Menopause and the Law: A Conversation with the Authors of Hot Flash
Although menopause is a stage of life that half the population will experience, silence and stigma surrounding menopause allow bias and discrimination to flourish. Join Vital Signs for a conversation with Professors Emily Gold Waldman, Bridget Crawford, and Naomi Cahn, authors of Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It, about their efforts to replace the silence surrounding menopause with a deeper understanding of menopause as one of several stages in a person’s reproductive life. They will discuss their vision for more responsive laws and policies that would incorporate menopause and support a more equitable future.
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Speakers
Professor Emily Gold Waldman
Professor Emily Gold Waldman joined the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University faculty in 2006, after clerking for the Honorable Robert A. Katzmann, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At Pace, she teaches Constitutional Law, Law & Education, Employment Law Survey, and Civil Procedure. She has also served for many years as the Faculty Director of the law school's Federal Judicial Honors Program, which places students in externships with federal judges in the Second Circuit, Third Circuit, Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York, and District of Connecticut.
Professor Bridget J. Crawford
Professor Bridget J. Crawford joined the faculty of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in 2003. She teaches courses in Federal Income Taxation; Estate and Gift Taxation; and Wills, Trusts and Estates. Professor Crawford’s scholarship focuses on taxation—especially wealth transfer taxation—property law, feminist legal theory, and the intersection of gender and tax policy. Her work has appeared in leading journals including the Washington University Law Review, Boston University Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, The University of Chicago Legal Forum, and in specialty journals at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Michigan.
Professor Naomi Cahn
Professor Naomi Cahn is an expert in family law, trusts and estates, feminist jurisprudence, reproductive technology, and aging and the law. Prior to joining the University of Virginia faculty in 2020, she taught at George Washington Law School, where she twice served as associate dean. She is the co-director of UVA Law’s Family Law Center. Her books include Red Families v. Blue Families (Oxford University Press, 2010, with Professor June Carbone); Homeward Bound (Oxford University Press, 2017, with Amy Ziettlow); and Unequal Family Lives (Cambridge University Press, 2018, co-edited with UVA professor Brad Wilcox and others).
Elizabeth R. Kukura (moderator)
Elizabeth R. Kukura is an Associate Professor of Law at Drexel’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law, where her research focuses on the intersection of gender and health law, with a particular focus on reproductive health and the law and politics of childbirth. Her scholarship examines laws and policies that impact healthcare decision-making and the role of race, class, gender, and sexuality in shaping health care access, experiences, and outcomes. Her scholarship on the maternal health crisis has examined the legal status of midwives in the United States, coerced interventions and other forms of mistreatment by perinatal care providers, and the impact of Dobbs on maternal and reproductive health care.