IEFV | Parenting Under Siege: Reckoning with Coercive Control

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Educational/Awareness Law Law - General Public Law - IEFV Law - Students

Fri, Mar 15, 2024

11 AM – 12 PM PDT (GMT-7)

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This presentation will analyze and evaluate the movements to criminalize coercive control and to address it in the family court system. The presenters, who direct family justice and domestic violence law clinics, will explore the challenges that arise in both legislating and litigating claims of coercive control. The presentation will include a nuanced discussion of what constitutes coercive control, different attempts to legislate this form of abuse and how such laws could be used both to protect survivors of intimate partner violence and to harm them. The presenters will pay particular attention to the power disparities inherent in coercive control and how these dynamics may be operationalized in a court setting.


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Courtney Cross is a Professor of Law and Director of the Survivor Representation & Advocacy Clinic at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law. Her research focuses on the intersectionality of domestic violence, criminal law, poverty and public health. Before joining Boyd Law, Professor Cross was an Associate Professor of Clinical Legal Instruction and the Director of the Domestic Violence Law Clinic at the University of Alabama School of Law. Professor Cross previously served as an Equal Justice Works/AmeriCorps Fellow and staff attorney at a women’s reentry nonprofit in Washington, D.C. where she represented formerly incarcerated women in domestic violence and family court proceedings, and has also represented incarcerated women in parole revocation hearings.

Gillian Chadwick is a Professor of Law and Director of the Children and Family Law Center at Washburn University School of Law. Previously she was a Clinical Teaching Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center in the Domestic Violence Clinic. Prior to that, Professor Chadwick was the Director of Survivor Services at Ayuda in the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Program, where she supervised legal and social services staff and represented immigrant victims of gender-based violence in domestic violence, domestic relations and immigration matters in Washington, D.C. She also worked as an Arnold & Porter Equal Justice Works Fellow at Women Empowered Against Violence (WEAVE), where she focused on economic and employment issues facing survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

This event is approved for 1.0 hour of Minimum Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.