Category Archives: Law Teaching

Should the AALS Limit Annual Meeting Appearances to One Per Person?

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Bridget Crawford

Should the AALS prefer programs with speakers making only a single AALS appearance?  Stated another way, should there be a disincentive (or even a rule precluding) multiple conference appearances by the same faculty member? Here’s what I observe in the … Continue reading →

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New Edition of “Feminist Jurisprudence” Casebook

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

I received in my faculty mailbox today a new edition of Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials, published by West.  The authors on this fourth edition are Cynthia Grant Bowman (Cornell), Laura Rosenbury (Wash. U. St. Louis), Deborah Tuerkheimer (DePaul) and … Continue reading →

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Guest Blogger Amanda Gonzalez: Must We Wait for Women to be Represented in Classroom Materials?

Posted on December 12, 2010 by admin

Must we wait for women to be represented in classroom materials? I’m slightly ashamed to admit that it took me an entire year of law school before I figured out that I needed to use the Examples and Explanations books … Continue reading →

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A Network Of One’s Own

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Christine Corcos

Looking for scholars with interests similar to yours? Check out this resource: Collaborative Research Networks. Among its networks are “Collective Human Rights,” “Feminist Legal Theory,” “Gender and Judging,” Gender, Sexuality, and Law,” Integrating Gender Into Legal Education,” International Socio-Legal Feminisms,” … Continue reading →

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Guest Blogger Liz Kukura – LSRJ Study Highlights Dearth of Reproductive Rights Law & Justice Courses

Posted on November 29, 2010 by admin

Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) recently completed its first comprehensive survey of reproductive rights and justice course offerings at all ABA-approved law schools in the U.S. for the last seven years.  While perhaps not surprising to many within the … Continue reading →

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Schneider and Wildman’s “Women and the Law Stories” from Foundation Press

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

Elizabeth Schneider and Stephanie Wildman’s edited volume Women and the Law Stories, part of the Foundation Press series, is now in print.  Here’s the Table of Contents: Introduction.  Telling Stories to Courts: Women Claim Their Legal Rights, by Elizabeth M. … Continue reading →

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A Small Step Some Law Professors are Taking in Response to News of Bullying and Harassment

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

Here’s what a group of colleagues (myself included) did yesterday at my law school.  Fourteen faculty and staff members joined together and distributed to all staff and faculty mailboxes the following signed letter and a sticker that reads “Be an Ally. Be … Continue reading →

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The Center for Reproductive Rights – Columbia Law School Fellowship – Deadline November 1, 2010

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

From Diana Hortsch, Director of the Law School Initiative at the Center for Reproductive Rights, this notice of a fellowship at Columbia Law School: The Center for Reproductive Rights – Columbia Law School Fellowship (“CRR-CLS Fellowship”) is a two-year, post-graduate fellowship offered … Continue reading →

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Teaching Resource on Feminism and Pornography

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

Those who teach Feminist Legal Theory or other classes in which pornography is a subject of academic discussion might be interested in this recording of an interview by Professor Gail Dines (Wheelock College) with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.  Professor Dines … Continue reading →

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Tenure-Track Positions at Nebraska

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

 From Anna Shavers (Nebraska): The University of Nebraska College of Law invites applications for three tenure-track faculty positions. Areas of particular interest include business associations, corporate finance and governance, transactional skills courses, securitization, venture capital, entrepreneurship, patents, trusts and estates, … Continue reading →

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Notice of Faculty Positions at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW-INDIANAPOLIS invites applications from entry-level and experienced candidates for tenure-track and tenured appointments beginning in the 2011-2012 academic year. The law school seeks colleagues with distinguished academic records who are committed to excellence in teaching, scholarship, … Continue reading →

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Feminist Law Prof 1L Stories Revisited

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law Review has published another Law Stories issue, this one with the theme "One L Revisited" (including an introduction by author Scott Turow).  In this Summer 2010 issue, several law professors and other law … Continue reading →

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Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia and The Washington College of Law 2010 Student Legal Essay Writing Competition

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

This call for essays may be of interest to students of Feminist Law Profs and others:   The Modern American (TMA) announces the American University Washington College of Law (WCL) essay competition, open to all full-time and part-time law students … Continue reading →

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2010 Status Update – Women and Legal Education

Posted on April 29, 2010 by admin

According to blogs in the legal academy, women did not fare well this year in the law school lateral hire market, with the majority of lateral moves being made by men. Further, Supreme Court clerkships are weighty credentials among academics … Continue reading →

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Focus on Intentional Pedagogy at “Faculty Teaching Day”

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

Many law schools have annual faculty retreats or “scholarship days” to showcase faculty scholarship.  My home institution instituted that tradition two years ago.  For the first time this year, we also held a “Faculty Teaching Day,” a half-day program for … Continue reading →

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Legally Blind Grading: Do Class Participation Docks and Boosts Unfairly Disadvantage Female and Minority Students?

