Author Archives: Bridget Crawford

Tax Credits for Abortion

Could the federal government offer tax credits for abortion?  That’s what one commenter asks over here at Metafilter, about the implications of the  decision of the United States Supreme Court in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn (copy of … Continue reading

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CFP: “Effective Faculty/Student Collaborations and Student Initiatives”

From the FLP mailbox, this notice from the AALS Section on Balance in Legal Education: The section on Balance in Legal Education is pleased to announce its program topic for the 2012 annual meeting of the American Association of Law … Continue reading

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Corbin on “Nonbelievers and Government Religious Speech”

Caroline Mala Corbin (Miami) has posted to SSRN her article Nonbelievers and Government Religious Speech, 97 Iowa L. Rev. __ (2011).  Here is the abstract: In the past few years, nonbelievers have become much more prominent in the United States. … Continue reading

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AALS Workshop on “Women Rethinking Equality”

The AALS 2011 Workshop on Women Rethinking Equality will be held June 20-22, 2011 at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C.  Here is the official “Why Attend?” pitch: Women seeking equality in America today face an uneven prospect. Women are represented in … Continue reading

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Reproductive Health Providers as Human Rights Workers

Over at TrustLaw.org, Cynthia Soohoo, Director of the U.S. Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights,  has posted an op-ed entitled, “The Word on Women – And now some good news for women’s abortion rights…” Here is an excerpt: We all…know…that … Continue reading

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Ellen Podgor Named as Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor

From Stetson’s press release (here): Stetson University College of Law has named Ellen S. Podgor the inaugural Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor. A former prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, Professor Podgor has written more than 50 articles … Continue reading

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An (Illegal) Feminist Bakesale

Some students at Reed College are planning a “Feminist Bake Sale for Pay Equity.”  Here are the details: The bakesale will charge men and women proportionally, based on the amount of money they earn as published by the 2008 Census … Continue reading

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“Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law”

NYU Press has published Feminist Legal History: Essays on Women and Law, edited by Tracy A. Thomas (Law, Akron) and Tracey Jean Boisseau (History, Akron). Contributors to the volume are: Carrie N. Baker Felice Batlan Tracey Jean Boisseau Eileen Boris Richard H. … Continue reading

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I Know What They Like

What’s not to like?  Smells like bacon…a new fragrance by Fargginay (here). H/T Brother Froomkin. -Bridget Crawford

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Joslin on “Searching for Harm: Same-Sex Marriage and the Well-Being of Children”

Courney Joslin (UC Davis) has posted to SSRN her article Searching for Harm: Same-Sex Marriage and the Well-Being of Children, 46 Harv. C.R.-C.L. Law Rev. 81 (2011).  Here is the abstract: For the past two decades, claims related to the … Continue reading

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Death of Sara Ruddick

Professor Sara Ruddick (Philosophy, New School) died last month.  Here is a portion of her obituary from the New York Times. Sara Ruddick, whose 1989 book, “Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace,” laid the groundwork for a feminist approach … Continue reading

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Pace Law School Hiring Assistant Dean of Environmental Programs

Here’s a notice about a mixed administrative/teaching position at my home institution: Pace University School of Law (White Plains, NY) is seeking to fill one position, titled, Assistant Dean of Environmental Programs and Professor of Law for Designated Project or … Continue reading

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Geraldine Ferraro Dies at Age 75

The NYT has the story here. Ms. Ferraro was the first woman nominated by a major party as a Vice Presidential candidate.  She was Walter Mondale’s running mate in 1984. However flawed that campaign and candidacy, as a young teenager, I … Continue reading

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“You can do it, Japan!” Penn Students Raise Funds for Japan Earthquake Relief

Members of the LL.M. Class of 2011 at the University of Pennsylvania Law School have joined with students from Wharton’s Japan Club to fundraise for earthquake relief efforts in Japan.  The students are selling a t-shirt, with all proceeds going … Continue reading

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ABA’s IMPOWR Project

The American Bar Association established IMPOWR (the International Models Project for Women’s Rights) in 2008.  (It does not concern fashion models….).  Here is the group’s “Vision Statement”: The IMPOWR vision is to build an open, inclusive and dynamic information sharing … Continue reading

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Jailed in Mexico for Having an Abortion

According to this article at El Diario NTR, 23 women are in jail in Mexico for “aggravated homicide by reason of kinship.”  Their crime?  Having an abortion.  At least one of the jailed women suffered a spontaneous abortion and was … Continue reading

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The New Wonder Woman?

There is a NBC pilot in the works for a new “Wonder Woman” television series.  Judging by the costume preview (here, at EW.com), I predict the show never gets picked up. Apparently, the costume designer did not use the lasso … Continue reading

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As the Economy Declines, So Does the Frequency of Oral Sex?

