Author Archives: Bridget Crawford

Jill Hasday on “Intimate Lies and the Law”

Jill Hasday’s new book, Intimate Lies and the Law, is out from Oxford University Press on July 24.  She says that deception within intimate relationships is a fascinating topic—especially when it happens to someone else. For more information, you can … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Feminist Legal Scholarship, Recommended Books | Comments Off on Jill Hasday on “Intimate Lies and the Law”

@RebelCityPod on a Really, Really Important Scottish Feminist You Probably Never Read About

Via freelance journalist Alex Tiffin (@RespectisVital), I got pointed to the Rebel City Podcast, a podcast made in Glasgow by Paul Shields and Matt Diamond.  On a recent episode, the podcast featured Ray Barron-Woolford (@Raywoolford), the author of a new … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Feminist Legal History, Sisters In Other Nations | Comments Off on @RebelCityPod on a Really, Really Important Scottish Feminist You Probably Never Read About

CFP: 12th Feminist Legal Theory Conference at University of Baltimore School of Law: Applied Feminism and Privacy – Deadline 11/1

From colleagues at the University of Baltimore: The Center on Applied Feminism at the University of Baltimore School of Law seeks paper proposals for the Twelfth Feminist Legal Theory Conference.  We hope you will join us for this exciting conference on … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Call for Papers or Participation | Comments Off on CFP: 12th Feminist Legal Theory Conference at University of Baltimore School of Law: Applied Feminism and Privacy – Deadline 11/1

Margaret Johnson (@ProfMEJohnson1) is @UBaltLaw’s First Associate Dean for Experiential Education

Margaret Johnson has been appointed as the University of Baltimore School of Law’s first Associate Dean for Experiential Education. Readers of this blog may know Professor Johnson as the School’s Co-Director (with Michele Gilman) of the Center on Applied Feminism. She … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Chutes and Ladders, Feminist Legal Scholarship | Comments Off on Margaret Johnson (@ProfMEJohnson1) is @UBaltLaw’s First Associate Dean for Experiential Education

Op Ed on Discriminatory #TamponTax

Erwin Chemerinsky (UC Berkeley) and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf (Period Equity) have published an op-ed in the LA Times, Taxing Tampons Isn’t Just Unfair, It’s Unconstitutional. Here is an excerpt:   In the United States, where sales taxes are levied by each … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Women and Economics | Comments Off on Op Ed on Discriminatory #TamponTax

@DukeLaw Journal of Gender, Law & Policy Shutting Down After 2019-2020 Academic Year

I found this out after I made a submission. The student editors replied that they had filled the volume for next year, and that would be their last. I haven’t seen any official press release from the school.

Share
Posted in Feminist Legal Scholarship, Law Schools | Comments Off on @DukeLaw Journal of Gender, Law & Policy Shutting Down After 2019-2020 Academic Year

#Tampon #Tax Back in Tanzania

From Agence France Presse: A decision by Tanzania’s government to reintroduce a tax on sanitary pads and tampons has angered women in the country, with one activist on Sunday saying it would have “heavy consequences” for women.   Taxes on … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Sisters In Other Nations, Women and Economics, Yep, sarcasm. | Comments Off on #Tampon #Tax Back in Tanzania

Ways Around the Tampon Tax – German Style

Via The Lily News.

Share
Posted in Sisters In Other Nations, Women and Economics | Comments Off on Ways Around the Tampon Tax – German Style

Dov Fox on “Birth Rights and Wrongs”

Dov Fox (San Diego) has published Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law (Oxford, 2019).  Here is the publisher’s description: Millions of Americans rely on the likes of birth control, IVF, and genetic … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Feminist Legal Scholarship | Comments Off on Dov Fox on “Birth Rights and Wrongs”

CFP-Prison Abolition, Human Rights, and Penal Reform: From the Local to the Global

Bumping to the front; submission deadline 7/15 From colleagues at the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law: Prison Abolition, Human Rights, and Penal Reform: From the … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Prisons and Prisoners, Race and Racism | Comments Off on CFP-Prison Abolition, Human Rights, and Penal Reform: From the Local to the Global

