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- 20th Anniversary of Al Jazeera
- Job Creation and the Presidential Campaign: Party Affiliation Offers Clues on Who Will Deliver
EXPERT ROUNDUP: Transgender Bathroom Case (10 experts)
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EXPERT ALERTS:
20th Anniversary of Al Jazeera
Mark Grabowski
Associate Professor, Department of Communications
Adelphi University, Garden City, N.Y.
November marks the 20th anniversary of Al Jazeera, the news media outlet based in Qatar. When the war broke out in Afghanistan, Al Jazeera was the only channel to cover the war live. Grabowski can answer: In the past 20 years, what influence has Al Jazeera truly had? Has their role in journalism changed over time? How did Al Jazeera's war coverage affect public opinion? Why was it groundbreaking? How does Al Jazeera's coverage of U.S. politics differ from that of the U.S. media?
Grabowski says: "Al Jazeera is like the CNN of the Mideast, except it's better. It has more embedded reporters and more bureaus than anyone else in the world, is ranked as one of the least censored news outlets in the world by a non-partisan western organization, is arguably less opinion-driven than any major news outlet in the U.S., and covers serious topics about world affairs that most American media outlets don't care about. And they have a lot of talented journalists working for them, including many Americans – they've recruited top journalists from major U.S. broadcast and print media outlets. Every time I tune in, I learn about things I had no clue were even an issue. They're not perfect. In recent years, for example, they have run some questionable stories and struggled to attract viewers. But what TV news network hasn't had the same problems? Critics also argue they're biased. And, in fairness, they are owned by the Qatari government, so they basically give the world Qatar's views on world affairs (which is usually fairly in line with the U.S.). Sure, they'll put their own spin on things, but all news organizations do. For the most part, they're pretty even-handed. They equally criticize Israel and Israel's enemies, such as Assad and Hezbollah. Their stories often have a power-to-the-people narrative. This free-wheeling, uncensored approach makes Al Jazeera a unique news organization in a region known for press oppression and has allowed them to attract millions of viewers and become a long-lasting success."
Grabowski teaches journalism courses, including international reporting and press and society. He lived in the Middle East when Al Jazeera launched. Previously, he spent five years reporting on news and politics for large newspapers around the country. He holds a J.D. from Georgetown Law.
Website: http://www.adelphi.edu
Media Contact: Kali Chan, [email protected]
Job Creation and the Presidential Campaign: Party Affiliation Offers Clues on Who Will Deliver
Johannes Moenius
Professor
University of Redlands
A new study from the Institute for Spatial Economic Analysis at the University of Redlands uses data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to analyze how well every former president since John F. Kennedy has performed in terms of creating jobs. Specifically, the study reveals how that performance is related to party affiliation and how ethnic minorities in particular have fared under both Republican and Democratic presidents. Says Moenius: "Democratic presidents have a slight advantage over Republican presidents. It's unclear if we can attribute this to presidential policies, but our research shows more favorable job market outcomes for Blacks, Asians, and especially Hispanics under Democratic presidents."
Moenius is located in Redlands, California.
Bio: http://www.profnetconnect.com/johannesmoenius
Website: http://www.redlands.edu
Contact: Jennifer Dobbs, [email protected]
EXPERT ROUNDUP: Transgender Bathroom Case (10 experts)
Title IX and Higher Education Law and Policy
Peter Lake
Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy
Stetson University
"My sense is a certain momentum is building for broader protection of (LGBT) rights, and we might be seeing a moment of federal civil rights law in long-term transition."
Contact: Brandi Palmer, [email protected]
Transgender Political and Social Movement
Don Haider-Markel
Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science
University of Kansas
"This is a huge case for the transgender community because it has the potential to establish a national precedent on what has become the central issue for trans equality -- the use of public facilities. That said, I can easily see the Supreme Court issuing a divided decision in this case, which would uphold the lower court ruling and allow the student to use the boy's bathroom, but fail to establish a national precedent. Either way this case will be a notable milestone in the debate over trans rights."
