The
Dr Flavia Agnes
(Women’s rights lawyer and writer from
Lubar Commons (7200 Law)
Coffee and Cookies will be served
(Please feel free to drop by – you don’t have to stay for the entire hour)
About the speaker:
Dr Flavia Agnes is a women’s rights lawyer in
She
has played an important role in bringing women's rights to the
forefront of the Indian legal system and in contextualizing issues of
gender and identity. A prolific writer, she has
provided incisive analysis of many social trends and legal reforms
including domestic violence, minority law reforms, secularism and human
rights. Significant among her many publications is her autobiographical
book My Story Our Story ... Of Rebuilding Broken Lives which has been translated into several languages. Other publications included Law & Gender Inequality:
The Politics of Personal Laws in India and an Omnibus, Women and Law (co-edited) both published by Oxford University Press. She also contributes articles to academic journals and newspapers on a regular basis. At present she is completing a textbook on Gender and Law.
All are welcome, no registration required
Submitted by UW Law School Newsletter Admin on November 3, 2008
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