Bra-Gate: A 2019 Tale of Institutional Misogyny (@JCSherriffOffice)

by JoAnne Sweeny Back in May 2019, the Jackson County Detention Center, without any warning to local attorneys, instituted a new security policy that requires all visitors, including inmates’ attorneys, to pass through a metal detector.  Seems reasonable in theory … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Criminal Law, Employment Discrimination, Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Law, Feminism and the Workplace, If you're a woman, Legal Profession, Prisons and Prisoners | Comments Off on Bra-Gate: A 2019 Tale of Institutional Misogyny (@JCSherriffOffice)

Hiring Announcment: Detroit Mercy Seeks to Fill 2 Positions

Announcement: Property Law Position University of Detroit Mercy School of Law seeks a proven or aspiring scholar and teacher with an interest in teaching first-year Property Law for a tenured or tenure-track position beginning 2020-2021.  Applicants must have a law … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Chutes and Ladders, Law Schools, Law Teaching | Comments Off on Hiring Announcment: Detroit Mercy Seeks to Fill 2 Positions

#Hireath

I learned a new word today: hireath. From a 2016 student blog at Penn State (here): Hiraeth is a Welsh word that is somewhat difficult to describe in English, for the reason that there is no single English word that … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Sociolinguistics | Comments Off on #Hireath

Who is Getting Rich? Not Minimum-Wage Workers

Over at Forbes, contributor Erik Sherman has a data-filled article here that begins with an eye-popping statistic: the federal minimum wage has not increased in almost 10 years.  That’s a record (and not a good one, in my view). After … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Academia, Women and Economics | Comments Off on Who is Getting Rich? Not Minimum-Wage Workers

@PittLaw Tax Review Hosts Print Symposium

U.S. Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions The Pittsburgh Tax Review has published a print symposium/series of essays reviewing or inspired by U.S. Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions (Cambridge 2017). Here’s the table of contents with links to the contributions: The … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Feminist Legal Scholarship, Women and Economics | Comments Off on @PittLaw Tax Review Hosts Print Symposium

CFP: Gender Justice-Theoretical Practices of Intersectionality

CFP for Essay Collection Title: Gender Justice: Theoretical Practices of Intersectional Identity Series: Law, Culture and Humanities (Farleigh Dickinson U Press) This essay collection examines how gender, as a category of identity, must continually be understood in relation to how … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Call for Papers or Participation, Feminism and Law | Comments Off on CFP: Gender Justice-Theoretical Practices of Intersectionality

@MarcSpindelman on “Obergefell’s Dreams”

I’m just catching up with some of the gems in my “to read” pile. I enjoyed very much Obergefell‘s Dreams by Marc Spindelman (Ohio State). Here is an excerpt from the intro: As doctrine, Hardwick has been defanged, but as … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Feminist Legal Scholarship, LGBT Rights | Comments Off on @MarcSpindelman on “Obergefell’s Dreams”

The Malleable X: On Queer Origins of “Latinx”

John Paul Brammer (@jpbrammer) writes (here) in Mother Jones how Digging Into the Messy History of “Latinx” Helped Me Embrace My Complex Identity. Here is an excerpt: A June 2018 survey found that Latino millennials are the least likely bracket … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Sociolinguistics | Comments Off on The Malleable X: On Queer Origins of “Latinx”

Future Business Law Professors Conference @Villanova_Law

Future Business Law Professors Conference Presented by the John F. Scarpa Center for Law and Entrepreneurship Friday, September 6, 20199:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.  The John F. Scarpa Center for Law and Entrepreneurship will host the Future Business Law Professors Conference on … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Chutes and Ladders, Law Schools, Law Teaching, Upcoming Conferences | Comments Off on Future Business Law Professors Conference @Villanova_Law

CFP: Critical Legal Conference 2019, Perugia Italy

The University of Perugia invites streams [i.e., pre-organized panels, etc.] and papers for the 2019 Critical Legal Conference. The event will take place between 12–14 September 2019. The deadline for submission of abstracts is the 15th of July.  The conference website … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Call for Papers or Participation, Feminist Legal Scholarship | Comments Off on CFP: Critical Legal Conference 2019, Perugia Italy

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Health Law Opinions

Seema Mohapatra (Indiana-Indianapolis) and Lindsay Wiley (American University WCL) are the co-editors of a new volume-in-progress in the U.S. Feminist Judgments Series.  Their volume, Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Health Law Opinions, will include these cases and contributors: (1) Schloendorff v. Society … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Feminist Legal Scholarship, Women's Health | Comments Off on Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Health Law Opinions

