Author Archives: Bridget Crawford

Feminist Law Prof 1L Stories Revisited

The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law Review has published another Law Stories issue, this one with the theme "One L Revisited" (including an introduction by author Scott Turow).  In this Summer 2010 issue, several law professors and other law … Continue reading

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Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia and The Washington College of Law 2010 Student Legal Essay Writing Competition

This call for essays may be of interest to students of Feminist Law Profs and others:   The Modern American (TMA) announces the American University Washington College of Law (WCL) essay competition, open to all full-time and part-time law students … Continue reading

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The Price of Donation

Earlier this week the Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article called "The Wrong Type of Solicitation" about the sexual harrassment of higher education planned-giving personnel.   Sexual harassment can occur in any job, but certain aspects of fund raising … Continue reading

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Duncan on Sexting

 Susan Duncan (Louisville) has posted to SSRN her working paper, "A Legal Response is Necessary for Self Produced Child Pornography: A Legislator’s Checklist for Drafting the Bill."  Here is the abstract: This Article explores self produced child pornography, known in … Continue reading

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NYSBA Announcement on US News Decision to “Rate” (Not Rank) Law Firms

New York State Bar Association President Stephen P. Younger (Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP) sent this message today to the group’s members: As many of you know, U.S. News and World Report announced earlier this year that, working with … Continue reading

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Strawberry Shortcake Gets a Makeover at 30

It looks like Rainbow Brite is not the only toy getting a makeover.  Strawberry Shortcake has a new look, too. Today’s New York Times reports (here) that the new Strawberry Shortcake will be introduced by Hasbro at this year’s Comic-Con … Continue reading

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Naomi Schoenbaum on Elena Kagan’s “Post-Identity” Approach to Gender

Naomi Schoenbaum, a Bigelow Fellow at The University of Chicago Law School, has published "Post-Gender Justice: What Does Being a Woman Mean to Elena Kagan?" in The New Republic.  Here is an excerpt:   Kagan has been deemed a female … Continue reading

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Kimberly Brooks Named Dean at Dalhousie Law

Professor Kimberly Brooks (McGill) has been named Dean of the Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia).  Here is the announcement from the press release (not yet posted on the Dalhousie website): Professor Brooks graduated with a BA … Continue reading

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Golf and Fatherhood Conflict in the PGA

Would the New York Times ever run the headline, "Golf and Fatherhood Conflict in the PGA"?  I doubt it.  But "Golf and Motherhood Conflict in the LPGA"?  That merited a squib on the front page of the "B" section in … Continue reading

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Frances Criminalizes “Psychologial Violence”

France has passed a criminal ban on psychological or verbal abuse of a spouse or live-in partner. The New York Times reported:  The French Parliament gave final and unanimous approval on Tuesday to a law that makes “psychological violence” a … Continue reading

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A Pill to Make Your Daughter Interested in Dolls and Boys?

Earlier this month, Time Magazine reported (here) on the off-label use of the steroid dexamethasone to treat prevent fetal development of ambiguous genitalia:  The early prenatal use of dexamethasone, or dex, has been shown to prevent some of the symptoms … Continue reading

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CFP: Maryland Law J. of Race, Gender & Class

From the FLP mailbox, this call for papers issued by the student editors at the University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class: The University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class is accepting … Continue reading

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Wide-Open Calls for Participation in 2011 AALS Mid-Year Meeting of Section on Women in Legal Education

The AALS is planning a Mid-Year Meeting of the Section on Women in Legal Education.  The meeting will be held in June 2011 in Washington, D.C. and the theme is, "Women Rethinking Equality."  The Planning Committee has issued three very broad … Continue reading

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Ringhand on Supreme Court Nomination Process

Today’s New York Times has a long article (here) discussing the empirical work of Feminist Law Professor Lori Ringhand (University of Georgia) and her co-author Paul M. Collins, Jr. (Political Science, U. of N. Texas).  Here’s how the Times summarizes: … Continue reading

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Overview of Lisa Pruitt’s Recent Work on Geography, Poverty and Equality

Professor Lisa R. Pruitt (UC Davis) has published two articles that study poverty and its consequences in relation to place. In particular, she brings together the socio-geographic concept of spatial inequality (adding "where?" to the core sociological inquiry "who gets … Continue reading

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Kansas Dean Search

 The University of Kansas is conducting a search for a new Dean of the Law School.  Details here.  The former Dean, Gail Agrawal is the incoming Dean at Iowa.

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Camille Nelson Named Dean at Suffolk Law

 Professor Camille Nelson (Hofstra) has been named Dean at Suffolk University Law School in Boston.  Suffolk’s press release is here.

