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Robson Op-Ed: “Answers Found in the 10th Amendment”

On July 30, 2010, the LA Times published this op-ed by Feminist Law Prof Ruthann Robson (CUNY): Answers Found in the 10th Amendment The words of the Constitution do not change whether they are being applied to immigration or same-sex … Continue reading

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The Sexual Innocence Inference Theory: Fact or Fiction? A Spotlight on the Special Concurrence In the Court of Appeals of Idaho’s Recent Opinion in State v. Molen

You are a juror in the prosecution of a step-grandfather for lewd conduct with a minor, the minor being his eight or nine year old step-granddaughter, with whom he allegedly had genital-to-genital contact. The step-granddaughter has just testified to sexual … Continue reading

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More Commentary on Ciudad Juarez Case

Earlier this week, Feminist Law Prof Caroline Bettinger-Lopez (Columbia) summarized the Ciudad Juarez case (see here and here) for members of the Bringing Human Rights Home Lawyers’ Network.   Here is Professor Bettinger-Lopez’s e-mail (reprinted with permission): Dear BHRH Network Members, As … Continue reading

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What Not to Wear, Religious Edition, Take 2: Supreme Court of Michigan Finalizes Attire Rule of Evidence, With Lawsuit to Follow

Back in June, I posted an entry about the Supreme Court of Michigan’s adoption of an amendment to Michigan Rule of Evidence 611 which provides as follows: (b) Appearance of Parties and Witnesses. The court shall exercise reasonable control over the appearance … Continue reading

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Essay of Interest: Michael DiChiara’s A Case of First Impression: The Third Circuit Recognizes That Having An Abortion Is Protected By Title VII

Over the last few months, I have been working on a Submission Guide for Online Law Review Supplements. While doing my research for the Guide, I came across an interesting volume of the Rutgers Law Record, the online supplement to the … Continue reading

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On Groping

A nervously jokey post at Jezebel brings up the topic of mass transit gropers and frotteurs. Here is an excerpt: The first time this ever happened to me – and it’s happened to every woman I know, although men are … Continue reading

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“Why Do Female Tax Profs Do Better in the SSRN Rankings Than Their Nontax Counterparts?”

Paul Caron asks that question in a post here. He observes that in the most recent SSRN rankings, 25% (5) of the faculty in the Top 25 downloads (both all-time and recent) are women, which is wonderful and encouraging. These … Continue reading

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More Politics of Abortion: A Defense of Prof. Dawn Johnsen

Over at Balkinization, Andrew Koppelman writes: Dawn Johnsen, President Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel, has been accused of misrepresenting a position she took in litigation, and I have been cited as authority against Prof. Johnsen. On … Continue reading

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Publishes New Report on Human Trafficking

From StopVAW: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has just completed a new report on human trafficking. The report begins with a global overview on legislation, the criminal justice response, trafficking patterns, intra-and-international flows, and monitoring. The UNODC … Continue reading

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Zip Code Based Study of Porn Consumption Finds Red States Consume the Most

A new study entitled “Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment?” by Harvard Business School Prof Benjamin Edelman, focuses on the consumption side of adult online entertainment, and in particular on subscriber demographics and consumption patterns of those who … Continue reading

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Top Ten Cited Women Law Professors

Thanks to Brian Leiter for compiling this list so quickly in response to my post below. (with the caveat that there might be some scholars whose schools were not included in this sample who might have made the list: e.g., … Continue reading

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The number of women among a newly compiled list of the “ten most cited” law faculty members is zero.

List is here, as compiled by Brian Leiter. For a number of reasons I think it would be useful to have a list of the “ten most cited” women law faculty members, more on this later. –Ann Bartow

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Only two women on most-cited list??!!

Hein online has released a list of the 50 most-cited law profs.  Only two women — Deborah Rhode and Carrie Menkel-Meadow — make the list, at 44 and 45.  Do the men just keep citing each other? — Nancy Polikoff

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Cinema Incubo: Tenth Circuit Finds In Dicta That Rape Shield Rule Applies At The Summary Judgment Stage In Former Projectionist’s Appeal

I remember going to Carmike Cinemas while attending college in Charlottesville and law school in Williamsburg.  And the memories are not fond.  Dimmed movie projector light bulbs.  Sticky floors.  Terrible sound. Cramped seating.  Now, according to a plaintiff, a Carmike theater in Utah … Continue reading