Call for Proposals for the Third Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum

Building on the success of the Inaugural Equality Law Scholars’ Forum held at UC Berkeley Law in 2017 and at UC Davis Law in 2018, and in the spirit of academic engagement and mentoring in the area of Equality Law, … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Call for Papers or Participation | Comments Off on Call for Proposals for the Third Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum

Guide to Submitting to Specialty Law Reviews and Journals in Gender, Women & Sexuality

I’ve prepared a guide to submitting to 29 specialty law reviews and law journals classified by the W&L Law Journal Rankings under the subject  “Gender, Women and Sexuality,” as well as  5 additional journals with the word “gender” in the … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Academia, Feminist Legal Scholarship, Law Teaching | Comments Off on Guide to Submitting to Specialty Law Reviews and Journals in Gender, Women & Sexuality

Embryos are Property, Not Persons, at Least in Ohio

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports on the case here. An excerpt: An appellate court Thursday ruled against a couple seeking a legal declaration that their embryos lost in a freezer malfunction last year were living persons and should have been … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Reproductive Rights | Comments Off on Embryos are Property, Not Persons, at Least in Ohio

Call for Sabbatical Visitors: Columbia Center for Gender & Sexuality Law (@GenderSexLaw)

From colleagues at Columbia: The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School invites applications for a sabbatical visitor for the 2019-2020 academic year to undertake research, writing and collaboration with Center faculty and students in ways that … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Chutes and Ladders, Fellowships and Funding Opportunities | Comments Off on Call for Sabbatical Visitors: Columbia Center for Gender & Sexuality Law (@GenderSexLaw)

CFP: Critical Legal Academics and Scholars International Collaborative Virtual Workshops

Cyra Akila Choudhury (FIU) is coordinating a series of virtual research and writing workshops called CLASIC, the Critical Legal Academics and Scholars International Collaborative. The workshops will be virtual meetings of collaborative members and can be open to all or … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Academia, Feminist Legal Scholarship, Upcoming Conferences | Comments Off on CFP: Critical Legal Academics and Scholars International Collaborative Virtual Workshops

Call for Panels and Conference Announcement: Women’s Leadership in Academia Conference @UVALaw, July 18-19, 2019

From colleagues at UVa: Call for Panel Proposals We are currently accepting proposals for panels on issues relating to women in legal academia for the second annual Women’s Leadership in Academia Conference, to be held at UVA Law School on … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Academia, Feminists in Academia, Law Schools, Upcoming Conferences | Comments Off on Call for Panels and Conference Announcement: Women’s Leadership in Academia Conference @UVALaw, July 18-19, 2019

Symposium Program: Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and the Role of Intersectional Legal Analysis

April 12, 2019 Symposium Sponsored by the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society Welcoming Remarks + Framing the Issues 8:45-9:45 am Professor Linda S. Greene (Wisconsin), Professor Lolita Buckner Inniss (SMU), Sam Bach (WJLGS)  Session #1: Moderator Linda S. Greene … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Academia, Activism, Race and Racism, Sexual Harassment | Comments Off on Symposium Program: Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and the Role of Intersectional Legal Analysis

Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and the Role of Intersectional Legal Analysis: Symposium @WisconsinLaw J. L., Gender & Soc’y

Today at the University of Wisconsin, the Journal of Law, Gender & Society is hosting a symposium on “Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and the Role of Intersectional Legal Analysis: Symposium.” Here is the program description: Recent … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Activism, Feminism and Law, Feminism and Politics, Race and Racism, Sexual Harassment | Comments Off on Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and the Role of Intersectional Legal Analysis: Symposium @WisconsinLaw J. L., Gender & Soc’y

Call for Authors–Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Property Law Opinions

Deadline for Applying: Friday, April 26, 2019 The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project seeks contributors of rewritten judicial opinions and commentary on the rewritten opinions for an edited collection tentatively titled Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Property Opinions. This edited volume is part … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Academia, Call for Papers or Participation | Comments Off on Call for Authors–Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Property Law Opinions

Chapman Law Review: CFP “A Fifty Year Retrospective on Major Laws of the 91st Congress:

