Oct. 25, Thursday -- The human papilloma virus vaccine and parental consent will be the focus of the annual Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Lecture on Family Law at UC Davis, an endowed series that brings legal scholars and practitioners together to discuss recent developments affecting the family.

Professor Sylvia Law, the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry at New York University, will deliver the lecture at 4 p.m. in the Wilkins Moot Courtroom in King Hall. Law teaches, writes and does activist work on access to health care, welfare rights, reproductive freedom, choice at the end of life and gay rights. She serves on the boards of the Center for Reproductive Rights and Compassion in Dying. She is the author of "Sex Discrimination and Insurance for Contraception," an article that provided the basis for legal decisions requiring health-insurance coverage for prescription contraceptives.

The lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow the lecture.

The Lecture on Family Law was established in 1981 in memory of Professor Brigitte M. Bodenheimer, who taught at the UC Davis School of Law from 1966 to 1979. Bodenheimer is remembered for her work helping to develop a child-custody act adopted nationwide and her service as a U.S. delegate in the drafting of the Hague Convention on civil aspects of international child abduction. She died in 1981.

For more information, visit: http://www.law.ucdavis.edu/news/event.aspx?id=1314.