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The Edith House Lecture Series
The Edith House Lecture Series in Law is named for Winder native, Ms. Edith House, co-valedictorian of the Class of 1925. Ms. House was one of the two women to graduate in the Class of 1925 – the first Class at the School of Law to graduate women. Ms. House practiced law for nearly forty years, retiring from her esteemed position as Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida in 1963. She lived in Jacksonville, Florida until her death in December 1987.
The Edith House Lecture Series seeks to extol the memory of Ms. House by paying tribute to her accomplishments each year by bringing a female legal mind to the School of Law to speak on her experiences being a woman in the law.
The 2012 - 2013 Edith House Lecturer
Plans for the 2012 - 2013 Edith House Lecture are already underway. The lecture will be held in the Spring of 2013. Stay tuned for more details
2010 Edith House Lecture
WLSA was honored that Dahlia Lithwick, a senior editor and legal journalist for Slate magazine, delivered our Edith House Lecture last year. Lithwick is an accomplished writer whose work has appeared in a wide variety of well respected newspapers, magazines, and websites, in addition to Slate. She presented "Wise Women? What Women Bring to the Bench and How to Talk About It Like Gentlemen." During the lecture, Lithwick addressed the status of women in the law as well as the future of women on the bench and in the law.
Past Lectures
Click on links to enjoy transcripst, audio and video of past lectures.
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Audio/Video |
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2012 |
Leslie M. Turner, Coca-Cola North America General Counsel |
Winning or Winning with Integrity? A Lawyer's Role in the Corporate World |
Video available |
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2011 |
Chief Justice Carol W. Hunstein, Supreme Court of Georgia |
Women and the Law: We've Come a Long Way ... Maybe |
Video available |
|
2010 |
Dahlia Lithwick, Slate magazine |
Wise Women? What Women Bring to the Bench and How to Talk About It Like Gentlemen |
Video available |
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2009 |
Prof. Felice J. Batlan, Chicago-Kent College of Law |
Are We Our Mother's Law Students?: Women's Law School Experiences and an Agenda for Action |
Video available |
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2008 |
Shirley M. Hufstedler, former U.S. Secretary of Education |
Freedom and Justice for Some: Federal Judicial Review for Guantanamo Bay Prisoners |
Video available |
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2007 |
Harriet McBryde Johnson, Author and Disability Rights Attorney |
Disability Rights: A |
No |
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2006 |
Prof. Sarah R. Weddington, University of Texas, Austin |
Some Leaders Are Born Women |
Video available |
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2005 |
Chief Justice Jean H. Toal, South Carolina Supreme Court |
Women in the Law |
Video available |
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2004 |
Prof. Linda H. Krieger, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law |
Naturalizing Anti-Discrimination Law |
Audio available |
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2003 |
Kathy Hall-Martinez, Director, International Program of the Center for Reproductive Law |
Using Legal Strategies to Promote Women's Reproductive Rights: Achievements and Challenges |
Audio available |
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2002 |
Kelly D. Askin, Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard University |
Securing Justice for Women in the United Nations International War Crimes Tribunals and Beyond |
Audio available |
|
2001 |
Prof. Dorothy E. Roberts, Northwestern University |
Missing Voices: Black Mothers and the Politics of Child Welfare |
Audio available |
|
1999 |
Judge Susan Oki Mollway, U.S. District Court of Hawaii |
Getting Confirmed as a Federal Judge |
Audio available |
|
1998 |
Prof. Sarah R. Weddington, University of Texas, Austin |
Roe v. Wade: 25 Years Later |
Audio available |
|
1997 |
Prof. Anne M. Coughlin, University of Virginia School of Law |
Sex and Guilt |
Audio available |
|
1996 |
Prof. Martha S. West, University of California, Davis, School of Law |
What's in it for me? Why Don't White Women Support Affirmative Action |
Audio available |
|
1995 |
Chief Judge Dorothy T. Beasley, Georgia Court of Appeals |
Why Are We Here |
Audio available |
|
1995 |
Prof. Mary E. Becker, University of Chicago Law School |
The First Amendment and Sexual Harassment at School and at Work |
Audio available |
|
1994 |
Brooksley Born, Partner, Arnold & Porter, Washinton DC |
Private Practice/Public Service - Reminiscences About the Women's Rights Movement |
Audio available |
|
1993 |
Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law |
Mainstreaming Feminist Legal Theory and the Production of Legal Knowledge |
No |
|
1992 |
Prof. Patricia J. Williams, University of Wisconsin Law School |
Banished Bodies |
|
|
1991 |
Prof. Mari J. Matsuda, University of Hawaii Schoolof Law |
Towards a Feminist Theory Interconnecting Subordinations |
Audio available |
|
1990 |
Prof. Patricia A. Cain, University of Texas School of Law |
A Postmodern Feminist Critique of Equal Protection Doctrine |
Video |
|
1989 |
Prof. Martha Minow, Harvard Law School |
Diversity: Gender, Religion and Race |
Audio available/Video |
|
1988 |
Prof. R. Lea Brilmayer, Yale Law School |
International Affairs and the Implausibility of Democracy |
Audio available |
|
1987 |
Antonia H. Chayes, Chairman, ENDISPUTE, Inc. |
Beyond Negotiation: Alternative Dispute Resolution |
Audio - Interview with WUGA only |
|
1985 |
Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Wisconsin Supreme Court |
Justice and Juror |
Audio available |
|
1985 |
Prof. Eliane Vogel-Polsky, University Libre De Bruxelles |
Positive Action within the European Economic Community |
Audio available |
|
1984 |
Judge Gladys Kessler, District of Columbia Superior Court |
The Crisis in Child Support |
Audio available |
|
1983 |
Prof. Nadine Taub, Rutgers School of Law - Newark |
Redefining the Equality Principle: Formal Equality, Substantive Equality, and Special Treatment for Women |
No |