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Frank Rudy Cooper, “Race and Essentialism in Gloria Steinem”
The abstract: This short essay was solicited for the 20th Anniversary Critical Race Theory Workshop in 2009. It celebrates Angela Harris’s trail blazing essay, Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory. Harris argues against essentialism, which is the idea that … Continue reading
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Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, “Human Rights at Home: Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Violation”
The abstract: In 2005, Jessica Lenahan (formerly Gonzales) initiated the first international legal action against the United States for violating the human rights of a domestic violence victim. Ms. Lenahan’s petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Jessica Gonzales … Continue reading
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From the Department of Evolutionary Economics: “We find that women bid significantly higher than men in their menstrual and premenstrual phase but do not bid significantly different in other phases of the menstrual cycle.”
Two economists have posted their article “Menstrual Cycle and Competitive Bidding” to SSRN. Here is the abstract, from which the sentence in the post title was taken: In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private … Continue reading
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Women targeted for murder on the basis of gender alone yet again.
The first two sentences from this NYT article report: Tortured by loneliness and his lack of success with women, George Sodini developed a plan to get even. On Tuesday night, he executed it, opening fire in a fitness center here … Continue reading
Maybe Lucia Whalen should also get a beer?
Caller in Gates Case Says She Didn’t Mention Race By KATIE ZEZIMA CAMBRIDGE, Mass. : Lucia Whalen, whose 911 call led to the arrest of the Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home, made her first public comments … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Law, Race and Racism, Sociolinguistics
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“I Was A Teenage Feminist”
More here! Via.
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Hang in there Bar Exam takers…
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The Science of Sexism
Abstract of new evo psych study based on yearbook photos taken in 1957 of graduates of Wisconsin high schools: “Physical attractiveness has been associated with mating behavior, but its role in reproductive success of contemporary humans has received surprisingly little … Continue reading
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A browser-based clone of Civilization.
That would be the game discussed here. Which runs Internet ads like this: Learn more about the game here.
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Urine-competent if you are female?
Click thumbnail below for larger version: Click thumbnail below for larger version: The photographs are the female and male instructions for collecting urine samples for medical testing, featured in the bathrooms of a medical lab. Note the contrast in how … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Not in 77 GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW, NO. 3, APRIL, 2009, that’s for sure.
The George Washington Law Review, Issue 77:3 (April 2009) Articles Matthew I. Hall, The Partially Prudential Doctrine of Mootness, 77 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 562 (2009) [PDF] Anthony J. Colangelo, “De facto Sovereignty”: Boumediene and Beyond, 77 Geo. Wash. L. … Continue reading
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CFP: Conference on”Violence and Vulnerability”
CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on”Violence and Vulnerability” Emory University, Atlanta Georgia – November 12-14, 2009 “Violence against women both violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms… In all societies, to a … Continue reading
“EA has a new way to annoy its own models: give out prizes for Comic Con attendees who commit acts of lust with their booth babes. Also, if you win, you get to take the lady out to dinner! This is going to end well for everyone involved.”
From Ars Technica, where the associative article reports: … At Comic Con, if you commit “an act of lust” with an EA booth babe and take a picture, you could win dinner with said babes, as well as a great … Continue reading
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More “How to strip for your husband”
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On being an “Air Hostess” in the 1950s
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Advice About Feet Sweeping and Taxes
Read.
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Lani Guinier and Susan Sturm, “Trial by Firefighters”
From the NYT: STANDING on the steps of the federal courthouse in New Haven, the lawyer Karen Torre reveled in her clients’ victory in a recent case before the Supreme Court. She anointed her clients : the white firefighters who … Continue reading
In which Lindsey Graham calls Sonya Sotomayor a bitch, South Carolina style
When I listen to this clip it sounds like Sen. Graham, who is a graduate of the University of South Carolina School of Law, is pulling what I call the “Dark Mysterious Forces” maneuver. Of course he’s not saying she … Continue reading
Ave Maria School of Law claims law professors on its faculty are ministers.
