and katherine franke is a professor of law. the director of the center for gender and sexuality law, which is a wonderful institution that we are happy to collaborate with and she is the author of "wedlocked: the preils of marriage equality", nyu press 2015 just recently out. catherine has been working on marriage, gender justice, transgender justice, issues of gender and grace in the law. she is a legal theorist, academic, activist public intellectual and an amazing human being. i am happy to be celebrating her that afternoon. our speakers will go in this order with first patricia williams who is the james dorr professor of lot condit. she is the author the blonde goddess. you no doubt know her through her monthly column for the nation magazine entitled diary of a mad law professor in which you can subscribe to add ww w mad law professor. our second speaker will be mignon moore is associate professor. her recent examines the intersection of race, gender and sexual orientation and her recently-- her first book is invisible fami

a celebration of "wedlocked: the preils of marriage equality" by our own wonderful trench-- katherine franke. what we will do this afternoon's have some presentations and responses to the book and then open up for questions and discussion and we have assembled a stellar panel of the people who are just the right people to undertake this discussion and i will introduce them briefly together and then they will speak in the order we have determined, but