Beyond Formal Equality Symposium: Planned Panel Discussions
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Anti-Bullying and LGBT Youth

In a future where all American youth are protected in schools by policies that address bullying and harassment, what does that equality look and feel like? What steps beyond the simple implementation of inclusive policies will ensure their success? Can they be successful at all? Panelists  will include: 
  • Shawn Gaylord, Director of Public Policy, Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
  • Azeem Hill, Student Representative, Attic Youth Center
  • Kelly Kroehle, Director of the Bryson Institute, Attic Youth Center
  • Lillian Rivera, Director of Advocacy and Capacity Building, Hetrick-Martin Institute
  • Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania Law School (Moderator)

Employment
Anti-Discrimination

How can laws and policies prohibiting workplace discrimination be implemented to reduce subtler forms of bias, and will affirmative action policies be necessary to achieve genuine equality? What can we learn from the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?
Panelists  will include:
  • Lisa Mottet, Transgender Civil Rights Project Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force    
  • Sophia Z. Lee, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
    (Moderator)   

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repeal: What More Is Needed?

How has the repeal affected LGBT servicemen and women? What lessons can we take away from the implementation process there for other issues? In what ways must military policy grow and change in order to become more inclusive of the LGB community? What is being done to extend protections and support to transgender servicemen and women?

Panelists  will include:
  • Elizabeth Hillman, Legal Co-Director, Palm Center; Professor, University of California Hastings College of Law
This program has been approved for 3.5 hours of substantive law credits and 2.0 hours of ethics credits for Pennsylvania lawyers.  CLE credit is also available for attorneys in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Washington, D.C.  Attendess seeking CLE should bring a separate payment ($55.00 fee, or $25.00 for public interest attorneys) - cash or check - payable to "The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania".  If you are not attending the entire conference and are seeking CLE credit, the fee is $15 per credit hour. Attorneys from other states should email us at lambda@law.upenn.edu about the receiving CLE credit for the symposium.