Calling all legal professionals interested in the academic track!

Calling all legal professionals interested in the academic track!

You are invited to join the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association & Foundation for our second annual Queer Legal Scholarship Symposium (QLSS)!

This year’s QLSS has been expanded to a full-day program, running concurrently with the annual Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair in Chicago, IL, at the Chicago Marriott Marquis (hotel information here; QLSS attendees are eligible to use the Lavender Law® block rate). We will hold an early morning session dedicated to educating those interested in entering academia with a robust panel discussion on joining the academy. We will then hold the first of our three sessions of presentations of legal scholarship on LGBTQ+-related topics from prospective and junior legal academics, after which audience members are encouraged to ask questions and offer comments. A mid-day luncheon and law professor caucus meeting will then be held for those who are in or seeking to be in the academy, followed by two afternoon sessions with more presentations of legal scholarship on LGBTQ+-related topics.

The Symposium will be open to all current academics as well as those lawyers interested in joining the legal academic community. Law students seeking an LLM, SJD, or other advanced degree are welcome; those in their rising 1L to 3L years are not eligible for attendance at the QLSS except for the initial program about entering the teaching profession (after which students will be asked to move to the Lavender Law® Career Fair.) Attendees who are interested in joining the legal education academy in future are welcome to reach out to the Bar for personalized opportunities to participate in moot interviews with current law faculty.

8:30a – 9:45a | How to Become a Law Teacher
Jared M. Trujillo, Associate Professor of Law, City University of New York School of Law (Moderator)

• Tracy Turner, Associate Dean, Southwestern Law School
  

10:00a-11:45a | Session A: Trans Rights & Disability Law
Diane Kemker, Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law (Moderator)

• Trans Rights as a Vehicle for Privacy Law Reform | Jay Conrad, PhD Student, University of Washington
• Gender Dysphoria Canons | Kevin M. Barry, Associate Dean for Student Success & Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University School of Law & D Dangaran, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Richardson School of Law
• Trans Bans: Shifting the Focus | Bethany N. Schols, Associate Clinical Professor, Penn State Dickinson Law
• Chosen Names and Pronouns as Reasonable Accommodations | Eliot T. Tracz, Assistant Professor of Law, New England Law Boston

12:00p-1:30p | Law Professor Caucus Lunch
Ryan H. Nelson, Associate Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law Houston (Moderator)

1:45p-3:30p | Session B: Regulating Sex and Sexuality
Craig Konnoth, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law (Moderator)

• The Micro-jurisprudence of BDSM | Adrienne Davis, William M. Van Cleve Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis
• LGBTQ+ and Reproductive Health Care First Amendment Protections | Nancy Marcus, Associate Professor of Law, California Western School of Law
• Participation Without Surrender: State Constitutional Privacy and the Conditions of Access | Jared M. Trujillo, Associate Professor of Law, City University of New York School of Law
• Beyond the Board: Mandating Executive Gender Inclusion in France and Germany | Darren Rosenblum, Professor of Law, St. Johns University (not in attendance) & Juliette Croce, Law Clerk, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

3:45p-5:30p | Session C: Identity, Pedagogy, and Legal History
Dara Purvis, James E. Beasley Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law (Moderator)

• Colvin and Hobbes | Nesta N. Johnson, Adjunct Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson Law
• Why Mahmoud v. Taylor Is So Hard to Teach and What to Do About It | Margaret O’Grady, Assistant Professor of Law, University of New Hampshire School of Law
• Flipping the Script: RBG’s “Celebration” of Differences Quote and LGBTQ+ Rights | Tracy Turner, Associate Dean, Southwestern Law School
• AIDS-Era Oral Histories: Lawyers on the Ground | Eric W. Young, Associate Dean & Assistant Professor, Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University

Registrants may register by either of two unique tracks:

• As a full attendee of the three-day Lavender Law® Conference and Career Fair
  • July 13-15 in Chicago, IL | Register now for the full Conference at regular conference rates – QLSS attendance is included in full Lavender Law® registration. Then, please visit this page of our program agenda to register for the QLSS (pre-registration is mandatory.) Thank you!

• As a symposium-only attendee

• • July 13 QLSS ONLY in Chicago, IL | Register now and enter the promo code QLSS in Step 2, which will add the “Queer Legal Scholarship Symposium” option. Select this option as your registration type. The regular registration rate for this one-day opportunity is $250; active members of the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association receive a discounted rate of $200.
    • NOTE: Our registration system will walk you through all steps as though you are a full attendee, but this registration type does not cover any additional programs, luncheons, or events. If you wish to upgrade to a full Lavender Law® attendee, you may do so up to 2 weeks prior to the conference by emailing us at programs@lgbtqbar.org.

For questions about registration, please contact Lia at lia@lgbtqbar.org; for questions about the Symposium, please contact Judi O’Kelley at judi@lgbtqbar.org.