March 14, 2005
Three renowned scholars will speak at St. John’s Law School’s
conference, “People of Color,
Women and the Public Corporation: Conference on Racial and
Gender Equity in the Business Setting” on March 18th,
2005.
Martha Albertson Fineman is a Woodruff Professor
at Emory University School of Law, the highest honor Emory can
bestow on a faculty member. An internationally recognized law and
society scholar, Fineman is a leading authority on family law and
feminist jurisprudence. Following graduation from University of
Chicago Law School, Fineman clerked for the Hon. Luther M. Swygert
of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and then
taught at University of Wisconsin and Columbia University. She
joined Cornell Law School in 1999 to become the first endowed Chair
in the nation in Feminist Jurisprudence. Fineman is founder and
director of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, which was
inaugurated in 1984. She has received awards for her writing
and teaching and has served on several government study
commissions.
Rachel F. Moran is the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay
Raven Professor of Law at University of California, Berkeley School
of Law. She was a visiting professor at UCLA (1988), Stanford
(1989), NYU School of Law (1996), the University of Miami Law
School (1997) and the University of Texas (2000). From 1993 to 1996
Moran served as chair of the Chicano/Latino Policy Project at UC
Berkeley's Institute for the Study of Social Change. In 1995 she
received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
Moran is a member of the American Law Institute and the
Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools. She
sits on the Standing Committee of the Division of Public Education,
American Bar Association; on the Board of Advisors for the
Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy; and on the
Executive Board of the Berkeley Law Foundation. In addition in 2003
she chaired the Planning Committee for Taking Stock: Women of All
Colors in Law Schools for the Association of American Law Schools
and the Steering Committee for UC ACCORD. In 2003 she also became
the director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at UC
Berkeley
Donald C. Langevoort is the Thomas Aquinas
Reynolds Professor of Law at Georgetown University School of
Law. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1999,
Professor Langevoort was the Lee S. and Charles A. Speir Professor
at Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he joined the faculty
in 1981. Professor Langevoort has received the Paul J. Hartman
Award for Excellence in Teaching at Vanderbilt. He has been a
visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the University of
Michigan Law School and a lecturer at the Washington College of
Law, American University. After practicing for two years at Wilmer,
Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., he joined the staff of
the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission as Special Counsel in
the Office of the General Counsel. Professor Langevoort has written
many law review articles, a number of which seek to incorporate
insights from social psychology and behavioral economics into the
study of corporate and securities law and legal ethics. Professor
Langevoort has testified numerous times before Congressional
committees on issues relating to insider trading and securities
litigation reform.
For more information on the conference visit the People of Color,
Women and the Public Corporation: Conference on Racial and
Gender Equity in the Business Setting web page.