Category Archives: Law Teaching

“Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America”

From the FLP mailbox: Juan Perea, Richard Delgado, Angela Harris, Jean Stefancic, and Stephanie Wildman are pleased to announce the June publication of the Second Edition of Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America available from West. … 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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“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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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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AALS Workshop on Family Law: Bridging the Gap Between Social Science and Law

Family law scholars have increasingly turned to the empirical sciences in their teaching and scholarship to help define problems worthy of exploration, provide the data necessary to develop and test hypotheses, and deepen their understanding of the interaction between law, … 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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Eric Muller’s Uncle Leo

I don’t really have a feminist angle on this topic, but I think you should read the posts here.

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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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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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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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Deborah Merritt, “Bias, the Brain, and Student Evaluations of Teaching”

The abstract: Student evaluations of teaching are a common fixture at American law schools, but they harbor surprising biases. Extensive psychology research demonstrates that these assessments respond overwhelmingly to a professor’s appearance and nonverbal behavior; ratings based on just thirty … Continue reading

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Feminist Legal Theory Research Guide

Pace University Law Librarian and Adjunct Professor Cynthia Pittson has updated her useful Feminist Legal Theory Research Guide, available here. -Bridget Crawford

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Some Law Students Need Advice

A student who sits immediately in front of them in various classes with assigned seats persists in watching pornography on his large screened laptop during course lectures. What, if anything, should they do about this?   I have suggested leaning … Continue reading

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More Disinformation About Law Faculty Hiring

Over at MoneyLaw Tom Bell is asserting that “at least in terms of hiring, women and minorities enjoy significant advantages.” He bases this claim on data that says nothing about the qualifications of the underlying pool of applicants, and completely … Continue reading

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Not Exactly A Model of Clarity

I generally like the jurisprudence of Justice Breyer, because I often agree with his views of the law, and really, how could I not like a Supreme Court Justice who used to be a copyright law teaching law professor?   … Continue reading

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Her Husband Got Her the Job, Isn’t He Awesome?

Many extremely brilliant law professors are romantically paired with other law professors; on a personal level, some of my favorite people in legal education are part of “two law prof” couples; and there is an overlap between these categories that … Continue reading

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Geoffrey Stone on “Gay Marriage in New Jersey”

At the U of Chicago Law School’s Faculty Blog. Here is an excerpt: We have come a long way. I remember the first time a student wrote on a classroom blackboard “Come to the First Meeting of Gay Law Students … Continue reading

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Supposedly Liberal Satire

Law prof Jack Chin appeared on the Daily Show in a clip that law prof Eric Muller at Is That Legal? does not find particularly funny.

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I Wanted To Like It

The Alliance for Justice produced a film called “Quiet Revolution” that is, according to an accompanying booklet, pitched at informing viewers about the “transformative legal agenda that movement conservatives are pursuing” through the political process generally and the judiciary particularly. … Continue reading

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Props and Thanks to Jim Chen

Jim Chen made my day, and I mean that sincerely, not at all in a Dirty Harryesque “Go ahead, make my day” kind of way (see also), quite the opposite. Read this post at MoneyLaw, and then read this one. … Continue reading

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Check Out The Cocky Law Blawg!

The Cocky Law Blawg features “Legal Research Tips & Musings from the Coleman Karesh Law Library,” and is based at the University of South Carolina School of Law, so you just know it’s cool!

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Jessica Price, “Imagining the Law-Trained Reader: The Faulty Description of the Audience in Legal Writing Textbooks”

Here is the abstract for Jessica Price’s new article: In law schools today, first-year legal writing courses play a crucial role in helping students learn to communicate about the law. Many legal writing teachers approach legal writing education in a … Continue reading

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Rosa Brooks, “What the Internet Age Means for Female Scholars”

Rosa Brooks’ essay “What the Internet Age Means for Female Scholars” is available as part of the Yale Law Journal’s online “Pocket Parts.” Below is a short excerpt: … Take any random sample of women in the top fifty law … Continue reading

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Nancy Rapoport on the AALS FAR and FRC

Nancy Rapoport is blogging at MoneyLaw, and her first blogservations there focus on the AALS FAR and FRC. See her posts: Things that faculty appointments committees should know (if they don’t already) and Why the Faculty Recruitment Conference is like … Continue reading

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Stanley Fish on the 2000 AALS Annual Meeting

From Slate: “…I have just returned from the AALS (American Association of Law Schools) meeting in Washington, where I was a member of a panel considering the state of legal theory at the beginning of the new century. I gave … Continue reading

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AALS Annual Meeting Program Notice: THE CHANGED ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF LAW SCHOOLS AND ITS IMPACT ON FACULTY

The topic is of crucial importance to law profs. The facilitators were chosen to represent diverse teaching constituencies in brief opening statements and over half the program will be an open discussion among all the participants (facilitators and audience). THE … Continue reading

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Jim Chen Has Started a New Blog

He is calling it “Jurisdynamics.” I’m betting it will be very interesting, one of those “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll send him flowers and hate mail” kind of law prof blogs. Check it out!