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A Suspect But Not A Suspect Class: Court Denies Equal Protection Challenge To California’s Domestic Violence Character Evidence Rule

I would like to thank Ann Bartow for extending me the invitation to post here.  I am in my second year at The John Marshall Law School, where I teach Evidence, Civil Procedure, and Criminal Procedure.  I do my primary … Continue reading

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Catharine A. MacKinnon has been appointed Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

From here: Prof. Catharine A. MacKinnon was appointed as Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. She will provide strategic advice to his Office on sexual and gender violence, an area where expertise is required under … Continue reading

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New outreach initiative by NARAL

Post content adapted from an e-mail (quoted with permission): Check out a new web video released by NARAL Pro-Choice America as part of their free.will.power initiative. This is the most innovative campaign to come from the pro-choice movement and it … Continue reading

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Wikipedia and Feminism

As of this past September, Wikipedia has been cited by U.S. courts almost 300 times,  according to Lee Peoples’ new article, The Citation of Wikipedia in American Judicial Opinions. It’s frightening to think that judges are according wikipedia so much … Continue reading

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Abortion and the Supreme Court: One Depressing Possibility

I got an e-mail from RH Reality Check today plugging a series of posts about abortion, framed with the title: “The Supreme Court Hangs In The Balance.” I’d like to offer the competing opinion that the Supreme Court has already … Continue reading

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Kozinski Porn Site Update

Back in July Karen Gullo of Bloomberg News reported: Five federal judges will probe possible ethics violations by U.S. Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski, head of a San Francisco-based appeals court, related to the posting of sexually explicit photos on the … Continue reading

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Guest Post: “Proposed HHS Rule Harmful To Women’s Interests”

By National Womens Law Center Vice President Judy Waxman: Last week, the Bush Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule that will harm women’s health by impeding access to care and by denying vital information … Continue reading

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CFP: Conglomerate’s 4th Annual Junior Scholars Workshop

Over at Conglomerate, Christine Hurt has posted this call for participation in the 4th Annual Junior Scholars Workshop: Back by popular demand: the Conglomerate Junior Scholars Workshop for untenured law professors or candidates entering the law teaching market this fall. … Continue reading

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A Mother’s Day Rumination About Pets

I don’t know anybody who had a “perfect” childhood, but like (hopefully) most people, I can look back on mine and pick out some things my parents got absolutely right, and one of those was allowing my sister and me … Continue reading

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Unenthusiastic in Pennsylvania

With the race for the Democratic nomination for President still so tight, I now regularly hear news reports that Pennsylvania’s primary might actually count for something this year. Our primary is scheduled for April 22nd, and, until recently, most people … Continue reading

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Externalities Illustrated

Today’s NYT featires an article entitled At Jets Game, a Halftime Ritual of Harassment that reports: At halftime of the Jets’ home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, several hundred men lined one of Giants Stadium’s two pedestrian ramps … Continue reading

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Of The “Most Cited Scholars in Intellectual Property/Cyberlaw Since 2000,” Half Are Women!

Woohoo, I love my scholarly subject area! Here’s the list, as computed by Brian Leiter: 1. Mark Lemley (Stanford University): 2110 citations, age 41. 2. Robert Merges (University of California, Berkeley): 1280 citations, age 48. 3. Pamela Samuelson (University of … Continue reading

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South Carolina, States Rights and Feminism

Over at Prawfsblawg Scott Moss asked readers for their favorite bad legal argument. On entrant was the South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon’s position in Reno v. Condon. You can listen to here. The stupid starts really flying around 30 … Continue reading

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Honing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills

From Feminist Philosophers: A tricky but important thing to teach critical thinking students is how to distinguish illegitimate ad hominem attacks from legitimate questions about a source of information. There’s a nice example in this article on Katie Roiphe.  Roiphe … Continue reading

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More On Federalist Society Gender Imbalances

Last year’s Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention featured few women. Out of 110 people listed on the program, looks like only 10 women participated, and 3 of them were “moderators” rather than speakers. One of the all-male panels convened around … Continue reading

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Why Now?

