Skrmetti and the Broader Environment for LGBTQ Rights

Greenberg Lounge, New York University School of Law
40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012

Join the Richard C. Failla LGBTQ Commission and the Brennan Center at a conference exploring the post-election landscape for LGBTQ rights in the United States, featuring leading scholars and advocates. Panels will preview United States v. Skrmetti, in which the Supreme Court is considering a constitutional challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, as well as examine the role of state courts and constitutions as potential sources of LGBTQ rights.

In-person and online registration is available.

Co-sponsored by the Richard C. Failla LGBTQ Commission of the New York Courts and the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law

Agenda

Welcome and Opening Remarks

10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Keynote by Chris Geidner, Award-Winning Legal Journalist and Publisher of Law Dork

11: 00 a.m. – Noon

Lunch 

Noon – 1:00 p.m.

United States v. Skrmetti Preview

1.00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Ezra Cukor, Esq., Co-Interim Legal Director, Advocates for Trans Equality

Craig Konnoth, Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

Carmelyn P. Malalis, Esq., Former Chair and Commissioner, New York City Commission on Human Rights

Anya A. Marino, Esq., Director of LGBTQI Equality, National Women’s Law Center

Moderator: Charlie Arrowood, Esq., Senior Counsel, Failla Commission

The Role of States, State Constitutions, and State Courts Going Forward

2:45 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

Ting Ting Cheng, Esq., Director, Equal Rights Amendment Project, Columbia Law School

Chan Tov McNamarah, Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell Law School

Susan Sommer, Esq., Former Director of Constitutional Litigation, Lambda Legal

Quinn Yeargain, Associate Professor of Law and the 1855 Professor of the Law of Democracy, Michigan State University College of Law

Moderator: Matthew Skinner, Esq., Executive Director, Failla Commission