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Students and faculty can ask professor about Girls on the Stand Nov. 29
Girls on the Stand, the latest book by Helena Silverstein, professor of government and law, will be the subject of discussion during the next Lafayette Author Forum 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29 in the Gendebien Room of Skillman Library.
The book demonstrates that safeguards promised by parental involvement laws do not exist in practice and that the legal process designed to help pregnant minors’ make informed decisions concerning abortion often victimizes them. Silverstein suggests that support for parental involvement is sustained by the false premise that courts function largely apolitically and without bureaucratic pitfalls.
Lafayette Author Forums, which are sponsored by the Academic Research Committee, are free and open to the public. They are designed to recognize the publication of significant scholarly achievement and to open an interdisciplinary discussion of the work in question.
Deborah Rosen, professor and head of history, and Rose Corrigan, assistant professor of political science at Drexel University, will lead the discussion. Silverstein will have an opportunity to respond, and the floor will then be opened for questions and comments from the audience.
The next Lafayette Author Forum will be held in March for Ilan Peleg, Charles A. Dana Professor of Social Science, on Democratizing the Hegemonic State: Political Transformation in the Age of Identity.