As this NYT article discussed back in August, Internet sites featuring fully clothed children in erotic poses are currently the focus of legal actors. That article observed: While many of the recently created sites are veering into new territory, the … Continue reading

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“Stop the Press Spree Against Working Moms”

Read Sheila Gibbons’ essay by that name here. Below is an excerpt: …Off-kilter news reporting on the reasons women leave jobs, laced with amateur psychology and traces of biological determinism, have been creating a false impression about women’s employment patterns, … Continue reading

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“Violence against women is ‘severe and pervasive’ worldwide with one in three women subjected to intimate partner abuse during her lifetime, according to a UN report.”

The U.N. recently completed an “In-depth study of all forms of violence against women.” This News24 article reports: Violence against women is “severe and pervasive” around the world, with at least one in three women subjected to intimate partner abuse … Continue reading

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The San Francisco Chronicle is publishing a series of investigative reports about sex trafficking

Part One is here. Below is an excerpt: Many of San Francisco’s Asian massage parlors — long an established part of the city’s sexually permissive culture — have degenerated into something much more sinister: international sex slave shops. Once limited … Continue reading

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Belle Lettre: “On Being A Female Blogger, And Yes, A Real One At That”

Ann Bartow has a post below about the unfunniness that is David Lat’s new blog: The Kind of Satire That Often Isn’t Funny: David Lat’s “Hottest ERISA Lawyer in America” Contest: Possibly Lat doesn’t understand that being celebrated for her … Continue reading

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Law Review Page Limits: Know When To Say When!

Some of the most cited law journals express a preference for pithiness here. Via Larry Solum at the spiffily redesigned Legal Theory Blog.

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Another Reason Not To Go To Law School If You Haven’t Already

Excerpts from Judge Kent’s opinion in Bradshaw v. Unity Marine Corp., 147 F. Supp. 2d 668 (2001): “…Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish … Continue reading

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“Belle Lettre” on Morality and Contraception

This is a guest post by “Belle Lettre,” of “Law and Letters,” who describes herself as an “Epistolary Geek, J.D., L.L.M. student, and Writer of billet-doux and long law review articles about federalism, hate crimes and race conscious pedagogy. Oh, … Continue reading

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Hands Off

There is a strange post by Eugene Volokh about “involuntary sexual arousal and touching” here, at the Volokh Conspiracy. It elicited a very strong negative reaction from Belle Waring, which is posted here, at Crooked Timber. Volokh’s theory seems to … Continue reading

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Bitches and Bags and Blogs

What does it mean when a man says another is his “bitch”? To me it implies that the man is his “woman,” which is intended to be very insulting. Calling a man a woman is contextually negative because being a … Continue reading

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Why Pointing Out Sexism In Blog Comments Threads Is Important

In “The Down Side of Slashdot” Annalee Newitz writes at Alternet: …any tech or science writer whose stuff goes on the Web (including yours truly) is at least a little bit invested in the idea of getting Slashdotted once in … Continue reading

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“Femicide On the Rise in Latin America”

Femicide On the Rise in Latin America, by Kent Paterson – 3/10/2006, via the Women’s United Nations Report Program & Network: On the eve of International Women’s Day 2006, a delegation of Latin American women made a historic journey to … Continue reading

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Eight Types of Faculty Meeting Attendees

Adapted from: “8 types of meeting attendees” at Jonathan Grubb: 1. The Talker: Person who thinks talking is the same as contributing. (Admittedly, sometimes that’s me.) 2. The Dean: This person may or may not actually be the Dean. The … Continue reading

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Maybe Lexis or Westlaw Could Give the NYT a Discount? Because It Doesn’t Seem Likely NYT Writers Will Actually Log On Too Often…

In a 1/18/06 post entitled “Bashing Feminists” at Left2Right, Michigan Philosophy Professor Elizabeth Anderson wrote: “Ana Marie Cox, self-professed feminist and formerly of Wonkette fame, reviewing “Women Who Make the World Worse” by Kate O’Beirne in the New York Times … Continue reading

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Bra Blogging

Last December Bitch Ph.D. ran two posts about bras: Girly stuff: the Ultimate Bra Post, and More Bra Advice–from a Bra Wizard, no less. The posts and the comments they elicited provide a wealth of advice and opinions about bras. … Continue reading

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Myrna Raeder On The Intersection of Hearsay Exceptions and Domestic Violence Prosecutions

Myrna Raeder (Southwestern U. School of Law) has a new article available on SSRN: Remember the Ladies and the Children Too: Crawford’s Impact on Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Cases, 77 Brooklyn Law Review 311 (2005). Here is the abstract: … Continue reading

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