2011-12

Why the Trans Movement is Moving Closer to Equality: A Conversation with Mara Keisling

May 7, 2012
UCLA Public Policy Building Rm 2355

Featuring Mara Keisling, Executive Director, National Center for Transgender Equality

11th Annual Update: Fair Play? LGBT People, Civic Participation & Political Process

April 13, 2012
UCLA School of Law

This year’s conference will explore whether, in 2012, LGBT people are equal participants in the political process or still relegated to second class citizenship by discrimination and bias.

Watch now! Streaming Live Video of the 11th Annual Update

Watch streaming live video of the 11th Annual Update on Friday, April 13, 2012.

11th Annual Update Student Workshops

April 12, 2012
UCLA School of Law

In conjunction with the 11th Annual Update, the Williams Institute is hosting two student workshops.

Acting White? What’s Feminism & Queer Theory Got to Do With It?

April 12, 2012
UCLA, Royce 314

Cosponsored UCLA Department of Women’s Studies

Why LGBT Public Health? LGBT Public Health Research & Intervention

April 5, 2012
Room CHS 33-105

with Ilan H. Meyer, Williams Senior Scholar of Public Policy, The Williams Institute

Panel discussion – Discrimination on multiple grounds

April 4, 2012
Podgorica, Montenegro

This panel will examine the content of a series of recommendations to member states on measures to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and the steps that have been taken, and that still need to be taken to fulfill these recommendations.

Protecting Your Hard-Earned Money: What the LGBT Community Needs to Know

March 20, 2012
City of West Hollywood Library - Community Room

Cosponsored by the City of West Hollywood

Bisexuality and Biphobia in American Culture and Law

March 20, 2012
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Co-sponsored by OutLaw

Together Against Discrimination

March 19, 2012
Budva, Montenegro

International human rights conference Budva, Montenegro

Queering Criminology

March 13, 2012
UCLA School of Law, Room 1314

Works-in-Progress Series

Eighth Annual Williams Institute Moot Court Competition, Preliminary Rounds

March 10, 2012
UCLA School of Law

Teams from ABA-accredited law schools from across the United States will gather at UCLA Law to compete.

Proposition 8 and the Freedom to Marry

February 29, 2012
Online CLE Course

Online CLE seminar offered by West LegalEdcenter (R).

Diaz v. Brewer: Potent Breakthrough or Strategic Mistake?

February 28, 2012
UCLA Law - Room 1430

A Debate on Same-Sex Partner Benefits and Marriage Equality Featuring Jennifer C. Pizer, Legal Director and Arnold D. Kassoy Senior Scholar of Law and Nancy D. Polikoff, McDonald/Wright Visiting Chair of Law