Constitutional Roundtable: Susan Williams

CONSTITUTIONAL ROUNDTABLE

presents 

Susan Williams
Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law
Director, Center for Constitutional Democracy
Indiana University Maurer School of Law

Legal Pluralism, Gender Equality and Parity of Participation:
Constitutional Issues Concerning Customary Law in Liberia 

Wednesday, February 24, 2016
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park 

Susan H. Williams is the Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law and the Director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. She has taught at Cornell Law School and the University of Paris and served as a Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, and at the European University Institute. She has written three books: Social Difference and Constitutionalism in Pan-Asia (Susan H. Williams, ed.)(Cambridge University Press 2014), Constituting Equality: Gender Equality and Comparative Constitutional Law (Susan H. Williams, ed.) (Cambridge University Press 2009) and Truth, Autonomy, and Speech: Feminist Theory and the First Amendment (New York University Press 2004). She is also the author of numerous articles and book chapters on constitutional law, constitutional design, and feminist theory. 

As Director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy, Williams has been involved in constitutional advising and drafting with partners around the world.  She advises the Burmese democracy movement, including both the armed groups negotiating with the government and women’s organizations. She has also worked with the Law Reform Commission of the Government of Liberia on the recent constitutional amendment process. And she has worked on constitutional issues with women’s organizations and other civil society groups in Yemen, Libya, Vietnam, and Cuba.
 

A light lunch will be provided. 

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca