Martha Albertson Fineman, Robert W. Woodruff Professor at Emory University, is an internationally recognized law and society scholar. She is a leading authority on family law and feminist jurisprudence, her scholarly interests include the legal regulation of intimacy and the implications of human dependency and vulnerability.
Fineman is founding director of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project (FLT), which recently published Transcending the Boundaries of Law: Generations of Feminism and Legal Theory (Routledge 2010). She is also the faculty facilitator of the Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative (VHC), which hosts national and international workshops and conferences, as well as reading groups, and a works-in-progress seminar for Emory faculty and graduate students.
Light reception to follow conversation.