FEMINISM & LAW WORKSHOP SERIES
presents
Professor Linda McClain
Boston University School of Law
Marriage Pluralism
Friday, November 2, 2007
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2)
84 Queen's Park
Linda C. McClain teaches courses in property, family law, feminist legal theory, jurisprudence, and welfare law. Previously, she practiced litigation for five years at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Professor McClain was a Faculty Fellow in ethics at the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions during the 1999-2000 academic year. She has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and University of Virginia School of Law. Professor McClain is the author of the book, The Place of Families: Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility (Harvard University Press, 2006), which offers a liberal feminist perspective on a number of contested issues of family law and policy. A central concern of her scholarship has been to elaborate an account of government's responsibility to foster in citizens the capacities for democratic and personal self-government, and of the place of families and other institutions of civil society in developing such capacities. More generally, her scholarship has engaged with prominent communitarian, civic republican, and feminist critiques of liberal legal and political theory, offering a reconstructive liberal feminist approach to such matters as privacy, reproductive rights and responsibilities, family regulation, and welfare policy. Her articles have appeared in many books and legal journals, including Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Fordham Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, Southern California Law Review, Texas Law Review, William & Mary Law Journal, and Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. She has organized major symposia on "Legal and Constitutional Implications of Calls to Revive Civil Society," in 75 Chicago-Kent Law Review 289-612 (2000) and on "Marriage, Families, and Democracy," in 32 Hofstra Law Review 23-421 (2003).
A light lunch will be served.
