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Category Archives: Academia
On Dawn Johnsen
Months ago, President Obama nominated one of our colleagues, Dawn Johnsen, Professor of Law at Indiana University – Bloomington, to serve as head of the Office of Legal Counsel. She is a outstanding choice for the office. Her confirmation is … Continue reading
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Somehow Missed Mary Wollstonecraft’s 250th Birthday
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Harvard Law Prof Turns Down Award From Notre Dame Because Pres. Obama Will Receive One Also
Both awards were to be presented at Notre Dame’s graduation.The Harvard law prof is Mary Ann Glendon. Her letter in full text is here. There is an excerpt below: When you informed me in December 2008 that I had been … Continue reading
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Another “Where are the Women?” Entrant: The most recent volume of the Harvard Law Review features two articles by men and notes and case summaries by “anonymous.”
I assume there is some way to figure out who wrote the notes? Current system seems like a pretty effective way to hide gender disparities among other things. Meanwhile, here’s the ToC: Vol. 122 · April 2009 · No. 6 … Continue reading
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Did you know there was an all-female football league in which players wear lingerie instead of pads?
Somehow up until now I was unaware of the Lingerie Football League. How long until universities decides to field same? The NCAA has already approved “sand volleyball” as an emerging sport, and women players are required to wear bikinis, unlike … Continue reading
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Is Tenure a Trap for Women?
IS TENURE A TRAP FOR WOMEN? The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Daily Report Not if the tenure system is adapted to suit the modern realities of professors’ lives. By MARY ANN MASON The fear of failure influences many female academics … Continue reading
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“Where Have All of the Female Rappers Gone?”
See this post here at the new(ish) Hip Hop Law blog! Another recent post is titled: “Candy Girls Are Not Made of Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice.”
Fashionable Feminism
Threadbared is a blog by two academic women with teaching and research interests in the politics of fashion and beauty, incluing representations of race and class. Via.
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“Guns, threats, space, and gender”
Compelling post by Historiann, which begins: Inside Higher Ed featured a story yesterday about universities that allow students to bring their guns to campus if they have concealed-carry permits, and states like Texas and Missouri where oh-so-brave state legistlators are … Continue reading
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Crush Porn Before SCOTUS
The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in US v. Stevens, 533 F.3d 218 (3rd Cir. 2008). The usual report is that the case is about videotapes of dog-fighting and whether their sale can be criminalized under the … Continue reading
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Law Professor Annette Gordon-Reed (NYLS) Wins Pulitzer
From the NYT list of winners: HISTORY:”The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,”by Annette Gordon-Reed: A painstaking exploration of a sprawling multi-generation slave family that casts provocative new light on the relationship between Sally Hemings and her master, Thomas Jefferson.” … Continue reading
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: A Tribute From Marrakech
I returned yesterday from 10 days in Morocco to learn with great sadness of Eve Sedgwick’s passing. In an odd way, it was fitting that I was in North Africa during her last days – for there are … Continue reading
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“It wasn’t singer Susan Boyle who was ugly on Britain’s Got Talent so much as our reaction to her”
Tanya Gold in The Guardian: … When Susan had finished singing, and Piers had finished gasping, he said this. It was a comment of incredible spite. “When you stood there with that cheeky grin and said, ‘I want to be … Continue reading
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Another Law Review Enters the “Where Are The Women” Sweepstakes: The new issue of the NYU Law Review features 0 articles by women and one note out of three.
Via Concurring Opinions, the ToC ARTICLES Originalism Is Bunk Mitchell N. Berman Class Certification in the Age of Aggregate Proof Richard A. Nagareda Temporary-Effect Legislation, Political Accountability, and Fiscal Restraint George K. Yin NOTES Limiting Preemption in Environmental Law: An … Continue reading
Concurring Opinions is hosting a Symposium on Danielle Citron’s article “Cyber Civil Rights”
Frank Pasquale introduces it here and here. Participants include: David Fagundes, Michael Froomkin, Nathaniel Gleicher, James Grimmelmann, Orin Kerr, Feminist Law Profs Nancy Kim and Susan Kuo, Daithà Mac SÃthigh, Helen Norton, David Post, David Robinson and yours truly. … Continue reading
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Women’s Scholarship, SSRN and the”Other”Approach to Law
In a recent post it was observed that SSRN downloads for male authors substantially exceed those for authors who are female. Among the many reasons why this difference should be important is the fact that many female authors almost surely … Continue reading
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The Univeristy of Michigan Law Review’s lastest issue is almost women free.
