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1 Cardozo Women's L.J. 101 (1993-1994)
Decriminalizing Prostitution: Liberalization or Dehumanization: Introduction

handle is hein.journals/cardw1 and id is 113 raw text is: DECRIMINALIZING PROSTITUTION: LIBERALIZATION OR DEHUMANIZATION? INTRODUCTION JEANNE SCHROEDER* I would like to welcome you all to tonight's program. This is one in a continuing series of symposia sponsored by the Cardozo Women's Law Journal on a variety of legal issues having particular interests for women. I am Jeanne Schroeder, Professor of Law here at Cardozo. Let me introduce the panelists. At my far right we have Dorchen Leidholdt, who is the Associate Director for the Coalition against Trafficking in Women. She is a criminal de- fense attorney, a former board member of the public interest law foundation and is active in efforts to end violence against women through work against pornography and prostitution. Next, at my near right is Meg Baldwin, who is an Assistant Professor of Law at Florida State University College of Law and is an author of scholarly works in this area of law and its relations to pornography trafficking in women. She is engaged in commu- nity service to fight gender, racial and ethnic bias, and a partici- pant in efforts to legislate in the area of prostitution. In the past five years in particular she has been actively working with women in prostitution in a variety of advocacy positions. To my left is Carlin Meyer, who is an Associate Professor of Law at the New York Law School. She is past president of the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, she is a former Assistant New York Attorney General in Chief of the La- bor Bureau and an author, social activist and educator. Carlin is also on the Mayor's task force on sexual harassment and she writes on Congressional standing and pornography (two separate issues). Finally at my far left is Drudlla Cornell, who is a professor of law here at Cardozo who writes primarily in the area of feminist jurisprudence. Drucilla is sitting in for Arlene Carmen, who un- fortunately is ill and could not come tonight. Arlene Carmen is the program associate of theJudson Memorial Church in Green- wich Village, which has been a provider of health care, medical assistance and other services to sex workers since 1970; she has * Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. 101

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