From the National Law Journal: A Michigan trial judge will decide that next week in a controversial employment dispute involving Ave Maria School of Law, which is trying to declare law professors as ministers to avoid a wrongful termination suit … Continue reading
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Where Are The Women? The Virginia Law Review’s latest symposium issue features 15 authors, 12 of them male.
VOLUME 95 JUNE 2009 ISSUE 4 Virginia Law Review 95:4 (June 2009) Symposium Issue: The SEC in a Time of Discontinuity The SEC in a Time of Discontinuity: Introduction to Virginia … Continue reading
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Law Protecting Clinic Buffer Zone Upheld
From the Feminist Daily News: The US 1st Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Massachusetts law on Friday, allowing a 35-foot safety buffer zone between protesters and abortion clinic entrances. The law, established in 2007, protects clinic patients and staff … Continue reading
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Sort yourself out!
Via Marge Twain.
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Pharmacists are obliged to dispense the Plan B pill, even if they are personally opposed to the “morning after” contraceptive on religious grounds, a federal appeals court ruled last week.
The LA Times reported: … In a case that could affect policy across the western U.S., a supermarket pharmacy owner in Olympia, Wash., failed in a bid to block 2007 regulations that required all Washington pharmacies to stock and dispense … Continue reading
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South Carolina’s state govt is only the fifth most dysfunctional state govt in the nation
At least according to this article, which claims the six states with the worst leadership are: 6. California 5. South Carolina 4. Alaska 3. Illinois 2. Nevada 1. New York I’m sure the fact that we have the fewest women … Continue reading
Laura J. Murray, “Reproductive Technologies: Flesh, Paint, Text”
How do you know a reproduction if you see one? Read Laura Murray’s essay here at No More Potlucks.
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NYC now has Jane Jacobs Way, named for the famed author-activist who changed the course of urban planning in the 1960s.
From this NYT story: Ms. Jacobs, who died in 2006, lived between West 11th and Perry Streets at 555 Hudson Street and immortalized the”sidewalk ballet”of that block in her book,”The Death and Life of Great American Cities.”As of Tuesday morning, … Continue reading
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“The Education of Sonia Sotomayor”
That is the title of this essay at the WaPo written by one of Judge Sotomayor’s Princeton profs. Below are a couple of excerpts: … Had I known in the spring of 1973 that this hesitant freshman from the Bronx … Continue reading
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Where Are The Women? The latest issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has one named woman author out of twenty-three?
From here: Volume 32, Number 3 – Summer 2009 THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION: A RETROSPECTIVE Reflections on Events and Changes at the Department of Justice John Ashcroft 813 National Security and the Rule of Law Michael B. Mukasey 831 … Continue reading
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“”Make Her Say (Poke Her Face)”: Un-conscious Hip Hop, Oral Rape and the Silencing of Women”
That’s the title of this essay at Celie’s Revenge about a very misogynist song. Here is an excerpt from the introduction: As a female listener, one willing to allow herself to really hear this song’s words and take them to … Continue reading
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15 plaintiffs lost their lawsuit against the Vancouver Olympic Games Organizing Committee when the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled that the decision to exclude their sport is out of the organizing committee’s control.
From the Salt Lake City Tribune: … “No one wanted to go to court over this, but we had no choice,” Deedee Corradini, president of Women’s Ski Jumping-USA, said in a statement. “It’s terribly disappointing, but the experience and effort … Continue reading
NYU Law hires homophobic bigot to teach, wait for it, human rights law.
Leiter has the details.
