Mateya Beth Kelley is the 2012-2013 Symposium Editor for the N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change. She will spend next year with Centro de los Derechos del Migrante in Mexico City, Mexico, as an NYU Arthur Helton Global Human Rights Fellow. She will clerk for federal District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander in Baltimore in 2014.
Mateya Beth Kelley authored the Introduction to the 2013 Symposium Issue.
Jaren Janghorbani is a Litigation Associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where she is on the team representing Edith Windsor in Windsor v. United States, along with Roberta Kaplan. Ms. Janghorbani is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School, and she served as a law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the Hon. Dennis Jacobs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Hon. Kimba M. Wood of the Southern District of New York.
Jaren Janghorbani is the co-author, with Roberta Kaplan, of Proof vs. Prejudice.
Professor William N. Eskridge, Jr. is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School. His primary legal academic interest has been statutory interpretation. Together with Professor Philip Frickey, he developed an innovative casebook on Legislation. In 1990-95, Professor Eskridge represented a gay couple suing for recognition of their same-sex marriage. Since then, he has published a field-establishing casebook, three monographs, and dozens of law review articles articulating a legal and political framework for proper state treatment of sexual and gender minorities. The historical materials in the book on Gaylaw formed the basis for an amicus brief he drafted for the Cato Institute and for much of the Court’s (and the dissenting opinion’s) analysis in Lawrence v. Texas(2003), which invalidated consensual sodomy laws. His most recent book is Gay Marriage: For Better or For Worse? (with Darren Spedale). Professor Eskridge received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Davidson College, his masters in History from Harvard, and his J.D. from Yale.
Professor Eskridge is the author of Marriage Equality: An Idea Whose Time is Coming . . .
Therese Stewart is Chief Deputy City Attorney for the City of San Franscisco. In this capacity, she defended Mayor Gavin Newsom’s order authorizing same-sex unions at City Hall in In Re Marriage Cases. Prior to joining the city attorneys office, she was a litigation partner at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin.
Ms. Stewart has represented parties and amici in LGBT civil rights cases, including the airlines’ challenge to San Francisco’s Equal Benefits Ordinance, a lesbian police officer discrimination suit against the City of Sacramento, an early equal protection challenge to the State’s denial of equal benefits to partners of lesbian and gay employees, and the High Tech Gays case challenging the Defense Department’s denial of security clearances to lesbians and gay men.
Ms. Stewart served as the first openly gay President of the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF)as well as the first first Co-Chair of the BASF Committee on Sexual Orientation, which developed guidelines for legal employers on eliminating sexual orientation discrimination. She also co-founded BASF’s School-To-College Program, which provides mentoring and guidance to inner city high school students to help them prepare for, select, and apply to college.
Therese Stewart is the co-author, along with Mollie M. Lee of The Role of Public Law Offices in Marriage Equality Litigation.
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