The Fairness for All Initiative is a nationwide group of legal scholars, advocates and legislators exploring whether mutual respect can alter the ferocity of the nation’s political battles. “How do we get to a postmodern society in which we’re not so fragmented, when we know our neighbors again, or we think of each other as neighbors, or we think of each other’s humanity first?” asks Robin Fretwell Wilson, the director of the UI Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA), who helped organize the movement. In this program, you will learn more about this effort, and strategies we can all undertake to achieve civility, regardless of political and/or religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
In addition to serving as the Director of IGPA, Robin Fretwell Wilson is the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Chair in Law at the UI College of Law. Professor Wilson co-directs the College of Law’s Epstein Health Law and Policy Program and co-directs and founded its Family Law and Policy Program. She specializes in family law and health law, and her research and teaching interests also include biomedical ethics, law and religion, children and violence, and law and science. Professor Wilson is the author of thirteen books, and she has ranked among the Top Ten Family Law Scholars in the United States for scholarly impact in each ranking done by the Leiter Report since 2010. Professor Wilson is the founder and directs the Fairness for All Initiative, which seeks to provide tangible support and advice to thought-leaders, stakeholders, policymakers, and state and local legislators who seek balanced approaches that respect both LGBT rights and religious freedom, and she is the founder and director of the Tolerance Means Dialogues, a gift-supported effort to generate dialogue around deeply contested questions in civil society.
