Women Lawyers Association
Presents
May 1, 2024 MCLE: Learning from Past Moral Panics: The “White Slave” Trafficking Case that Changed America
at Saints Barrel Wine Bar
Join Dr. Nancy Unger as she discusses the Mann Act and how history shows laws will end up as weapons deployed in discriminatory ways to curtail freedom.
Saints Barrel Wine Bar is located in Downtown SLO
The Women Lawyers Association of San Luis Obispo County is a California State Bar approved MCLE provider. This program qualifies for one (1.0) hour of MCLE - participatory credit. Please Join Us in Person!
Please join the Women Lawyers Association for our event
OUR SPEAKER:
Nancy C. Unger
Nancy C. Unger is Professor of History at Santa Clara University. A scholar of American history at the turn of the nineteenth century, she is the author of the prize-winning biographies Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer and Belle La Follette: Progressive Era Reformer. She co-edited A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and is also the author of Beyond Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History (a California Book Award finalist). She is immediate past-president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Nancy’s op-eds applying the lessons of the past to the present have appeared in dozens of venues including The Washington Post, CNN, and TIME. She has spoken at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, NASA, and Town Hall Seattle, as well as in the Wisconsin State capital, and the Vanderbilt Mansion in Newport, Rhode Island. Her radio and podcast appearances include National Public Radio and the BBC. She has worked as an on-air consultant for the PBS program The American Experience, and has been featured on five hour-long programs on C-SPAN.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
at 12:00 PM
Saints Barrel Wine Bar
1021 Higuera Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
Payment Information:
$35.00 for non-members
$30.00 for WLA members
$15.00 for SLO College of Law Students
Lunches will be provided by Lincoln Deli. Vegetarian options will be available.
All proceeds will go toward the WLA scholarship fund and the other worthy events hosted by the WLA.
If you are experiencing a financial hardship and unable to pay for this event, please email the WLA at womenlawyersslo@gmail.com.
There are two (2) ways to make a reservation for this event.
(1) Pay Online Using the Links below:
(2) Send a check to:
Women Lawyers Association
P.O. Box 3918
San Luis Obispo, CA 93403-3918
*If you are having difficulty registering online, please try using a different internet browser or email Elizabeth Culley at the email listed below to reserve your spot.
**Please include the name(s) and state bar numbers of the attendee(s) on your check.
*** Please email Elizabeth Culley at eculley@amblaw.com stating that you've mailed your check and the names of those who will be attending.
Please RSVP one week in advance. Late registration and walk ins are allowed, but unfortunately, we will not be able to provide lunch.