Haider-Markel can discuss what the Supreme Court hearing the case will mean to the transgender political and social movement. He is co-editor of the book "Transgender Rights and Politics: Groups, Issue Framing & Policy Adoption." C-SPAN's book TV in a 2015 segment featured the research. His research and teaching is focused on the representation of interests in the policy process and the dynamics between public opinion, political behavior and public policy. Haider-Markel has more than 20 years of experience in survey research, interviews and in policy studies. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 journal articles, more than a dozen book chapters and several books in a range of issue areas, including civil rights, race and inequality, religion and the culture wars, criminal justice policy, counterterrorism and environmental policy.
Contact: George Diepenbrock, [email protected]
Title IX Compliance
Scott Schneider
Attorney at Law
Fisher & Phillips LLP
Schneider is the head of the Higher Education Practice Group for Fisher & Phillips LLP. He has specific expertise in Title IX compliance and teaches a course on Title IX at Tulane Law School.
Bio: https://www.fisherphillips.com/attorneys-sschneider
Contact: [email protected]
Transgender Ruling May Hinge on Definition of 'Sex'
Shonn Brown
Attorney
Lynn Pinker Cox & Hurst in Dallas
"It's a bit surprising how quickly the courts have moved, and we now have cert granted by the Supreme Court. It was only in June that the federal court in Fort Worth temporarily blocked the Obama Administration's instructions for public schools. Federal officials interpreted the word 'sex' in anti-discrimination statutes to also cover gender identity. With the differentiation between 'biological' and 'identity' being interpreted differently by other federal courts, the big question for the justices may be: what does 'sex' mean?" Ms. Brown is a highly respected trial lawyer and bar and civic leader, who counsels and advocates for businesses and individual clients engaged in complex legal disputes. She has represented and defended public and private school districts in Texas in high-profile trials.
Contact: Barry Pound, [email protected]
Gloucester Schools Case Could Set a National Policy on Transgender Bathroom Access Rights
Arthur S. Leonard
Professor of Law
New York Law School
"Can decades-old laws prohibiting discrimination 'because of sex' now be understood to prohibit gender identity discrimination—even sexual orientation discrimination? The Gloucester case challenges us with this question. It is a question that was often raised by the late Justice Antonin Scalia: Are we governed by what our lawmakers originally intended or by reasonable interpretations of what they wrote? How the Court views the meaning of 'sex discrimination' is likely to affect the pending Equality Act bill—and perhaps other pending or active laws." More commentary on this case is available here.
Over the past 30 years, Leonard has written numerous articles on employment law, AIDS law, and lesbian and gay law. A frequent national spokesperson on sexual orientation law, and an expert on the rapidly emerging area of gay family law, he is a contributing writer for Gay City News, New York's weekly lesbian and gay newspaper. Leonard received the prestigious 2005 Dan Bradley Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Lesbian and Gay Law Association in recognition of his significant contributions to the advance of LGBT rights under the law. He is available to speak on the history and significance of the Gloucester case as well as pending legislation in Congress that would explicitly cover the kind of discrimination at issue in the case.
Bio: http://www.nyls.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/faculty_profiles/arthur_s_leonard/
Contact: Silvia Alvarez, [email protected] or Ilyse Fink, [email protected]
The Big Question in Transgender Bathroom Case is Right to Privacy
Kathleen Reagan
Professor of Law
Concord Law School
Reagan teaches Constitutional Law. She states, "It's actually a fairly interesting issue concerning the definition of gender and whether sex equals gender. The court previously spoke on this topic regarding same sex marriage, and, to paraphrase Justice Kennedy, love wins. Since that case was decided, and as the dissents noted then, that there was very little by way of guiding principles to be found in the majority's ruling, and so the big question for court watchers is whether this court will swing towards the privacy rights previously found in such as cases as Roe v. Wade, or towards a more expansive view of state power to override such considerations, and if so, how and when. I could look at some precedent to see where they might go -- crystal ball type stuff."