For the empiricists, here’s some interesting extra reading:  this National Health Statistics Report on “Sexual Behavior, Sexual Attraction, and Sexual Identity in the  United States: Data from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth.”  In Table 7, one learns: In … Continue reading

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Pruitt, “Deconstructing CEDAW’s Article 14: Naming and Explaining Rural Difference”

Lisa Pruitt (Davis) has posted to SSRN her article Deconstructing CEDAW’s Article 14: Naming and Explaining the Rural Difference.  Here is the abstract: The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is the first human … Continue reading

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New Documentary on Women, War, Family and the Democratic Republic of Congo

Women Make Movies is distributing a new documentary film by Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel.  Here is the description of “Pushing the Elephant“: In the late 1990s, Rose Mapendo lost her family and home to the violence that engulfed the … Continue reading

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Bacon Before Sex?

According to Maple Leaf Foods (and reported here): The people of Canada sure love their bacon. In a recent survey conducted by Maple Leaf Foods, 43% of the respondents said they would rather have bacon than sex. Are you surprised? If … Continue reading

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Black on “Stalled: Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards”

Barbara Black, the Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director of the Corporate Law Center at the University of Cincinnati College of Law has posted to SSRN her essay, Stalled: Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards.  Here is the abstract: In … Continue reading

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A Woman’s Work at Home Doesn’t “Count” for Bankruptcy Purposes

The Supreme Judicial Court in Massachusetts has ruled that a woman whose work is “only” at home — meaning caring for minor children and running the household — has no property right in one-half of a federal tax refund, at … Continue reading

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Rodriguez and Elchahal, “Violence Against Women Still a Problem”

Miraisy Rodriguez (far left) and Farrah Elchahal (left), two great students in Professor Caroline Bettinger Lopez’s Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami, published this op-ed in today’s Miami Herald: Eleven years ago, Jessica Lenahan’s three daughters were kidnapped and … Continue reading

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When Will Equality Be “Sexy”?

Kanye West’s “Monster” video has been banned from MTV “for its violence and explicit content toward women,” according to Essence magazine (here).  That’s a rather glossy description of the video.  According to the petition signed by over 5,000 people: “The … Continue reading

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Whalen Films, “A Question of Habit”

This short film is narrated by Susan Sarandon and is about women religious in the United States.  Here’s the description from the film’s website: In the February 23, 2008 episode of Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey made a seemingly serious … Continue reading

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Does Viewing Pornography Change the Human Brain?

I read with great interest Jim Holt’s essay Smarter, Happier, More Productive in the March 3, 2011 edition of the London Review of Books.  Holt reviews Nicholas Carr’s book How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and … Continue reading

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Ann Bartow from South Carolina to Pace

From Pace Law School’s press release: Pace Law School is strengthening its offerings in intellectual property by adding to its teaching ranks Professor Ann Bartow, a leading intellectual property scholar, Dean Michelle S. Simon announced. “Ann Bartow is a remarkably … Continue reading

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Does a Faculty Member’s Gender Matter? When Overt Discrimination Isn’t the Problem (Anymore)

There’s a new study out of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst that says it does, at least in science and engineeering.  Here’s how an article over at Slate breaks it down: [Jane Stout, Nilanjana Dasgupta, Matthew Hunsinger, and Melissa … Continue reading

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Liz Glazer on “Sexual Reorientation”

Yesterday I had the good fortunate to hear an engaging talk by Feminist Law Prof Liz Glazer (Hofstra).  She was invited by the student LAMBDA organization in connection with our school’s Spotlight on Diversity Week, held annually each year.  Here … Continue reading

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Chandra on “Surrogacy and India”

Mr. Smith Chandra, a student at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University in Hyerabad, India has posted to SSRN his working paper Surrogacy and India.  Here is the abstract: The Law Commission of India has submitted the … Continue reading

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NYT Editorial: “The War on Women”

From today’s New York Times, this editorial, entitled The War on Women: Republicans in the House of Representatives are mounting an assault on women’s health and freedom that would deny millions of women access to affordable contraception and life-saving cancer … Continue reading

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NY Appellate Court Upholds Distribution of Decedent’s Estate to Same-Sex Spouse

An appellate court in New York has upheld the decision of New York County Surrogate Kristen Booth Glen (formerly of CUNY Law) to recognize a decedent’s same-sex marriage for estate administration purposes.  Specifically, Surrogate Glen had permitted probate of the … Continue reading

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Full Text Opinion in H. Kenneth Ranftle v. Craig Leiby

The full text of the decision of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Department appears after the fold.