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A New Gender Divide in Colleges

The NY times has an interesting series on”the new gender divide”, citing Department of Education statistics that show women as more likely to graduate college with high honors:”men whatever their race or socioeconomic group, are less likely than women to … Continue reading

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Visiting, Gender, and Prestigious Law Schools

Brian Leiter compiled a list of folks visiting at “the six top law schools” next year and posted it here. Looks like out of ten visitors at Yale Law School, one of the most liberal law schools in the US … Continue reading

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Prawfsblawg Adds First Female to Permanent Blogging Line Up

Feminist Law Prof Orly Lobel got a permanent blogging gig at Prawfsblawg, announced here. And wow, some of the commenters there think she is a total babe! Do I make this stuff up? No, I do not. Check out the … Continue reading

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Sexism in the Classroom

Law student blogger la somnambule had this to say: In a seminar yesterday a few comments were passed. We were discussing the role of ‘undue influence’ in contract law. This doctrine was developed to assist people who have entered a … Continue reading

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Bar Referencing

So it’s the time of year in which freshly minted law school graduates who will sit for the July bar examination have to fill out lengthy and intrusive bar application forms, and also undergo written reference checks. The South Carolina … Continue reading

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“The Little Professor” on Grading Exams

She deconstructs “one of academia’s most sacrosanct rituals.” I perform a sub-ritual that she does not mention. I count how many bluebooks there are, making sure that this number corresponds with the tally of enrolled students. Then I grade one. … Continue reading

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That Was A New One

Anyone who has served on a law school admissions committee, and read the truckload of applications that admissions committee service usually entails, is aware of the fact that letters of reference submitted by aspiring law students often contain accolades about … Continue reading

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The American Academy of Arts & Sciences Elects “Fellows”

From the Leiter Law School Reports: The following law professors have been elected as Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: Ian Ayres (Yale), Richard Fallon (Harvard), Larry Kramer (Stanford), and Lawrence Lessig (Stanford). Several practitioners were also … Continue reading

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In Memoriam: Professor Denise C. Morgan (1965-2006)

From New York Law School’s website: “Professor Denise Morgan, a professor of education policy and the law, federal courts, civil procedure, and a seminar on race and American history at New York Law School and advocate for fiscal equity in … Continue reading

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Oink.

So I’m glad that Iowa law prof Tung Yin and his family safely survived the Iowa City tornados, but I really could have lived without this exchange in the comments of his blog post about it: Glad you’re safe, Prof. … Continue reading

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More on Internet Anonymity, or Lack Thereof

Some “anonymous” commenters using an O’Melveny & Myers IP address have registered opinions at a Houston Chronicle blog about the Skilling “Enron” trial, without disclosing any affiliation with the firm itself, which is representing Skilling as defense counsel! Sheesh. Professional … Continue reading

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“Gender Gap in Professorial Pay”

Paul Caron at TaxProf Blog has a post up with interesting (and depressing) information and additional links.

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Still More on the American Association of Law Deans, Tenure, and Long Term Contracts

For background, read this and this, two posts by Marina Angel. From “Law Deans Dispute ABA’s Tenure Power” by Leigh Jones in the National Law Journal: The American Law Deans Association has submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of … Continue reading

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Harvard Restocks the Faculty Shelves

According to the Leiter Law School Reports: In the last three years, Harvard has now hired eight faculty laterally to the tenured ranks: Jody Freeman from the University of California, Los Angeles Jack Goldsmith from the University of Virginia Daryl … Continue reading

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Orthogonal Input From A Mathematics Professor

What is the deal with the use of “orthogonal” anyway? It’s the buzzword du jour of smart, with-it, and just a tad pretentious law profs these days. Here’s one definition: Mutually independent; well separated; sometimes, irrelevant to. Used in a … Continue reading

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Live Nude Girls Unite – Updates?

Live Nude Girls Unite! This week, as part of the annual law and social justice film series I run at USD Law, I am showing the documentary Live Nude Girls Unite! The film is about the efforts, starting at an … Continue reading

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Update re: American Law Dean Assoc. (“ALDA”) Attack on Tenure and Long Term Contracts

See this post for background. Information continues to come in [about “ALDA”]. This is a right wing rump group of deans, a combination of deans of elite law schools who do not want to meet diversity requirements and barely accredited … Continue reading

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American Law Deans Association (ALDA) Attacks Tenure and Long Term Contracts; ABA Standards § § 205(c), 405, and 603(d)

This statement [Download file] to the U.S. Department of Education was sent by the Board of Directors of ALDA, purporting to speak on behalf of the organization. So far I’ve determined: 1. The statement was probably sent in early March; … Continue reading

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Stupid Girls, Stupid Profs?

During the panel discussion on Feminism and Women Under 40 held at Pace Law School on March 21, 2006, one of the speakers touted the new Pink video, “Stupid Girls,” as an example of how feminists can harness the media … Continue reading

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Fabulous Feminist Legal Theory Visiting Opportunity

The Feminism and Legal Theory Project is looking for someone who has a sabbatical or semester leave (or otherwise does not need a salary) who may be interested in coming to Emory and spending the Spring 2007 semester taking over … Continue reading

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South Carolina Needs A Visitor to Teach Sales and Payment Systems

“The University of South Carolina School of Law is seeking a visiting professor to teach Sales and Payment Systems particularly in the Fall of 2006 but also in Spring 2007. Interested individuals should contact Prof. Jim Flanagan at jimf@law.law.sc.edu or … Continue reading

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