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Category Archives: Academia
Score One For Difference Feminism As A Study Of Immigration Courts Finds: “One of the most significant factors determining whether a judge would be likely to approve asylum petitions was sex, the study found. Female immigration judges grant asylum at a 44 percent higher rate than their male colleagues.”
The study, by law profs Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Philip Schrag and Andrew Schoenholtz is accessible here. Below is the abstract: This study analyzes databases of merits decisions from all four levels of the asylum adjudication process: 133,000 decisions by 884 asylum … Continue reading
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Are You Willing to Share Teaching Materials With Other Law Profs?
From Professor Susan D. Rozelle at Capital University Law School: In putting new class preps together, I have benefited from the generosity of friends who shared with me their syllabi, teaching notes, PowerPoints, handouts, practice problems, you name it. … Continue reading
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Janet Conney v. The Regents of the University of California, et al.
The AAUW’s summary is here, below is an excerpt: … In 1998, Conney received a geriatric psychiatry fellowship position at UCLA where she researched, published, and was mentored by senior colleagues. The department director offered her a promotion to assistant … Continue reading
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Jason P. Nance and Dylan J. Steinberg, “The Law Review Article Selection Process: Results from a National Study”
The abstract: The student-edited law review has been a much criticized institution. Many commentators have expressed their belief that students are unqualified to determine which articles should be published in which journals, but these discussions have been largely based on … Continue reading
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Survey re: Women Lawyers Working Together
The ABA Journal and UC Hastings’ Center for WorkLife Law recently posted an online survey, Women Lawyers Working Together, to find out how women attorneys treat each other. Take the survey!
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Eugene Volokh Is “Seeking Input from People Who Have Actually Menstruated”
Do I make this stuff up? No, I do not. Specifically, Eugene wants to know: … When you menstruate, do you feel that you’re part of the “in crowd”? If you chose to stop — not because of menopause, which … Continue reading
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Remember What It Was Like To Have Roommates?
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On Running Into Students Outside the University Confines
My most favorite way to bump into students in real life: When they are with their families, so I can confidently reassure the people who write tuition checks that their child or partner is going to become a wonderful, talented, … Continue reading
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“The Hollywood Librarian”
“The Hollywood Librarian” is a documentary about librarians. You can watch the trailer here. Via Laura Quilter at Sivacracy.net.
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“Harvard Isn’t Enough”
Caryn McTighe Musil reports in Ms. Magazine: … [B]etween 1986 and 2006, the percentage of women [University] presidents has risen from 10 percent to 23 percent. Yet women continue to advance more slowly up faculty ranks and earn less salary … Continue reading
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Belle Lettre, “The Female Body, Dissected”
Belle Lettre has an interesting post called “The Female Body, Dissected” at her excellent blog that you can read here.
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About Tenure
At Balkinization, Brian Tamanaha posted “Straight Talk About Tenure” in which he criticizes the tenure system for giving powerful protection to lazy, under performing law professors. Every faculty has a few bad apples, but I think Tamanaha might underestimate the … Continue reading
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Upcoming Conference – Sex Work: Culture, Policy, and Benefits: Exploring the Lives of Sex Workers and their Diverse Realities
Some of the dishonest rhetoric used to criticize the recent Wheelock College Pornography conference was the demonstrably false claim that conferences featuring alternative views of sex work are never convened. Of course they are, and with plenty of porn industry … Continue reading
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“Leading Librarian Ends 400 Years of Male Tradition at Oxford”
Via Marie S. Newman at Out of the Jungle: Sarah Thomas ’70 broke more than four centuries of English tradition earlier this year when she became the first woman to lead Oxford’s Bodleian Library, the second-largest library in the U.K. … Continue reading
“Whistle-Blower on Student Aid Is Vindicated”
A NYT article reports in pertinent part: When Jon Oberg, a Department of Education researcher, warned in 2003 that student lending companies were improperly collecting hundreds of millions in federal subsidies and suggested how to correct the problem, his supervisor … Continue reading
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Transgender Workplace Diversity Workshop – Wednesday, June 27
From the FLP mailbox: On Wednesday, June 27, 2007, a day-long workshop will be held at Ramapo College of New Jersey on the subject of transgender workplace diversity, specially targeted to the needs of human resources, diversity and legal professionals … Continue reading
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The JD Project
Feminist Law Prof Vernellia Randall writes: The JD Project’s mission is to increase the racial diversity of the legal profession with specific attention on helping minority students excel in law school and pass the bar. I am writing both to … Continue reading
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An Important Copyright Case About Photos of Naked Women, As Discussed By Men
