Forty years ago and for the first time in the Fourteenth Amendment’s 103-year history, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that its Equal Protection Clause protected women’s rights.

To honor this landmark decision in Reed v. Reed and take stock of where constitutional protections for women stand today, the National Women’s Law Center will co-host a panel featuring special guest speaker Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Thursday, November 17, 2011 from 1:00 p.m. Eastern to 2:30 p.m. Eastern, entitled “Reed v. Reed at 40: Equal Protection and Women’s Rights.”

Register for the webcast and watch the panel live.   WWW.NWLC.ORG

The esteemed panel will be moderated by NPR’s legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg and will include:Jacqueline Berrien, Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
— Marcia Greenberger, Co-President of the National Women’s Law Center
— Earl Maltz, Professor at Rutgers University Law School, Camden
— Nina Pillard, Professor at Georgetown Law University
— Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was the principal author of the brief on behalf of the plaintiff in Reed v. Reed, will give concluding remarks.

Join the National Women’s Law Center and our co-sponsors — American University Washington College of Law, George Washington University Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Howard University School of Law, the University of the District of Columbia’s David A. Clarke School of Law, and the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia — for this special event.

Register to watch the live webcast of our panel “Reed v. Reed at 40: Equal Protection and Women’s Rights” on Thursday, November 17, 2011 from 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Eastern.   WWW.NWLC.ORG

We hope you’ll join us for this exciting event.

Sincerely,

Emily J. Martin
Vice President and General Counsel
National Women’s Law Center

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