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Category Archives: Academia
Quench Zine
From the FLP mailbox: Quench is a self-published magazine and blog, created in 2005 by Harvard students, alums, friends and allies who wanted a forum to discuss their experiences and ideas. Quench deals with issues of sexuality, race, gender, class, … Continue reading
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There is a conversation about gender issues and Internet law at Concurring Opinions that might be of interest.
It’s here. –Ann Bartow
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Interesting Rumination on Single Sex Education
Here, at Viva La Feminista.
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The Study of “Women” vs. the Study of “Gender”
Historian Alice Kessler-Harris asks in yesterday’s Chronicle of Higher Education, “Do We Still Need Women’s History?” She reflects on the shift in the study of “women’s history” to historical perspectives on “gender:” The shift to gender has had … Continue reading
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How Do Law Schools Teach Their Teachers?
The December 4, 2007 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on a forthcoming book by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The book, The Formation of Scholars: Rethinking Doctoral Education for the Twenty-First Century, “take[s] … Continue reading
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What To Make Of This?
Every once in a while I visit Overheard In Law School. So far, to my great relief, I haven’t read anything familiar there, meaning as far as I can tell, none of the embarrasing comments were mine. But there’s always … Continue reading
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“Columbia is . . . trying to make me an example to intimidate other women from seeking justice.”
That’s a quote by Economics Prof Graciela Chichilnisky in this WaPo article about her discrimination suit against Columbia University. Via Josie Brown, with thanks.
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“Choices, Consequences, Constraints,” an essay about academia and motherhood that may floor you.
It did me. Read it here at Scatterplot. Via Crooked Timber, where I seem to find a lot of good stuff lately. You might want to avoid the comments thread though – chock full of angry, backlashing men. –Ann Bartow
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“The Rocky Road To The Ivory Tower”
Ann Farmer provides an overview of the law school hiring trend toward disproportionately steering women to nontenure-track positions here. Via Ms.JD.
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Cripes Those Folks At The Yale Information Society Project Are Clueless, Or Something.
Via Concurring Opinions we learn that the Yale Information Society Project is hosting a Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. Already notable for excluding women from its conferences, despite the fact that women are the majority of Internet users, the … Continue reading
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Cynthia Bowman, “Street Harassment and the Informal Ghettoization of Women,” A Retrospective
I can hardly believe that this terrific law review article was published almost 15 years ago. I was reminded of it when I stumbled upon this Salon essay by Debra Dickerson in the course of some research. Dickerson wrote: … … Continue reading
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“Tips to avoid lawsuits from holiday office parties”
From The Boston Globe: Holiday office parties can be a potential minefield for lawsuits so the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP is offering some helpful hints to employers who want to celebrate the season without ending up in litigation. … Continue reading
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Michigan Feminist Studies
Michigan Feminist Studies invites submissions for its 2008 issue on the theme of “Sexuality & Reproduction.” Women’s sexuality and reproductive capabilities have long been an important topic for feminist researchers, theorists, and activists. This volume of Michigan Feminist Studies seeks … Continue reading
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On Being an Academic and a Mother
Via Feminist Philosophers, this essay entitled: “Making a Place for the Other: A Letter to My Daughter” by Janet A. Kourany of the University of Notre Dame, via the Fall 2007 APA Newsletter. Below is an excerpt: … I have … Continue reading
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How Not To Give A Pre-Exam Pep Talk
Advice from a 1L here. I remember receiving a pretty lousy pep talk as a 1L from a law prof who told a story about thinking she flunked an exam, freaking out and crying for days, but actually getting an … Continue reading
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Research Grants Available: Sallie Bingham Center, Duke University
The Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, part of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, has announced the availability of grants ts for travel to its collections: The Sallie Bingham Center documents the … Continue reading
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On Not Looking Like A Law Professor
Read Kevin Maillard’s post at Blackprof here. Been there. Been there so often I wrote about it too (see page 19), but not nearly as engagingly. –Ann Bartow
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Some People Are ___. ___ People Are Not Tokens.
The UK group Stonewall developed the simple and powerful ad at left for their “Education for All” campaign that addresses homophobia and bullying in secondary schools. (Stonewall makes the poster available for download here.) Stonewall has undertaken an … Continue reading
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AutoAdmit Law Suit Updates
1. From Brian Leiter. 2. From Salon, via Maggie Chon.
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Sloan Work-Family Career Development Grant Program
From the FLP Mailbox: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of Work-Family Career Development Grants. This program will award grants to up to five (5) junior faculty members who are investigating important work … Continue reading
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South Carolina Bar Examination Weirdness
Five days after releasing the results of last July’s Bar Exam results, the South Carolina Judicial Department decided that 20 additional bar takers should pass. This was the first time that graduates of the new Charleston School of Law could … Continue reading
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Academic (and Other) Impersonators
From the Chronicle of Higher Education issue dated November 9, 2007, this article on successful academics who feel like they are merely impersonating successful academics: On a recent evening, Columbia University held a well-attended workshop for young academics who … Continue reading
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Sex Trafficking Conference
April 2 – 4, 2008, South Texas College, McAllen, TX. More information here.
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“David Horowitz, Feminist?”
That’s the title of this Katha Pollitt column, which deconstruct’s Horowitz’s efforts to slur academic feminists as at least tacit supporters of “Islamofascism.”
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Anita Allen on Philosophy
From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Penn’s Anita Allen is at the top of her field, but she has serious concerns about its lack of openness and diversity. By Carlin Romano Anita Allen remembers an extraordinary remark made by one of her … Continue reading
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The Market for Law Professors
From the FLP mailbox (see also): The Market for Law Professors is an empirical study of the legal academic labor market. Professors Tracey George (Vanderbilt University) and Albert Yoon (Northwestern University) are the principal investigators. George and Yoon … Continue reading
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From the Department of Bad Law Student Judgment, UK Division
Via Blog of Feminist Activism.
