Topics and Speakers Announced for AALS January 2021 Program on Intersectionality, Aging and the Law
July 2, 2020
Hard to believe we are scheduling for January 2021, isn’t it! Here’s the scheduled speakers and topics for the co-hosted program during the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco on “Intersectionality, Aging and the Law:”
- Alex Boni-Saenz (Chicago-Kent), Age Diversity
- Naomi Cahn (GW) & Nina Kohn (Syracuse), How Law and Sex Shape What It Means to Be Old
- Veronica C. Gonzales-Zamora (UNM), The Triple Threat: Millenium Women of Color
- Jessica Mantel (Houston), Allocating Scarce Medical Resources During a Pandemic: Rationing Based on Age is not the Same as Rationing Based on Disability
- Katherine Pearson (PSU-Dickinson), Pandemic Protections: Where is the Line in Patient Autonomy?
- Tara Sklar (U Arizona), Frailty, Vulnerability, and Big Data
- Ruqaiijah Yearby (SLU), The Dark (Trinity): How Structural Discrimination, Wealth Inequalities, and Lack of Access to Health Care Cause Health Disparities for Elderly Women of Color