TLRH | Resistance and Responsibility: A Vulnerability Analysis

Monday, 8 November 2021, 6 – 7:30pm A public online lecture on
'Resistance and Responsibility: A Vulnerability Analysis, by
Professor Martha Albertson Fineman (Emory University), organised by
the Trinity's Centre for Resistance Studies in partnership with the
Trinity Long Room Hub. Martha Albertson Fineman Martha Albertson
Fineman is a Robert W. Woodruff Professor. An internationally
recognized law and society scholar, Fineman is a leading authority
on critical legal theory and feminist jurisprudence. Following
graduation from University of Chicago Law School in 1975, she
clerked for the Honorable Luther M. Swygert of the US Court of
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Fineman began her teaching career
at the University of Wisconsin in 1976. In 1990, she moved to
Columbia University where she was Maurice T. Moore Professor.
Before coming to Emory, she was on the Cornell Law School faculty
where she held the Dorothea Clarke Professorship, the first endowed
chair in feminist jurisprudence in the nation. Fineman continues to
expand the boundaries of feminist jurisprudence, leading the way
towards a new legal framework based on vulnerability theory.
Fineman has received numerous awards for her writing and teaching,
including the prestigious Harry J. Kalven Jr. Prize for her work in
the Law and Society tradition. She is the 2017 recipient of the
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2018 was
awarded the Miriam M. Netter ‘72 Stoneman Award and gave the Kate
Stoneman Day annual lecture at SUNY Albany. She currently teaches
courses and seminars on family law, critical legal theory, and
feminist jurisprudence. For more information on her scholarship,
visit ssrn.com… About the Trinity's Centre for Resistance Studies
The Centre for Resistance Studies fosters interdisciplinary
research in Trinity College Dublin in relation to the various types
and forms of resistance and its cognate notions, including
opposition, dissent, resilience, protest, and non-conformism.
https://www.tcd.ie/resistance/about/ Learn more at:
https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/