The Harvard Journal of Law and Gender Presents:

Seventy Seven Cents: "Pay Discrimination and Ledbetter v. Goodyear"

Friday, March 7, 2008

Panel 1: Challenges of Litigating Pay Discrimination Claims
Client, Lawyer, and Employer Perspectives
Austin East, 2:00-3:30

Panelists:

Lilly Ledbetter, Plaintiff in Ledbetter v. Goodyear, 2007 Supreme Court case

Jocelyn Samuels, Vice President for Education and Employment, National Women’s Law Center

Melissa Hart, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School

Moderator:

Steve Churchill, Lecturer on Law and Clinical Instructor in Employment Civil Rights Clinic, WilmerHale Legal Services Center at Harvard Law School

Coffee Break
Austin East Rotunda, 3:30-4:00

Panel 2: The Past and Future of Pay (In)Equity
Austin East, 4:00-5:30

Panelists:

Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and Chair, Women’s Studies Program; Professor of History, Black Studies, and Law and Society, University of California, Santa Barbara

Bruce Elmslie,Professor of Economics, Whittemore School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire

Consuela Pinto, Senior Counsel, The Center for WorkLife Law at University of California, Hastings College of the Law

Monica Ramirez, Project Director of Esperanza: The Immigrant Women’s Legal Initiative, Southern Poverty Law Center

Moderator:

Steve Churchill

Wine and Cheese Reception
Austen East Rotunda, 5:30-6:30

Banquet
Harvard Faculty Club, 7:00 [RSVP only]