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Janell Hobson on Hip-Hop Feminism

Over at the Ms. Magazine blog, Janell Hobson (Women’s Studies, SUNY) writes Can’t Stop the Women of Hip-Hop: [N]ow that mainstream hip-hop has become corporate, such women have been mostly silenced (most infamously when Sarah Jones was fined in 2001 by the FCC … Continue reading

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Law Professors Support Decimalizing Marijuana

CNBC has a story and slide show “Marijuana by the Numbers,” explaining that if legal in the United States, marijuana would be a $40 billion industry. See here. I did chuckle when I saw the slide above, describing the history of marijuana … Continue reading

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Batter Up! Justine Siegal Throws Four-Seam Fast Balls in Batting Practice for the Indians

The New York Times reported yesterday (here) on 36 year-old Justine Siegal’s debut throwing batting practice for the Cleveland Indians during spring training in Arizona. Justine Siegal felt a chill of excitement when she saw her dark blue Cleveland Indians jersey. She … Continue reading

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Where are the Women? Not Too Often Among Magazine Authors, Either

VIDA: Women in Literary Arts has published The Count 2010, its annual tally of authors whose work appeared (or was reviewed) in magazines like the Atlantic, Granta, Harpers, London Review of Books, the New Yorker, the NY Times Book Review, the … Continue reading

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Lawmaker in State of Georgia Wants to Make Miscarriage a Crime

A bill introduced last month by a Georgia State Representative would make miscarriage a crime, unless the woman could prove that there was “no human involvement” in the miscarriage.  The bill doesn’t define “human involvement.” Here’s what WebMD has to … Continue reading

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Where the Women ARE: In Leadership Positions at the Columbia Law Review!

This nice news from Joy Ziegeweid, 2L at Columbia Law School: The Columbia Law School community found out this week that the Editor in Chief of the Columbia Law Review for 2011-2012 will be [Ms.] Maren Hulden.  Of the administrative … Continue reading

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Higdon on “Fatherhood by Conscription: Nonconsensual Insemination and the Duty of Child Support”

Michael J. Higdon (Tennessee) has posted to SSRN his working paper Fatherhood by Conscription: Nonconsensual Insemination and the Duty of Child Support.  Here is the abstract: Nathaniel was a California teenager who became a father in 1995. The mother of … Continue reading

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Where are the Women? Presidents Day Edition

Ruthann Robson asks this question over at the Constitutional Law Prof Blog: “Where Are the Women?” is a query that is not limited to the category of United States Presidents. Consider Lynn E. Ford’s work on women and politics, especially their complete absence in South … Continue reading

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Chapman Law School Hosts Eboni Nelson on “Justice Thomas and the Promise of Education Equality”

This week Chapman University School of Law hosts Professor Eboni Nelson.  Professor Nelson will discuss her work on “Justice Thomas and the Promise of Education Equality.” We are extremely fortunate to have Professor Eboni Nelson, as an invited FIRST (Fresh … Continue reading

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CFP: “Excavating and Integrating Law and Humanities in the Core Curriculum”

From Melissa Murray (Berkeley): Call for Panelists AALS Section on Law and Humanities “Excavating and Integrating Law and Humanities in the Core Curriculum” 2012 AALS Annual Meeting January 4-8, 2012 Washington, D.C. The AALS Section on Law and Humanities will … Continue reading

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Cyra Choudhury on “Exporting Subjects: Globalizing Family Law Progress Through International Human Rights”

Cyra Akila Choudhury (FIU) has posted to SSRN her article Exporting Subjects: Globalizing Family Law Progress Through International Human Rights, 32 J. Mich. Int’l Law  259 (2011) Here is the abstract: This article examines the global export of domestic U.S. legal … Continue reading

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CFP: South-North Exchange “Migratory Currents in the Americas”

From Darren Rosenblum, this info: The South-North Exchange on Theory, Culture and Law has a call for paper proposals for its upcoming program “Migratory Currents in the Americas Corrientes migratorias en las Américas.” As the world globalizes in terms of nations’ … Continue reading

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Nancy Levit and Allen Roston, Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews and Journals

Those of us running the law review gauntlet in the next few weeks might be interested in Nancy Levit’s and Allen Roston’s updated chart (here) about law journal submissions, expedites and rankings from different sources for the spring 2011 submission … Continue reading

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Multidimensional Masculinities and Law: A Colloquium

Ann McGinley (UNLV) has passed along the details of a program to be held in Las Vegas next weekend. “Multidimensional Masculinities and Law: A Colloquium” is sponsored by UNLV Boyd School of Law and co-sponsored by Suffolk University Law School. … Continue reading

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Taxing Abortion

From NPR (here): House Republicans formally launch their latest effort to roll back abortion rights this week, and they’re aiming squarely for the tax code. On the docket already are two bills: One would make permanent the decades-old “Hyde amendment,” … Continue reading

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Oedipus, Kay Jewelry Style

Kay Jewelers is running a commercial showing a male uniformed soldier (presumably) overseas, speaking by video phone with his wife.  As the wife opens a jewelry box, the husband says proudly that he had help from his “wingman” — his … Continue reading

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