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The Yale Law School Information Society Project’s Upcoming Conference is Entitled: “JOURNALISM AND THE NEW MEDIA ECOLOGY: WHO WILL PAY THE MESSENGERS?” and 32 Out of 39 Listed Speakers Are Male.

Website here, program here.   New media conference, same old YLS misogyny. Not so random aside: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) launched an Ethical Journalism Initiative in 2008. The IFJ considers fair gender portrayal as part of ethical journalism, … Continue reading

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“Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: NASA’s Lost Female Astronauts”

Women were more qualified to to go into space than men. Having the wrong gonads kept them grounded. This Wired.com article reports: … In the late 1950s, the United States government contemplated training women as astronauts, and newly released medical … Continue reading

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“By watering down the content of what used to be Women’s Studies, students are no longer inspired by feminism and by the prospect of feminist activism and research.”

That is a sentence from this essay, excerpted below: … There have been two competing forces in the theorising of Women’s Studies since its inception. On the one hand there are those who wish to ‘transform the curriculum’ and incorporate … Continue reading

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Nicole Hurt, “Komen Goes Feminist: Breast Cancer Activism, Advertising Design, and Third-Wave Feminism”

This is an academic paper written in 2008 by a U. of Georgia student which critiques the 2007 “Punch It” Komen Foundation campaign: The shirt says:”When we get our hands on breast cancer, we’re going to punch it, strangle it, … Continue reading

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A U.S. District Judge ruled that school officials in Dillon County, South Carolina had acted reasonably in compelling a teenage student to not wear clothing with images of the Confederate flag.

From here: U.S. District Court Judge Terry Wooten has decided in favor of Dillon School District 3 in Latta in a 2006 lawsuit involving clothing bearing the Confederate flag, Superintendent Dr. John Kirby said. On March 30, 2006, the Southern … Continue reading

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Where Are the Women? Not in Michigan Law Review (Again)

Michigan Law Review, Issue 108:1 (October 2009) ARTICLES A Benjamin Spencer,  Understanding Pleading Doctrine,  108 Mich. L. Rev. 1 (2009) Michael A. Carrier,  Unsettling Drug Patent Settlements: A Framework for Presumptive Illegality,  108 Mich. L. Rev. 37 (2009) NOTES Nathan … Continue reading

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Where Are the Women? – Upcoming Conferences Installment

I. First up: the John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics, and Culture at Villanova’s law school. Here is the list of “Conference Participants,” which appears to be entirely male: Joseph Vining Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor University of Michigan … Continue reading

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Call for Papers Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference At the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC March 25-27, 2010

Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Conference At the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC March 25-27, 2010 SEWSA ‘10 Cultural Productions, Gender, and Activism Keynote Speakers:   Judith Halberstam, Marjorie J. Spruill, and Bernice Johnson Reagon Cultural Productions, Gender, and Resistance … Continue reading

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Applications Available for the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program (WLPPFP) and to the Leadership and Advocacy for Women in Africa (LAWA) Fellowship Program at Georgetown Law

Information about the Fellowships here. The application  deadline  for the LAWA Program, which is for lawyers  from countries throughout Africa,  is  Wednesday, September 30, 2009.   The deadline for WLPPFP, which is for  lawyers from the United States,  is  Monday, … Continue reading

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Obama Appoints First Openly Lesbian Commissioner to the EEOC

The White House just announced that it has nominated Georgetown Law Center’s Professor Chai Feldblum as a Commissioner to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.   This is huge not only because Feldblum would be the first out lesbian or gay … Continue reading

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“Gender Verification Tests” in Sports – We All Have A Stake in Caster Semenya’s Medal

As many will recall, the gold medal performance in the 800 meter track competition by Caster Semenya, a South African athlete, last month at the Berlin World Championships, sparked a”sex panic”when some observers questioned Semenya’s “real” sex.   Well, things … Continue reading

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10 Most Important Intellectual Moves in 21st Feminist Legal Theory (So Far)

What are the most important trends/questions/ideas/theoretical moves in feminist legal theory since the year 2000? That’s the question two friends and I discussed today as we were car-pooling to a conference.  Here is a back-of-the-envelope list that comes out of … Continue reading

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Where Are the Women? Not at George Mason’s “Gridlock Economy Conference,” that’s clear.

