Over drinks (first drink on us!) and appetizers (also on us!) specially prepared by Mory’s chef, we will chat with our Special Guest, Fred Strebeigh, ’74, a celebrated Yale teacher and non-fiction writer whose acclamed book Equal: Women Reshape American Law (Norton, 2009), narrates the legal history of women fighting for a place in American law over the past four decades. Fred interviewed women who were pioneer judges and legal scholars, including RBG, who hailed his book as a “magnificent achievement.”

About our special Guest:

Fred Strebeigh, ’74, Senior Lecturer Emeritus in English and in Forestry and Environmental Studies, taught nonfiction writing at Yale for many decades, receiving the Yale DeVane Award in 2004 and the Brodhead Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2009. His writing draws on his experiences while travelling the globe, analyzing issues connected to environmental crisis and wilderness conservation. Fred’s wide palette of interests also include issues of equality and the rise of feminist law. In 2009 he published Equal: Women Reshape American Law (Norton, 2009). In 2010 the American Bar Association honored Equal as one of the two best books of the year and gave it the Gavel Award for “outstanding efforts to foster public understanding of the law." 

Equal is a narrative legal history of women fighting for a place in American law over the past four decades, beginning with the work of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and often against resistance from on high. The material for this book is based on interviews Fred conducted with the women judges and legal scholars, including RBG, who pioneered the struggle.

For more details:  http://www.equalwomen.com/index.html

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