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Joslin on “Travel Insurance: Protecting Lesbian and Gay Parent Families Across State Lines”

Courtney Joslin (UC Davis) has posted to SSRN her article, Travel Insurance: Protecting Lesbian and Gay Parent Families Across State Lines, 41 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 31 (2010).  Here is the abstract: Until recently, when a lesbian couple had … Continue reading

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Who is the Hiring Chair this Year?

Dan Markel at Prawfsblawg asks (here) for information on Appointments Committee Chairs at schools that are hiring. If you are on Appointments, or know who is, please share here.

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Summary of Bluebook Changes from 18th to 19th Edition

Cynthia Pittson, Head of Reference Services and Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace Law School, has prepared a useful reference list (here) of the change, tweaks and modifications to the citation rules contained in The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, now … Continue reading

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CFP: LatCrit-SALT Junior Faculty Development Workshop

This announcement from LatCrit, Inc.: LatCrit, Inc. (LatCrit) and the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) are pleased to invite you to the Eighth Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop (FDW), immediately preceding the LatCrit XV program. This annual workshop is … Continue reading

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“Renaissance Male” Teleconference June 29, 2010: “Rage, Race and Redemption”

This announcement, courtesy of Jewel Woods, Executive Director of the Renaissance Male Project Inc., “a midwest multi-cultural & multi-issue progressive men’s organization”: JUNE BROWN BAG AUDIO TELECONFERENCE Next Tuesday, June 29th Rage, Race & Redemption: Engaging The Emotional Lives Of … Continue reading

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Soccer Educational Outreach Program to Stop Domestic Violence

I’ve watched more ESPN in the last week than I have in the last year.  I’ve caught FIFA World Cup fever, along with millions of other sports fans around the world. I was interested to learn that there is a … Continue reading

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Olson, Freedom’s Daughters: A Juneteenth Story

 Lynne Olson, a former reporter, is the author of Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour (Random House 2010).  Browsing my local bookstore today — Juneteenth — it was her 2002 book, Freedom’s Daughters: … Continue reading

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Brooks on “The Potential for Feminist Analysis of International Revenue Allocation”

Kim Brooks (McGill) has posted to SSRN her article “Global Distributive Justice: The Potential for Feminist Analysis of International Revenue Allocation,” 21 Canadian J. of Women & L. 267 (2009). Here is the abstract: This article has a modest aim … Continue reading

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In Memory of My Mother

I am Very Busy these days Writing and Editing Important Work. I have no time to blog these days, and certainly not today. However, my mother is making me write this. For those who know me, this may seem surprising, … Continue reading

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Parenting, Female and Male, in Hours

Since I became a parent, I’ve been feeling like a rare bird, an engaged parent who happens to be a male.  Throughout my day, in the back of my mind, I object to the marginalization of male parents.  A recent … Continue reading

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Huntington on “Purple Haze”

Clare Huntington (Colorado) has posted to SSRN her review essay Purple Haze, __ Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming), a review of Naomi Cahn and June Carbone’s Red Families v. Blue Families.  Here is the abstract: In this age of vitriolic politics, it … Continue reading

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New York Reforms Law on Establishing Paternity for Inheritance Purposes

New York State Governor David A. Paterson has signed into law a bill that allows paternity to be established for inheritance purposes by genetic marker test.  The text of the bill is here.  The Governor’s press release is here. The … Continue reading

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Latest Issue of “Feminist Periodicals”

The most recent issue of Feminist Periodicals is available here, courtesy of the excellent Phyllis Holman Weisbard, University of Wisconsin System Women’s Studies Librarian, and her staff.  The most recent issue is  a 240+ page compilation of the tables of … Continue reading

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Focus on Intentional Pedagogy at “Faculty Teaching Day”

Many law schools have annual faculty retreats or “scholarship days” to showcase faculty scholarship.  My home institution instituted that tradition two years ago.  For the first time this year, we also held a “Faculty Teaching Day,” a half-day program for … Continue reading

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Ambivalent About the Boobquake

You’ve probably seen it by now. First, a Neanderthal Iranian cleric scolded women for wearing “immodest” Western clothing which of course leads to adultery, which of course causes earthquakes. In response, blogger Jen McCreight announced: On Monday, April 26th, I … Continue reading

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Inniss on History of U.S. Slave Trade

The New York Times published Lolita Buckner Inniss’s letter to the editor in response to  Henry Louis Gates’s April 23, 2010 op-ed, “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game.”  Professor Inniss writes: To the Editor: As Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. points out, … Continue reading

