FLT at Forty – Summer Workshops

Linda McClain will speak at the FLT at Forty – Summer Workshops “Looking Back/Looking Forward: The Significance of Feminist Legal Theory” starting at 2pm on June 28, 2023. This virtual workshop is hosted by the Feminist Judgments Project and other groups, will consider the historic and contemporary significance of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, which was launched at the University of Wisconsin in 1984. 

Panels:

1. The Early Years: Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory)
2. The Columbia Years: Martha McCluskey (Buffalo) and Linda McClain (Boston University)
3. The Cornell Years: Laura Spitz (UNM) and Risa Lieberwitz (Cornell)
4. The Significance of the FLT Project and its Archive: Samuel Burry (Oxford)

For context and background, the workshop offer a 1987 piece by Martha reflecting on the early sessions of FLT, which was published in the Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal — “Introduction to the Papers: The Origins and Purpose of the Feminism and Legal Theory Conference,” and the introduction to At the Boundaries of Law: Feminism and Legal Theory (1991), which was the first anthology of FLT published in the USA. Both pieces are available here.