The 75^th Anniversary of Women at Columbia Law School
October 18 & 19, 2002

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Featuring Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Sept. 1997 - Sept. 2002) and former President of Ireland (Dec. 1990 - Sept. 1997)
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This panel will discuss the movement online of traditional intellectual property rights in the Music, Publishing and Broadcast Industries.

Jane Ginsburg, Moderator, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and
        Artistic Property Law, Columbia Law School
Robin Bierstedt ’78, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Time Inc.
Susan Feingold Carruthers ’91, Senior Vice President, Business & Legal
        Affairs, EMI Recorded Music
Jessica Litman ’83, Professor of Law, Wayne State Law School Muriel 
Henle Reis ’49, Vice President, Legal Affairs, East Coast Litigation, Fox
        Television Stations Inc.

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The panelists have a variety of public interest experience, including work on a full-time and pro bono basis, with the government and boards of non-profits organizations and in other creative ways to find a path to make the law serve the community’s needs. Their talks will provide real-life “sisterly advice” on the opportunities, rewards, and downsides of developing a career that encompasses public service.

Mary Jo White ’74, Moderator, Chair of Litigation, Debevoise & Plimpton
       former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Kristin Booth Glen ’66, Dean of CUNY Law School
Adriene Holder ’91, Civil Appeals and Law Reform Unit Attorney, Legal
         Aid Society
Susan Kohlmann ’82 , Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP and former chair of
         the pro bono committee
Fe Morales Marks ’79, Vice President, National Community Lending Center,
         Fannie Mae
Minna Schrag ’75, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the
         Former Yugoslavia, past President of the NOW Legal Defense and
        Education Fund

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An opportunity to hear about their work from four distinguished legal scholars, whose scholarly pursuits, diverse though they are, all involve exploration of issues of particular interest to women.

Barbara Aronstein Black ’55, Moderator, George Welwood Murray
        Professor of Legal History, Columbia Law School
Regina Austin, William A. Schnader Professor of Law, University of
        Pennsylvania Law School; Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law
        School
Katherine Franke, Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Catharine MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of
        Michigan Law School; Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Carol Sanger, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

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Our panelists practice and teach international, foreign and transnational law in the United States and around the world. They represent private, in-house and governmental practice as well as academia. Our panelists will share their experiences and insight into global practice and issues, as well as discuss some of the challenges and rewards of a career that crosses cultural and geographic barriers. 

Lori Fisler Damrosch, Moderator, Henry L. Moses Professor of International
        Law & Organization, Columbia Law School
Alejandra Gonzalez-Presedo ’93, Vice President & Regional Counsel, The
        Walt Disney Company (Latin America)
Katherine M. Gorove ’85, Attorney-Adviser, Human Rights and Refugees,
        Office of Legal Adviser, Department of State
Diane Orentlicher ’81, Professor, American University, Washington School of
        Law
Delia Spitzer ’82, Partner, Proskauer Rose (France)

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This panel of Columbia Law School graduates serving in a variety of industries will discuss the current trends, rewards and challenges of working as an in-house lawyer.

Ellen Oran Kaden ’77, Moderator, Senior Vice President for Law &
        Government Affairs, Campbell Soup Company
Katherine Kendrick ’86, General Counsel, Dreamworks
Esta Stecher ’82, Co-General Counsel & Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
        & Co.
Elizabeth Wang ’90, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Doubleclick 

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This panel of Columbia Law School graduates and faculty will discuss issues involving the relationship of women, family and the state, and attempt to broaden the way we think about women’s rights. 

Kathryn Rodgers ’73, Moderator, President, NOW Legal Defense and
        Education Fund
Ariela R. Dubler, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Anika Rahman ’90, former Director of the International Program, The Center
        for Reproductive Law & Policy
Jane M. Spinak, Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia
        Law School

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Judges, all Columbia Law School graduates, will discuss issues arising from serving on the judiciary as a woman. Have women judges made a difference?

Hon. Felice K. Shea ’50, Moderator, Justice, New York State Supreme Court
               (retired)
       Hon. Anita Blumstein Brody ’58, Judge, United States District Court for the
               Eastern District of Pennsylvania
       Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’59, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
               United States 
       Hon. L. Priscilla Hall ’73, Justice, New York State Supreme Court
       Hon. Lindsey Miller-Lerman ’73, Justice, State of Nebraska Supreme Court 
       Hon. Rena Katz Uviller ’62, Justice, New York State Supreme Court

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The final panel discussion of the day will focus on the advances women lawyers have made, the challenges they face and how women are changing the legal profession. The panel will try to answer the question: where will women lawyers be in 25 years? 

Frances E. Bivens ’92, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell
       Nancy Northup ’88, Director, Democracy Program, Brennan Center for Justice
       Judith Reinhardt Thoyer ’65, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
               Garrison

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