Category Archives: Academia

Crime Prevention Tip Theater

A friend forwarded me an e-mail that university “safety officers” distributed after a man was observed by a number of students publicly masturbating on campus: CRIME PREVENTION TIPS: 1. QUICKLY walk away from an individual exposing his genitals and do … Continue reading

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Violence Against Law Profs

SSRN’s LSN Legal Educator e-mail notice from today included an abstract for a new article by Carol Parker of U. of Tennessee-Knoxville College of Law, nursing professor Sandra Thomas (also of UTK), and Dr. Helen Smith of violentkids.com. This article … Continue reading

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Another Great New Blog: “Tsalagi Think Tank”

A Cherokee-centric blog about tribal law, good native governance and education. Hosted by Feminist Law Prof Stacy Leeds!

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How to Ask Professors for Job-Hunt Help: Gentle Hints

Earlier this week Ann linked to this funny post from The Little Professor on “How to ask questions on academic listservs: gentle hints.” The 1L job-hunting season inspires me to write a few words of advice for students. What is … Continue reading

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“How to ask questions on academic listservs: gentle hints”

Read good advice here. Read hilarious parody of bad approaches here.

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I’m persuaded I overrreacted to something. Apologies to Rick Garnett. –Ann Bartow

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CFP: “Transformative Works and Cultures”

From the FLP mailbox: Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC) is a Gold Open Access international peer-reviewed journal published by the Organization for Transformative Works edited by Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson. TWC publishes articles about popular media, fan communities, and … Continue reading

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“Original Zins”

Read Historiann’s Little thoughts on biography and women’s history. Actually, you just read her blog from cover to cover, it’s great.

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On Sexual Harassment, Students and Schools

Read “Restoring Effective Protections for Students Against Sexual Harassment in Schools:Moving Beyond the Gebser and Davis Standards,” by Fatima Goss Graves.

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Just Because You Are A Paranoid Feminist Doesn’t Mean The Sexists Aren’t Out To Get You, IQ Test Edition

From The G Bitch Spot: … I was recently telling someone online that when IQ tests were first introduced, women scored higher than men, so they had to change the questions to”prove”that men are smarter. The person asked for the … Continue reading

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National Association of Women Lawyers Writing Competition

NAWL has establisted the annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition to encourage and reward original law student writing on issues concerning women and the law. Here are the rules. I’ve served as one of the judges for this … Continue reading

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Just Because You Are A Paranoid Feminist Doesn’t Mean The Sexists Aren’t Out To Get You, Sciences Edition.

Fresh evidence here.

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Judge Who Helped Found the Charleston School of Law and Serves on its Board of Advisors (Even Though It Is For Profit!) Denied New Term Due To Sexist and Racist Remarks …

… according to this account in The State. Below is an excerpt: A U.S. magistrate judge accused of making disparaging sexist and ethnic remarks was not reappointed Friday by the state’s U.S. District judges, according to sources familiar with the … Continue reading

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“Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: Life Stories from the Academy”

From the wonderful Historiann: If you are interested in reading more about how universities have changed in the past thirty years as women,  queer scholars, and  scholars  of color  have integrated (or infiltrated?) the faculty, see Feminist Waves, Feminist Generations: … Continue reading

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Martha Nussbaum, “Carr, Before and After: Power and Sex in Carr v. Allison Gas Turbine Division, General Motors Corp,” 74 U Chi L Rev 1831 (2007)

Accessible here. The first two paragraphs are below: “Sexual harassment doctrine owes its primary theoretical impetus to the work of Catharine MacKinnon, who convincingly argued that sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination. MacKinnon offered two different paradigms (the”difference”and … Continue reading

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“Lawyers, Blogs, and Money”

James Grimmelmann has an interesting mediation on advertising and blogs at The Laboratorium. I found it via Froomkin who has a somewhat different take on the issue. I find myself agreeing with Grimmelmann, with an added concern about transparency and … Continue reading

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Marc Bousquet, “How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation”

From this site: As much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it’s like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees : including … Continue reading

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The Gender of Legal History?

