Private screening "On the Basis of Sex" with Juliane Kokott, AG at the CJEU

We wish you a happy new year and we, at LILLA, hope that you, like us, will find some inspiration in this quote for your personal resolutions for 2020.

US Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a considerable part of her legal career as an advocate for the advancement of gender equality and women's rights, winning multiple victories arguing before the US Supreme Court.

To celebrate the start of the new year, we are happy to invite you to:

a private screening of the movie “On the Basis of Sex”, a film based on the life and early cases of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Guest Speaker

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Juliane Kokott, German Advocate General at the  Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) since 2003 and Professor at the University of St. Gallen will join us for this event.

In the early 2010s, Juliane published a ruling arguing it was “illegally inappropriate” to link insurance risks to a person’s gender. This position was supported by the CJEU, which ruled that “taking the gender of the insured individual into account as a risk factor in insurance contracts constitutes discrimination”.

To give us a European perspective on the topics raised by the film, Prof. Dr. Juliane Kokott has kindly agreed to share with us her own personal experience of the gender bias she has encountered during her career and how she has overcome it.

 

Where?

Utopia - 16 Avenue de la Faïencerie, L-1510 Luxembourg

 

Nearest parking : Glacis

Tram: Faïencerie

VDL bus: 03/30 – stop Faïencerie or 8/4/16/18 – stop Pescatore

 

When?

Thursday 23 January 2020

18:00 – Welcome drink

19:00 – Key note speaker Juliane Kokott

19:20 – movie

21:20 – Networking

 

Don’t forget to renew your membership with LILLA for 2020 if you have not already done so. We look forward to seeing you.