Town Hall Meeting on Getting Involved as a GLBT or Allied American this Election Season

Meet Tobias Wolff, a prominent national LGBT political advocate and Legal Scholar.

Tobias Barrington Wolff is the Co-Chair, National LGBT Policy Committee, Obama for America ‘08 and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He writes and teaches in the fields of Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, and Conflict of Laws.

He began his teaching career at the University of California, Davis Law School and has been a visiting professor at Stanford and Northwestern Law Schools. Before entering academia, Wolff was a litigator at the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York and served as a judicial clerk for Judges Betty Binns Fletcher and William Norris, both of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Professor Wolff has also worked as a civil rights attorney for ten years and has participated in gay rights cases around the country, including marriage and relationship rights litigation in Alaska, California, Hawaii and Iowa and litigation over the U.S. military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy in the First and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals.

 

Please
direct questions to Georgia LGBT Field Organizer Edmund Thornton,
404.839.4846, or National LGBT Policy and Steering Committee Member
Kyle Bailey, 404.630.3975.