Presenters:

Anne Alstott: The Jacquin D. Bierman Professor of Taxation at Yale Law School, Professor Alstott’s work on social policy and taxation includes No Exit: What Parents Owe Children and What Society Owes Parents and The Stakeholder Society, which served as part of the inspiration for the 2005 Child Trust Fund initiative in Britain.

Judy Appelbaum: Director of Programs at the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, Ms. Applebaum is the former Vice President and Legal Director of the National Women’s Law Center and also served as Counsel to Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Catherine Brown: Domestic policy advisor to Hillary Clinton, Ms. Brown has served as a legislative assistant for Senator Clinton handling policy issues related to children, education, labor, and women’s issues.

Rosa DeLauro: Congresswoman DeLauro was elected to represent Connecticut’s Third District in 1990 and is currently serving her 9^th term. During her time in Congress, she has focused on issues of economic insecurity, child care, educational quality and access, and health care.

Ariela Dubler: Vice-Dean and Professor of Law at Columbia, Ms. Dubler studies the historical antecedents of modern family structures and family law.

Mark Greenberg: Director of Social Policy at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) and an expert in welfare reform, Mr, Greenberg is currently on a leave of absence from CLASP to serve as Executive Director of the Task Force on Poverty at the Center for American Progress.

Jacob Hacker: Professor of Political Science and Resident Fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale, Mr. Hacker has published major works on societal risk allocation, health care, inequality, and welfare.

Karen Kornbluh: Policy Director for Senator Barack Obama, Ms. Kornbluh served in the Treasury Department and Federal Communications Commission during the Clinton administration and subsequently founded the New America Foundation’s Work and Family Program.

George Lakoff: Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley and Senior Fellow at The Rockridge Institute, Mr. Lakoff’s research interests include conceptual systems and cognitive linguistics, including its application to politics and morality.

Robert Lerman: Senior Fellow in Labor and Social Policy at the Urban Institute and Professor of Economics at American University, Mr. Lerman is a leading expert on how education, employment, and family structure interact to affect economic well-being.

Linda McClain: Professor of Law at Hofstra University, Ms. McClain’s scholarship offers a liberal feminist perspective on issues of poverty, reproductive rights and responsibilities, family regulation, and welfare policy. She recently authored The Place of Families: Fostering Capacity, Equality and Responsibility, which explores the relationship between family life and politics.

Nina Pillard: Professor of Law at Georgetown, Ms. Pillard is a scholar and practitioner of employment and constitutional law, and served as lead Supreme Court counsel for plaintiff William Hibbs in Nevada v. Hibbs, which protected the full range of Family and Medical Leave Act remedies for state workers against a constitutional challenge.

Judith Resnik: Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Ms. Resnik writes and teaches on procedure, gender bias in the judicial system, and federalism. She is also the founding director of the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program and Fund and is the current Co-chair of the Women Faculty Forum at Yale.

Judy Scott: General Counsel to the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and a partner at James & Hoffman, Ms. Scott has held key labor law positions in a wide range of unions for over thirty years, giving special attention to issues affecting women workers.

Reva Siegel: Nicholas deB. Katzenback Professor of Law and Professor of American Studies at Yale University and advisor to the Yale Law ACS chapter, Ms. Siegel’s work in legal history focuses on questions of law and inequality and how courts interact with popular movements in interpreting the Constitution. 

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