LAW & LITERATURE WORKSHOP SERIES

presents

Judith Resnik
Yale Law School

Representing Justice: An Iconography of Norms

Friday, October 24, 2008
12:30 - 2:00
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Solarium (room FA2)
84 Queen's Park 

Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where she teaches about federalism, procedure, feminism, and local and global interventions to diminish inequalities and subordination.  Her writings include Representing Justice: From Renaissance Iconography to Twenty-First Century Courthouses, (with Dennis E. Curtis) (published in the Proceedings of the American Philosoophical society, 2007); Law's Migration: American Exceptionalism, Silent Dialogues, and Federalism's Multiple Ports of Entry (published in the Yale Law Journal, 2006); Judicial Selection and Democratic Theory: Demand, Supply, and Life Tenure (published in a symposium in Cardozo Law Review, 2005); and Trial as Error, Jurisdiction as Injury: Transforming the Meaning of Article III (published in the Harvard Law Review, 2000).  Forthcoming books include Migrations and Mobilities: Gender, Borders, and Citizenship (co-edited with Seyla Benhabib and to be published in 2009 by New York University Press).

Professor Resnik has chaired the Sections on Procedure, on Federal Courts, and on Women in Legal Education of the American Association of Law Schools.  She is a Managerial Trustee of the International Association of Women Judges and the founding director of Yale's Arthur Liman Public Interest Program and Fund.  She also served as a co-chair of the Women's Faculty Forum of Yale University.  In 2001, she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2002, a member of the American Philosophical Society.  In 2008, she received the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation Outstanding Scholar of the Year Award.  Professor Resnik is a graduate of Bryn Mawr and NYU Law School.

A light lunch will be provided.

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