Via Concurring Opinions, the ToC: 2009 Survey of Books Related to the Law Foreward Erwin Chemerinsky, Why Write?, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 881 (2009) Classic Revisited Rodney A. Smolla, Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 895 (2009) Reviews Gene … Continue reading
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Avoiding a Biased Exam: Always Expect Students to Know the Law But Never Expect Them to Know the Facts
(Cross-posted at PrawfsBlawg) I remember being a law student and taking the class Women and the Law with the terrific Susan Grover when a topic came up that would (thankfully) inform the way that I draft my law school exams … Continue reading
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The “Citizen Lawyer” is apparently almost always a dude.
Via Concurring Opinions, the ToC for the most recent issue of the William & Mary Law Review: Symposium: The Citizen Lawyer Paul D. Carrington & Roger C. Cramton, Original Sin and Judicial Independence: Providing Accountability for Justices Lawrence M. Friedman, … Continue reading
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“This job is easy for people who’ve never done it,”Justice Thomas said later.”What I have found in this job is they know more about it than I do, especially if they have the title, law professor.”
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“Why Do Female Tax Profs Do Better in the SSRN Rankings Than Their Nontax Counterparts?”
Paul Caron asks that question in a post here. He observes that in the most recent SSRN rankings, 25% (5) of the faculty in the Top 25 downloads (both all-time and recent) are women, which is wonderful and encouraging. These … Continue reading
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In Support of Mark Lemley
This blog reports: The National Law Journal reported yesterday that a U.S. District Court is allowing Anthony Ciolli, former Chief Education Director for AutoAdmit, to move ahead with his lawsuit against Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley and others for wrongful … Continue reading
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“Women and SSRN”
Another “where are the women” post here, with a comments thread that is pretty much what you’d expect. Condensed version: “It’s your own fault you aren’t getting downloaded at the same rates as men, you dumb, lazy, inferior … Continue reading
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The Columbia Business School is having a conference on User Generated Content featuring nineteen speakers. Eighteen are male.
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Nadya Suleman’s Art
A few days ago, in”A Pole-Dancing Mother of 14,”my colleague Bridget Crawford took strong issue with the view that”a woman who puts her body on display (in a lingerie contest, as a topless performer or as a mother of 14) … Continue reading
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Documentary About the Porn Industry to be Offered Free to College Campuses
From the FLP mailbox: CONTACT: Media Education Foundation Dr. Chyng Sun (617)733-8091 | email: cfs1@nyu.edu The way filmmakers Chyng Sun and Miguel Picker see it, the cure for bad speech is more speech. That’s exactly why they’ve come up with … Continue reading
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The University of South Carolina School of Law’s Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year is: Prof. Danielle Holley-Walker!
