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DESCRIPTION:The Regroupement Droit\, Changements et Gouvernance (www.rdcg.o
 rg) has the pleasure of welcoming Eliza Bateman (DCL/PhD Candidate\, Facul
 ty of Law\, 91Ö±²¥) for the February Midi-conférence des jeunes
  chercheurs. Eliza‘s talk is titled « Between Shul and State: lesbian Orth
 odox women negotiate religion and law » .\n\nAbstract\n\nIn this section o
 f my research\, I analyze tensions and attempted reconciliations that LGBT
 Q-identifying religious women experience in terms of their religious and s
 exual selfhood. This analysis is situated in the rights discourse of liber
 al democracies (such as the USA and Canada) where state law increasingly r
 ecognises the equality rights of LGBTQ people\, including marriage equalit
 y\, while also respecting the religious freedom rights of religions (or br
 anches of religion) that disavow or forbid homosexuality. This interplay c
 reates a tension for devout lesbian religious women between their formal (
 state) equality rights and conflicting rules that exist within their relig
 ious communities. I apply a legal pluralist lens to the experiences of Ort
 hodox lesbian Jewish women in the USA and Canada\, to identify the legal n
 orms that are operative on these women. I then suggest that rights-respect
 ing outcomes\, congruous with these women’s religious identity rather than
  in conflict with it\, may be possible through negotiations with religious
  pluralist orders rather than through a strict application of state law to
  the individual.\n\nBy focusing on the legal norms that operate within Ort
 hodox Jewish communities (that challenge state law positions on LGBTQ righ
 ts)\, I unpack first how the act of lesbian sexuality is legally ‘unseen’ 
 by the Torah\, and how this regulatory gap has been filled by Talmudic rul
 ings and community norms. I then investigate whether negotiations within t
 his religious legal order between Rabbis\, the religious community and les
 bian women can give these women a new space as legal ‘subjects’ or agents\
 , who remake or reinterpret the law that operates upon them\, thereby achi
 eving a lawful reconciliation between their sexual and religious selves.\n
 \nSpeaker\n\nEliza Bateman is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Law a
 t 91Ö±²¥. She researches and writes in the areas of human rights\, legal t
 heory and gender identity politics. Her dissertation focuses on how LGBTQ+
 -identifying members of religious communities act as legal subjects within
  communities that disavow or forbid their sexuality. This work applies a f
 eminist method and centres on the experience of religious women who identi
 fy as LGBTQ+ or who connect to LGBTQ+ people through marriage or family. E
 liza is admitted to the Bar in the state of Victoria\, Australia. She prev
 iously worked as a lawyer specializing in administrative law and equal opp
 ortunity and human rights matters: as a senior legal advisor for the Victo
 rian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission and then as a senior la
 wyer at Victoria Legal Aid. Eliza has also worked as a senior policy offic
 er\, sensitive case manager and lawyer for the Australian Federal Governme
 nt.\n
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LOCATION:NCDH 201\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Between Shul and State: Lesbian Orthodox women negotiate religion a
 nd law
URL:/law/channels/event/between-shul-and-state-lesbian
 -orthodox-women-negotiate-religion-and-law-265129
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