Category Archives: Academia

This article in Reuters has some fascinating coverage of emerging research on who benefits from tampon tax repeal. Here is an excerpt: “People are using tea towels, T-shirts, socks, toilet paper,” said Tina Leslie, founder of Freedom4Girls, one of several … Continue reading →

The publication Nature has some informative graphics here.

From Dr. Kim Barker, Senior Lecturer in Law, Head of Department, Director, Observatory on Online Violence Against Women, The Open University Law School   We are seeking to recruit a Research Associate to work on the Protecting Girls from Online … Continue reading →

Breanne Fahs (Women and Gender Studies, ASU) has a smart essay over at Signs (here) called The Urgent Need for Radical Feminism Today. Here is an excerpt: Though in some ways short-lived, and certainly not without its limitations, second-wave radical … Continue reading →

Advice from Gender & Law Journal Editors: Tips for Prospective Authors Live Zoom Webinar Sponsored by the U.S. Feminist Judgments Project January 20, 2023 2-3 pm Eastern/11am-12n Pacific advance registration required (here; free) Specialty law journals are important outlets for … Continue reading →

The Open Library of Humanities has a special issue devoted to “The Politics and History of Menstruation: Contextualising the Scottish Campaign to End Period Poverty.” The editors are Bettina Bildhauer (University of St Andrews), Camilla Røstvik (University of Leeds) and … Continue reading →

I’ve expanded the coverage from journals at 20 schools to 45 schools, here.

On April 20, 2022, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts signed into law Nebraska LB 984. Effective October 1, 2022, menstrual products will not be subject to state sales tax and city. The same bill also requires state, county and city jails … Continue reading →

Aliza Shatzman (JD 2019, Wash U Law) and Matthew Goodman (JD 2019, Wash U Law) have announced the launch of The Legal Accountability Project. Here is a description of the non-profit’s aims: The Legal Accountability Project’s goal is to ensure … Continue reading →

Some colleagues may know that Leandra Lederman (Indiana) and Allison Christians (McGill) are the cohosts of a YouTube video series called Break Into Tax that reviews important tax-related concepts and ideas in a fun and student-friendly way. In a recent … Continue reading →

Keerthana Nunna (Michigan JD ’21), W. Nicholson Price II (Michigan) and Jonathan Tietz (Michigan) have posted to SSRN their working paper Hierarchy, Race & Gender in Legal Scholarly Networks.  Here is the abstract: A potent myth of legal academic scholarship … Continue reading →

Abstracts are due 2/15/22   Rewriting the Abortion Narrative: The Power of Popular Culture   With the Supreme Court poised to radically change or even overturn Roe v. Wade after hearing the Mississippi Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, … Continue reading →

Here is some info about submitting to the online companions at 20 journals.

Tonight I attended the “Stanford-Harvard-Yale Joint Journal Information Session” billed as follows: Description: Wondering how to submit to the Stanford Law Review, Harvard Law Review, or Yale Law Journal? Join our live Q&A webinar next week, January 31 at 4:00 … Continue reading →

Please use the comments to post your tributes to Gloria Watkins (aka bell hooks) here. We’ll aggregate all of the comments into a single post after December 30, 2021. May she rest in peace and power.

bell hooks, a literary giant, has passed on. In the single, brief interaction that I had with her, she reminded me of what it takes to achieve such greatness.  

Summer 2020 included the tweetstorm publicizing the awful (and arguably unconstitutional, so say Emily Waldman and I) prohibitions on bar examinees bringing their own menstrual products to the exam. In response, the menstrual underwear company Thinx offered to send a … Continue reading →

These are certainly interesting times to teach and write about critical race theory. As CRT becomes the new political scapegoat, US law schools are (finally) beginning to explore how to teach students law while also teaching them about the racism … Continue reading →

Jonathan L. Entin, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, has published a Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg at 71 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1 2020).  Download the article from SSRN at the link.   

Deborah A. Widiss, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, is publishing Menstruation Discrimination and the Problem of Shadow Precedents in the Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law. Here is the abstract. A burgeoning menstrual justice movement calls attention to … Continue reading →

Dana Neacşu, David Brian Holt, and Margaret Butler have published Names are Important: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identities, and the Law: A Research Bibliography (2006-2016) (2018). Here is the abstract. This chapter accompanies a bibliography describing legal scholarship related to sexual … Continue reading →

I’ve updated and expanded my guide to submitting to online law review companions at 60 law schools. It is here on SSRN.  As before, the document contains information about word count limitations, subject matter preferences, submission details and other guidelines … Continue reading →

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Margaret E Johnson, University of Baltimore School of Law, has published Lessons Learned From the Suffrage Movement at 2 Maryland Bar Journal 115 (2020). Here is the abstract. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Nineteenth … Continue reading →

Kathleen Kim, and Yxta Maya Murray, both of the Loyola (Los Angeles) Law School, have published Advice & Consent: A Play in One Act as Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-19. Here is the abstract. On September … Continue reading →

Quoting Joan Meier (GW) and Naomi Schoenbaum (GW): With schools and day care centers closed, there’s increasing concern about the impact on women. Lauren Hall, who is involved in running various Facebook groups with other mothers, told me “it’s clear … Continue reading →

From colleagues at SLU: The Saint Louis University Law Journal is proud to announce the twenty-second installment of the Journal’s Teaching series, Teaching Law Online. The Journal created the Teaching series in 2000 as a forum for scholars, judges, and … Continue reading →

From colleagues at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law Program on Race, Gender & Policing: We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue of the Nevada Law Journal on … Continue reading →

Christopher McCrudden, Queen’s University Belfast School of Law, has published Gender-Based Positive Action in Employment in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Legal and Policy Approaches in the EU and EEA. Here is the abstract. This report considers the use of … Continue reading →

Logan Kenny is a high school sophomore attending USC Upstate through the Scholar’s Academy program located in South Carolina.  She is currently working on a research paper about the tax on feminine-hygiene products in the US. She recently contacted Professor … Continue reading →