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Ricks Appointed to Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations
Via the Legal Writing Prof Blog (here), good news about Feminist Law Prof Sarah Ricks: Professor Sarah Ricks of Rutgers School of Law-Camden has been appointed by the mayor of Philadelphia to serve on the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. … Continue reading
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Now Comes Iowa – A Distinctly Mid-Western Approach to Marriage Equality
Friday the Iowa Supreme Court held unanimously that the state’s definition of marriage – a union of a man and a woman – violated the Iowa Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. This is the first court to do so unanimously, … Continue reading
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Role Model Moms in Academia
From the Chronicle of Higher Education (here): Role models, particularly ones with children, can make the difference in whether a female graduate student takes the next big step along the tenure track. While undergraduates are influenced simply by seeing a … Continue reading
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“Singled Out”
Scientist and science writer/blogger Sheril Kirshenbaum talks about sexism. Below is a short excerpt: Shortly after entering the blogosphere, there was a period when I stopped posting personal pictures altogether… until I stepped back and thought about why I felt … Continue reading
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Iowa Same Sex Marriage Case to be Released Tomorrow – April 3rd
News Flash: the Iowa Supreme Court has announced that it will release its decision in the same sex marriage case, Varnum v. Brien, tomorrow at 8:30 am (CST). The decision will be available here. – Katherine Franke
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Nell Jessup Newton has been appointed Dean of the University of Notre Dame Law School
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Annals of Bad Academic Job Interviews
Two posts at Historiann document some callback atrocities: here and here, and they are prodigiously supplemented in the appended comments. Here are just a few of the oddball things that happened to me when I interviewed for jobs: 1. A … Continue reading
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Disaster Law Reader: Call For Papers
Editors: Kathleen A. Bergin and Tracy L. McGaugh Hurricane Katrina was unlike any other weather disaster to hit the United States in the way it exposed deficiencies in federal, state, and local disaster planning and management. It was also unique … Continue reading
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The Phabulous Phoebe Haddon is to be the U of Maryland School of Law’s Next Top Administrator
Rather a heinous loss for Temple Law, but a great hire for Maryland, which announced (in part): David J. Ramsay, DM, DPhil, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore, today announced the appointment of Phoebe A. Haddon, JD, LLM, as … Continue reading
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Why Colleges Become More Dangerous Places for Female Students During “March Madness”
Last Friday night, the Syracuse men’s basketball team was routed by Oklahoma, losing 84-71 – in no small measure because of the shooting collapse of Syracuse’s star guard Eric Devendorf, who finished the game with only 8 points. Why should … Continue reading
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“Thrift Makes Drift or Why the Crisis in Academe is Bad for Everyone”
Prof Susurro makes some very good points about the ways that certain kind of cuts will hurt students.
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Gender Law Journals vs. Women’s Law Journals: What’s In a Name?
Inside HigherEd carried this interview under the heading, “The Evolution of American Women’s Studies.” In it, Alice E. Ginsberg, the editor of The Evolution of American Women’s Studies: Reflections on Triumphs, Controversies and Change (Palgrave Macmillan), talks about how … Continue reading
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Michele E. Gilman, “Welfare, Privacy, and Feminism”
Abstract: Feminism has long been concerned with privacy. Second-wave feminists assailed the divide between the public and the private spheres that trapped women in the home, excluded them from the workforce, and subjected them to domestic abuse. Second-wave feminists also … Continue reading
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Note that it happened in NORTH Carolina…
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Sixth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections Conference – “Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property” April 23 & 24, 2009
Presented by American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Women and the Law Program, and Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, in collaboration with American University’s Center for Social Media and The … Continue reading
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Yale Law School Has A Woman “Acting Dean”
Current Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh has been nominated by President Obama to serve as the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. Taking his place as Acting Dean is Prof. Kate Stith. More here.
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From the Department of: “Women Law Profs Don’t Know Anything About Hate Speech”
Columbia Law School division. This lecture series is advertising this speaker line up: ‘Hate Speech’ and Incitement to Violence This workshop series is being convened by Professor Kendall Thomas and Lecturer-in-Law Peter Molnar, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for … Continue reading
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Debunking the Myth of LGBT Affluence
UCLA’s Williams Institute came out with a new study of poverty among the lesbian, gay, and bisexual community this past Friday. Notwithstanding the general perception of lesbians, gays, and bisexuals as an affluent minority group–a perception that, it is worth … Continue reading
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“Sophie Germain – Revolutionary Mathematician”
Interesting post about Sophie Germain here at Angry for a Reason, below is an excerpt: In 1794 the École Polytechnique opened in Paris. It’s mission statement was to”train mathematicians and scientists for the country”(Perl 64). The school did not admit … Continue reading
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Let Them Eat Quiche
Tomorrow the International Law Society at my law school hosts its annual fund raiser. It’s an all you can eat lunch comprised of donated homemade ethnic foods. Here are the University-related fundraisers I’ve already contributed to this academic year: the … Continue reading
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More about academic bullying…
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