Defeating DOMA: The Changing Nature of Equality Under the US Constitution
An exploration of the US Supreme Court’s groundbreaking Windsor ruling. Dozens of courts have relied explicitly on that case to accord gay couples equal rights under the law.
Speaker: Roberta Kaplan, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, who successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court the landmark U.S. V. Windsor marriage equality case, which struck down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
Moderator: Marc Gary, Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Operating Officer, JTS; Former General Counsel, Fidelity Investments and BellSouth Corporation
The Bernard G. Segal Memorial Lecture in Law and Ethics