Barrett Lecturer William Eskridge on KFBK
Guest lecturer William N. Eskridge, Jr. spoke about gay rights and pregnancy discrimination on KFBKs "The Bruce Maiman Show" on NewsTalk KFBK after speaking at the Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Lecture Series on Constitutional Law at the law school on January 17, 2007.
Eskridge, the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale, has published widely on statutory interpretation and gay rights. In 1990, Eskridge became counsel to the first gay couple to sue for marriage rights after Denmark's landmark registered partnership statute. He has participated in gay marriage litigation in Ontario (as an expert witness), Vermont and Massachusetts (as an amicus), and California (as a consultant to San Francisco). In his book, The Case for Same-Sex Marriage (Free Press, 1996), he lays out the constitutional arguments for and against same-sex marriage. In Equality Practice: Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights (Routledge, 2002), he tells the story of the Vermont litigation and the civil unions law that resulted in 2000.
Bruce Maiman Show/January 17, 2007 podcast
Eskridge, the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale, has published widely on statutory interpretation and gay rights. In 1990, Eskridge became counsel to the first gay couple to sue for marriage rights after Denmark's landmark registered partnership statute. He has participated in gay marriage litigation in Ontario (as an expert witness), Vermont and Massachusetts (as an amicus), and California (as a consultant to San Francisco). In his book, The Case for Same-Sex Marriage (Free Press, 1996), he lays out the constitutional arguments for and against same-sex marriage. In Equality Practice: Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights (Routledge, 2002), he tells the story of the Vermont litigation and the civil unions law that resulted in 2000.
Bruce Maiman Show/January 17, 2007 podcast