Author Archives: Bridget Crawford

Ralph Richard Banks Asks “Is Marriage for White People?”

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Ralph Richard Banks (Stanford) has a book coming out on September 1, 2011. Here is a review from Kirkus of Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone: In his debut (Law/Stanford Law School), Banks explores … Continue reading →

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The Rise of the Single Father? Skepticism Before Plaudits

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

The local public radio station in New York reports here that the number of single fathers in New York City increased by 9% over the last decade. For explanation of this statistic, the story relies in part on surveys and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism and Families, The Overrepresentation of Men | 1 Comment

Areheart on “Disability Trouble”

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Bradley A. Areheart, the Bruce R. Jacob Visiting Assistant Professor at Stetson University College of Law, has posted to SSRN his article Disability Trouble, 29 Yale Law & Policy Review 347 (2011). Its theoretical framework borrows from Judith Butler’s work on gender and … Continue reading →

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AALS Section on Women in Legal Education Mentoring Program

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

This information about the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education about the Mentoring Program: At different stages of their careers, individuals may need different types of mentoring. One’s mentoring needs could be in teaching, in scholarship development, or with … Continue reading →

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Great Feminist Law Profs Who Blog

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

updated 6/24/11 In my remarks at the AALS workshop yesterday on the “Do’s and Don’ts of Blogging,” I didn’t get to shout out to all of the great feminist law profs who blog. There are many that I know about, … Continue reading →

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Carbone on “Unpacking Inequality and Class : Family, Gender and the Reconstruction of Class Barriers”

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

June Carbone (UMKC) has published “Unpacking Inequality and Class : Family, Gender and the Reconstruction of Class Barriers,” 45 N. England L. Rev. 527 (2011). This piece arises out of the Anna E. Hirsch Lecture that Professor Carbone delivered at New … Continue reading →

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Blogging Do’s and Don’ts

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

The panel this morning at the “Women Rethinking Equality” meeting is “Women as Scholars.” I have been asked to speak about blogging as a venue for scholarly work, and the particular challenges that law professor bloggers may face. I’ve made … Continue reading →

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Women Reproducing Inequality? Plenary Speakers at AALS Meeting

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

At the AALS Workshop on Women Rethinking Equality, there are 6 plenary sessions. The chart below lists each session’s title, speakers and moderator. The participant’s home institution is listed next to his or her name. To the right of the … Continue reading →

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Initial Report from AALS 2011 Workshop on “Women Rethinking Equality”

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

The AALS’s 2011 Workshop on “Women Rethinking Equality” is underway at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. For a quick look at the conference program, see here. There are 172 people pre-registered for the conference. The program has two … Continue reading →

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Washington & Lee Dean Search Open

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Washington and Lee University School of Law has begun a search for a new dean. Information about the search and school is here. Long-time FLP contributor Professor Joan Shaungnessy is chair of the search committee. She can be reached at shaughnessyj@wlu.edu. … Continue reading →

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Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellowship

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

From our friends at the Center for Reproductive Rights, this request for applications for the two-year fellowship offered by the Center and Columbia Law School: The Center for Reproductive Rights – Columbia Law School Fellowship (“CRR-CLS Fellowship”) is a two-year, … Continue reading →

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CFP: Application of Title IX to Bullying and Harassment in Schools

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

From the AALS Section on Education Law and Section on Sports Law: Call for Papers on the Application of Title IX to Bullying and Harassment in Schools Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in federally-funded educational institutions, turns … Continue reading →

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CFP: “New Voices in Gender Studies,” AALS Annual Meeting 2012

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

From the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education, this call for papers: The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education will hold a program during the AALS 2012 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., with paper presentations by the winners … Continue reading →

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CFP: “Busting Out in Scholarship—Becoming Relevant Outside the Legal Academy: Non-Traditional Scholarship and Social Change”

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

From the Planning Committee for 2012 AALS Annual Meeting Women in Legal Education Panel, Colleen Medill, Chair: Call for Presenter—“Busting Out in Scholarship—Becoming Relevant Outside the Legal Academy: Non-Traditional Scholarship and Social Change” We are seeking 250 word proposals for a … Continue reading →

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AALS to Offer Childcare at 2012 Annual Meeting in D.C.

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

In response to a request from the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education, the AALS will reinstate (temporarily?) childcare at the annual meeting. AALS Managing Director Jane LaBarbera sent this message to AALS Section Chair Professor Danne Johnson: The … Continue reading →

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Is Rep. Anthony Weiner a Sexual Harasser?

