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“European University for Professional Education” alleged to be vehicle for human trafficking
From this publication: … The college, which attracts mainly Asian students, made headlines last October when the police arrested its managing director, the 63 year old American, Glinder T., and two accomplices on suspicion of human trafficking and fraud. The … Continue reading
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Marriage Equality – The Old Fashioned Version
The Prop 8 trial in San Francisco has captivated the homo-imagination, not surprisingly. (Posts about the first couple days here and here.) So this seems like an awkward time to suggest anything critical about the institution of marriage itself (even … Continue reading
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New List Serve on LGBT Issues at Religiously Affiliated Law Schools
I received this message in an e-mail from the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) this morning: SALT Launches List Serve on LGBT Issues at Religiously-Affiliated Law Schools SALT member and Seton Hall University law professor Marc Poirier announces Constellation! … Continue reading
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Hearsay Exceptions
Via the fabulous Rebecca P.; see also.
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Caroline Mala Corbin, “Ceremonial Deism and the Reasonable Religious Outsider”
Abstract: State invocations of God are common in the United States; indeed, the national motto is”In God We Trust.”Yet the Establishment Clause forbids the state from favoring some religions over others. Nonetheless, courts have found the national motto and other … Continue reading
How Much Do You Pay Your Research Assistant?
I know I’ve been pretty much absent here for the past several months, and unfortunately I will continue to be for another couple of months as I finish up two big projects. But in the meantime, I’d like to survey … Continue reading
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Where are the women? There isn’t a single women law prof, jurist or practitioner among the participants in the Wake Forest Law Review’s 2009 Torts Symposium
44 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW, NO. 4, WINTER, 2009. Third Restatement of Torts: Issue One. 44 Wake Forest L. Rev. 877-1107 (2009). Cardi, W. Jonathan. A pluralistic analysis of the therapist/physician duty to warn third parties. 44 Wake Forest L. … Continue reading
Lost and Found in Translation: C. Edwin Baker “loved living on the lower level people.”
I’ve been so sad about Ed Baker’s death that my usual goofball humor emotional survival technique has been mostly muted. But today I found a web page in which Ed is remembered by someone at the school in Beijing where … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Not Too Many in the October, November or December Issues of the Columbia Law Review. Eighteen of Twenty-One Published Authors are Male. Only One Author is a Woman Law Prof.
October: In memoriam–Louis Lowenstein. Tributes by Harvey J. Goldschmid, Kenneth P. Kopelman, Arthur W. Murphy, William Savitt and David M. Schizer. 109 Colum. L. Rev. 1263-1277 (2009). Miller, Darrell A.H. Guns as smut: defending the home-bound Second Amendment. 109 Colum. … Continue reading
Homo Economicus and Fem Eticus ?
Yuval Feldman and I have been studying the behavior of individuals in the face of organizational corruption and misconduct. In our recent article, we report on a series of experiments looking at the effect of incentives on the decision to … Continue reading
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Some links about grading.
Dear Former Students, at Historiann Cheating Cheaters Who Cheat, at Catty in Queens My TA Rules, at Ianqui in the Village This is My Favorite Time of Year, at A Gentleman’s C Common Exam Mistakes, at Concurring Opinions Writing Exams, … Continue reading
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Article of Interest: Diversity and Discrimination: A Look at Complex Bias by Minna Kotkin
Back in September, I posted an entry about the Seventh Circuit’s failure to recognize a “sex plus” or “gender plus” theory of discrimination in its recent opinion in Coffman v. Indianapolis Fire Dept., 2009 WL 2525762 (7th Cir. 2009), a … Continue reading
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Save The Date: March 5, 2010 Symposium Recognizing The Work of Judith Butler
Katherine Franke – cross posted from Gender & Sexuality Law Blog
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LSU Legal Clinic Wins Asylum Case
Robert Lancaster, Director of the Legal Clinic at Louisiana State University Law Center, reports that the Immigration Law Clinic won an asylum case for a Kenyan national facing persecution for her religious beliefs and membership in a particular social group. … Continue reading
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New study concludes having women at the top of institutions is crucial to increasing the number of women among the junior faculty ranks.
