Doug Hallward-Driemeier (a partner at Ropes & Gray, LLC, and leader of the firm's appellate and Supreme Court practice) was the featured speaker at a University of Chicago Law School event, "Standing Up For Marriage Equality: Insights From the Obergefell Supreme Court Arguments," Nov. 4 at the University of Chicago Law School campus.

Hallward-Driemeier, in conversation with Professor Daniel Hemel ( assistant professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School ), spoke to the approximately 120 law students and lawyers in attendance about his involvement arguing for the petitioners on question two—Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a state to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex that was legally licensed and performed in another state?—in the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case.

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