Posted in Academia, Feminism and Law, Law Schools, Law Teaching, LGBT Rights
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“The Biden Curve”
Is Sarah Palin really dumber than Joe Biden? Or is something else going on? From the WSJ: ************* Over the weekend, as we noted yesterday, Vice President Biden said that if Israel decides it needs to take military action against … Continue reading
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If you need a good laugh…
Go here. Then observe the referenced unicorn in action here. My money is on “pustule.” –Ann Bartow
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Where Are The Women? A precious few were published in recent addition of the UCLA Law Review
Invited articles by fourteen men, but only two women, in a Symposium edition? Volume 56, Issue 5 (June 2009) Symposium: The Second Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms After D.C. v. Heller Gun Control After Heller: Threats and Sideshows … Continue reading
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“United [Airlines] Breaks Guitars”
The company pummels the crud out of suitcases, too. Via. –Ann Bartow
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On Tenure
Feminist Law Prof Kim Krawiec is guest-blogging at the Faculty Lounge as Bridget noted here and produced a very thought-provoking series of posts: My Tenure’s For Sale. How About Yours? Incentives and Institutions: Why Stop With the Banks? … Continue reading
Why hasn’t the “degree gap” closed the “salary gap”?
Prof. Mark Perry prepared this graph: If I’m reading it correctly, women and men got the same number of college degrees in 1982. By 1983, women started obtaining more college degrees then men, and this trend has continued on into … Continue reading
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Women selling sex are arrested and jailed, but the buyers go free?
That’s how I interpret what this article is saying when it reports: … The November raid came after a six-week surveillance of the house on Round Hill Road. The dwelling’s owner, Stephen A. Clark, was arrested Nov. 26 and pleaded … Continue reading
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“Women who drink alcohol, wear short skirts and are outgoing are more likely to be raped, claim scientists at the University of Leicester.”
Actually, that isn’t at all what the scientists found. But it is apparently what a reporter and editorial staff at the UK Telegraph wished the study had determined, for some reason. An article in the UK Guardian reports: There is … Continue reading
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Are all the pundits who matter at DailyKos male?
Over at Daily Kos is a post entitled “Abbreviated Pundit Round-up,” by “BarbinMD” with a first sentence that touts itself as “Your one stop pundit shop.” The pundits receiving links and blurbs? William Kristol, Tony Blankley, Richard Cohen, Cal Thomas, … Continue reading
E-mail, Anonymity and the First Amendment: State of Nebraska v. Darren J. Drahota
This case arose out of an e-mail exchange between a student and his professor. Here is an excerpt from the recent decision by the Nebraska Court of Appeals: … The trial court found, summarized, that while there was initially some … Continue reading
Echidne on Palin
Here’s an excerpt: … So yes, I hate McCain for what he did to me as a feminist, by putting me in the position of having to wade into the sewers of lefty blogs to find out what sexist crap … Continue reading
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Mark Gonzales: “As With Most Men”
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The Supposedly Liberal Doods Are STILL Odiously Hypersexualizing Sarah Palin
I don’t know why she is resigning her governorship, and I’m no Palin fan, but she absolutely did not deserve this: … As Hunter [S. Thompson] said, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Sarah Palin makes Mark … Continue reading
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Nellie McKay: Feminists Don’t Have a Sense of Humor
Via Tennessee Guerilla Women
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Judge Kozinski Will Not Be Sanctioned For Hosting Web Site Featuring Racist, Degrading Porn
The SF Chron reported (in part): … In a decision that it labeled an admonishment, the panel told Kozinski that his conduct “created a public controversy that can reasonably be seen as having resulted in embarrassment to the institution of … Continue reading
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Missing Girls
Got back from China yesterday, and one thing my colleagues and I noticed was the (completely anecdotal) vast majority of the children anywhere we looked were male. We were told that the Chinese governmnet is considering modifying its … Continue reading
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“… 2,000 people from some of South Carolina’s most depressed counties … flocked to a job fair this week to hear more about new jobs cleaning up dangerous waste at [a] former bomb-making complex, the Savannah River Site.”
Story here. –Ann Bartow
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“… a Justice Department lawyer actually argued to a federal district court judge that there should be an exemption from Freedom of Information Act disclosure rules for documents that would subject senior administration officials to embarrassment — as in on late-night television.”
From Dan Froomkin: … Yes, a Justice Department lawyer actually argued to a federal district court judge that there should be an exemption from Freedom of Information Act disclosure rules for documents that would subject senior administration officials to embarrassment … Continue reading
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