The always wonderful Al Brophy is guest blogging at the Legal History Blog, and he has a post up expressing concern about an apparent gender imbalance among legal historians. –Ann Bartow

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“Gloria Steinem: Moving Beyond Words”

This site features an audio clip of a speech Gloria Steinem delivered at the Ford Hall Forum on May 12th, 1994 in which she discusses the state of the women’s movement in the early 1990s.

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“Islam and the Left. Dialogue or cold war?”

Though the focus is much broader than simply gender issues, this exchange at Reset DOC will be interesting to many feminists.

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THE UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE SCHOOL OF LAW’S FEMINIST LEGAL THEORIES AND FEMINISMS CONFERENCE, March 6 & 7, 2008

“Can You Hear Us Now: How New Feminist Legal Theories and Feminisms Are Changing Society” THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008, 6 P.M. keynote address by Gloria Steinem in the University of Baltimore’s Langsdale Auditorium FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2008 a day of … Continue reading

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Research Fellowships at Mary Baker Eddy Library

Applications now available for Summer 2008 Research Fellowships at The Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston.   Open to academic scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students.   The Library’s newly public collections, centered on the papers of Mary Baker Eddy … Continue reading

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Lack of Women in Computer Science Field

My son is home from his first trimester at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University.   He’s in the Computer Science department and hopes to go straight for a PhD in that field.   At dinner the other … Continue reading

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Thank-You Notes After Academic Interviews

My sister, Maureen Crawford Hentz, is the “Manager of Talent Acquisition” at Osram Sylvania and a blogger for boston.com on HR matters.   We had a long discussion over the vacation about the value of thank-you notes sent by job … Continue reading

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AALS Program on Carhart!

The AALS Hot Topics Panel “Reproductive Justice After Carhart,” is scheduled for Friday, Jan. 4, from 10:30am-12:15pm.

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“Creationists Corrupt Textbook Selection in South Carolina”

The SC State Board of Education has withheld approval of two biology texts on the basis of creationist objections. Unfortunately, we all saw this coming, though how to fight it us still unclear. Via South Carolinians for Science Education (SCSE) … Continue reading

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Leading vs. Managing

Earlier this month, I read an opinion column in the Chronicle of Higher Education.   The author, a fundraiser at a small college, articulated the difference between leadership and management: While some elements of good leadership and good management overlap, … Continue reading

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“The Duke Lacrosse Case: A Duke Professor Pens An Expose of KC Johnson”

A must read at Leiter’s Law School Reports.

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What Andy Pettitte Has in Common With the Untenured Professor

The New York Times reported back in 2005 that up to 20% of college students were abusing prescription drugs like Ritalin and Adderall to get through papers and exams.   My unscientific guess is that the percentage among law students … Continue reading

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Marina Angel, “Women Lawyers of All Colors Steered to Contingent Positions in Law Schools and Law Firms”

Abstract: This article examines the drastic organizational changes that have taken place in law firms and law schools in the last thirty years and how they have seriously disadvantaged women. Women have been almost 50% of law school graduating classes … Continue reading

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Hamline Is Looking For A New Dean

From the FLP mailbox: Hamline University’s School of Law is at a propitious moment in its 35-year history. The next Dean will be asked to build on the law school’s qualitative strengths and to provide comprehensive leadership that will result … Continue reading

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The Chair-elect of the South Carolina State Board of Education Is An Anti-Feminist Advocate of Intelligent Design

Phooey. Stay strong, science teachers in the public schools of this state, I promise you are not alone. –Ann Bartow

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Law Faculty Recuitment Swag

We’ve heard about Sullivan & Cromwell’s bonsai trees  and Choate, Hall & Stewart’s ipods  as “conversion” techniques in recruiting summer associates.   If there were a law faculty recruitment equivalent, what would it be?   My own FeministLawProf version might … Continue reading

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Is the Internet to Blame for Similar-Sounding Faculty Candidates?

A pseudonymous Ph.D. candidate on the market for a History job wrote up his or her “Job Horror Story” for the Chronicle of Higher Education.   The candidate recounts being “stood up” by an interviewer who (accidentally?) left for the … Continue reading

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Query: Which Is More Excruciating, Dental Work The Involves Drilling Or A Long, Contentious Faculty Meeting?

Answer: It depends on what kind of painkillers the dentist is offering.

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Virtual Reality Bites

Read: Transcending “Race” in Cyberspace? Yeah, Right!

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