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- 18 –summa cum laude, from Yale College in 1953, a B.A. degree with First Class Honors from Magdalen College, Oxford University,in 1955, an LL.B. degree, magna cum laude, in 1958 from Yale Law School, and an M.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economicsfrom Oxford University in 1959. A Rhodes Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa and Order of the Coif, Judge Calabresi servedas the Note Editor of the Yale Law Journal, 1957-58, while graduating first in his law school class. Following graduation, JudgeCalabresi clerked for Justice Hugo Black of the United States Supreme Court. He has been awarded some forty honorary degreesfrom universities in the United States and abroad, and is the author of four books and over a hundred articles on law and relatedsubjects. Judge Calabresi is a member of the Connecticut Bar.Michael Chernick (Session 3A)Michael Chernick is Deutsch Family Professor of Jewish Jurisprudence and Social Justice at Hebrew Union College-JewishInstitute of Religion where he teaches Talmud. Prof. Chernick is the author of three books on rabbinic hermeneutics; twopublished in Israel in Hebrew and a third titled A Great Voice That Did Not Cease published by Hebrew Union College Press in2009. He also was the editor of Essential Papers on the Talmud published by NYU Press. He has taught and lectured widely toacademic and lay audiences in the United States and abroad, especially in Israel.Neil CoganNeil Cogan (Whittier Law Center) – Women’s Rights and Jewish Law in the Public Sphere of a Jewish and Democratic State(Session 9B)In this paper, I review the literature about Jewish and democratic conceptions of the public sphere, and I contend that bothrecognize a public sphere in which women’s dignity is valued. I review as well decisions of Israel’s High Court of Justice. Icontend that the Court has developed a vigorous jurisprudence of equality -- not explicit in the Basic Laws -- that protects womenfrom most forms of discrimination in the public sphere. But the Court has not developed, I contend, an equally vigorousjurisprudence of dignity – explicit in the Basic Laws – that protects women’s dignity in the public sphere.I argue that women’s performances in the public sphere are critical to their dignity and participation in democratic societyand their full roles in economic, educational, political and social spheres. Making no comment about other traditions, I argue thattheir performances in the public sphere are critical as well for women’s roles in Jewish tradition, across denominations and groups.In the paper, I review recent events in Israel – e.g., gender-segregated buses, the Dr. Chana Maayan awards ceremony, the NaamaMargolese street assault and other violence in Beit Shemesh – and the Court’s important decisions, such as Shakdiel (1988), Nevo(1990), Israel Women’s Network, (1994), Miller (1995), and Noar KeHalacha (2009).Neil H. Cogan has been on the Whittier College law faculty since 2001. He holds an L.L.B. and B.A. from the Universityof Pennsylvania and a diploma from Gratz College, and is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of California atIrvine. His dissertation in progress is a gender study of Jewish elites and organizations in fin de siècle America. He wasDean of the Whittier Law School and Vice President for Legal Education for the College from 2001 to 2009. During hisdeanship, the Law School established the Center for International and Comparative Law, three institutes, and six SummerStudy Abroad Programs, including the Israel Summer and Winter Study Abroad Program at Bar Ilan, which he directs.Professor Cogan taught at Quinnipiac University School of Law, where he was founding dean; Southern Methodist Schoolof Law, where he was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; and Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law, where he wasvisiting professor. He was a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School, a Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at Hebrew UniversityFaculty of Law, a Visiting Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Department of Justice, Division of Civil Rights, anda Visiting Lecturer at Touro Law School. Earlier in his career, he was a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &Garrison NYC. As a sole practitioner in Texas, he was trial counsel in four of the earliest lawsuits challenging sexdiscrimination by major law firms in Dallas, Texas. He is the editor of several books, including the forthcoming Freedomsand Rights in Israel: Law, Democracy and Culture, a course book to be published by Carolina Academic Press. He wasformerly on the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Publication Society.