Category Archives: Academia

“JoAnne A. Epps named dean of Temple’s Beasley School of Law”

Read the official announcement here. Below is an excerpt: … As associate dean of academic affairs at Temple Law since 1989, Epps has served as the primary liaison between the dean and the law faculty; overseen student administrative operations, from … Continue reading

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George Mason School of Law and Microsoft Holding Womenless Patent Law Conference?

According to this page of Conference website, twenty-one men are participating or were “Invited”. The main page notes: Presenters at this year’s conference include: Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School Keynote Address Scott Baker, University of North Carolina Law … Continue reading

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“Mobblog” on Legal Education

Here, at Madisonian.net! Featuring comments by some of my favorite law profs.

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One way to celebrate tenure.

This. Via Belle at Law & Letters. Hey Bridget, where’s your celebratory vid?

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University of South Carolina School of Law Sued By The Christian Legal Society

Their Complaint is here. The letter the organization says it sent to the University President is here. (NB: both links are to CLS sites). Application card credit online secured Instant fleet 0 apr credit card application Set up a VPN … Continue reading

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Lecture by Prof. Ben Barres on “the obstacles faced by women in academic science and what individuals and institutions can do to increase opportunities in the sciences for women.”

Viewable (with RealPlayer) here. From the related website: Professor Barres brings a unique perspective to this discussion: Professor Barres is transgender, and has experienced life as both a female and as a male scientist. His seminal article in the Journal … Continue reading

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Data On Women and Men in Academia

1. Extensive annotated bibliography by Virginia Valian here. (See also Valian’s Equity Materials). 2. Report on “Women, Work and the Academy” by Alison Wylie, Janet R. Jakobsen and Gisela Fosado here.

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U.S. Funded Health Search Engine Blocks ‘Abortion’ – Now Unblocked

Wired story about blocking here. Lifting of the blockade announced here by the Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Via the Relevant This Week Froomkin. Update: NYT account here.

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Robin Fretwell Wilson, “Keeping Women in Business (and Family)”

Abstract: Work and family have become either/or propositions for a growing segment of young professionals in business, law, and medicine. A well documented opt-out revolution is underway, in which women professionals are leaving the workplace in droves. Less appreciated is … Continue reading

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Feminist Jurisprudence Day at Hamline, April 11, 2008!

Hamline University Klas Center St. Paul, Minnesota A day of dialogue on gender and the state. Students, legal practitioners, and community advocates encouraged to attend. Our list of panelists continues to grow. See the list below for details. Morning Panels … Continue reading

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“Workplace bullies and the academy”

Historiann has an interesting post with this title here. She notes that “women victimizing women” surfaces as a problem. She also trenchantly observes that academics can work around bullies easier than people in other occupational environments, writing: The only exception … Continue reading

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Another Travel Story, This One Involving a U.S. Attorney

Traveling to and from Columbia, SC by air often requires two planes. So I’ve spent a lot of “layover” time in airports. Because Fort Jackson, “the largest and most active Initial Entry Training Center in the United States” is located … Continue reading

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A Riff on Yale’s “Sex Week”

Here at the Nola Radfem Blog.

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New major study on gender and the pay gap between faculty women and men.

Historiann has the depressing details.

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Difficult to read and comprehend: “Instead of scorn or silence, female students need to offer support to peers who are dealing with rape”

In this Letter to the Editor of the Daily Pennsylvanian, the anonymous author writes: … During my junior year, I found myself suddenly thrust into a relationship with a reasonably attractive and yes, popular athlete from a neighboring high school. … Continue reading

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Victor Ricciardi, “The Financial Psychology of Worry and Women”

Abstract: This paper provides a review of significant academic studies and non-academic research endeavors in the realm of negative emotions (with an emphasis on worry), gender, and decision making. The author encourages behavioral finance researchers to place greater attention into … Continue reading

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“Good Faith” – A NYT Review of Martha Nussbaum’s new book,”Liberty of Conscience” by Emily Bazelon

Read Bazelon’s review here. Learn more about the book at sites such as Amazon.com or Powell’s: In this engrossing history of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, Nussbaum (Cultivating Humanity) makes a strong, thoroughgoing case for America as a … Continue reading

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Hillary, Ireland and Just Showing Up

Writing here for the Women’s Media Center, Irish writer Nuala O’ Faolain rebuts the statement by David Trimble that Hillary Clinton’s participation in the Northern Ireland peace proces was “silly.”   O’Faolin describes  how Irish women were marginalized from  both … Continue reading

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Striking Back?

