Laura T. Kessler. University of Utah 332 South 1400 East Salt Lake City, UT USA (801)

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1 Laura T. Kessler University of Utah 332 South 1400 East Salt Lake City, UT USA (801) Employment University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law. Professor of Law (2007-present). Associate Professor of Law ( ). Courses: Family Law, Civil Procedure, Employment Discrimination, Gender and the Law, and seminars on select topics in family law and discrimination law. University of Maryland School of Law, Visiting Professor (fall 2009). University of Baltimore School of Law, Visiting Professor (spring 2010). Education J.S.D., Columbia Law School (2006). LL.M., Columbia Law School (1999). J.D., University of Maryland School of Law (1993). B.A., Political Science, The George Washington University (1988). Areas of Specialization Family Law Discrimination Law Economic Inequality Legal Feminism Law and Social Theory Women and Legal Education

2 Academic Fellowships, Awards, Honors Order of the Coif. University of Utah Faculty Fellowship ( ). University of Utah Sexuality and Gender Studies Research Award ( ). Visiting Scholar, Feminism & Legal Theory Project, Emory Law School, November Law and Society Association Summer Institute (2001). Law and Society Association Graduate Student Workshop (1999). Herman N. Finkelstein Research Fellowship, Columbia Law School ( ). Publications The Story of Stump v. Sparkman, UMKC L. REV. (forthcoming 2013). New Frontiers in Family Law, in TRANSCENDING THE BOUNDARIES OF LAW: GENERATIONS OF FEMINISM AND LEGAL THEORY (Martha Albertson Fineman ed., 2011). Feminism for Everyone, 34 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 679 (2011) (book review of JOAN WILLIAMS, RESHAPING THE WORK-FAMILY DEBATE, Harv. U. Press, 2010). New Frontiers in Family Law: Introduction, 2009 UTAH L. REV. 275, 358; 11 J. L. & FAM. STUD. 227 (2009). Transgressive Caregiving, in FEMINIST AND QUEER LEGAL THEORY: INTIMATE ENCOUNTERS, UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS (Martha Albertson Fineman, Jack E. Jackson & Adam P. Romero eds., Ashgate 2009). Getting Class, 56 BUFFALO LAW REVIEW 915 (2008) (lead article). Community Parenting, 24 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF LAW & POLICY 47 (2007). Keeping Discrimination Theory Front and Center in the Discourse over Work and Family Conflict, 34 PEPPERDINE LAW REVIEW 313 (2007). Paid Family Leave in American Law Schools: Findings and Open Questions, 38 ARIZONA STATE LAW JOURNAL 661 (2006) (lead article). Transgressive Caregiving, 33 FLORIDA STATE UNIV. LAW REVIEW 1 (2005) (lead article). 2

3 Is There Agency in Dependency? Expanding the Feminist Justifications for Restructuring Wage Work, in FEMINISM CONFRONTS HOMO ECONOMICUS (Martha Fineman & Terence Dougherty eds., Cornell U. Press, 2005). The Attachment Gap: Employment Discrimination Laws, Women s Cultural Caregiving, and the Limits of Economic and Liberal Legal Theory, 34 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF LAW REFORM 371 (2001). PPI, Patriarchy, and the Schizophrenic View of Women: A Feminist Analysis of Welfare Reform in Maryland, 6 MARYLAND J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES 317 (1995). Presentations Invited Talks Negotiating Identities at Work (with Suzanne Kim, Rutgers-Newark Law School), Emory Law School, Symposium on Work and Vulnerability, Atlanta, Georgia (April 2013). Negotiating Identities at Work (with Suzanne Kim, Rutgers-Newark Law School), Plenary on Law School as Gender Factory, Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network Conference, Univ. of Baltimore Law School, Baltimore, Maryland (Oct. 2012). The Story of Stump v. Sparkman: Writing Race and Class out of Reproductive Choice in America, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii (June 2012). The Reluctant Father: Purloined Sperm, Contraceptive Fraud, and other Problems in Paternity Law, 32nd International Congress on Law and Mental Health, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (July 2011) (by invitation of Cynthia Bowman, Cornell). The Reluctant Parent, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California (June 2011). The Story of Stump v. Sparkman: Writing Race and Class out of Reproductive Choice in America, 14 th Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference, UNLV Law School, Las Vegas, Nevada (March 2011). Where is the State in Work-Family?, International Society of Family Law Conference, When Worlds Collide: Tensions in Family Law, UMKC School of Law, Kansas City, Missouri (June 2010). Where is the State in Work-Family?, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Motherhood Conference, Panel on Reconstructing Superwoman: Care and Market Work from a Non-Binary Perspective, Denver, Colorado (March 2010). Neofeminism and Family Law, 3rd Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference, Univ. of Baltimore Law School, Workshop on Neofeminism, Baltimore, Maryland (March 2010). 3

