Akron Law Announcements

LAW encourages you to attend this webinar on March 10, 2021 at 01:00 PM in honor of Women’s History Month.
 
Register here: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Famericanbar.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2FWN_g69nLvRmSlyDV4qDTMjs-g&data=04%7C01%7Claw-support%40uakron.edu%7C88431f08cf34469c6fcc08d8da9b0533%7Ce8575dedd7f94ecea4aa0b32991aeedd%7C0%7C0%7C637499706656702248%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=G6%2Fcov4kWOaBThK6pAHkKjuZdRB%2Br22bJ9ar%2F3rY008%3D&reserved=0
 
Like the successful racial justice pioneers led by Justice Thurgood Marshall who came before her, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as chief architect of the five-decade effort to forge the path to vindication of women’s constitutional rights to equality under the law. 

The decades between 1964 and 2021 have borne witness to unprecedented advances for women across lines of race, class, disability and LGBTQ status – from the days of stark and legalized inequality in employment, education, health, politics, property ownership, and financial rights, to today, when a woman lawyer of color sits as Vice President of the United States. 

This panel will focus not only on Justice Ginsburg’s extraordinary role in the legal battle for gender equity, but also on the vibrant, dynamic and complex context from which the modern women’s movement and its powerful leaders arose. What was the world like for women as Justice Ginsburg began her trailblazing work, and how did she forge a way forward among strong and divergent forces then and throughout her remarkable career. 

Through a conversation among women leaders in law who personally knew and worked with Justice Ginsburg, the panel will seek to provide deeper insight into the Justice’s towering achievements as well as her disappointments, bringing to life the enormity of what has been achieved but also what must now be vigorously protected and enhanced.

Speakers include:
Ria Tabacco Mar – Director, Women’s Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union 
Margo Schlanger – Wade H. and Dores M. McCree Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Wendy Webster Williams – Professor Emerita, Georgetown Law; Biographer for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Drucilla Ramey (Moderator) – Dean Emerita, former Executive Director, the Bar Association of San Francisco and the National Association of Women Judges

The Tuscarawas County Bar Association has partnered with Southeast Ohio Legal Services and other experienced practitioners in the area to support to domestic violence victims, particularly those who qualify for SEOLs income limits. The project is seeking law students or newly licensed attorneys to volunteer under the oversight of the experienced attorneys to provide legal services to families in need. This would include CPOs, simple family law cases such as dissolutions, and possibly other areas. To be eligible to volunteer, you must have (or be eligible to obtain) your Ohio Legal Intern certificate. All volunteer hours would count as pro bono of limited means.

If you are interested, please send your resume to Dean O’Brien: ab139@uakron.edu , no later than April 24, 2021.

Join Professors Spring and Gaughan, and 3L Patrick Warczak for a presentation and discussion on the benefits of the Benefit Corporation entity, soon available in Ohio.

 
TO JOIN THE MEETING on 3/24 at 12:15 PM via WebEx: http://bit.ly/OhioB-Corp

LAW encourages you to attend this webinar on March 10, 2021 at 01:00 PM in honor of Women’s History Month.
 
Register here: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Famericanbar.zoom.us%2Fwebinar%2Fregister%2FWN_g69nLvRmSlyDV4qDTMjs-g&data=04%7C01%7Claw-support%40uakron.edu%7C88431f08cf34469c6fcc08d8da9b0533%7Ce8575dedd7f94ecea4aa0b32991aeedd%7C0%7C0%7C637499706656702248%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=G6%2Fcov4kWOaBThK6pAHkKjuZdRB%2Br22bJ9ar%2F3rY008%3D&reserved=0
 
Like the successful racial justice pioneers led by Justice Thurgood Marshall who came before her, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as chief architect of the five-decade effort to forge the path to vindication of women’s constitutional rights to equality under the law. 

The decades between 1964 and 2021 have borne witness to unprecedented advances for women across lines of race, class, disability and LGBTQ status – from the days of stark and legalized inequality in employment, education, health, politics, property ownership, and financial rights, to today, when a woman lawyer of color sits as Vice President of the United States. 

This panel will focus not only on Justice Ginsburg’s extraordinary role in the legal battle for gender equity, but also on the vibrant, dynamic and complex context from which the modern women’s movement and its powerful leaders arose. What was the world like for women as Justice Ginsburg began her trailblazing work, and how did she forge a way forward among strong and divergent forces then and throughout her remarkable career. 

Through a conversation among women leaders in law who personally knew and worked with Justice Ginsburg, the panel will seek to provide deeper insight into the Justice’s towering achievements as well as her disappointments, bringing to life the enormity of what has been achieved but also what must now be vigorously protected and enhanced.

Speakers include:
Ria Tabacco Mar – Director, Women’s Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union 
Margo Schlanger – Wade H. and Dores M. McCree Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Wendy Webster Williams – Professor Emerita, Georgetown Law; Biographer for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Drucilla Ramey (Moderator) – Dean Emerita, former Executive Director, the Bar Association of San Francisco and the National Association of Women Judges