The Rutgers Center for Gender, Sexuality, Law and Policy, in partnership with the Transnational Legal Initiative, welcomes Holning Lau, J.D., Reef C. Ivey, II Distinguished Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and Faculty Director of the LL.M. Program, UNC School of Law, for a lunchtime lecture, "Comparative Perspectives on Same-Sex Marraige: What Can We Learn from South Africa?"

Professor Lau teaches Family Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Asian Legal Perspectives, Children & the Law, and Sexuality & the Law. He also serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Development and as Faculty Director of the law school's LL.M. program.

Professor Lau's current research examines international and comparative approaches to issues of gender and sexuality. He is presently working on projects that focus on the European Union, Hong Kong, South Africa, and the United States.

Professor Lau joined the UNC faculty in 2009, after spending two years as an Associate Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School, where he also co-directed Hofstra's LGBT Rights Fellowship Program. Prior to joining the Hofstra faculty, Professor Lau worked at UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy. He has served twice as a visiting fellow at the University of Hong Kong's Centre for Comparative and Public Law. In addition, Professor Lau has worked for the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, Children Rights, and the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. He is also the immediate past president of the ACLU of North Carolina.

Professor Lau received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, where he was the Executive Topics & Comments Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and served on the staff of the Chicago Journal of International Law. At the University of Chicago, Professor Lau was named a Stonewall Scholar for excellence in his work related to sexual orientation rights and was awarded the Ignacio Martín-Baró Award for the best human rights paper by a professional or master's degree student. Professor Lau completed his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude.

The lecture is free and open to the public and lunch will be provided but registration is required.

When: Monday, February 27, 2017, 12:15-1:15 pm

Where: Rutgers Law School, Room 125, 123 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102

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