2025 CLE Conference on Gender Discrimination and Harassment Law

January 23-24, 2025

International House (Chevron Auditorium)
and online via Zoom

REGISTER HERE!

Conference Brochure

CLE Materials (Registrants Only)

Conference Program

Day 1: Thursday, January 23

9:00 – 9:15 am
Opening Remarks from Dean Erwin Chemerinsky

9:15 – 10:00 am
Disability and Sexual Harassment/Violence

10:00 – 11:00 am
Developments in Title IX: Transgender and Nonbinary Students

11:00 – 11:30 am
Coffee Break and Small Group Discussions

11:30 – 12:15 pm
Sexual Harassment in Africa

12:15 – 1:00 pm
Keynote Presentation by Prof. Karen O’Connell
“Sexual harassment as an environmental stressor and health harm: How should law respond?”

1:00 – 1:45 pm
Lunch and Small Group Discussions on Keynote Presentation

1:45 – 2:00 pm
Celebration of Lindsay E. Harris

2:00 – 3:00 pm
Title VII Religious Exemptions and Equality Law; Balancing Competing Rights

3:00 – 3:45 pm
Trauma Informed Lawyering: Investigations and Litigation as a Trauma-Inducing Process

3:45 – 4:15 pm
Coffee Break

4:15 – 5:00 pm 
Keynote TBA

5:00 – 5:45 pm
New Developments in Class Actions

5:45 pm
Reception with Hors D’oeuvres

Day 2: Friday, January 24

8:30 – 9:00 am 
Breakfast 

9:00 – 9:45 am
Intersectionality and Sexual Harassment 

9:45 – 10:30 am
Keynote Presentation by Prof. Shaakirrah R. Sanders
“When Tenure Fails to Protect Against Discrimination and Retaliation”

10:30 – 10:45 am
Coffee Break 

10:45 – 11:45 am 
Restorative Justice 

11:45 – 12:45 pm
Investigations (Investigating a Title VII Complaint)

12:45 – 1:30 pm
Lunch and Small Group Discussions on Investigations

1:30 – 2:15 pm
Keynote Presentation by Prof. Celeste Kidd
AI and Employment Discrimination

2:15 – 3:00 pm
Developments in CA Discrimination Law

3:00 – 3:15 pm
Coffee Break 

3:15 – 4:00 pm
Mandatory Arbitration

4:00 – 4:45 pm
Keynote Presentation by Prof. Khiara M. Bridges 
“Impact of Dobbs and/or Election Results on Reproductive Rights and Employment for Women”

4:45 – 5:15 pm
Small Group Discussions on Keynote Presentations (with lemonade/soda)

5:15 – 5:30 pm
Closing Remarks by Prof. David B. Oppenheimer

Registration Fee for the 2025 CLE Conference

In-Person Participation: $650 

Online Participation via Zoom: $495 

*If you are a member or supporter of any of our partner organizations, you are entitled to a $100 discount with the code, “partnership100”.