Call for Papers: WOMEN IN POLITICS - THE ROLE OF GENDER IN POLITICAL DECISION MAKING

               EIGHTH ANNUAL WOMEN AND THE LAW CONFERENCE
                    AND RUTH BADER GINSBURG LECTURE

                           WOMEN IN POLITICS
            THE ROLE OF GENDER IN POLITICAL DECISION MAKING

                       Friday, February 29, 2008
               Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego


     Women have made enormous strides in the political arena.
     We have come a long way from the days when women served in
     Congress only when their husbands' deaths caused a vacancy.
     With Senator Hillary Clinton's candidacy for president, we
     may soon surpass the aspiration of the 1960s: "A woman's
     place is in the House...and the Senate."

     We are still a long way, however, from the day in which the
     ultimate glass ceiling will be shattered and a candidate's
     gender will be considered truly irrelevant in an election.
     This year's Women and the Law Conference hosted by the
     Women and the Law Project at Thomas Jefferson School of Law
     brings together an inspirational panel of female
     politicians and political scientists to examine the role
     gender plays in U.S. politics.


     TOPICS:

     The conference speakers will explore a number of topics,
     including: special challenges facing women politicians; the
     intersectional effects of race, class, and gender in
     elections; the role of gender in campaign messages; gender
     voting patterns; partisan differences in the nomination of
     women to office; female congressional candidates; and
     male/female judicial and political voting patterns.


     SPEAKERS:

     Speakers at the 2008 conference who have held political
     office include Dede Alpert (former state senator); Midge
     Costanza (assistant to President Carter); Bonnie Dumanis
     (San Diego District Attorney); Donna Frye (San Diego City
     Councilwoman and mayoral candidate); Karen Hewitt (U.S.
     Attorney); Christine Kehoe (state senator); Carol Lam
     (Senior Vice President and Legal Counsel, QUALCOMM Inc.);
     Sharon Majors-Lewis (Judicial Appointments Secretary to
     Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger); and Lynn Schenk (former
     U.S. Congresswoman).

     The academic speakers are political science professors who
     are experts on the role of gender in elections and
     political appointments and include Lisa Garcia Bedolla
     (U.C. Irvine); Barbara Burrell (N. Ill. University);
     Madhavi McCall (SDSU); Melinda Mueller (E. Ill.
     University); Valerie O'Regan (Cal State Fullerton); Barbara
     Palmer (American University); Ronnee Schreiber (SDSU) and
     Stephen Stambough (Cal State Fullerton).


     REGISTRATION/FURTHER INFORMATION:

     To register and obtain more information, please visit:

                    http://www.tjsl.edu/womenandlaw

     or contact:

     CONTACT:       Randy Ward
     Email:         MAILTO:rward@tjsl.edu
     Tel:           (619) 297-9700 ext. 1415
Posted 2/8/08