Five Days Left to Submit Your Workshop Proposal

Lavender Law 2006 - Washington, DC will feature two dozen workshops on cutting-edge legal issues affecting LGBT individuals and the community. Topics to be covered include practical litigation skills, constitutional law developments, estate planning and drafting, employment discrimination, HIV/AIDS, immigration, workplace diversity, domestic violence, career development, issues affecting out legal practitioners in large firms and LGBT issues in academia, the military, and the family.

Deadline is April 21
Please click here to fill out the NEW ONLINE Workshop Proposal Form.

Conference Registration and Hotel Bookings are Now Available.

Study LGBT Law in Amsterdam this Summer!

American law students will again have the opportunity to travel to Amsterdam and study sexual orientation and the law as part of Whittier Law School’s summer abroad program, while earning six units of credit toward their law degree.

Faculty this year includes: 

• Kate Kendell, Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights
• Jon Davidson, Legal Director of Lambda Legal Defense Fund
• Matt Coles, Director of ACLU’s Lesbian and Gay Rights Project
• Art Leonard, Professor of Law at New York Law School
• Pat Cain of the University of Iowa Law School

For additional information, please contact summerabroad@law.whittier.edu and tell them that you heard about the course through NLGLA!

http://www.law.whittier.edu/academic_programs/netherlands.asp

The Next Gay/Trans Panic Conference Slated for San Francisco This Summer

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris will host dozens of speakers in the next groundbreaking symposium on defeating the 'LGBT Panic' defense, to be held at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco from July 20-21.  A similar conference was held last year in Atlanta.  That event was prompted by the murder of Fulton County Assistant District Attorney Ahmed Dabarran, who's killer beat him to death in his sleep after a sexual encounter.  The killer was later acquitted of murder charges by a Cobb County jury.

The San Francisco conference will include presentations by the Fulton County District Attorney, while involving academics and scholars, activists, and attorneys.  Special emphasis will be placed on including law enforcement in this intellectual and strategic conversation.

"Queer panic" defense has been recently used as a way for criminal defendants to blame their victims for provoking the crime.  Harris stated to the Bay Area Reporter, "A panic defense almost suggests that the offender was helpless. The irony of it is that the person committing the hate crime – the bully – is posturing as though they were disabled."

REMINDER:  NLGLA Supports the ABA's Young Lawyers' Division and AIDS AIDS Coordinating Committee as they ANSWER THE CALL!

HIV/AIDS Law and Practice:
From Nuts & Bolts to Cutting Edge

May 18-20, 2006

Portland, Oregon

Both new and seasoned practitioners of HIV/AIDS-related law and advocacy will explore complex legal issues, exchange practice strategies, and strengthen bonds as a community of advocates.  The conference is open to both ABA and non-ABA members.  Contact the Young Lawyers Division at (312) 988-671, www.abayld.org, or the AIDS Coordinating Committee at (202) 662-1025, www.abanet.org/AIDS/conferences/home.html