Session 1: The ERA's Role in Our Democracy (2024 Equal Rights Amendment Conference)

Conference on The Present and Future of the Equal Rights Amendment: The ERA as a new source of equality rights in the Constitution

Hosted by Columbia Law School's ERA Project and Georgetown Law
April 12, 2024

This session will offer an opportunity to take a deep dive into the current status of the ERA and the contestation over its legitimacy. The discussion will focus on several short policy papers that address existing procedural roadblocks to the ERA’s final ratification, tactics for finalization, and the legal/cultural fault lines that exist in the landscape of gender justice and equality jurisprudence.

Speakers:

Michele Goodwin, Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Julie Suk, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Linda Coberly, Chair, Appellate & Critical Motions, Winston & Strawn LLP
David Pozen, ​​Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Moderator: Josh Chafetz, Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown University Law Center