The authors of the book Hot Flash: How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It (Stanford University Press, 2024) and commentators will explore the multifaceted challenges and opportunities at the intersections between and among menopause, culture, and law. Like menstruation, menopause is a largely involuntary and age-related phase of life that has long been enveloped in silence and shame. An estimated 46.5 million individuals worldwide experience menopause annually. The authors and commentators will critically examine the current state of research on menopause, unraveling its impact on individuals within the context of legal frameworks and cultural norms around gender, aging, and work.
Pinki Mathur Anurag, Associate Professor, Jindal Global Law School
Prof. Pinki’s academic interests include international human rights law and feminist engagements with law and society. Pinki is currently researching the evolving narratives of gender empowerment and its engagement with the feminist movement.
Pinki was Director, Technical, at the Lawyers Collective, Women’s Rights Initiative (LCWRI). She has extensive litigation experience ranging from matrimonial and child custody disputes to domestic violence cases. She participated in the drafting and consultation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2006 (PWDVA) and supervised the annual monitoring and evaluation of the Act at LCWRI. As Coordinator of Asia Cause Lawyers Network, (ACLN) (an initiative of the Wellesley Centre for Gender, Wellesley College, USA and LCWRI) she facilitated a network of lawyers, activists, academics and researchers with the shared objective of engaging with feminist jurisprudence and litigation strategies. Pinki has served as a Research Consultant for a study on Service Providers under the PWDVA in the State of Maharashtra, sponsored by Masum and Swiss Aid (and authored the consequent report).
She represented ACLN as the technical expert on domestic violence at the ASEAN Workshop on Domestic Violence, Hanoi, Vietnam (2008). Along with Indira Jaising, she provided expertise on Violence Against Women at the Consultation of the ASEAN Commission on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Women and Children, Manila, Philippines (2012), hosted by the Government of Philippines, organised by UN Women and UNICEF. Pinki was a panellist at the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), Hague, on a Round Table on Women’s Access to Justice, Gender Equality and the Rule of Law (2015).
Pinki is co-editor of “Conflict in the Shared Household: The Law and Domestic Violence in India” Oxford University Press, 2019 (Ed: Indira Jaising, Pinki Mathur Anurag). Her most recent publication in the area of domestic violence is: “Stay Home, Stay Safe? In Lockdown with the Abuser” in “The Gendered Contagion: Perspectives on Domestic Violence during COVID-19” Gender, Human Rights and Law, Volume 7, Centre for Women and the Law, National Law School of India University, Bangalore, 2020.
As visiting faculty at KC Law College, University of Mumbai (2009-2010) Pinki taught Family Law 1 & 2. She enjoys experimenting with different educational pedagogies to improve student outcomes and experiences.
Bridget J. Crawford, University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law, Pace University Elisabeth Hub School of Law
Professor Bridget J. Crawford teaches Federal Income Taxation; Estate and Gift Taxation; and Wills, Trusts and Estates. 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.Professor Crawford is a member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. She is the former Editor of the ACTEC Journal. Professor Crawford is the former chair of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education and the AALS Section on Trusts & Estates. She is one of 26 law professors profiled in the book by Michael Hunter Schwartz et al., What the Best Law Teachers Do, recently published by Harvard University Press. From 2008 through 2012, Professor Crawford served as Haub Law’s inaugural Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, and she served again in that role in 2014-2015. Her book Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (co-edited with Linda L. Berger and Kathryn M. Stanchi), was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Her following book, Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions (co-edited with Anthony C. Infanti), was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Professor Crawford is the co-editor of a series of Feminist Judgments books that cover a wide range of subject matters. Professor Crawford is a co-author of three casebooks: Federal Taxes of Gratuitous Transfers: Law & Planning (with Joseph M. Dodge & Wendy C. Gerzog), the seventh edition of Federal Income Taxation: Cases and Materials(with Joel Newman & Dorothy Brown), and the second edition of Wills, Trusts & Estates: An Integrated Approach (with Danaya C. Wright & Michael J. Higdon).
