In the News

 

New York Times Op-Ed:

On the Constituionality of the Health Care Reform

Mandate: The Broccoli Test

by Einer R. Elhauge, PFC Founding Faculty Director

New York Times Op-Ed

Mississippi's Ambiguous Personhood Amendment

by I. Glenn Cohen, PFC Faculty Co-Director

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Upcoming Events

The Harvard Journal of Law & Gender and Petrie-Flom Center for Bioethics present:

 

 A Conference on Darren Rosenblum's 

Unsex Mothering: Toward a New Culture of Parenting 

 

Monday, February 13th 
5:00 - 7:00 PM 
Austin Hall North

 

Featuring responses by Professor I. Glenn Cohen and PFC Student Fellow Katherine Kraschel '12

 

In the category of “mothering,” legal sex neutrality crashes into social default regimes to construct women as “mothers,” who serve as primary parents, and men as “fathers.”  Institutions burden women with parenting responsibilities reflexively and without compensation, while men are presumed incapable or uninterested in performing these caretaking duties.

 

In Unsex Mothering, published in the Winter 2012 volume of the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, Darren Rosenblum advances a theory of unsexing to characterize the peeling away of rights and statuses from biological sex. Professor Rosenblum's article describes how international law both affirms this sexed vision of parenting and suggests the path toward an unsexed future, with particular focus on parenting leave policies in Sweden.

 

In conjunction with an online colloquium on http://harvardjlg.com, which will feature written responses by twenty scholars in the field, this conference will feature Darren Rosenblum discussing his piece, with responses from Professor Duncan Kennedy (HLS), Professor Mary Anne Case (U. Chicago), Professor Elizabeth Emens (Columbia), Professor Suzanne Kim (Rutgers), and Katherine Kraschel (HLS '12). 

 

Join Harvard Journal of Law & Gender for this exciting and innovative approach to legal scholarship, combining traditional print with online discussion by scholars across the country and this dynamic in-person discussion. Reception to follow.  Brought to you by Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. 

 

Please visit http://harvardjlg.com for more information, and to read responses

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Timothy Jost

Implementing the Affordable Care Act: Getting from 2010 to 2014  March 29th at 12pm Lumbard Room, Hauser 104

 

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Recent Webcast

 

Embryonic Stem Cell Research Debate

 

Professor Christopher Tollefsen

of the University of South Carolina

 

and Professor Glenn Cohen, of Harvard Law School

and co-director of the Petrie-Flom Center

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