IBA Annual Conference Miami 2022
30 Oct - 4 Nov 2022
Room 211, Level 2
Session information
Time to rage* - the power of oldness and why we should care about age discrimination
Tuesday 1 November (1615 - 1730)
Committee(s)
Diversity and Equality Law Committee
(Lead)
Description
DiversityInclusionWe have an ambivalent attitude towards oldness. It is both venerated and despised in equal measure. Age is often omitted, curiously forgotten, and regularly maligned. And yet, age is a characteristic or attribute that is recognised globally as deserving of protection under discrimination and equal opportunity legislation. So given this is the one attribute that applies to all of us, at one stage of our lives or another, and the fact that most countries have an ageing population, what are we doing about it? This topic considers why age appears to be off the radar in the diversity and inclusion debate, why it should be on the radar and what can be done to address this. * taken from Dylan Thomas' famous poem, "Do not go gentle into that good night".
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
Frances Anderson | Victorian Government Solicitor's Office, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Website Officer, Diversity and Equality Law Committee |
Ronnie Neville | Mason Hayes & Curran, Dublin, Ireland; Member, IBA Diversity & Inclusion Council |
Speakers
Philip Berkowitz | Littler Mendelson P C, New York, New York, USA; Vice Chair of Membership, Global Employment Institute (GEI) |
Daniel B Kohrman | AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
Wendi Lazar | Outten & Golden, New York, New York, USA |
Franck Raimbault | Air France, Roissy CDG, France |
Roselyn Sands | EYLaw, Paris, France |