From Inside Higher Ed: Does having a woman in the top job (or the No. 2 slot) make a difference? When it comes to faculty hiring, the answer appears to be Yes. And having a critical mass of women on … Continue reading
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Where are the women? There is only one woman among the twelve speakers at the Emory Law Journal’s 2010 Randolph W. Thrower Symposium: “The New New Deal: From De-Regulation to Re-Regulation”
The speakers. –Ann Bartow
E-Marriage Update
NPR’s December 14th Morning Edition featured Michigan State University College of Law profs Adam Candeub and Mae Kuykendall and their proposal for”e-marriage,”through which same-sex couples could obtain marriage licenses from states in which such unions are legal, and then have … Continue reading
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From the NYT: You Dumb Women are Opposing the New Mammogram Recommendations Because You Don’t Understand Science or Math
The contempt laden Op-Ed is here. Below is the first paragraph: In his inaugural address, Barack Obama promised to restore science to its”rightful place.”This has partly occurred, as evidenced by this month’s release of 13 new human embryonic stem-cell lines. … Continue reading
Farewell to an amazing friend: C. Edwin Baker
Penn Law Professor Ed Baker died on Tuesday, as has been noted here, here, here, here and here, here and here, so far. Every nice thing that has been written about him is true, and there are many more things … Continue reading
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What’s Marriage Worth To You? Heterosexual Woman Puts Her Right To Marry Up For Auction On E-Bay
In my last post I urged heterosexual people to do more than express their condolences to the gay community for the defeat of the marriage equality bill in the New York State Senate last week. Well, Jamie Frevele, an … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Pretty sparse (just one woman co-author!) in the last Georgetown L.J. and none at all in the recent Virginia L. Rev.
98 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL, NO. 1, NOVEMBER, 2009. Jacobi, Tonja and Matthew Sag. Taking the measure of ideology: empirically measuring Supreme Court cases. 98 Geo. L.J. 1-75 (2009). [H][L][W] Oman, Nathan B. A pragmatic defense of contract law. 98 Geo. … Continue reading
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Reflections on the NYS Senate Vote on Marriage Equality
This afternoon, with little advanced notice, the New York State Senate held debate and then voted on a bill that would have amended the state’s marriage law to allow same sex couples to marry. So short was the notice … Continue reading
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The Center for Reproductive Rights’ Law School Initiative and Law Students for Reproductive Justice are accepting submissions for the 5th annual Sarah Weddington Writing Prize.
The Center for Reproductive Rights’ Law School Initiative and Law Students for Reproductive Justice are accepting submissions for the 5th annual Sarah Weddington Writing Prize. The theme this year is Reproductive Rights As Human Rights. This theme … Continue reading
Article of Interest — A Matter of Context: Social Framework Evidence in Employment Discrimination Class Actions by Professors Hart and Secunda
Over the past half-century it has become commonplace for courts and commentators to distinguish two uses of social science in law. Social science is said either to prove ‘legislative facts’ that concern general questions of law and policy, or to … Continue reading
Where are the Women? Speaking at Pace Law School
Reading postings on FemLawProfs made me look at the faculty colloquia series I organized for Pace Law School this year. Without any intention, we’ve scheduled 10 women and 9 men. I don’t think exact parity is necessary … Continue reading
Student Protests at UC Berkeley Campus
Keep your eyes and ears open for news of what is happening right now at UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall (not part of the Law School). There are unconfirmed reports of arrests of students occupying a University building and possible use … Continue reading
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Tips for Conveying How Busy and Important You Are
Productivity advice — in the form of books and blogs — has become so ubiquitous that an entire sub-genre of criticism has developed in response. Now it’s hip to critique as unproductive any focus on day-to-day work productivity (a … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Not in the June 2009 Yale Law Journal, that’s for sure.
118 YALE LAW JOURNAL, NO. 8, JUNE, 2009. Engdahl, David E. The classic rule of faith and credit. 118 Yale L.J. 1584-1659 (2009). [H][L][W] Cabranes, Hon. Jose A. Our imperial criminal procedure: problems in the extraterritorial application of U.S. constitutional … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Not in 78% to 88% of NYU Law Review’s Publication Slots
Of the 24 professional (i.e., non-student) pieces published so far in Volume 84 of the NYU Law Review, only 5 were single-authored pieces written by women. That’s only 20.8% written entirely by women. If one excludes from the count … Continue reading
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“Catharine MacKinnon and law as courage, emotion, and social change”
From the Harvard Law Record: When Catharine MacKinnon said goodbye to us at the end of her Sex Equality class on Wednesday October 28, she choked up, and we all choked up with her. The emotion was evident in her … Continue reading
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Where are the women? Not organizing or participating in very many colloquia at NYU Law, apparently.