From students at the Chapman Law Review: Invitation to Submit Articles for Chapman Law Review’s2020 Issue provisionally entitled “A 50-Year Retrospective on Major Laws of the 91st Congress” Chapman Law Review is pleased to invite article submissions on the theme: … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Call for Papers or Participation | Comments Off on Chapman Law Review: CFP “A Fifty Year Retrospective on Major Laws of the 91st Congress:

UMKC School of Law Advocacy Teaching Fellow Advertisement From colleagues at UMKC: This Fellowship is supported by the gift creating the Douglass Stripp Chair in Advocacy, occupied by Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Law S. Rafe Foreman. Professor Foreman and Professor … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Chutes and Ladders, Fellowships and Funding Opportunities, Law Schools, Law Teaching | Comments Off on

Gender Discrimination (Just Less of It) Still Ok in Virginia as #TamponTax is Cut But Not Repealed

Half measures, Virginia. Any tax on menstrual hygiene products is gender discrimination, Professor Emily Waldman and I argue in our article The Unconstitutional Tampon Tax. So cutting the tampon tax lessens the discrimination but fails to eliminate it. From the … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Academia | Comments Off on Gender Discrimination (Just Less of It) Still Ok in Virginia as #TamponTax is Cut But Not Repealed

CFP: Fordham Urban L.J. Issue on Gender Violence and the Law

From colleagues at Fordham: The Fordham Urban Law Journal is accepting articles for its Volume 47, October 2019 Issue.  The Journal publishes themed issues. The upcoming issue focuses on Gender Violence and the Law. Here’s the CFP: The Fordham Urban … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Acts of Violence, Call for Papers or Participation | Comments Off on CFP: Fordham Urban L.J. Issue on Gender Violence and the Law

Updated Guide to Submitting Essays, Commentaries, Reviews to Online Law Review Companions

I’ve expanded my guide to submitting to online companions to include 50 schools’ law reviews.  The new guide is here on SSRN.  The chart with contains details on the mechanics of submitting essays, commentaries, reviews to the online presence of … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Academia, Feminist Legal Scholarship | Comments Off on Updated Guide to Submitting Essays, Commentaries, Reviews to Online Law Review Companions

CFP: ClassCrits XII Conference

Call for Panel and Paper Proposals ClassCrits XII:  Facing Our Challenges: Rescuing Democracy, Ensuring Wellbeing & Exorcizing the Politics of Fear (Or: How To Be Free)  Co-Sponsored by  Western New England University School of Law  and ClassCrits, Inc. www.classcrits.org November … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Call for Papers or Participation | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on CFP: ClassCrits XII Conference

Are “CupAware” Events the New Tupperware Parties? Women’s Bodies as a Source of Corporate Profit

I read with interest ‘We’re Having a Menstrual Liberation’: How Periods Got Woke, published in The Guardian (U.K.). It’s a clunky and awkward title that obscures the contents of the article.   I am sitting in a hotel meeting room with … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Sexism in the Media, Women and Economics, Women's Health | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Are “CupAware” Events the New Tupperware Parties? Women’s Bodies as a Source of Corporate Profit

Formal Equality on (Literal) Paper: Why Does the Man’s Name Go First on German Tax Returns?

The German publication Zeit Online recently published an article (here) critiquing a variety of gender disparities in German law. One that caught my eye was this discussion of the literal design of German tax forms: Frauen werden in Familienbüchern und … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Feminism and Law, Sisters In Other Nations, Women and Economics | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on Formal Equality on (Literal) Paper: Why Does the Man’s Name Go First on German Tax Returns?

NPR’s @PlanetMoney Podcast on the #TamponTax

On March 6, 2019, NPR’s Planet Money had a show Tampons: That Bloody Sales Tax that included an interview with attorney Zoe Salzman, talking about her work that contributed to New York’s repeal of the sales tax on menstrual hygiene … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Activism, Women and Economics, Women's Health | Comments Off on NPR’s @PlanetMoney Podcast on the #TamponTax

Guide to Submitting Shorter Work to Online Law Review Companions

If you are doing any shorter writing — essays, responses, commentaries — you may be interested in this short guide I developed for submitting work to the online presences of 20 main journals. Some of the online companions are more … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Feminist Legal Scholarship, Law Schools | Comments Off on Guide to Submitting Shorter Work to Online Law Review Companions

