<img width="300" height="266" alt="Kelly300x266Faculty_de" src="/site/files/oldnewsfiles/Kelly300x266Faculty_de.jpg" class="FloatLeft">Associate Professor of Law <a href="/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDe/KellyAliciaBrokars.aspx">Alicia B. Kelly</a> enjoyed an eventful summer schedule, presenting four different times at three different conferences.<br><br>In June, Professor Kelly spoke at the International Society of Family Law Conference co-sponsored by the Midwest Family Law Consortium and held in Kansas City, Missouri on the campus of the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law. Her talk, entitled <em>Mainstreaming Gender Equality: A Reality Check</em>, stressed that recent media declarations of achievement for women obfuscate underlying problems by creating a myth of gender equality. She argued, “Women continue to suffer systemic disadvantages in the labor market and in family life – gender equality has not been mainstreamed.”<br><br>Also in June, Professor Kelly spoke at the Emerging Family Law Scholars Conference, which was also held at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law. Her talk, <em>Inequality Among Intimate Partners and the Role of Money</em>, Gender, and Law, related to a book project she is working on that will explore “economic power inequalities within and across intimate partner relationships.”<br><br>Professor Kelly presented twice at the Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference held in August in Palm Beach, Florida. <em>The Expressive Power of Marriage</em> investigated “whether becoming married might express a different level of commitment and sharing than does informal partnering, and what role public recognition might play in supporting intimate expression whether married or not.” <em>The Changing World of Trusts &amp; Estates Pedagogy</em> “highlighted the ways in which active learning strategies and integration of lawyering skills can deepen student learning, and can be successful even with larger classes.”<br><br>Professor Alicia Kelly serves as the Chair of the Family &amp; Juvenile Law Section of the American Association of Law Schools for this year.