New Books in the Field:
Gender, Race and Diversity in the Center of the Conversation
This summer, the U.S. Feminist Judgments Project will host a series of virtual conversations featuring authors and editors of new books in the field, with a focus on how to best use those texts to raise and frame issues of gender, race and other diversity issues in teaching and scholarship. There will be a particular emphasis on how feminist legal theory can enrich both classroom discussions and scholarly perspectives by scholars working across subject matters.
The dates and featured books are:
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Date |
Book |
Authors or Editors |
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June 8, 2022 |
Menstruation Matters: Challenging Law’s Silence on Periods (2022) |
Bridget J. Crawford (Pace) & Emily Gold Waldman (Pace) |
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June 22, 2022 |
Fight the Power: Law and Policy Through Hip-Hop Songs (2022)
|
Frank Rudy Cooper (UNLV) |
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July 6, 2022 |
Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law’s Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity (2022)
|
Kerri L. Stone (FIU) |
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July 20, 2022 |
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Employment Discrimination Opinions (2020) |
Ann C. McGinley (UNLV) & Nicole Buoncore Porter (Chicago-Kent) |
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August 3, 2022 |
***week off*** |
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August 17, 2022 |
The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth (2021) |
Kristin Henning (Georgetown)
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Sessions will run from 11:00 am to 12:15 pm Pacific/2:00 to 3:15 pm Eastern. Attendees from all parts of the academy with a verified academic email address are welcome to attend any and all sessions. There is no charge to attend. All sessions are held via Zoom.
Preregistration for all participants (speakers and attendees) is required via this link. All attendees including speakers must register. Attendees need to register only once and then can attend any of the sessions in the summer series. Regular attendance is encouraged but not required. Approximately one week before each session, all registrants will receive an excerpt of the book that will be the subject of the discussion.
After a pause in August, the Feminist Legal Theory Series may continue into the academic year with occasional sessions featuring additional works. Authors or editors of recent books are welcome to self-nominate their work for consideration to be featured in a future session.
The Summer Feminist Legal Theory Series is co-sponsored by the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, together with The Feminism and Legal Theory Project, The Vulnerability and the Human Condition Initiative, the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies at Osgoode, the Family Law Center at the University of Virginia School of Law, and the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education. The series is coordinated by Bridget J. Crawford (Pace), bcrawford at law dot pace dot edu, and Kathy Stanchi (UNLV), kathryn dot stanchi at unlv dot edu.