4 Resuscitating Economic Harm in Discrimination Theory, LatCrit XIV Symposium, Panel on Reconnecting Political and Civil Rights with Economic Justice, Washington College of Law, American University (October 2009). New Frontiers in Family Law, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Legalities of Sexualities Panel, Denver, Colorado (May 2009). New Frontiers in Family Law, Second Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference, Panel on Applying Feminist Legal Theory to Family Law, University of Baltimore School of Law (March 2009). New Frontiers in Family Law, Emory Law School, Symposium on Transcending the Boundaries of Law: Generations of Feminism and Legal Theory (November 2008). The Politics of Care, University of Wisconsin Law School, Symposium, Working from the World Up: Equality s Future, Madison, Wisconsin (March 2008). Community Parenting, Emory Law School, Atlanta, Georgia (November 2007). Transgressive Caregivers: The Case for Legalizing Multiple Parenthood, University of Maryland Law School Legal Theory Workshop, Baltimore, Maryland (September 2007). Resuscitating Economic Harm in Discrimination Theory, Buffalo Law School, ClassCrits Workshop II, Buffalo, New York (May 2007). Resuscitating Economic Harm in Discrimination Theory, Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Workshop on Understanding Class and Caste within a World of Global Inequalities, Emory Law School (May 2007). How A Focus On Class Can Build On and Add To Feminist Legal Theory Projects, Taking an Intersectional Approach, Buffalo Law School, ClassCrits Workshop I, Buffalo, New York (January 2007). Paid Family Leave in American Law Schools: Preliminary Findings and Open Questions, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Section on Women in Legal Education Breakfast, Washington, D.C. (January 2007) (keynote address). The Transformative Potential of Community Parenting, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Following Marriage Panel, Baltimore, Maryland (by invitation of the Washington University Journal of Law & Policy) (July 2006). Care as Politics, Association for Research on Mothering, Caregiving and Carework Conference, Panel on Lesbian Mothering, York University, Toronto, Canada (May 2006). Keeping Discrimination Theory Front and Center in the Discourse over Work and Family Conflict, Pepperdine Law School, Balancing Career and Family: A Work/Life Symposium, Malibu, California (April 2006). 4

5 Paid Family Leave in American Law Schools: Preliminary Findings and Open Questions, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Panel on New Data and Research on the Workplace, Las Vegas, Nevada (June 2005). Transgressive Caregiving, Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Workshop on Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Convergences and Departures, Emory Law School (April 2005). Caught Between the Waves: Navigating the Post-Second Wave Pre-Postfeminist Position, Feminism and Legal Theory Project 20th Anniversary, Panel on Coming of Age in the 1990s, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin (June 2003). Transgressive Caregiving, Conference on Subversive Legacies: Constructing the Future, University of Texas Law School, Austin, Texas (November 2002). Work-Family Conflict in the United States: Legal Developments, Challenges, and Open Questions, XII International Congress on Family Law, Havana, Cuba (September 2002). Conferences and Workshops Chair and Discussant, Family Law Foundations, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts (May 2013). Discussant, Interrogating Sexual Harassment, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii (June 2012). Organizer, Presenter, and Chair, The Reluctant Parent, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California (June 2011). Organizer, Presenter, and Chair, New Frontiers in Family Law, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois (May 2010). Co-Organizer (with Martha Ertman), New Frontiers in Family Law, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah (February 2008). Organizer and Chair, Gender & Class: Voices from the Collective, Association of American Law Schools, Women in Legal Education Section, New York, NY (Jan. 2008). Program available at Chair, Atypical Workers in a Different Key: Young, Old, Female, and the Law of Work, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany (July 2007). Discussant, Cultural and Legal Cliteracy, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany (July 2007). Organizer, Presenter, and Chair, Children in the Post-Nuclear Family, 30th International Congress on Law and Mental Health, University of Padua, Italy (June 2007). 5

