Participants noted that violence against women is a longstanding problem and involves rape, domestic assault, genital mutilation, and other forms of violence and that its impacts include direct injuries, fear, and extensive economic costs. They concluded that an adequate legal response must go beyond the current limits of the legal system to include preventive as well as responsive strategies, include broad educational reform, and hold institutions responsible for educating professionals and enforcing antiviolence regulations and policies. They should also rest on a multidisciplinary perspective that will promote multipronged solutions and give women resource to a broad spectrum of remedies that includes the civil court system. In addition to the recommendations raised at the forum, the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund suggests guiding principles that should shape future legislation, educational programs, funding priorities, and other initiatives. Summaries of presentations and text of presentation by Kimberle Crenshaw