Bio: http://www.concordlawschool.edu/faculty/kathleen-reagan.aspx
Contact: Amy Hawkinson, [email protected]
Transgender Bathroom Case and LGBT Rights
Stephen Clark
Professor of Law
Albany Law School
Clark teaches Sexual Orientation Law, Conflict of Laws, Employment Discrimination, and Labor Law. He is a widely quoted expert on the U.S. Supreme Court and LGBT rights. This October, Clark was a panelist for the Albany Law School forum "The Bathroom Wars," which examined the prohibition against permitting transgender individuals to utilize public restrooms which match their gender identity. Before teaching law, he engaged in private practice and was law clerk to the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana.
Contact: Chris Colton, [email protected]
Transgender Rights
Susan Hazeldean
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Hazeldean is the director of Brooklyn Law School's LGBT Advocacy Clinic, which represents LGBT individuals in immigration and prisoners' rights cases as well as undertake advocacy projects to advance LGBT equality. Her teaching, scholarship, and law practice focus on gender, sexual orientation, immigration, and civil rights. Hazeldean has previously taught at Cornell Law School and Yale Law School. Prior to her academic career, Hazeldean directed the Peter Cicchino Youth Project at the Urban Justice Center in New York City, providing free legal representation to homeless and at-risk LGBT youth in matters related to immigration, foster care, public benefits, and family law.
Contact: Susan Hazeldean, [email protected]
Transgender Rights
Stacey Sobel
Associate Professor of Law
Western State College of Law
Sobel teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law at Western State College of Law. She was previously a lecturer of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she taught Lawyering in the Public Interest and Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and the Law. Sobel taught at Penn Law for five years and received its Adjunct Teaching Award in 2007. She was also a lecturer at Rutgers University School of Law – Camden in 2009 and an assistant professorial lecturer at law at the George Washington University Law School from 1992 to 1996.
Sobel served as Equality Advocates Pennsylvania's (formerly the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights) executive director from 2001 to 2008. While at Equality Advocates, she was part of the leadership teams that defeated legislation attempting to prohibit relationship recognition for non-married couples in the Pennsylvania Constitution in 2006 and 2008, and amended the state's hate crimes law to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, among other groups in 2002. She drafted the hate crimes legislation's text, which was one of the most comprehensive in the country and the first Pennsylvania law to recognize the LGBT community. Under her leadership, Equality Advocates successfully advocated before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as co-counsel for the amici curiae for second parent adoption and custody rights for LGBT parents, and served as co-counsel with the City of Philadelphia to uphold its domestic partnership benefits. Prior to joining Equality Advocates, she was the legal director of the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), where she assisted military members who were harmed by "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and monitored its implementation. Sobel has provided legal and government affairs services for clients including the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the Women's Law Project, among others. Her pro bono work includes serving on the Clinton/Gore transition team and the White House Office of Presidential Personnel in 1992 and 1993. Before she attended law school, she worked for the New York State Assembly House Operations Committee and the New York State Governor's Office of Employee Relations. Sobel received her J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, where she was a dean's fellow and her B.A. cum laude from the University at Albany, State University of New York.
Contact: Ryan C. Smith, [email protected]
Transgender Bathroom Case's Role in the Future of Judicial Politics
Charles Geyh
Professor of Law
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
"Gloucester County School Board comes at a pivotal moment in the Supreme Court's history. Transgender politics is the battle du jour in America's ongoing culture wars and the Court is entering that fray a justice down. The case is being heard at a time when Senate Republicans have threatened to hold Supreme Court appointments hostage as their opening gambit for control of the Court's future direction in a struggle with a president who has yet to be elected. Apart from the merits of the underlying issues at stake, this case could well play an important role in the future of judicial politics."
Charles Geyh is the John F. Kimberling Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, and author of Courting Peril: The Political Transformation of the American Judiciary, published by Oxford University Press in 2016. He can discuss: the politics of judicial decision-making; the politics of judicial appointments; the relationship between federal courts and Congress; and issues related to judicial administration.
Contact: Brianne O'Donnell, [email protected]
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