From the Tech Law Forum: Counsel for Perfect 10 v. Google Square Off On February 2, 2007, Justin Hughes, Director of the Cardozo Law School’s intellectual property program, moderated a panel discussion at Santa Clara University. The talk focused on … Continue reading
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“SSRI Stories”
This website hosts a long collection of links to mainstream media news articles about acts of violence that reference antidepressants in some way. Of course this does not establish causation between taking antidepressants and violence, but it still may be … Continue reading
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Reports of Strife At Ave Maria School of Law
Mirror of Justice has an account. Below is an excerpt: “… As evidenced by a number of documents available on the internet [link], as well as by some rather angry, though sometimes humorous blogs [link], and by the experience and … Continue reading
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Medical Students For Choice
From the organizational website: The United States and Canada face a dangerous shortage of trained abortion providers. In 2000, 87% of the counties in the United States had no provider (1). The”graying”of current providers (57% of whom are over the … Continue reading
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“The University Without Students”
A meditation on summer by the Tenured Radical. Here is a short excerpt: If anyone ever asks why people go into college teaching there are many important things to say about the satisfactions this career can deliver. But there’s one … Continue reading
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Eric Muller’s Uncle Leo
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Boalt Dean Recommends Expulsion For Law Student Who Posted Threat Re: U.C. Hastings?
I can’t find an authenticatable source for this, just several blog entries, such as this one and this one. The first link seems to be to a real blog, at least. The second linked blog may be a piece of … Continue reading
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Anonymous Threat on “AutoAdmit” re: U.C. Hastings Is Dispatched By Law Enforcement
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Study: Gendered constructions of power during discourse about sexual harassment
From News-Medical.net: Issues of power, workplace culture and the interpretation of verbal and non-verbal communication associated with sexual harassment were the focus of a study by Debbie Dougherty, assistant professor of communication in the College of Arts and Science at … Continue reading
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Courtesy Post for a Fellow Law Professor Blogger: Link to Brian Leiter’s Law School Rankings
From Brian Leiter: I post to ask a favor. I’ve heard from many readers that when you search Brian Leiter you don’t in fact get my law school ranking site as one of the top results, even though you … Continue reading
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“Take Back the Blog! Blogswarm” in Support of Women’s Rights
On April 28, crablaw.com will host a “Take Back the Blog! Blogswarm” in support of women’s rights. According to the organizers, a “blogswarm” is an “organized compilation of blog posts from a variety of bloggers on a given topic … Continue reading
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Hokie Hope Friday
Virginia Tech family members and friends are uniting this Friday, April 20th to declare an “Orange and Maroon Effect” day to honor those killed on Monday. Please wear orange and maroon on Friday to support the Hokie Nation. Gamecock colors … Continue reading
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Virginia Tech
I don’t have anything illuminating to say about this tragedy. Like most everyone reading this, I’m sad and confused. There was an on campus shooting at my university while I was a student. Two women, roommates and friends, were murdered … Continue reading
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Gail Dines’ Opening Address at Wheelock College’s Recent Conference on Pornography & Pop Culture
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Sexual Harassment and Title IX
Yahoo Sports reports: Nine years after it was filed, a sexual harassment lawsuit against the University of North Carolina women’s soccer coach has regained momentum as a former player challenges how harassment and the culture of college athletics could violate … Continue reading
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Derrida Papers Sexual Harassment Controversy Update
Available here. Related posts here and here. To recap briefly: Then faculty member Dragan Kujundzic was sanctioned by the University of California, Irvine, in 2004 as a consequence of allegations that he sexually harassed a graduate student. Shortly before his … Continue reading
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Tennessee Seeks Visiting Faculty for Spring 2008
The University of Tennessee College of Law seeks visitor(s) for Spring 2008. Tennessee needs visitors to teach tax, wills & trusts, and family law in the Spring 2008 semester. For more information, or to apply, contact Doug Blaze, Art Stolnitz … Continue reading
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I Am Not a Ho Either, And I’m Shopping Scarlet
I don’t care if it is disloyal to my beloved Gamecocks; I’m buying some Rutgers Scarlet Knights shirts here and I’m going to wear them proudly. From this NYT story: … Racial comments by white entertainers and degrading racial and … Continue reading
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Christine Brennan, “Gender distinctions confine women’s basketball to 2nd-class status”
In a recent column, Christine Brennan wrote: The other night at the women’s Final Four, the Lady Vols won and the Lady Tigers lost. Earlier in the tournament, the Lady Rebels, Lady Bears and Lady Wolfpack bowed out. The Lady … Continue reading
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Congratulations to Mary Dudziak!