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

I answer in the negative, here. -Bridget Crawford

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Once a Bully, Always a Bully

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

From Reuters (here): U.S. scientists have found that boys who are bullies in the schoolyard are at increased risk of abusing their partner later in life. According to the study published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, the … Continue reading →

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New Issue of “Feminist Collections”

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

From Phyllis Holman Weisbard, the Women’s Studies Librarian at the University of Wisconsin, a new issue of Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources. Content is accessible via direct subscription or the GenderWatch database (not all University libraries have … Continue reading →

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Lying Makes it Grow: Anthony Weiner’s Battle of the (Underwear) Bulge Gets Bigger

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Earlier this evening New York Representative Anthony Weiner admitted that indeed the infamous underwear bulge was his. Weiner held a press conference in which he acknowledged that he had sent an underwear-clad picture of himself with an erection to a … Continue reading →

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Janell Hobson on Rihanna’s New Video

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Over at the Ms. Magazine blog, Janell Hobson writes about the reaction to Rihanna’s video for her new song, “Man Down.” Here is an excerpt from Professor Hobson’s commentary: While certain groups may be shocked at the image of yet … Continue reading →

Posted in Acts of Violence, Feminism and Culture | 1 Comment

Battle of the (Underwear) Bulge: Anthony Weiner, Twitter and Evolutionary Theory

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

I really, really want to take up Amy Wax’s call (here) to pay attention to mostly-neglected (by feminist legal scholars, that is) methodologies of economists, empirical social scientists and evolutionary theorists: Evolutionary theory seeks to offer a scientifically grounded account … Continue reading →

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Some Say CEDAW is Bad Idea

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Christina Hoff Sommers, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, writes here in the Policy Review on Feminism by Treaty: Why CEDAW is Still a Bad Idea. Here is an excerpt: The question the Senate has … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminism and Law, Sisters In Other Nations | 1 Comment

Where are the Women? Boston College Law Review Edition

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Boston College Law Review, Issue 52:3 (May 2011) Articles Joseph Blocher, Viewpoint Neutrality and Government Speech, 52 B.C. L. Rev. 695 (2011) [PDF] Robert M. Chesney, Who May Be Held? Military Detention Through the Habeas Lens, 52 B.C. L. Rev. 769 (2011) … Continue reading →

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“Run the World (Girls)”? Not So Much

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

I want to like Beyonce’s “Run the World (Girls),” but I don’t (and girls don’t … run the world, that is). Here’s one commentator’s response to the slogan — not the song: http://youtu.be/p72UqyVPj54 The video’s creator explains (here): This video … Continue reading →

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Second Shift Redux: New Study on Working Women’s Minimal Leisure Time

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

The Journal of Family Psychology wasn’t on my summer reading list until yesterday. The LA Times reported (here) on a new Journal of Family Psychology study about the comparative leisure time of men and women in 2-career families with at … Continue reading →

Posted in Employment Discrimination, Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Families, Women's Health | 1 Comment

Robson on “Lesbians and Abortions”

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Now available on SSRN is Ruthann Robson’s article, “Lesbians and Abortions,” 35 N.Y.U. Rev. Law & Soc. Change 247 (2011). Here is a portion of the abstract: While there are doctrinal and theoretical connections, the arguments for women’s freedom to be … Continue reading →

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“How to Be a Black Male Feminist”

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

The Renaissance Male Project Inc. has released a short video on “Feminism and Masculinity: How to Be a Black Male Feminist.” Here it is: The video’s title over-promises, but it is still worth a watch. It is primarily a presentation … Continue reading →

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Schwarzenegger, Strauss-Kahn, and Why Isn’t Anyone Talking About Race?

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Former IMF head Dominique Strass-Kahn has been indicted in connection with an alleged sexual assault of a female member of the housekeeping staff at the Sofitel hotel in New York. See, e.g., here. Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted … Continue reading →

Posted in Justice?, Race and Racism, Sexism in the Media, Socioeconomic Class | 1 Comment

Sarah Barringer Gordon Wins Lindback Award at Penn

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Congratulations to Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon on receiving one of the University of Pennsylvania’s most important teaching awards, the Lindback Award. From the University’s Almanac (here): Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law in the School of … Continue reading →

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Can One Law Prof Be “Superior” or “Subordinate” to the Other?

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Writer Ben Heineman asks in The Atlantic, “Sex Between Superiors and Subordinates: What Are the Rules?” It depends, Heineman says (here) on “different approaches and different cultural traditions.” Heineman describes three cases: Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher was forced to resign … Continue reading →

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SlutWalks All Over the World

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

This article in the UK Guardian explains the recent history behind the SlutWalk, an in-the-streets form of women’s activism that also uses social networking sites to organize and mobilize: When a police officer from Toronto went on a routine visit … Continue reading →

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What Does Marital Status Have to Do with Fitness to Practice Law?

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Why do some state bars ask about an applicant’s marital status? Whether one is now or ever was married seems irrelevant to one’s character and fitness to practice law. I’m all for asking whether an applicant has complied with all court-ordered … Continue reading →

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How Many Law School Chairs are Named After Women?

