Conferences & Symposia
Roundtable: Family, Privacy, Secrets & the Law
March 7-8, 2013
Family, Privacy, Secrets & the Law
March 7-8, 2013
University of Maryland
Francis King Carey School of Law
500 West Baltimore Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
March 7, 5 p.m. - Book Reading and signing by Jonathan Odell, author of The Healing
March 8, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. - Roundtable discussions
Family, Privacy, Secrets & the Law roundtable engages the intersections of medicine, criminal law, family law, and constitutional law. The conference faculty will chart contemporary issues that span genetic privacy, disclosure of parental identity in assisted reproduction cases and DNA conscription to domestic violence and child sexual abuse.
There are times in which the law protects secrets, such as between a lawyer and client, doctor and patient, or clergy and congregant. Yet, there are times when the law demands that secret-keepers reveal their confidences such as the increasing demand on doctors to disclose confidential medical information on pregnant women to law enforcement. How should we understand the contours and boundaries of these dynamics within the law? On one hand, law tends to address secrets through the lens of legal duties to protect the vulnerable via its regulations governing abuse and neglect. On the other hand, this set of laws captures only a small percentage of secrets held by family members and other trusted "secret keepers" (doctors, clergy, extended family, neighbors) who, for a variety of reasons elect not to inform the state.
This roundtable interrogates states’ obligations to protect the vulnerable and at what cost. It considers the ways in which the law promises/owes protection and the success, failure or harms it brings about when endeavoring to intervene and offer protection. Against that backdrop, the law also has the obligation to honor individual and family autonomy and privacy.
Schedule
Thursday, March 7, 2013
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - Book Reading and Signing: Jonathan Odell, The Healing
Friday, March 8, 2013
9:00 a.m. - Introduction & Welcome
9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. - Session I - Genetic Privacy: Secret Mothers, Fathers, & Lives
Chair: Taunya Banks
Panelists: Martha Ertman | Glenn Cohen | Lori Andrews
Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Session II - Public Versus Private: Courts & Law Enforcement
Chair: Michael Pinard
Panelists: Deborah Epstein | Michele Goodwin
Noon - Lunch & Keynote Address from Jonathan Odell
1:10 p.m. - 2:40 p.m. - Session III - Minors, Networks, Sexuality and Privacy
Chair: Karen Czapanskiy
Panelists: Laura Rosenbury | Camille Gear Rich | Gaia Bernstein
2:40 p.m. - 3:40 p.m. - Session IV - Reimagining Privacy
Chair: Naomi Cahn
Panelists: Eleanor Brown | Martha Field
Break
3:50 p.m. - 4:05 p.m. - Closing Commentary
Reflection: June Carbone
Closing: Michele Goodwin
Roundtable Faculty:
Lori Andrews
Distinguished Professor of Law
Director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Gaia Bernstein
Professor of Law
Seton Hall University School of Law
Eleanor Brown
Associate Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
June Carbone
Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair in Law, the Constitution and Society
Professor of Law
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Glen Cohen
Assistant Professor of Law
Co-Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
Harvard Law School
Deborah Epstein
Director, Domestic Violence Clinic, Professor of Law
Georgetown Law
Martha Ertman
Carole & Hanan Sibel Research Professor of Law
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Martha Field
Langdell Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Michele Goodwin
Everett Fraser Professor of Law
University of Minnesota Law School
Jonathan Odell
Author of The Healing
Camille Gear Rich
Associate Professor of Law
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Laura Rosenbury
Professor of Law
Washington University School of Law
Faculty Chairs
Taunya Banks
Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Naomi Cahn
Harold H. Greene Professor of Law
George Washington University Law School
Karen Czapanskiy
Francis & Harriet Iglehart Research Professor of Law
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Michael Pinard
Professor of Law
Director of Clinical Law Program
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
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