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Tuesday, March 22, 2016 4:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Columbia Law School Jerome Greene Annex 410 West 117th Street New York, NY 10027 e Center for the Study of Law & Culture at Columbia Law School presents e Spring 2016 Critical Race eory Workshop Series Critical Race eories of the Law and Politics of Intimate Association Amicus Briefs in Obergefell v. Hodges the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent marriage equality decision Professor Peggy Davis New York University Law School e amicus brief that Professor Davis and the NYU Law School Experiential Learning Lab submitted in the Obergefell case drew on the convergent histories of marriage, race, slavery and emancipation. e brief argued that a broadening of state definitions of marriage and family was understood to be a necessary consequence of the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship, Privileges or Immunities and Due Process Clauses. Professor Catherine Smith University of Denver Sturm College of Law e amicus brief, cited in Obergefell v. Hodges, recounts a powerful body of equal protection jurisprudence that prohibits punishing children to reflect moral disapproval of parental conduct or to incentivize adult behavior. LAW@CULTURE THE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LAW & CULTURE http://web.law.columbia.edu/law-culture Columbia Law School
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Tuesday, March 22, 20164:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Columbia Law SchoolJerome Greene Annex
410 West 117th StreetNew York, NY 10027
The Center for the Study of Law & Culture at Columbia Law School presents
The Spring 2016 Critical Race Theory Workshop SeriesCritical Race Theories of the
Law and Politics of Intimate Association
Amicus Briefs inObergefell v. Hodges
the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent marriage equality decision
Professor Peggy DavisNew York University Law School
The amicus brief that Professor Davis and the NYU Law School Experiential Learning Lab submitted in the Obergefell case drew on the
convergent histories of marriage, race, slavery and emancipation. The brief argued that a broadening
of state definitions of marriage and family was understood to be a necessary consequence of
the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship, Privileges or Immunities and Due
Process Clauses.
Professor Catherine SmithUniversity of Denver Sturm College of Law
The amicus brief, cited in Obergefell v. Hodges, recounts a powerful body of equal protection
jurisprudence that prohibits punishing children to reflect moral disapproval of parental conduct or to
incentivize adult behavior.
LAW@CULTURETHE CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF LAW & CULTUREhttp://web.law.columbia.edu/law-culture
Columbia Law School