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Colin Miller

I’ve been doing a series of guest posts (here,  here,  here, and  here) over on  PrawfsBlawg concerning what I refer to as “legally blind grading” in law school, i.e., the grading process under which law professors are deprived of information … Continue reading →

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CFP: Teaching Gender as a Core Value

Posted on March 14, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

Call for Panelists AALS Section on Women in Legal Education “Teaching Gender as a Core Value” 2011 AALS Annual Meeting January 4-8, 2011 San Francisco, California The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education will hold a program during the … Continue reading →

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The Internet Pile-on over a Woman Dean’s Paycheck

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

The legal blogosphere has been embroiled recently in a series of discussions about Karen Rothenberg, formerly dean at Maryland law.  For those living in a cave (or avoiding Above the Law as a paper-finishing strategy), the basic facts are these:  … Continue reading →

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Call for Volunteers: Paying it Forward to other Women in Legal Education

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

Feminist Law Prof Colleen Medill (Nebraska), on behalf of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education, is assembling a list of women law profs who might be willing to share materials, experiences, perspectives, etc. with other women law profs. … Continue reading →

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“What Makes a Great Teacher?”

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Ann Bartow

Check out this article in the Atlantic Monthly. Here is an excerpt: … Starting in 2002, Teach for America began using student test-score progress data to put teachers into one of three categories: those who move their students one and … Continue reading →

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African-American History Teaching Resources

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

There are some nice teaching resources for African-American history at AfroAmericanHeritage.com.   Many of the materials are geared more for primary and secondary school students, but there are some especially nice posters that would make for good law school classroom … Continue reading →

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Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Bridget Crawford

From the FLP Mailbox, this notice of a student writing competition that Feminist Law Profs might want to pass along to their students: National Association of Women Lawyers ® Fifth Annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition The National … Continue reading →

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Where are the Women? Among “Law Stories” Editors

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

Law Stories is a 30-strong (and growing) volume series published by Foundation Press   and edited by Paul Caron, the Charles Harstock Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.   Each “Stories” volume … Continue reading →

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Contact the AALS About Restoring Child Care Services During the Annual Meeting.

Posted on October 28, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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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George Mason School of Law Sued for Sexual Harassment

Posted on October 19, 2009 by Ann Bartow

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 →

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USC Law Prof Elyn Saks Won a MacArthur Foundation Award

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Mary Dudziak has the details.

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iPhone Apps for Law Students and Profs

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

From the October 2009 edition of the ABA Journal, this information about iPhone applications that will interest students and professors: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ($2.99); Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure ($2.99); Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act ($4.99); Federal Rules … Continue reading →

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On Hiring

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Ann Bartow

My law school isn’t doing any hiring this year, but I was still very interested in this posts: Hire with Wisdom and Interview with Kindness at Center of Gravitas, and   a five part eries by Squadratomagico   1) The … Continue reading →

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The Epistemology of Law Teaching

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

Somehow I missed “Wake Up and Smell the Epistemology,” a thought-provoking article by Tim Clydesdale (Sociology, College of New Jersey) from the January 23, 2009 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education (pay site – sorry- day passes available).  Professor … Continue reading →

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Law School Classroom or Meeting of the Connecticut Legislature?

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Answer here.

