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Standing Up for Sexual Respect

Diane Rosenfeld, lecturer at Harvard Law School

October 14 at 7 p.m.
Stahr Auditorium
Stager Hall

Lecture by Diane Rosenfeld, Harvard University Law School

Diane L. Rosenfeld is a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches courses on gender violence, law and social justice, Title IX and theories of sexual coercion. She supervises clinical students who work on women’s rights legal advocacy and gender justice, particularly in the areas of campus sexual assault and improving the criminal justice response to domestic violence. Additionally, she teaches reading groups on Feminist Jurisprudence and the Common Law and Power, Beauty, Sex and Violence.

Rosenfeld received her LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1996. Prior to teaching at Harvard, she served as senior counsel to the Violence Against Women Office of the U.S. Department of Justice. She also served as an executive assistant attorney general in Illinois, where she provided legal policy advising in women’s rights, environmental enforcement and the ethics of government attorneys.

Rosenfeld, along with Cambridge Documentary Films, co-produced the film Rape Is…, which has received several film awards. She has lectured extensively on the film, in the U.S. and abroad. Rosenfeld will be showing this film Oct. 15 at noon in Stahr Auditorium.

Rosenfeld is a frequent public speaker on the various legal and social policy issues concerning violence against women. She has served as a commissioner on the Governor’s Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence in Massachusetts.

The lecture is co-sponsored by the Alice Drum Women's Center, Sexual Assault and Violence Education, the Center for Liberal Arts and Society and the KnowHow Coalition as part of F&M's Week Without Violence.

This event is part of the College’s celebration of 40 years of coeducation.