Category Archives: Law Teaching

Student Live-Blogs Property Class

Would be funny if not hitting so close to home.

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Marina Angel’s Call For Action: Addressing the channeling of women of all colors and men of color to non tenure track law school teaching and administrative positions.

There has been an explosion in the number of non tenure track teachers at law schools. These are predominately clinical and legal writing positions, but the number of lower level administrators (associate and assistant deans and directors) with 1/2 to … Continue reading

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Symposium Invitation:”Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change and a Decade of Gender Studies”

On Friday, March 10, 2006, the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, the Harvard Law Review and the Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review will host a symposium entitled”Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change and a Decade of Gender Studies,”in the … Continue reading

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Carrie Yang Costello:”Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender, and Success at Professional Schools”

The Amazon.com summary: “The fact that women and people of color tend to underperform at professional schools is a source of controversy. Conservatives blame affirmative action, while liberals blame intentional discrimination. The extensive research reported in Professional Identity Crisis belies … Continue reading

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“Feminist Perspectives on Law”

“Feminist Perspectives on Law” bills itself as “a resource for UK researchers, teachers and learners” but it’s also pretty handy for Yanks! Click on the links in the “Subject Areas” sidebar for some really useful bibliographies.

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Remarks by Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan on the Status of Women in Law

Full text of her 11/17/05 lecture here. A couple of excerpts below: …”Last year, a working group of Harvard Law students issued a study on women’s experiences. What they discovered closely tracked findings from other top schools that have studied … Continue reading

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Cheeky Prof: “And The Email Roll In As the Semester Begins”

From Cheeky Prof: “Here are 3 of the email messages I’ve received during the past week as the semester begins. They all pertain to the same small seminar course, both sections of which have been filled since November, and which … Continue reading

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Been There?

From Dr. Crazy at Reassigned Time: “The Things I’m Not” I am not a secretary who has staplers, tape, paper clips, pens, and/or paper to hand out to people who don’t have these things for themselves. I am not your … Continue reading

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Gender Preferences in Hiring

Aspazia at Mad, Melancholic Feminista has a thoughtful post here about gender issues in faculty hiring, with a special emphasis on Philosophy, which is her discipline. Meanwhile, for anyone who hasn’t seen them, the AALS has posted 2004-2005 faculty composition … Continue reading

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Exploding Offers

At Law Culture Jennifer Mnookin has written a post about the phenomonen of “exploding offers” for entry level law profs that can be read here.   It seems likely that candidates with “trailing partners” would be extremely disadvantaged by exploding … Continue reading

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Law Professing and “Visits”

Christine Hurt wrote two interesting posts about doing “visits” at other law schools before tenure at her regular blogging gig, The Conglomerate. Part one is here; part two is here. Brian Leiter has addressed related issues at his blog with … Continue reading

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