Today's program is a conversation between UB law professor Martha McCluskey and Emory Law School professor Martha Fineman*, on class, inequality, and shifting constitutional legal analysis from protected classes to a guarantee of common benefits, and from an analysis of victimization to an inquiry into who is being privileged.

Thank you for joining us for this conversation with Martha McCluskey and Martha Fineman. Our thanks to The Chocolate Bar in Buffalo. The theme music is Baja Taxi by Brain Buckit, and is available through the Podsafe Music Network.

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*Martha Albertson Fineman is the newest Woodruff Professor, the highest honor Emory can bestow on a faculty member. An internationally recognized law and society scholar, Fineman is a leading authority on family law and feminist jurisprudence. Following graduation from University of Chicago Law School, Fineman clerked for the Hon. Luther M. Swygert of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and then taught at University of Wisconsin and Columbia University. She joined Cornell Law School in 1999 to become the first endowed Chair in the nation in Feminist Jurisprudence. Her scholarly interest is in the legal regulation of intimacy. Fineman is founder and director of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project, which was inaugurated in 1984. Fineman's publications include The Autonomy Myth: A Theory of Dependency, The New Press (2003); "Taking Children's Interest Seriously," Nomos; "Why Marriage?" University of Virginia Journal of Law and Social Policy (2001); The Neutered Mother, and The Sexual Family and other Twentieth Century Tragedies, Routledge Press (1995). She has received awards for her writing and teaching and has served on several government study commissions. She teaches family law, feminist jurisprudence, law and sexuality, and seminars on reproductive issues and select topics in feminist legal theory. For more information, visit www.law.emory.edu/flt/