Caterine on Gender & Bankruptcy

Emma Caterine, a 2018 graduate of CUNY Law School, has posted to SSRN her article A Fresh Start for a Women’s Economy: Beyond Punitive Consumer Bankruptcy, 33 Berkeley J. of Gender, Law & Justice (2018). Here is the abstract: This … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Feminism and Economics, Feminism and Families, Feminist Legal Scholarship | Comments Off on Caterine on Gender & Bankruptcy

State Legislature Watch: #Tampon Tax Repeal Bills Live in 13 States

In upcoming legislative sessions, state legislatures in these 13 states are poised to consider bills to repeal the sales tax on menstrual hygiene products: Arizona California Georgia Kentucky Maine Michigan Nebraska Ohio Tennessee Texas Virginia Washington West Virginia States that … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Women and Economics, Women's Health | Comments Off on State Legislature Watch: #Tampon Tax Repeal Bills Live in 13 States

Rethinking the Online Petition: Not “Slactivism”

From TheConversation.com (here): Online petitions are often seen as a form of “slacktivism” – small acts that don’t require much commitment and are more about helping us feel good than effective activism. But the impacts of online petitions can stretch … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Activism | Comments Off on Rethinking the Online Petition: Not “Slactivism”

Kathy Stanchi (@kstanchi) from Temple Law to @UNLVLaw

Fab feminist Kathryn M. Stanchi, currently the Jack E. Feinberg ’57 Professor of Litigation and an Affiliated Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Temple University Beasley School of Law, will be joining the faculty of the UNLV William … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Chutes and Ladders | Comments Off on Kathy Stanchi (@kstanchi) from Temple Law to @UNLVLaw

Nello Restaurant in NYC Won’t Let Women Eat Alone at the Bar

Dining solo while female can get you banned from the bar.  I am not making this up. On a recent trip to Manhattan, [business executive Clementine Crawford] said she visited Nello for an early dinner and took her usual place … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Feminism and Culture | Comments Off on Nello Restaurant in NYC Won’t Let Women Eat Alone at the Bar

Joshi on “Racial Indirection”

Yuraj Joshi (doctoral candidate and SSHRC fellow at Yale Law School) has posted to SSRN his article, “Racial Indirection,” forthcoming in the Davis Law Review. Here is the abstract: Racial indirection describes practices that produce racially disproportionate results without the … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Academia, Race and Racism | Comments Off on Joshi on “Racial Indirection”

CFP: “Law, the Body and Embodiment: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives,” Austl. Feminist L.J. @austfem

Dr.  Linda Roland Danil is guest-editing a special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal entitled: ‘Law, the Body and Embodiment: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives’ for the Australian Feminist Law Journal, Volume 46(1) 2020. Abstracts are due on March 31, … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Call for Papers or Participation | Comments Off on CFP: “Law, the Body and Embodiment: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives,” Austl. Feminist L.J. @austfem

Oñati Socio-Legal Series @IISJOnati Volume on “Comparative Socio-Legal Perspectives on Judicial Decision Making and Gender Justice”

In May, 2017, I participated in a fantastic international workshop at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Spain. The workshop brought together participants from the various international Feminist Judgments Projects. Collectively, these projects focus on rewriting … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Courts and the Judiciary, Feminist Legal Scholarship, Sisters In Other Nations | Comments Off on Oñati Socio-Legal Series @IISJOnati Volume on “Comparative Socio-Legal Perspectives on Judicial Decision Making and Gender Justice”

Gloria Steinem’s Career in Pictures + Essay by Rebecca Carroll @rebel19

The New York Times is featuring on its website various collections of curated historical photographs.  This week’s collection (here) includes an essay by Rebecca Carroll: “What I See: Gloria Steinem Shoulder to Shoulder with Women of Color.” Here is an … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Activism, Race and Racism | Comments Off on Gloria Steinem’s Career in Pictures + Essay by Rebecca Carroll @rebel19

Upcoming Women in Legal Ed Events at AALS in New Orleans

The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education has some great programs planned for the 2019 Annual Meeting: Thursday, January 3 10:30-12:15 Co-Sponsoring with the Section on Agricultural and Food Law: Worker Justice in the Food System. Friday, January 4 … Continue reading

Share
Posted in Upcoming Conferences | Comments Off on Upcoming Women in Legal Ed Events at AALS in New Orleans