Naomi R Cahn, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Law, Armistead M. Dobie Professor of Law, and Co-Director, Family Law Center, University of Virginia School of Law
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.Cahn is a co-author of casebooks in both family law and trusts and estates, and she has written numerous articles exploring the intersections among family law, trusts and estates, and feminist theory, as well as essays concerning the connections between gender and international law. In addition, she is the author or editor of books written for both academic and trade publishers. 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).Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and New Yorker, and she has appeared on numerous media outlets, including NPR and MSNBC. She is also a senior contributor to the Forbes Leadership Channel, for which she regularly writes posts on gender equity. In 2017, Cahn won the Harry Krause Lifetime Achievement in Family Law Award from the University of Illinois College of Law. She has worked with the Uniform Law Commission as a reporter for two drafting committees. In addition to her work with the commission, Cahn is a member of the American Law Institute, an elected fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, editor of the ACTEC Law Journal and a member of the American Bar Foundation, among other commitments. She serves on the editorial board of the Family Court Review. In addition, she has chaired and been on the steering committee for some of the major Association of American Law Schools sections, such as Women in Legal Education, Family & Juvenile Law, Aging and Africa. From 2002-04, Cahn researched gender-based violence while on leave and living in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Prior to joining the faculty at GW Law, Cahn practiced with Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C., and with Community Legal Services in Philadelphia.
Lolita Buckner Inniss, Dean and Provost’s Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
Lolita Buckner Inniss is a distinguished academic leader, scholar, and public servant. She is currently the 17th dean in the University of Colorado Law School’s 132-year history, the second woman dean, and the first Black Dean. She is also a Provost’s Professor of Law and is an affiliate of the Center for African & African American Studies. As Dean she has worked to broaden access and equity for students, has filled vital teaching needs by hiring one of the most accomplished and largest cohorts of faculty in the history of Colorado Law, and has shepherded one of the largest clinical gifts in the history of the school.
Elizabeth R. Kukura, Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Professor Kukura’s research explores the intersections of health law and gender, 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 work on obstetric violence explores the lack of legal recourse for rights violations during childbirth and the disproportionate burdens on people of color and other marginalized people within the maternity care system.
Professor Kukura’s scholarship has appeared in such journals as the Georgetown Law Journal, Nebraska Law Review, Penn State Law Review, Baltimore Law Review, and the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice. Her new article, Better Birth, which examines the unduly burdensome regulation of midwifery that impedes efforts to improve maternal health outcomes, is forthcoming in the Temple Law Review.
Before joining the Kline School of Law, Professor Kukura taught at the Temple University Beasley School of Law. She has also taught at Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine in the Center for Urban Bioethics.
Previously, she practiced at Bryan Cave LLP in New York, where she litigated securities, employment, and other commercial matters, and engaged in pro bono work to advance LGBTQ rights.
She received her JD from New York University School of Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the NYU Review of Law & Social Change. She also holds an LLM from Temple University Beasley School of Law and an MSc in Human Rights from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
Margaret Foster Riley, University of Virginia School of Law
Professor of Law, General Faculty Dorothy Danforth Compton Professor, Miller Center Professor of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine Professor of Public Policy, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy Director, Animal Law Program
Margaret (Mimi) Foster Riley teaches food and drug law, health law, animal law, bioethics, regulation of clinical research and public health law.
Riley has written and presented extensively about health care law, biomedical research, genetics, reproductive technologies, stem cell research, animal biotechnology, health disparities and chronic disease. She serves as chair of UVA’s Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee and as legal advisor to the Health Sciences Institutional Review Board, which is responsible for reviewing all human subject research at UVA involving medically invasive procedures. She served on the National Research Council Committee on Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects and has advised numerous committees of the Institute of Medicine and the Virginia Bar.
Before coming to Virginia, Riley was an associate with Pepper Hamilton & Scheetz in Philadelphia, where she worked primarily in complex securities, commercial and mass tort litigation. Prior to that position, she was a litigation associate with Rogers & Wells in New York. Riley received her law degree from Columbia University and her bachelor of arts from Duke University.
Emily Gold Waldman, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and Ian J. Yankwitt Faculty Scholar, Pace University Elisabeth Hub 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. Professor Waldman received the law school’s Ottinger Award for Faculty Achievement in 2015, 2018 and 2023, the Professor of the Year Award from the Black Law Students Association in 2013, and the Goettel Prize for Faculty Scholarship in 2008. She currently serves as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development.