From this site: Fall 2009 Colloquia Constitutional Theory Colloquium Professors David Golove and Richard Pildes Hauser Colloquium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law Professor Ryan Goodman Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy Professors Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel Colloquium … Continue reading
“I get knocked down: Women publishing law review notes”
Rebecca Tushnet writes: I read an interesting article in the Journal of Legal Education (unfortunately not online) about the underrepresentation, relative to law school enrollment and law review participation, of women publishing notes on the main journals of the top … Continue reading
Another Step Backwards For Women’s Rights in Italy
Last October 17th in Italy, the Court of Appeals of Rome issued a sentence declaring that the rape of a sex worker is less punishable than the rape of a woman that does not choose to be a prostitute. The … Continue reading
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Where are the women? None are in the inaugural Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc.
Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc is pleased to present the”first take”pieces for its inaugural Roundtable from Professors Hal Bruff, Steven Calabresi, Gary Lawson, Rick Pildes, and Christopher Yoo. The debate is on Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight … Continue reading
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Gender Bias Bingo
“Share your experiences of at least three bias types listed below, and you will win the highly coveted “Real Professors Play Gender Bias Bingo” T–shirt!” Preview bingo card here. Play here!
“Fraternity Accused of Stealing 10,000 Student Newspapers to Cover Up Date Rape Story”
Amanda Hess has the story here. Sadly, as she notes, the fact that a student may have been drugged at a fraternity party so that members could rape her in and of itself wasn’t seen as a big deal by … Continue reading
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Contact the AALS About Restoring Child Care Services During the Annual Meeting.
If you’re a law professor with young children, you’ve probably noticed that AALS has discontinued the previous practice of offering child care services to members attending the annual meeting, due to low enrollment in the past. Our understanding is that … Continue reading
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Dan Brown’s “Lost Symbol” is awful. Her eyes were as big as saucers when it hit her like an uncoming train.
I’ll leave more detailed reviews for others, but here is something I found particularly stupid, at page 31. Protagonist Robert Langdon is lecturing to one of his freshman “intro” Harvard classes: …”In this age when different cultures are killing each … Continue reading
How are my legal subject areas doing re: gender balance?
Brian Leiter conducted a poll regarding the Top Law Faculties for Intellectual Property and Cyberspace Law. The results give a window into the subject specific gender balance at each of the “Top 24” schools. There were 95 men and 45 … Continue reading
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Undignified Marketing Alert: Northeastern University School of Law
The image at left is taken from the Northeastern University School of Law publicity that landed today in my faculty mailbox. The text in the tan box in the upper left corner reads, “Faculty and students advocate together for … Continue reading
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Undignified Marketing Alert: Pace University
“Come for the food…stay for the dudes,” beckons this campus-wide invitation to a “President and Provost Welcome Reception” at Pace University. In the photo above, the President appears at left and the Provost appears at right Ok, ok, … Continue reading
Ruth O’Brien (editor),”TELLING STORIES OUT OF COURT: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination”
Professor Ruth O’Brien teaches in the Political Science department at the Graduate Center of CUNY. Her new book about women and workplace discrimination uses both legal commentary and ‘story-telling’ methods to explore sexism and discrimination at work. From the publisher’s … Continue reading
The Queer Argument for the Public Option
The relative silence of a queer – or even a gay – voice in the health care reform debate of the last six months is confounding. As someone who spent my 20’s and 30’s dealing with close friends and … Continue reading
George Mason School of Law Sued for Sexual Harassment
From Law.com: … This July, Kyndra Rotunda filed a lawsuit against the Arlington, Va., school, where just three years before she had happily signed on as director of a legal assistance clinic for military service members. In her suit, she … Continue reading
Downsized Men on Page One of the New York Times
The gendering of the current economic downturn was the subject of a page one story in the New York Times today: Still on the Job by Making Only Half as Much, by Louis Uchitelle – but that’s not what Uchitelle … Continue reading
Sheila Jeffreys on Kate Millett
From this site: …[R]adical feminist scholar Sheila Jeffreys talks about the influence of Kate Millett on the course of feminist thinking, most particularly through her book Sexual Politics (1970). Jeffreys gives a summary of the key ideas of Millett’s work … Continue reading
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Carol W. Greider of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine was one of three women who won a science Nobel last week, and she sounds like a sister!
Excerpt from a NYT interview with Nobel Laureate Carol W. Greider: …Q. MANY REPORTERS HAVE ASKED WHY TELOMERES RESEARCH SEEMS TO ATTRACT SO MANY FEMALE INVESTIGATORS. WHAT’S YOUR ANSWER? A. There’s nothing about the topic that attracts women. It’s probably … Continue reading
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Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University is the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics in the 41-year history of the award
From the NYT: The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on Monday to two American social scientists for their work in describing the numerous relationships within a company or among companies and individuals that shape market behavior. The … Continue reading