Today’s NYT has an article entitled “The Professor as Open Book” about the “Professors Strike Back” phenomenon, but only male professors are profiled. And nothing is mentioned about how or why “openness” might be different for a woman academic than … Continue reading

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Ruminations on Tenure

By the brilliant Historiann, here. She writes in part: … Although feminist intellectuals who have sophisticated understandings about how power works, we still feel shame about our own experiences. We still see them–to one degree or another–as personal failures, rather … Continue reading

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“Some Thoughts on Competitive Cheer”

Go read them at the excellent Title IX Blog.

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Ashley Herzog asks: “How long before feminists try to censor this?”

Ashley Herzog is a staff writer at   The (University of Ohio) Post who authored a 3/13/2008 article headlined “The Other Side: Despite feminist denial, sexes are wired differently,” in which she asserts thst “feminists” will “try to censor” a … Continue reading

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CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ANNOUNCES NEW FELLOWSHIP WITH COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL

The Center for Reproductive Rights today announces a new fellowship with Columbia Law School for graduates pursuing legal academic careers in reproductive health and human rights. The Center-Columbia Fellow will be affiliated with both Columbia Law School and the Center, … Continue reading

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Dodging Title IX and the Equal Protection Clause

If you’re a public university in the United States that wants a new way to make money without those pesky requirements of Title IX and the Constitution, what can you do?   Open an all-male engineering school in Saudi Arabia, … Continue reading

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Forget What Misogyny Toward Feminist Law Profs Looks Like?

Timely reminders in the comments here if for some reason you are feeling inadequately hated on today. –Ann Bartow Update: Althouse is live blogging so there is plenty of fresh misogyny in her comments, and no doubt will be more … Continue reading

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“Women in Law and Religion” International Summmer School at the U of Siena

My name is Pasquale Annicchino and I’m a junior fellow at the Law and Religion programme at the University of Siena in Italy. I wanted to signal for the Feministlawprofs blog our International Summmer School. With the present I would … Continue reading

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“Law School Progress, In a Nutshell”

Not really a fan of the Nutshell horn books, (a sentiment I once inadvertently expressed to a colleague who had authored one, whoops), but this post comprehensively captures the law school experience with impressive brevity. And, see also. –Ann Bartow

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Candace Parker hit a jumper with 1:57 left that put Tennessee ahead to stay, and the No. 3 Lady Vols won their record 13th SEC title and third in four years by beating No. 7 LSU 61-55 Sunday night.

If it couldn’t be the “Lady Cocks” (yes, I know, ugh), then I’m glad it was the Lady Vols. The awesome Joan Heminway is smiling, no doubt!

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“A Connecticut High School Student used vulgar slang on an Internet blog which was sent from her personal computer while at home. Specifically, she criticized the administration by saying “Jamfest is canceled due to douchebags in central office.” The school, in turn, refused to allow plaintiff to run for re-election as class secretary. She then won with write in ballots, but was not allowed to serve.”

Read more here.

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Hunter College Allows Marketing Group To Impose Phony Course On Faculty And Students

From this article at Inside Higher Ed: … At Hunter College of the City University of New York, some professors are asking those questions : and a Faculty Senate committee is considering a formal complaint about violations of academic freedom … Continue reading

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“That She’ll Be There To Show Me ‘Round, Whenever Comes That Day.”

Eric Muller, one of my favorite law prof blawgers, recently lost his mother. He posted a very nice tribute to her here, and gave me kind permission to link. –Ann Bartow

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“On February 22nd, 2008, University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) issued a negative tenure recommendation for Assistant Professor Andrea Lee Smith.”