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Women and Investing

In response to the special financial challenges faced by women (live longer; earn less; take breaks from workplace) and recent research identifying characteristics of women that generally make them different investors with lower risk tolerances than men, a need has … Continue reading

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If Nero Had Internet Access, He Might Have Watched Porn While Rome Burned

From the Associated Press: Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says. The SEC’s inspector general conducted 33 … Continue reading

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CFP: Women’s Choices, Women’s Voices: Legal Regimes and Women’s Health

Call for Speakers AALS Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care Co-Sponsored by Section on Women in Legal Education Women’s Choices, Women’s Voices:  Legal Regimes and Women’s Health Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, 4:00 –  5:45 p.m. The AALS Section on … Continue reading

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Choudhury on “Globalizing the Margins”

Cyra Akila Choudhury (FIU) has posted to SSRN her article “Globalizing the Margins: Legal Exiles in the War on Terror and Liberal Feminism’s War for Muslim Women,” 9 Int. Rev.   of   Constitutionalism (2010)Here is the abstract: In the … Continue reading

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Cooper on “When Machismo Meets Post-Racialism: The Gates Controversy”

Frank Rudy Cooper (Suffolk) has posted to SSRN his working paper, “When Machismo Meets Post-Racialism: The Gates Controversy.”   Here is the abstract: On Thursday, July 16, 2009, white male police officer James Crowley was called to the home of … Continue reading

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Please Don’t Put a Wig on Your Baby

I know some people find “baby wigs” funny and harmless, but I find them utterly disturbing.  In my view, putting a wig on a baby either (a) sexualizes the child; or (b) functions as a type of minstrelsy (coincidence that … Continue reading

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Where Will We Be? Another Hate Crime Murder Trial in New York

Two men now stand trial in Brooklyn for the 2008 deadly beating of José O. Sucuzhañay, an Ecuadorean immigrant.  The victim’s brother, Romel Sucuzhañay, was attacked also, but he not seriously injured.  The prosecution’s theory in the case?  That the … Continue reading

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Title IX: Back from Outer Space

Vice-President Biden announced yesterday that the Obama administration had withdrawn the Bush administration’s approach to Title IX.  The White House website describes the action as follows: Today, Vice President Biden announced that the Administration has issued a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter … Continue reading

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“No Crime Seems Too Depraved”: NY Mafia Accused of Trafficking in Children

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York has arrested and charged 14 people – purportedly members of the Gambino crime family – for murder, racketeering and other crimes. Seven of the named defendants have been charged … Continue reading

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Gender Frustrations

So I have taken a week to think about how to blog about a session that I saw last weekend at the ABA Conference.   The session was about using movies to demonstrate gender differences in negotiation  and I went … Continue reading

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The Examined Life at Age 8 or 98: Dorothy Height Rest in Peace

The New York Times reported today that Dorothy Height, Activist, Educator, Civil Rights Leader, and quintessential black feminist, has died at the age of 98. You can read the NYT obituary of Dorothy Height here. Miss Height (and she was … Continue reading

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Guest Blogger Deborah Zipf: “Every Saturday Morning…”

Every Saturday morning, regardless of the weather or the state of the world, a group of anti-choicers gathers on the sidewalk outside the clinic in this city.   They have been faithful to their cause for over thirty years.   … Continue reading

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Batlan on “Roles, Perceptions and Working Conditions of Legal Secretaries in Large Law Firms”

Felice Batlan (Chicago Kent) has posted to SSRN an abstract of her article ‘If You Become His Second Wife, You are a Fool’: Shifting Paradigms of the Roles, Perceptions, and Working Conditions of Legal Secretaries in Large Law Firms (forthcoming, … Continue reading

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Ms. Magazine Welcomes Letters to the Editor

Ms. Magazine seeks letters to the editor responding to its most recent issue (here). There is a student rate for profs using the   magazine in the classroom. -Bridget Crawford

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Fellowships at Simone de Beauvoir Institute

The Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) is accepting applications for its Lillian S. Robinson Scholars program: This program is designed to attract distinguished visiting scholars working on a range of feminist research topics to the Simone … Continue reading

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Anita Allen Appointed to Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues

Feminist Law Prof Anita L. Allen (Penn) has been appointed by President Obama to the  Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.  The White House press release is here. -Bridget Crawford

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Special Commission’s Recommendations to City of Cleveland on Responding to Sexual Assault Victims

In response to the shocking murders of several women in Cleveland, Ohio (see here), that city’s mayor appointed a Special Commission on Missing Persons and Sex Crime Investigations.  That Committee has issued its final report  here. The Cleveland Plain Dealer … Continue reading

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