Journal RGE

Thursday, March 27, 2025
via Zoom


NY CLE credit available to participating attorneys.

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
Touro Law Center is pleased to announce the 2025 symposium, The Governance, Law, and Regulation of the Body, which will be held entirely over Zoom on March 27, 2025. The symposium will cover a variety of topics that broadly focus on concerns regarding autonomy and the scope of individual agency as these issues pertain to our bodies, including reproductive rights post-Dobbs; state control over transgender individuals; the relationship between law and death; and more. Ultimately, the conversation will focus on regulatory efforts by the state that impact the treatment of, and control over our physical selves, as well as the circumstances under which those interventions should be promoted or constrained.


CONFERENCE PROGRAM:

9:00 am - Welcome
Tiffany C. Graham, Associate Dean for Campus Engagement and Associate Professor of Law, Touro Law Center

9:05-10:20 am - The Conflict Between Freedom and Intervention in Transgender Lives

Charlie Arrowood, Senior Counsel, Richard C. Failla LGBTQ Commission
Brendan Conner, Assistant Professor of Law, Delaware Law School
Susan Keller, Professor of Law, Western State College of Law

MODERATOR: Meredith R. Miller, Professor of Law, Touro Law Center

10:20-10:30 am - Break

10:30-11:45 am - The Legal Regulation of Death

James Arrowood, CEO/President & General Counsel, Alcor Life Extension Foundation
Ela Leshem, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham School of Law
Fred O. Smith, Jr., Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law

MODERATOR: Danielle N. Rielly, Assistant Professor of Legal Process

11:45-Noon - Break

12:00-12:50 pm - Keynote Address

Victoria J. Haneman, Associate Dean for Research & Innovation, Frank J. Kellegher Professor of Trusts & Estates, Creighton University School of Law

12:50-1:00 pm - Break

1:00-2:15 pm - Regulation from the Cradle to the Grave: Autistic Children, Incarceration, and the Role of Religion in Disinterment

Jami Anderson, Teaching Assistant Professor of Law, Wayne State University Law School
Eileen Prescott, Project Director for Accountable Prosecutor Project, Wake Forest University School of Law
Peter Zablotsky, Professor of Law, Touro Law Center

MODERATOR: Jorge Roig, Director of Neighborhood Programs and Associate Professor of Law

2:15-2:30 pm - Break

2:30-3:45 pm - Reproductive Rights Post Dobbs

Rachael Houston, Assistant Professor of American Judicial Politics, Texas Christian University
Eliot Tracz, Assistant Professor of Law, New England Law, Boston 

MODERATOR: Rebecca S. Feinberg, Distinguished Chair in Health Law, Bioethics and Policy and Associate Professor of Law

3:45 pm- Closing Remarks
Tiffany C. Graham, Associate Professor of Law, Touro Law Center

SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZER
Tiffany C. Graham, Associate Dean for Campus Engagement and Associate Professor of Law

Please direct all questions to Symposium Editor at tlcjrge@student.touro.edu or Professor Tiffany Graham at tgraham3@tourolaw.edu.