#MeToo - A Community Discussion - From #TimesUp to #TooMuch?

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#MeToo A Community Discussion From #TimesUp to #TooMuch?
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 Columbia Law School Jerome Greene Hall - 435 West 116th Street Room 104
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
This event is free and open to the public.
Columbia Law School Professors Katherine Franke, Olatunde Johnson, Kendall Thomas and Melissa Murray will discuss the #MeToo movement in this timely event: 
* Does the #MeToo moment signal a radical shift in social tolerance for sexual harassment/assault? 
* In what ways might a phenomenon started on social media have effects in the law? 
* Is there any merit to the concern that #MeToo has gone too far by triggering a sex panic? 
* What are the racial underpinnings/implications of #MeToo? 
* Does #MeToo have any purchase in the law school as a working/learning environment?
 
Discussants include: 
Professor Katherine Franke Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Gender and Sexuality Studies Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School 
Professor Kendall Thomas Nash Professor of Law Center for the Study of Law and Culture, Columbia Law School
Professor Melissa Murray Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law Faculty Director, Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice, Berkeley Law School Visiting Scholar, Columbia Law School, Spring 2018 
Professor Olatunde Johnson Jerome B. Sherman Professor of Law Vice-Dean for Intellectual Life, Columbia Law School This program is co-supported by the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, the Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality, and the Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia Law School.

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