Jenny Pizer visits the Law School

Outlaws & BGLAM Present:

"LGBT Healthcare and the Law"
Thursday, March 15th @ 6 p.m. in 138HH

Featuring Jennifer Pizer
Sr. Counsel at Lambda Legal*

Dinner Provided

*Jennifer C. Pizer is Senior Counsel with Lambda Legal, the country's premiere legal advocate serving the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender (LGBT) civil rights movement. Pizer litigates cases to advance domestic partner protections, the rights of gay parents, and marriage equality, and to end sexual orientation discrimination in employment, education, healthcare, and housing. Pizer represents Guadalupe Benitez in litigation against her former physicians for withholding infertility treatment because she is a lesbian, based on their Christian beliefs. This case resulted in the first court ruling affirming a gay patient's right to challenge a doctor's discriminatory refusal of care. The question whether doctors' religious liberty trumps patients' civil rights is before the California Supreme Court now. Pizer is an adjunct professor at USC Law School and Loyola Law School. She is a graduate of NYU School of Law and Harvard College. From 2002-2006, the Daily Journal, California's leading legal newspaper, has named Pizer one of the top women litigators in California.