Women at Work
On October 24-25, 2024, the University of Minnesota Law School will be hosting a conference, “Women at Work,” inspired by the new book Fair Shake: Women & The Fight to Build a Just Economy, by Naomi Cahn, June Carbone and Nancy Levit. Conference sessions will feature one with the book’s authors, others directly relating to the book, and still others on topics within the general theme of Women at Work. This conference is highly interdisciplinary, with academics and practitioners from different fields, including law (corporate, employment, human rights, nonprofit, white collar crime), psychology, economics, and cognitive science. Rather than traditional paper presentations, the conference will consist of moderated discussions, interviews, Q and A sessions, and short lectures. Conference proceedings will be published in a special volume of the Minnesota Journal of Law and Inequality.
Thursday, october 24, 2024 | 1:30 to 5 p.m. (CT) | sub-plaza 50
1:30 to 1:45 p.m. Welcome, Dean William McGeveran and Claire Hill
1:45 to 2:45 p.m. Interview of Naomi Cahn, June Carbone and Nancy Levit, Authors of Fair Shake: Women & The Fight to Build a Just Economy, Moderated by Matthew Bodie and Claire Hill
2:45 to 3:30 p.m. Cognitive Science and Gender (1), William Casebeer and Wieke Scholten Moderated by William Casebeer
3:30 to 4 p.m. Break
4 to 4:30 p.m. Legal Developments on Gender, Hon. Jed Rakoff
4:30 to 5 p.m. International Law and the Backlash Against Equality and Fairness, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
friday, october 25, 2024 | 9 am to 5:30 pm (ct) | sub-plaza room 25
9 to 9:30 a.m. Boston College Law Professor Renee Jones, former head of the Division of Corporate Finance at the SEC, interviewed by June Carbone
9:30 to 11 a.m. Women in Organizations, Afra Afsharipour, Yaron Nili, Dana Brakman-Reiser and Brian Quinn, Moderated by Brett McDonnell
11 to 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Gender, Corporate Culture, and Lawbreaking, Stavros Gadinis, Mark Egan and Miriam Baer, Moderated by Afra Afsharipour
12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Lunch Talk on Gender Dynamics in International Arbitration, Brian Hutchinson and Amanda Lee
1:30 to 2:50 p.m. Work and Gender Dynamics, Jessica Clarke, Charlotte Garden, Nitya Chawla and Jennifer Berdahl, Moderated by Matthew Bodie
2:50 to 3:30 p.m. Cognitive Science and Gender (2), Claire Hill and Daniel Chen, Moderated by Avner Ben-Ner
3:30 to 3:45 p.m. Break
3:45 to 4:45 p.m. Gender, Family, and Feminism, Melissa Vink, Eugene Borgida and Amalia Miller, Moderated by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
4:45 to 5:05 p.m. Channeling Gender, June Carbone
5:05 to 5:30 p.m. Conclusion: What Have We Learned? What Should We Pursue?