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Hate Speech Debate
Steven Rose writes: There goes the Science… Oliver Kamm replies: There goes liberty Chris Bertram weighs in: The elimination of bigotry is a perfectly legitimate aim of government The primary focus is race, but there is obvious applicability to gender. … Continue reading
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O Canada!
So I’m in Canada, wearing a jacket my pocket debris suggests I haven’t warn in four years, since the last time I was here. It was 85 degrees Fahrenheit when I left South Carolina, so I packed the coat in … Continue reading
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Don’t You Have Something More Important To Do?
I just thought I’d get that tired derailment query out there, since it is inevitably raised when you ask a question that makes someone uncomfortable. No, for the next three or four minutes, I don’t. Regarding the expression “law porn,” … Continue reading
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Guess I’m not going to get a serious answer…
Dan Solove posted about “A Law Porn Blog” here at Concurring Opinions. I raised this query: “I’m curious, why is the analogy/metaphor law PORN?” And I’d really like to know why “porn” is the descriptor of choice for fancy brochures … Continue reading
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“Intellectual Subway 101”
Feminist and litigator Nicole L. Black has a post at Sui Generis discussing the strange news about a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, and his decision to show a video clip from a film called”Really, Really … Continue reading
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The University of Victoria invites applications and nominations for the position of Dean of the Faculty of Law for an appointment to take effect July 1, 2008.
More information about the law school here. To learn more about the position, or to apply for it, contact: Janet Wright & Associates Inc. 174 Bedford Road, Suite 200 Toronto, Ontario M5R 2K9 Fax: (416) 923-8311 E-mail: uviclawdean@jwasearch.com
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IntLawGrrls Drop The Pseudonymity
Details here.
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Lapdancing, Fertility, Economics and Feminism
A supposedly academic study about the economics of lapdancing and fertility is discussed in this post at Pure Pedantry, wherein Kara Contreary notes: Ask anyone who’s spent any time in a strip club, and one of the things he will … Continue reading
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Feminism, Race, and Single-Sex Education In Public Schools
During K-12 years (and in college as well) girls generally outperform boys, so it is understandable that some feminists would view pubilc single sex education proposals with suspicion. Certainly the fact that a recent, widely syndicated account of single sex … Continue reading
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Historical Feminist Videography
A wonderful collection of clips, via Open Vault (a project of WGBH Public Television) via Dr. Bitch.
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Announcing the Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory
From this website: The Women and Politics and Foundations of Political Theory sections of the American Political Science Association and the Women’s Caucus for Political Science announce the Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory. The award commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, … Continue reading
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Words to the Wise New Feminist Law Professor
Today’s New York Lawyer carried this opinion-piece of advice from Elizabeth Rotenberg-Schwartz, a fourth-year associate in an NYC law firm. Her “Words to the Wise” are “tips for newbies, including the advice she regrets not following herself.” Most … Continue reading
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CFP: HADASSAH-BRANDEIS INSITUTE PROJECT ON GENDER, CULTURE, RELIGION AND THE LAW
UNTYING THE KNOTS; THEORIZING CONFLICTS BETWEEN GENDER EQUALITY AND RELIGIOUS LAWS, April 14-15 2008 at Brandeis University KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: DR. SHIRIN EBADI and PROFESSOR JODY WILLIAMS, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and founders of the Nobel Women’s Initiative Throughout the world, … Continue reading
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Advice For Erwin Chemerinsky
Over at TaxProf Blog, Paul Caron is collecting blog post recommendations for the founding Dean of U.C. Irvine’s new law school. I contributed something here. Because I was given a strict 250 word limit, I didn’t mention bathroom parity but … Continue reading
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“The First and the Forced”: Indigenous and African American Intersections
This conference took place last fall, but most of the presentations were recorded and can be watched here. Via the Oh No a WoC PhD blog.
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“Why Women Leave Academic Medicine”
Here’s a link to the Inside Higher Ed article with this title. There are some obvious parallels here between academic medicine and academic law. –Tracy McGaugh
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Of The “Most Cited Scholars in Intellectual Property/Cyberlaw Since 2000,” Half Are Women!
Woohoo, I love my scholarly subject area! Here’s the list, as computed by Brian Leiter: 1. Mark Lemley (Stanford University): 2110 citations, age 41. 2. Robert Merges (University of California, Berkeley): 1280 citations, age 48. 3. Pamela Samuelson (University of … Continue reading
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Camille Paglia Reviews Sperm, Ejaculation and Impotence
In the latest issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education (available here; free registration required), Camille Paglia reviews three books: Lisa Jean Moore’s Sperm Counts: Overcome by Man’s Most Precious Fluid; Murat Aydemir’s Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning; and … Continue reading
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Forgotten For Even A Second How Much Men Hate Us?
Me neither, but if you are feeling masochistic for some reason, read the comments thread here.
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“What a Y chromosome is worth”
From Am I a women scientist? I’ve been well, not forced, but strongly encouraged to join a study on women with children in academia and family leave policies. After three days of reading the literature, my assessment of my chances, … Continue reading
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That U.C. Irvine Law School
Over at MoneyLaw (and also at her own blog) Belle Lettre provides background and a link round up of the Chemerinsky debacle, and Brain Leiter’s most recent post on the subject adds even more details. Yesterday Chemerinsky had an Op-Ed … Continue reading
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Sally Haslanger, “Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: Not by Reason (Alone)”
Haslanger writes in part: There is a deep well of rage inside of me. Rage about how I as an individual have been treated in philosophy; rage about how others I know have been treated; and rage about the conditions … Continue reading
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