We are pleased to announce and invite all interested persons to attend a scholarly symposium on DOMA Issues Concerning Federalism and Interstate Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships that will convene at California Western School of Law in San Diego, California, on Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20, 2010. The symposium is being co-sponsored by the California Western School of Law and the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.
The purpose of this symposium is to analyze the federalism and full faith and credit issues concerning inter-jurisdictional recognition (or non-recognition) of same-sex couples’ relationships under the Defense of Marriage Act. We hope that conference papers will explore the current situation on this highly contested issue and also offer reflections on how this issue ought to be addressed. We anticipate that conference speakers will explore this issue from a variety of perspectives ideological and legal, including conflict of laws, full faith and credit, federalism, and other public policy perspectives, including both the horizontal and vertical aspects of these issues. We anticipate that the papers will include perspectives ranging from the theoretical to the doctrinal to the pragmatic.
Papers presented at this symposium will be published in a symposium issue of the California Western International Law Journal.
For further information contact Lorelie Sander by email: sanderl@law.byu.edu or by telephone: 801-422-2079.
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