Law Review Symposium on Obergefell v. Hodges: 10 Years and Beyond: Northern Kentucky University, Greater Cincinnati Region

Obergefell v. Hodges: 10 Years Later - Thursday, March 20, 2025

Registration

DATE
Thursday, March 20, 2025

TIME
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

LOCATION
James C. and Rachel M. Votruba Student Union Ballroom
at Northern Kentucky University

CLE
6.0 general CLE hours approved in KY and pending in OH

COST
$50 NKU Alumni
$65 General Public
$0 University faculty, staff and students

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Symposium Committee

Faculty Advisor and Speaker

Jack Harrison
David and Nancy Wolf Chair in Ethics and Professional Identity Professor of Law
Director, Center for Excellence in Advocacy
NKU Chase College of Law
BIO

Northern Kentucky Law Review

Matthew Carlin
Editor-in-Chief

Summer Williams
Executive Editor

Joseph Gerwert
Symposium Editor

Staff Advisor

Jeannine Abukhater Lambert
Executive Director of Centers & Programming
NKU Chase College of Law
BIO

Special Events Coordinator

Ivory Faeth
Events Specialist
NKU Chase College of Law
BIO

Agenda

Welcome Remarks

9:00-9:15 a.m.

Judith Daar
Dean and Professor of Law
NKU Chase College of Law
BIO

Matthew Carlin
Editor-in-Chief
Northern Kentucky Law Review

Summer Williams
Executive Editor
Northern Kentucky Law Review

Joe Gerwert
Symposium Editor
Northern Kentucky Law Review

Panel on the History of Obergefell v. Hodges

9:15-10:45 a.m.

Honorable Timothy Black
Judge
United States District Court
Southern District of Ohio
BIO

Al Gerhardstein
Counsel for Petitioner
Friedman, Gilbert + Gerhardstein
Bio

Jack Harrison
David and Nancy Wolf Chair in Ethics and Professional Identity Professor of Law
BIO

Regina Hillman
Professor of Law
Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
Memphis, TN
BIO

Richard Hodges
Respondent
Former Director
Ohio Department of Health
BIO

James Obergefell
Petitioner
LGBTQ+ and Civil Rights Activist
Cincinnati, Ohio
BIO

Panel on Reproductive and Family Rights

11:00-12:30 p.m.

Judith Daar
Dean and Professor of Law
NKU Salmon P. Chase College of Law
Highland Heights, KY
BIO

Jeffrey Dodge
Associate Dean
Joseph H. Goldstein Faculty Scholar
Penn State Dickinson Law
BIO

Melanie Jacobs
Dean and Professor of Law
University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
BIO

Kimberly Mutcherson
Professor of Law
Rutgers Law School
Camden, NJ
BIO

Ryan Thoreson
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Cincinnati College of Law
Cincinnati, OH
BIO

Luncheon and Law Review Student Note Presentations

12:30-1:30 p.m.

Valerie Benton
Associate Editor
Northern Kentucky Law Review
NKU Chase College of Law
BIO

Jacob Williams
Associate Editor
Northern Kentucky Law Review
NKU Chase College of Law
BIO

Panel on the Intersection of the First and Fourteenth Amendments

1:30-3:00 p.m.

Luke Boso
Co-Associate Dean of Research
Professor of Law
Southwestern Law School
Los Angeles, CA
BIO

Joe Dunman
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
BIO

Jennifer Kinsley
Judge, Ohio First District Court of Appeals
Professor of Law
NKU Chase Law
BIO

Rev. David Meredith
Retired Pastor
Clifton United Methodist Church
BIO

Panel on the Future of Civil Rights

3:00-4:30 p.m.

Janaya Trotter Bratton
Judge
Hamilton County Municipal Court
BIO

Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr.
Advocate and Educator
Poet
BIO

Aníbal Rosario Lebrón
Associate Professor of Law

Rutgers Law School
Newark, NJ
BIO

Nicholas Serafin
Albert J. Ruffo Assistant Professor of Law
Santa Clara University School of Law
BIO

Eliot Tracz
Assistant Professor of Law

New England Law | Boston
BIO

Closing Remarks

4:30 p.m.

Jack Harrison
David and Nancy Wolf Chair in Ethics and Professional Identity Professor of Law; Director, Center for Excellence in Advocacy
NKU Chase College of Law
BIO