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Phillipa Weeks Library, Level 4, Building 7, ANU Law School
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Event description
Governments across the globe lately have been raising the alarm about declining marriage rates and adopting a wide variety of measures to increase these rates. These measures are especially pronounced at two key decision points: the moment of marriage and the moment of divorce. Human rights law, however, places limitations on the ability of nation-states to pressure individuals to enter into marriage and to stay in a marriage. This seminar will map out the international framework for assessing whether a government has violated human rights in its efforts to increase the marriage rate. It will then show how this framework applies to a range of comparative examples, from matchmaking in South Korea to covenant marriage in the United States.
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Speakers
Associate Professor Jessica Tueller
Jessica Tueller is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Professor Tueller writes and teaches in the areas of family law; contracts; gender, sexuality, and the law; and international law. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Georgia Law Review, the Tulane Law Review, and the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism, among others.
Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma College of Law, Professor Tueller was a Forrester Fellow at Tulane University Law School. She has served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Wesleyan University, worked as a clinical supervisor at the University Network for Human Rights, and completed a Robina Fellowship at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Professor Tueller earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and her A.B. in History and literature from Harvard College.