Please RSVP here. For those joining us in person, we will meet in Case Lounge. For those joining via Zoom, the live-stream can be accessed here.
Professor Elizabeth Emens is the Thomas M. Macioce Professor of Law and the Director of the Mindfulness Program at Columbia Law School. She writes and teaches on disability law, family law, anti-discrimination law, contracts law, and law and sexuality, as well as co-teaching a practicum on lawyer leadership as part of the Law School’s Davis Polk Leadership Initiative. She clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and she earned her JD and BA from Yale and her PhD from King's College, Cambridge. Her teacher training in mindfulness has been through the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness, the Mindful Schools program, and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program.
Yashvi Ganeriwala, who will be joining us virtually, is a law graduate from India who pursued a career in the corporate department of a leading law firm in India before graduating from Columbia Law School’s LL.M. program in 2022. As one of the only disabled individuals to be working successfully in a law firm in India, Yashvi overcame infrastructural and access-related hurdles to pursue a career that is considered to be demanding and challenging and unsuited for people with disabilities. She not only convinced her law firm to create accessible spaces in their office premises but also built a reputation for herself as being as hardworking and efficient as any other associate. Yashvi is currently a Law Clerk at Kramer Levin in New York.
If you have questions about this event or upcoming events, or if any disability accommodations would help you to participate fully in these events, please contact the Coordinator of the CLS Mindfulness Program, Kiana Taghavi at [email protected]. Columbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities, so please let us know if any changes, for instance to the format of the sound system, would be helpful.
