Campus - White Coats, Green Dollars, and Denim Jackets
Nancy M. Sills '76 Memorial Lecture
White Coats, Green Dollars, and Denim Jackets: The Legal and Financial Challenges of Later-Life Stepfamilies
Naomi Cahn
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Family Law Center, University of Virginia School of Law
Thursday, November 14, 2024
5:00 p.m.
Albany Law School, Room 200
(1) CLE Credit Available for in-person attendees
Reception to follow
Living to one hundred isn't extraordinary anymore. As people and families live longer, has the law kept up? Many issues arise that the law still needs to address: Gray divorce - should courts treat it differently? Spousal inheritance and alternative living arrangements - do these call for new rules? Should Medicare rules change? Naomi Cahn, Justice Anthony Kennedy Professor of Law at Virginia School of Law and author of many books, including Red Families v. Blue Families, will discuss the dilemmas today's aging poses for the law and possible solutions.
The lecture will be followed by a round table discussion of Professor Cahn’s book, Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It, with co-authors Professor Bridget Crawford of Pace Law School and Professor Emily Waldman of Pace Law School. A reception will follow.
About Professor Naomi Cahn
Naomi Cahn is currently Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and Co-Director of the Family Law Center. She received her BA from Princeton in 1979, her JD from Columbia in 1983, and her LLM from Georgetown Law School in 1988. She has published numerous articles and books in the areas of Elder Law, Trusts and Estates, and Family Law, and has co-authored casebooks on Family Law and Trusts and Estates. She has written both trade and academic books, including Red Families v. Blue Families (Oxford, 2010), and Homeward Bound (Oxford, 2017). Her work has appeared on the New York Times, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal , and The New Yorker. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel, and the American Bar Foundation.
About Professor Bridget Crawford
Bridget Crawford is Professor of Law at Pace University's Elisabeth Haub School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on issues of taxation, especially wealth transfer taxation; property law, especially wills and trusts; tax policy; and gender and the law. Professor Crawford's scholarship has been published in journals including the Washington University Law Review, The University of Chicago Legal Forum, Boston University Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, and specialty journals at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan.
Prior to joining the Haub Law faculty, Professor Crawford practiced law at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York (now Milbank LLP). Her practice was concerned with income, estate and gift tax planning for individuals, as well as tax and other advice to closely held corporations and exempt organizations.
About Professor Emily Gold Waldman
Emily Gold Waldman is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty Development at Pace University's Elisabeth Haub School of Law. Professor Emily Gold Waldman joined the Pace 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.
From 2003–2005, Professor Waldman practiced in the litigation department of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. Prior to that, she clerked for the Honorable William G. Young, U.S. District Judge for the District of Massachusetts. She served as the chair of the AALS Section on Education Law during the 2011–2012 school year, is a member of the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Employment Discrimination, and is also a member of the Second Circuit's Judicial Council Committee on Civic Education & Public Engagement.
About the Book
Hot Flash explores the culturally specific stereotypes that surround menopause as well as how menopause is treated in law and medicine. The book contextualizes menopause as one of several stages in a person's reproductive life. Taking U.S. law regarding pregnancy and breastfeeding as an entry point, the authors suggest changes in existing legislation and workplace policies that would incorporate menopause as well. More broadly, they push us to imagine how law can support a more equitable future.
Purchase the book through Stanford University Press or on Amazon and have it signed at the event.
Parking:
Parking is available at Albany Law School's Senior Lot. To enter the lot, use Holland Ave
CLE Information:
Albany Law School’s Center for Continuing Legal Education has been certified by the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board as an accredited provider of Continuing Legal Education in the State of New York. This program has been accredited as a source of continuing legal education credits for both transitional and non-transitional attorneys in New York State. For financial hardship guidelines, please call the Center for Continuing Legal Education at (518) 472-5888.
ACCOMMODATION
We welcome requests for accommodation due to a disability. Please contact Albany Law School’s Center for Continuing Legal Education at (518) 472-5888 at least a week prior to the course to discuss your requirements.
NOTE
New York State Continuing Legal Education Board regulations state that credit shall be awarded only for attendance at an entire course or program, or for attendance at an entire session of a course or program. No credit shall be awarded for attending portion of a session.