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The Global Legal Studies Center and APALSA/SALSA are pleased to invite you to an informal meeting with:

 

Dr Flavia Agnes

(Women’s rights lawyer and writer from India)

 

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

4:00-5:00pm

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 India.  A pioneer of the women’s movement, she has worked consistently on issues of gender and law reform. As co-founder of MAJLIS, a legal and cultural resource centre, her primary engagement has been to provide quality legal services to women and children.  She is a director of Majlis, a center for rights discourse in Bombay.

 

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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