George Mason University, School of Law is convening a conference entitled: Tragedies of the Gridlock Economy – How Mis-configuring Property Rights Stymies Social Efficiency. Here are the listed participants: Michael Heller Richard Epstein Harold Demsetz Michael Meurer F. Scott Kieff … Continue reading

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Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellowship

Center for Reproductive Rights – Columbia Law School Fellowship The CRR-Columbia Fellowship is a full-time, residential fellowship for up to two full years starting in July 2010. The Fellow will be a member of the community of graduate fellows at … Continue reading

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On Hiring

My law school isn’t doing any hiring this year, but I was still very interested in this posts: Hire with Wisdom and Interview with Kindness at Center of Gravitas, and   a five part eries by Squadratomagico   1) The … Continue reading

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The Role of a Paper Commenter

What is the role of a paper commenter at a conference, symposium or colloquium?  The answer depends on the context.  If you’re asked to comment (whether in public or a faculty-only forum), ask the organizer what his or her expectations … Continue reading

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List of Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors

Here. I got my start in law teaching as an Hon. Abraham L. Freedman Graduate Teaching Fellow at Temple University’s School of Law and it was a wonderful experience. I learned how to teach in a supportive, mentor rich environment, … Continue reading

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The Scary Spectre of Professional Identity Theft

From Inside Higher Ed: One deleted e-mail marked the beginning of my ordeal. It was finals week, just before Christmas break, when I received a strange message asking me to comment on some kind of online political essay that I … Continue reading

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Where Are the Women? Texas Twofer Edition

First up: 50 SOUTH TEXAS LAW REVIEW, NO. 4, SUMMER, 2009. Symposium: Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror. 50 S. Tex. L. Rev. 617- 974 (2009). [H][L][W] Hansen, Victor. Understanding the role of military lawyers in the war on … Continue reading

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Are You a Good, Bad or Crazy Colleague?

Rate yourself here.

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Dan Kahan, “Culture, Cognition, and Consent: Who Perceives What, and Why, in ‘Acquaintance Rape’ Cases” – A Request for Input

Prof. Dan Kahan has written a paper that reports the results of an experimental study of perceptions of consent and other facts in a hypothetical date rape case (patterned closely on Commonwealth v. Berkowitz [court stated that the legislature intended … Continue reading

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LatCrit XIV Scholarship Conference and SALT/LatCrit Annual Faculty Development Workshop Preliminary Program Released

The full preliminary program for the 14th Annual Latino/a Critical Legal Theory Conference – LatCrit XIV, hosted by the American University Washington College of Law from October 1 – 4, 2009 has been released.   It is here. Our conference … Continue reading

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Women have always outnumbered men in college;”Womyn”and”waitperson”have always been in the dictionary.

Those are two excerpts from The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2013.

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Mentoring Tip

Do not teach in these pants.

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Has the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights put universities on notice that indifference to online harassment could result in liability under Title IX?

From the Title IX Blog: … The Department of Education addressed for the first time whether schools could violate Title IX by failing to respond appropriately to sexual harassment on-line, according to advocacy group Security On Campus. The agency was … Continue reading

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Kicking “RateMyProfessor” Old School

From “Annoying Habits of College Professors” (circa 1935 to 1937)” in Scientific American: … In a series of related articles published in the The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology (in 1935 and 1937), Moore instructed a group of over … Continue reading

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The “little girl who goes to public school in Dillon” is still hoping.

At about the 3:05 mark in this well known video: Obama references “the little girl who goes to public school in Dillon,” and he means Dillon, South Carolina, part of the Corridor of Shame (click link to view trailer). On … Continue reading

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Sex Stereotyping, Legal Research and Feminist Activism

[From Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis student Amelia Deibert] I thought you all would be interested in an experience I had with Westlaw recently: I  was  researching  cross-examination tactics, and I happened upon an American Jurisprudence Trials article … Continue reading

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Somebody needs a brain makeover.

There is a post at the Chron blog entitled “Blonded by Science” that states: A dismal 7 percent of adult Americans are science literate, but James Trefil has a secret weapon that could send that number cartwheeling into the double … Continue reading

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From the Department of Evolutionary Economics: “We find that women bid significantly higher than men in their menstrual and premenstrual phase but do not bid significantly different in other phases of the menstrual cycle.”

Two economists have posted their article “Menstrual Cycle and Competitive Bidding” to SSRN. Here is the abstract, from which the sentence in the post title was taken: In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private … Continue reading

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Hang in there Bar Exam takers…

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Where are the Women? Not in 77 GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW, NO. 3, APRIL, 2009, that’s for sure.

