Health and the African Women's Protocol."
The Protocol, which was adopted by the African Union in 2003 and went into effect in 2005, is the first regional human rights instrument to focus comprehensively on women's rights. Our symposium will serve as a discussion of the Protocol's utility at the intersection of reproductive/sexual health and women's rights, both quintessentially unmet needs of the African continent.
The HIV/AIDS pandemic, lack of access to contraception, harmful cultural practices, sexual violence and exploitation, deteriorating access to health services, and endemic discrimination on the basis of same sex identity, will be among the topics of Symposium papers.
Washington and Lee's 2008-09 Scholar-in-Residence, Charles Ngwena, Professor of Constiutional Law at the University of the Free State of South Africa and an expert in health law, will chair the symposium, bringing together prominent scholars from Africa, Asia and the United States.
Friday, October 3, 2008-Lexington, VA
The Frances Lewis Law Center and the Washington and Lee Law Review broke new (virtual) ground on October 3 with an innovative law symposium, titled "Protecting Virtual Playgrounds: Children, Law and Play Online." Virtual worlds are three dimensional social environments where millions of people work, play, and learn. Many of the newest virtual worlds are built specifically for kids and this suggests a variety of challenges and opportunities in law, business and psychology. The symposium gathered the top thinkers in these areas to discuss the future of children's worlds.
Our guest speakers included Yale research psychologist Dorothy Singer, world-renowned expert on children, play, and games; Edward Castronova, the father of virtual world economics and author of the book "Synthetic Worlds"; and Greg Lastowka, one of the law professors who introduced virtual worlds to the legal profession.
February 29, 2008 - Lexington, VA
The Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice and the Lewis Law Center hosted a symposium titled "A Queer Definition of Equality: Exploring Major Issues in Sexual Orientation and the Law". The symposium featured some of the most prominent practitioners and scholars in the field and addressed some of the biggest issues in sexual orientation law in both theoretical and pragmatic ways.
September 17, 2007 - Lexington, VA
September 19, 2007 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Justice Powell, and Washington and Lee University celebrated this milestone with a year-long series of symposia and lectures exploring Justice Powell's judicial legacy. On Monday, September 17, 2007, W&L hosted a symposium exploring the First Amendment and national security. During this symposium legal scholars and journalists examined how Justice Powell's concurrence in Branzburg v. Hayes continues to inform the issue of reportorial privilege.
April 13, 2007 - Lexington, VA
In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy in 2005, it became evident both here and abroad that the United States faces a serious problem regarding its treatment of its impoverished and underrepresented citizens. The Katrina disaster brought to the forefront issues in education, urban renewal and voting: issues that are still pressing today. The aim of Race and Class in the 21st Century: Through the Lens of Hurricane Katrina is to confront, further define and discuss the problems revealed by Katrina. A distinguished group of experts, including our keynote speaker, Marc Morial, the former mayor of New Orleans and the Current President of the National Urban League, will address these issues.
April 6, 2007 - National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
The Washington and Lee University School of Law will commemorate the 100th birthday of our alumnus and former Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. with a symposium addressing diversity in higher education.
March 30-31, 2007 - Lexington, VA
This symposium on gender-relevant legislative change invites explicit comparisons of the position of women in Muslim and non-Muslim countries. The easing of patriarchal norms as well as the formal commitment to equality has been relatively recent everywhere. So called "second-wave" feminism and the associated gains in women's employment and political and educational achievement are the accomplishment of a single generation, still very much alive and active. Thus, the comparative endeavor need not begin with an assumption of positional superiority but may be a discourse about the concrete and particular legal manifestations of how gender is lived and how women struggle and advance.
Friday, March 24, 2006
This conference will included four principal papers by leading scholars working on aspects of corporate legal history. Commenters came from a range of legal and non-legal disciplines. The conference concluded with a roundtable discussion involving distinguished judges and practitioners who, together with the academic participants, will consider the question, "does history matter?—views from the bench and bar." |
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