6 Chair, Roundtable-Building New Foundations for Worker Rights: Brainstorming a Strategy to Rebuild Worker Rights, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland (July 2006). Chair and Discussant, Building New Foundations for Worker Rights: Constructing Law, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland (July 2006). Co-Organizer, Moderator, and Discussant, Decisions and Families conference, University of Utah School of Law (September 2005). Cognitive Bias Working Group, Program on Gender, Work, & Family, American University, Washington College of Law (by invitation of Joan Williams) ( ). Organizer, Presenter, and Chair, Gender, Work, and Caretaking, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada (panelists: Rachel Arnow-Richman, Laura Kessler, Martha McCluskey, Vicki Schultz, Donna Young) (presentation: Transgressive Caregiving) (May 2002). Academic Service Law School Member, Retention, Promotion, and Tenure Committee (2012-present). Advisor, Journal of Law & Family Studies ( ). Member, Faculty Recruitment Committee ( , ). Chair, Nominations Committee ( ). Member, Admissions Committee (spring 2011, spring 2004). Member, Faculty Development Committee ( , ). Member, Programs Committee ( ). Chair, Academic Misconduct Committee ( ). Advisor, American Constitution Society ( ). Member, Curriculum Committee ( ). University Member, Graduate Council, (2013-present). Member, Presidential Child Care Task Force ( ) (appointed by President). Member, Women s Resource Center, Ambassadors Committee (2008-present). Member, Tanner Humanities Center Faculty Advisory Board ( ). Member, Employment Discrimination Complaints Hearing Panel ( ). Academy Wide Law and Society Association, Article Prize Committee ( ). Association of American Law Schools, Section on Women in Legal Education (Executive Committee 2006-present; Chair, Work-Life Committee, ). Manuscript Reviewer, Law & Society Review. 6

7 Community Service Legal Panel, American Civil Liberties Union of Utah (2001-present). Legal Advisory Board, Moms Rising ( ). Downtown Continuing Legal Education Series, Lecture: Making the Case for Legalizing Multiple Parenthood (March 2007). Judicial Training on Same-Sex Couples, Utah Judicial Institute, 2006 Annual Judicial Conference (co-sponsored by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, UCLA Law School, and the Administrative Office of the Utah Courts). Downtown Continuing Legal Education Series, Lecture: Wage Replacement for Workers Taking Family Leave: Exploring Unemployment Insurance as a Solution (April 2002). Selected Media Appearances KCPW, Midday Metro with Lara Jones, interview on the New Frontiers in Family Law symposium and monologues performance (February 28, 2008). Ann Farmer, The Rocky Road to the Ivory Tower, Perspectives a quarterly magazine of the American Bar Association for and about women lawyers, Spring 2007 (cover story featuring my study on family leave in U.S. law schools), available at org/ women/ perspectives/ articles.html. KRCL 90.9 FM, Radio Active! Public Affairs Program, Same-Sex Marriage: Liberation or Assimilation? (May 13, 2004). Professional Affiliations Association of American Law Schools. Sections on: Family and Juvenile Law, Labor and Employment Law, and Women in Legal Education. Law and Society Association. Member, Collaborative Research Network on Labor and Employment Law. Founding Member, Collaborative Research Network on Legal Feminism. Feminism and Legal Theory Project, Emory Law School. Class Crits Working Group, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, Buffalo Law School. Society of American Law Teachers. American Bar Association. 7

8 Previous Positions Held Visiting Assistant Professor, Rutgers University School of Law-Camden ( ). Law Clerk, The Honorable Ronald L. Ellis, United States District Court, Southern District of New York ( ). Teaching Fellow, Columbia Law School, Judicial Externship Program ( ). Staff Attorney, Maryland Disability Law Center ( , ). Conducted class-action institutional reform litigation on behalf of mentally disabled persons. Attorney/Community Organizer, American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland ( ). Investigated and developed employment discrimination, environmental racism, police misconduct, and housing desegregation cases. Member of the Maryland and D.C. Bars. 8