The George Washington Law Review, Issue 77:3 (April 2009) Articles Matthew I. Hall, The Partially Prudential Doctrine of Mootness, 77 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 562 (2009) [PDF] Anthony J. Colangelo, “De facto Sovereignty”: Boumediene and Beyond, 77 Geo. Wash. L. … Continue reading

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CFP: Conference on”Violence and Vulnerability”

CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on”Violence and Vulnerability” Emory University, Atlanta Georgia – November 12-14, 2009 “Violence against women both violates and impairs or nullifies the enjoyment by women of their human rights and fundamental freedoms… In all societies, to a … Continue reading

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Government Document Specialist’s “Open Letter to White House Council on Women & Girls”

Beth Harper, Government  Publications Reference Librarian at University of Wisconsin’s Memorial Library,  has published an “Open Letter to the New White House Council on Women & Girls re: Federal Government Websites for Women.”  The letter is a review of websites … Continue reading

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In Memoriam: Frank McCourt

To my knowledge, Frank McCourt did not spend a lot of time thinking about animal issues.   However, he was the first person who taught me to care about writing and to appreciate the power of language.   He did … Continue reading

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Lani Guinier and Susan Sturm, “Trial by Firefighters”

From the NYT: STANDING on the steps of the federal courthouse in New Haven, the lawyer Karen Torre reveled in her clients’ victory in a recent case before the Supreme Court. She anointed her clients : the white firefighters who … Continue reading

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Ave Maria School of Law claims law professors on its faculty are ministers.

From the National Law Journal: A Michigan trial judge will decide that next week in a controversial employment dispute involving Ave Maria School of Law, which is trying to declare law professors as ministers to avoid a wrongful termination suit … Continue reading

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Where Are The Women? The Virginia Law Review’s latest symposium issue features 15 authors, 12 of them male.

VOLUME 95            JUNE 2009          ISSUE 4 Virginia Law Review 95:4 (June 2009) Symposium Issue: The SEC in a Time of Discontinuity The SEC in a Time of Discontinuity: Introduction to Virginia … Continue reading

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“The Education of Sonia Sotomayor”

That is the title of this essay at the WaPo written by one of Judge Sotomayor’s Princeton profs. Below are a couple of excerpts: … Had I known in the spring of 1973 that this hesitant freshman from the Bronx … Continue reading

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Where Are The Women? The latest issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has one named woman author out of twenty-three?

From here: Volume 32, Number 3 – Summer 2009 THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION: A RETROSPECTIVE Reflections on Events and Changes at the Department of Justice John Ashcroft 813 National Security and the Rule of Law Michael B. Mukasey 831 … Continue reading

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NYU Law hires homophobic bigot to teach, wait for it, human rights law.

Leiter has the details.

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Where Are The Women? A precious few were published in recent addition of the UCLA Law Review

Invited articles by fourteen men, but only two women, in a Symposium edition? Volume 56, Issue 5 (June 2009) Symposium: The Second Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms After D.C. v. Heller Gun Control After Heller: Threats and Sideshows … Continue reading

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On Tenure

Feminist Law Prof Kim Krawiec is   guest-blogging at the Faculty Lounge as Bridget noted here and produced a very thought-provoking series of posts: My Tenure’s For Sale.   How About Yours? Incentives and Institutions:  Why Stop With the Banks? … Continue reading

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Why hasn’t the “degree gap” closed the “salary gap”?

Prof. Mark Perry prepared this graph: If I’m reading it correctly, women and men got the same number of college degrees in 1982. By 1983, women started obtaining more college degrees then men, and this trend has continued on into … Continue reading

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Women selling sex are arrested and jailed, but the buyers go free?

That’s how I interpret what this article is saying when it reports: … The November raid came after a six-week surveillance of the house on Round Hill Road. The dwelling’s owner, Stephen A. Clark, was arrested Nov. 26 and pleaded … Continue reading

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“Women who drink alcohol, wear short skirts and are outgoing are more likely to be raped, claim scientists at the University of Leicester.”

Actually, that isn’t at all what the scientists found. But it is apparently what a reporter and editorial staff at the UK Telegraph wished the study had determined, for some reason. An article in the UK Guardian reports: There is … Continue reading

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E-mail, Anonymity and the First Amendment: State of Nebraska v. Darren J. Drahota

This case arose out of an e-mail exchange between a student and his professor. Here is an excerpt from the recent decision by the Nebraska Court of Appeals: … The trial court found, summarized, that while there was initially some … Continue reading

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Where are the Women? SSRN Downloads Edition

I recently posted here a list of law schools ranked #23-#100 by U.S. News, ranked by recent SSRN downloads.  For anyone who would like to use it, the data file is  here as an Excel spreadsheet and  here in CSV … Continue reading

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Call for Papers–University of Baltimore School of Law Third Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference

The University of Baltimore School of Law’s Center on Applied Feminism seeks submissions for its Third Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference.   This year’s theme is: Applied Feminism and Marginalized Communities. This conference seeks to explore the following questions:   … Continue reading

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US News Schools 23-100 by Recent SSRN Downloads

Paul Caron & Bernard Black (here) and Brian Leiter (here) have laid out the arguments for and against using SSRN downloads as a measure of faculty scholarship.  I don’t have anything new to add, but I did prepare a list … Continue reading

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