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THERE’S NO CRYING IN LAW SCHOOL!
The inquiry recently posted by Nate Oman at Concurring Opinions and re-posted at Feminist Law Profs about part-time employment possibilities for lawyers made me think of the scene in A League of Their Own in which the manager of the … Continue reading
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Feminism at Duke
Or lack thereof? This student newspaper column, entitled Va-va-voom, that appeared in the Duke Chronicle, is a little confusing in places perhaps, but it sure didn’t warrant some of those appended comments. Ick.
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Joan Heminway Is Smiling This Morning!
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“Sexy Feminisms”
Atlantis 31.2 – “Sexy Feminisms? Trans-Formations in Feminist Sexuality Studies After QueerTheory.” Guest edited by Susanne Luhmann and Rachel Warburton *order your copy at www.msvu.ca/atlantis From the issue website: This issue poses Sexy Feminisms as a question so as to … Continue reading
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Call for Papers: Feminist Pedagogy Conference 2007
The second Feminist Pedagogy Conference seeks participants for a day-long conference entitled “What’s Feminist about Feminist Pedagogy?” The conference will be held on October 12, 2007 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. The Feminist Pedagogy Conference … Continue reading
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Derrida Papers Controvery Update: The U of Florida “Knew Nothing” About Sexual Harassment Sanctions
The Gainesville Sun reported: A vampire expert at the University of Florida stands at the center of a bizarre tale about which UF officials say they only recently learned. Dragan Kujundzic, who was ousted as chair of UF’s department of … Continue reading
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AALS Workshop on Reproductive Medicine and Law, June 20-22, 2007, Vancouver BC
From the official announcement: The Association of American Law Schools and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine are jointly sponsoring a workshop on Reproductive Medicine and the Law. After more than two decades, assisted reproductive technologies coupled with increasingly sophisticated … Continue reading
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Fuck, SSRN Rankings
SSRN is the Social Science Research Network, a for profit online depository and distribution network for academic papers with an all-male Board of Trustees. My law school pays a fee to SSRN so that my colleagues and I can upload … Continue reading
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The Number of Women Authors Published In The March 2007 Edition Of The Yale Law Journal?
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“The fact that you can sit here and look at me like I’m insane is fantastic,”Harvard Physics Prof. Melissa Franklin said.
According to this article in the Harvard Crimson: Harvard’s first tenured woman physics professor, Melissa E.B. Franklin, startled her audience last night when relating some career experiences that became physical in ways she had not quite expected. “Used to be … Continue reading
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Something About The Timing Gives Me Pause
Over at Concurring Opinions, David Hoffman began a post about the WaPo article on Xoxohth’s “law school hotties” contest with these words: Reputation Defender is a new start-up that seeks to commodify internet self-help. According to yesterday’s WashingtonPost article on … Continue reading
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1000 Books For Peace Project
Adapted from an e-mail by Prof. Jeremy Levitt: The purpose of this post is to inform you about a special project that the Program for Human Rights and Global Justice at Florida International University is undertaking to support the reconstruction … Continue reading
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Two commercial announcements
Or don’t subscribe! No pressure either way! “make/shift” is a new feminist magazine. Learn more here. NB: They have offered to send me a free “review” copy of the first issue, and I accepted, which I feel compelled to reveal … Continue reading
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