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List of Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Here. I got my start in law teaching as an Hon. Abraham L. Freedman Graduate Teaching Fellow at Temple University’s School of Law and it was a wonderful experience. I learned how to teach in a supportive, mentor rich environment, … Continue reading →

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Westlaw Reinstates Services to Puerto Rican Law Schools

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

Today I received this update on the Westlaw situation (described here) from José Julián Álvarez González, pictured at left, Professor of Law at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law (reprinted and attributed with his permission): After a very … Continue reading →

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Please Keep Your Toes Covered in Class

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

Over at Prawfsblawg, Bennett Capers asks (here): Given the importance of this first impression, am I the only one that obsesses at the start of the school year about what to wear on the first day of class, down to … Continue reading →

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Westlaw Cuts Support to Law Schools in Puerto Rico

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

Westlaw has decided to discontinue providing free printers and associated supplies (paper, ink) to law school libraries in Puerto Rico.  Westlaw provides these to other law schools on the U.S. mainland, and did provide them to the four Puerto Rican … Continue reading →

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NYU Law hires homophobic bigot to teach, wait for it, human rights law.

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Leiter has the details.

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“The Biden Curve”

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Is Sarah Palin really dumber than Joe Biden? Or is something else going on? From the WSJ: ************* Over the weekend, as we noted yesterday, Vice President Biden said that if Israel decides it needs to take military action against … Continue reading →

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“Professor Sotomayor” – A View of the New Justice from Columbia Law School

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Katherine Franke

Sonia Sotomayor, nominated by President Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court, has taught a course on Federal Appellate Court advocacy at Columbia for several years.   While President Obama’s adjunct teaching job at the University of Chicago is often cited … Continue reading →

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Media Source for Berlin Images 1989-1990 (and Tangential Thoughts on Feminism’s Focus)

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

The Deutsche Kinemathek Museum for Film and Television and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) are collaborating on the “Internet Archive,” an on-line resource for film, television footage and photography from Germany in 1989 and 1990. … Continue reading →

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The Broken Windows of Law School Faculties

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

I’ve discovered the Positive Coaching Alliance  through volunteering with my local youth Little League.  That organization uses the “broken windows” concept in training coaches, parents and players to take a holistic (my word, not theirs) approach to sports — as … Continue reading →

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Avoiding a Biased Exam: Always Expect Students to Know the Law But Never Expect Them to Know the Facts

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Colin Miller

(Cross-posted at PrawfsBlawg) I remember being a law student and taking the class Women and the Law with the terrific  Susan Grover  when a topic came up that would (thankfully) inform the way that I draft my law school exams … Continue reading →

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“This job is easy for people who’ve never done it,”Justice Thomas said later.”What I have found in this job is they know more about it than I do, especially if they have the title, law professor.”

Posted on April 13, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Ouch. Those are the concluding words of this article.

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The University of South Carolina School of Law’s Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year is: Prof. Danielle Holley-Walker!

Posted on April 9, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Hooray! Proof that our students have excellent judgment and taste.

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Not Your Grandmother’s Library of Congress

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Bridget Crawford

The Library of Congress now has its own YouTube Channel (here)! For law profs looking for video clips to supplement teaching materials, this may become a valuable resource in the future.  For now, the channel has clips of discussions by … Continue reading →

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Nell Jessup Newton has been appointed Dean of the University of Notre Dame Law School

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Press release here. Via Leiter.

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Disaster Law Reader: Call For Papers

Posted on March 30, 2009 by Kathleen Bergin

Editors: Kathleen A. Bergin and Tracy L. McGaugh Hurricane Katrina was unlike any other weather disaster to hit the United States in the way it exposed deficiencies in federal, state, and local disaster planning and management. It was also unique … Continue reading →

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Yale Law School Has A Woman “Acting Dean”

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Current Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh has been nominated by President Obama to serve as the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. Taking his place as Acting Dean is Prof. Kate Stith. More here.

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From the Department of: “Women Law Profs Don’t Know Anything About Hate Speech”

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Columbia Law School division. This lecture series is advertising this speaker line up: ‘Hate Speech’ and Incitement to Violence This workshop series is being convened by Professor Kendall Thomas and Lecturer-in-Law Peter Molnar, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for … Continue reading →

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Let Them Eat Quiche

Posted on March 17, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Tomorrow the International Law Society at my law school hosts its annual fund raiser. It’s an all you can eat lunch comprised of donated homemade ethnic foods. Here are the University-related fundraisers I’ve already contributed to this academic year: the … Continue reading →

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More about academic bullying…

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Ann Bartow

…here at Minding the Workplace, where there is also a post about workplace bullying generally. Via.

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“Deconstructing the First Year: How Law School Experiences Lead to Misunderstandings of What Lawyers Do”

Posted on March 6, 2009 by Ann Bartow

Great post you should read by this title at Clinicians With Not Enough To Do.

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