Roundtable Schedule
Co-sponsored by UCI School of Law and UC Hastings College of Law
Hosted by UC Hastings
May 4-5, 2018
UC Hastings College of Law
200 McAllister Street
Alumni Reception Center (ARC)
2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
Friday, May 4
Opening Remarks and Introductions
1:00 p.m.
Abortion and Personhood
1:15-2:45 p.m.
Commentator: Michele Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law; Director, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, UCI School of Law
Maya Manian, Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law
Rachel Rebouché, Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Research, Temple University Beasley School of Law;
Jill Adams, Executive Director, Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice, UC Berkeley School of Law
Mariko Miki, Director of Programs, If/When/How
Race, Regulation, and Reproduction
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Commentator: Osagie Obasogie, Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Kim Mutcherson, Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School, Camden
Michele Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law; Director, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, UC Irvine School of Law
Dov Fox, Professor of Law; Director, Center for Health Law Policy & Bioethics, University of San Diego School of Law
Genetics and Trait Selection
4:45-6:15 p.m.
Commentator: Radhika Rao, Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law
Seema Mohapatra, Associate Professor of Law, Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law
Sonia Suter, John and Inge Stafford Faculty Research Professor, The George Washington University Law School
Judith Daar, Clinical Professor, UCI School of Medicine; Visiting Professor, UCLA School of Law
Saturday, May 5
International Surrogacy
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Commentator: Lisa Ikemoto, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
Britta van Beers, Associate Professor, Department of Legal Theory and Legal History, Faculty of Law, VU Amsterdam
Sharon Bassan, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Values and Public Policy, University Center for Human Values, Woodrow Wilson School's Office of Population Research, Princeton University
Dr. Ruth Zafran, Associate Professor, IDC, Herzliya, Radzyner Law School, Tel Aviv
Empirical Studies and the ART Industry
10:45-1:45 a.m.
Commentator: Kimberly Mutcherson, Vice Dean and Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School, Camden
April Hovav, Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, USC
Hillary Berk, Assistant Professor of Teaching in Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine
Special Session: ART Working Group Roundtable: Cutting-edge issues of ART affecting Reproductive Justice
11:55 a.m.-1:40 p.m.
Moderator: Silvia Yee, Senior Staff Attorney, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)
Lisa Ikemoto, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
Rebeca Ramos, Advocacy Director, Information Group on Reproductive Choice, Mexico
Marsha Saxton, Director of Research and Training, World Institute on Disability (WID)
Cathy Sakimura, Deputy Director & Family Law Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Courtney Joslin, Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
ART & Health
1:45-3:15 p.m.
Commentator: Judith Daar, Clinical Professor, UCI School of Medicine; Visiting Professor, UCLA School of Law
Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Raquel Cool, Founding Member, We Are Egg Donors
Jody Madeira, Professor of Law and Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Closing Remarks & 2019 Planning
3:15-3:30 p.m.
2018 Participants
Michele Goodwin
Co-Chair
Chancellor’s Professor of Law; Director, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, UCI School of Law
Sharon Bassan
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Values and Public Policy, University Center for Human Values, Woodrow Wilson School's Office of Population Research, Princeton University
Britta van Beers
Associate Professor, Department of Legal Theory and Legal History, Faculty of Law, VU Amsterdam
Dov Fox
Professor of Law; Director, Center for Health Law Policy & Bioethics, University of San Diego School of Law
Courtney Joslin
Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
Jody Madeira
Professor of Law and Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Osagie Obasogie
Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health, UC Berkeley
Rebeca Ramos
Advocacy Director, Information Group on Reproductive Choice, Mexico
Rachel Rebouché
Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Research, Temple University Beasley School of Law
Sonia Suter
John and Inge Stafford Faculty Research Professor, The George Washington University Law School