I don’t have any substantive information about Prof. Smith’s tenure process. But I am an admirer of her scholarship. If Michigan is not a welcome place for her, I hope she will consider relocating to South Carolina. Elite universities can … Continue reading

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NYT on Single-Sex Education

I hope Feminist Law Prof David Cohen will soon give us his impressions of the cover story in this Sunday’s New York Times, Teaching Boys and Girls Separately, by Elizabeth Weil. Professor Cohen has recently posted No Boy Left Behind? … Continue reading

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Caitlin Borgmann, Pamela Bridgewater, and David Cohen Are Brilliant and Awesome!

So are all the other Feminist Law Profs in the blogroll of course, but I got to hang out with the three listed above here in South Carolina today, woo-hoo! –Ann Bartow

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“Struggling to Squelch an Internet Rumor”

Nasty idiots can write whatever mean, false things they want, and then get their rumors and accusations into circulation on the Internet. Here’s a NYT account of this phenom.

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“Faculty Seminar on Active Shooter”

Stripped only of logistical and personally identifying information, here is the text of an e-mail I received: Faculty, instructors, teaching assistants and others who teach at USC are invited to participate in this seminar on active shooter situations. Topics include: … Continue reading

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“Why My Favorite Professor Was A Chronic Liar”

Interesting essay here, at Overcoming Bias.

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New Law School Ratings Approach May Benefit Women

Via Nancy Rapoport at Money Law and Brian Leiter, consider this article at Inside Higher Ed about a new approach to rating law schools that will be published by The Green Bag, and rather unsubtly called The Deadwood Report. (NB: … Continue reading

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Tuition-Free Stanford Undergrads

Last week Stanford announced that it will join the ranks of colleges that will waive tuition for undergraduate students whose families earn less than $100,000 per year. Does any law school have the money (and the vision) to do the … Continue reading

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On Universities’ Special Obligations to Combat Sexism

New Mexico State University President’s Commission on the Status of Women has developed a draft “Gender-Neutral Language Policy” (available here) for the University.   The Commission explains that their policy is grounded in the belief that institutions have a special … Continue reading

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“Yale Sex Week Glosses Over Porn’s Dark Side”

An Op-Ed by Gail Dines. Below is an excerpt: … I dare say that few if any women at Yale are aspiring for a career in the porn industry, as they are going to have a range of options open … Continue reading

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“The Origins of African-American Interests in International Law,” by Henry J. Richardson III

Book description (via the Legal History Blog): This book explores the birth of the African-American international tradition and, particularly, the roots of African Americans’ stake in international law. Richardson considers these origins as only formally arising about 1619, the date … Continue reading

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The Penn State Pro Porn Center

Penn State’s College of Communications has a Center for the First Amendment. The predominant focus of the Center is apparently to interview pornographers and pornography performers, and then use these interviews to produce “legal scholarship” about pornography. Below are some … Continue reading

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Three Grumpy Observations About Air Travel To And From The Windy City

1. United Airlines flights to Columbia from Chicago out of Gate F11 are always delayed, sometimes for hours, and often you have to sprint to an alternative gate at the last minute. 2. Note to the chipper strangers sitting next … Continue reading

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Know a lost literary classic suitable for use in law school?

Leave your suggestions here!

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“It’s More Than a Living”

At Center of Gravitas, GayProf has a post up about why he likes teaching history. A recent reminder at another blog about how lucky we law profs are made me especially happy to read it. Below is a short excerpt … Continue reading

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“Millennial Law Prof”

Awesome Feminist Law Prof Tracy McGaugh has started her own blog! Read the introductory post here.

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Text of Gene Nichol’s e-mail to faculty and staff upon his dismissal as President of William & Mary

I don’t know anything about the merits of this situation, but the contents of the e-mail are stunning, and not in a good way. Via the Daily Press, by way of my friend and colleague Josie Brown. Dear Members of … Continue reading

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House Passes the “College Opportunity and Affordability Act”

Earlier this week, the House passed the “College Opportunity and Affordability Act” (a copy of the bill is here). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a press release (available here) in which she predicted the bill’s impact: Making college more affordable … Continue reading

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Rate My Law Professor: Presidential Candidate Division

The WSJ Blog is soliciting comments about Prof. Obama’s classroom performance here. Prof. Clinton has been out of the classroom since 1980 (the “career highlights” section notes her stint that U of Arkansas, Little Rock) so her teaching evals are … Continue reading

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