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Yesterday’s post with the good news of Kim Krawiec’s appointment as the Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor at Duke Law School made me wonder about the number of law school chairs that are named after women. Hey, readers! We need … Continue reading →

Posted in Law Schools, The Underrepresentation of Women | 4 Comments

Susan B. Anthony’s Handbag

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

The Susan B. Anthony House in Rochester, New York is selling the “Ms. Anthony,” a faux alligator handbag inspired by the one that Susan B. Anthony used to carry her speeches and other items while traveling. The bag has … Continue reading →

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University of the Andes School of Law (Bogotá, Colombia) Gender and Law Research Group

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Feminist Law Professors is pleased to welcome to the blogroll five members of the faculty at the University of the Andes School of Law: Gloria Marcela Abadía Cubillo; Helena Alviar García; Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra; Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll and Paula Torres Holguín. All are … Continue reading →

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Patent Law and the Female Body

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Written Description is a blog by Dr. Lisa Larrimore Ouellette. The blog reviews “Recent Scholarship on Patent Law, IP Theory, and Innovation.” (Dr. Ouellette also is a 3L at Yale Law School.) Today, Written Description features this post by Dr. Allison … Continue reading →

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Leslie Griffin on Religion, Free Exercise and Women’s Equality

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Leslie C. Griffin (Houston) has posted to SSRN her essay Smith and Women’s Equality, 32 Cardozo L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2011). Here is the abstract: This essay was part of a Cardozo symposium celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the landmark … Continue reading →

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First Female Dean at University of the Andes Law School

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Earlier this year, Helena Alviar García became the first female dean of the Law School at the University of the Andes in Bogotá (Colombia). The school’s press release is here. Last month at an International Association of Law Schools Conference on … Continue reading →

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Kim Krawiec Named Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor at Duke Law School

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Al Brophy has the good news over here at The Faculty Lounge that Kim Krawiec has been named the Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor at Duke Law School. Here is an excerpt from the Duke press release: Krawiec will become the … Continue reading →

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What an MIT Feminist Looks Like

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

At the MIT Open House on April 30, 2011, the Women’s and Gender Studies Program brought a whole new meaning to campus visibility for feminists: The Women’s and Gender Studies Program set up a professional photobooth where several … Continue reading →

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Congratulations to Danne Johnson!

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Congratulations to Danne Johnson whose tenure at Oklahoma City University School of Law whose was confirmed yesterday by the trustees. Professor Johnson also has been named the winner of OCU’s 2011 Student Choice Awards for Best Mentor and Favorite Overall … Continue reading →

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Sarah Weddington Cut from Texas Adjunct Ranks

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Sarah Weddington, who represented the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, has been teaching at the University of Texas at Austin since 1988. She is an adjunct professor in Women’s and Gender Studies and has a salary of $80,899 per year. … Continue reading →

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Charges in the Tyler Clementi Case

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

From the Chronicle: A former freshman at Rutgers University at New Brunswick who allegedly used a hidden Web camera to broadcast his roommate’s sexual encounter with another man was indicted on Wednesday on 15 counts in a case that drew … Continue reading →

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Where are the Women? Cornell Law Review Edition

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

There are none published in Volume 96:2 (January 2011) of the Cornell Law Review. Cornell Law Review, Volume 96 Number 2 (January 2011) Articles Deciding When to Decide: How Appellate Procedure Distributes the Costs of Legal Change Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl … Continue reading →

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What’s on Your (Seder) Plate?

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Even Time magazine is hip to the orange on the seder plate: Some may consider the orange a symbol of women’s rights, derived from a man supposedly telling Professor Susannah Heschel that “a woman belongs on the bimah [in a … Continue reading →

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Where are the Women? William and Mary Law Review Edition

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

There are no female authors among the 8 writers published in Issue 52:4 (March 2011) of the William and Mary Law Review. C’mon, editors, you can do better. -Bridget Crawford

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Film About Loving v. Virginia at Tribeca Film Festival

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

The Tribeca Film festival begins next week. Included in the film line-up is Loving Story, a documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving. Here is the film description: Loving v. Virginia was a watershed civil rights case in which the United … Continue reading →

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CFP: Race and Criminal Justice in the West

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

From the FLP mailbox: Conference Announcement and Call for Papers: Race and Criminal Justice in the West Gonzaga University School of Law, Friday-Saturday, September 23-24, 2011 Sponsored by: Gonzaga University School of Law, The Task Force on Race and the … Continue reading →

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Serena Mayeri, “Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution”

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Anyone interested in feminist jurisprudence or rights discourse will want to read this new book by Serena Mayeri (Penn): Reasoning from Race Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution. The publisher’s description is here. Mayeri uncovers the history of an … Continue reading →

Posted in Feminist Legal History | 1 Comment

ClassCrits IV:CFP: Criminalizing Economic Inequality, Sept. 23-24 2011 at American University

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

ClassCrits IV: Criminalizing Economic Inequality, Sept. 23-24 2011 at American University Deadline for paper proposals is May 6, 2011. The dominance of “free market” economic theory and policy has been accompanied in the U.S. by increasing reliance on the criminal … Continue reading →

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