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Can Chat GPT Learn to Write Like Me?
Apparently yes, according to this how-to from Forbes. The era of the good written deep-fake is already here!
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Catharine A. MacKinnon Receives American Philosophical Society’s Henry J. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence
Many people will have read the good news at Brian Leiter’s blog (here) announcing the recent election of three law professors to the American Philosophical Society: James Forman (Yale), Catharine MacKinnon (Michigan/Harvard), and Dorothy Roberts (Penn). In further good news, … Continue reading
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25th Anniversary Silver Jubilee Celebration of Margaret Thornton’s Iconic Work, “Dissonance and Distrust: Women in the Legal Profession”
On Thursday, November 18, 2022, 10-11:30 a.m. [that’s evening time on Wednesday, November 17, 2022 on the east coast in the US and Canada; time zone converter here], the Australia National University College of Law will be holding a celebratory … Continue reading
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Menstrual Equity and the Bar Exam: Round Up of Op-Eds and Other Media Coverage
Op Eds Bridget J. Crawford & Emily Gold Waldman, Tampons and Pads Should Be Allowed at the Bar Exam, Law.com (July 22, 2020) Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, Raising the Bar for Menstrual Equity. Period., Ms. Magazine (July 23, 2020) Julie D. Cantor, Periods Can Be … Continue reading
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Op-Ed “Stop the Stigma Against Menstruation, Starting with the Bar Exam”
Margaret E. Johnson (Baltimore), Marcy L. Karin (UDC), and Elizabeth B. Cooper (Fordham) have published an op-ed in National Jurist, Stop the Stigma Against Menstruation, Starting with the Bar Exam. Here is an excerpt: The distrust of menstruators is front and … Continue reading
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Does @WV Courts Have a Secret Policy Permitting Tampons and Pads at the Bar Exam? #bloodybarpocalypse
Over at the ABA Journal (here), Stephanie Francis Ward confirms that, yes, there are really are states the prohibit test-takers from bringing menstrual products with them to the bar exam. Here’s an excerpt of the article: Susan Henricks, executive director … Continue reading
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Op-Ed: “Tampons and Pads Should Be Allowed at the Bar Exam”
Over at Law.com, Emily Gold Waldman (Pace) and I have published an op-ed, Tampons and Pads Should be Allowed at the Bar Exam. Here is an excerpt: The judgment of bar examiners that plan to hold in-person tests this summer … Continue reading
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NE Bar Examiners Want to Know Why You Need to Change Your Tampon So Often
From Professor Victoria Haneman (@TaxLawProf) at Creighton University, this disturbing news that if a Nebraska bar exam taker needs to change a tampon or pad more frequently than once every two hours, they must “provide [the Board of Law Examiners] … Continue reading
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Signatories Sought for Letter Urging NCBEX to Require All States to Permit Test-Takers to Bring Menstrual Products to Bar Exam
We recently have been made aware that certain state bar examiners – including some administering the exam next week – prohibit people from bringing their own menstrual products to the bar exam. For the reasons explained below and in the … Continue reading
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Do Not Bring Tampons or Pads to the Bar Exam in Arizona
Via @BarExamTracker, this news that the Arizona board of bar examiners is telling candidates to refrain from bringing any tampons or pads with them on the day of the exam. The complete Arizona information for candidates is here. This policy … Continue reading
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Bra-Gate: A 2019 Tale of Institutional Misogyny (@JCSherriffOffice)
by JoAnne Sweeny Back in May 2019, the Jackson County Detention Center, without any warning to local attorneys, instituted a new security policy that requires all visitors, including inmates’ attorneys, to pass through a metal detector. Seems reasonable in theory … Continue reading
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Recent Gender-Related Scholarship: Faith Jackson & Edieth Wu
Feminist Law Profs Faith Jackson and Edieth Wu (Texas Southern University) have published two articles that address aspects of discrimination in legal education: Must We Deploy Drones in the Twenty-first Century to Target Under the Radar Discrimination Against Minority Women at … Continue reading
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Judging Politeness At the SCT
Scholars Tonja Jacobi and Dylan Schweers have already examined the phenomenon of who interrupts whom among the Supreme Court Justices, noting that to a fairly large extent we can correlate interruptions during SCT oral arguments to sex and seniority, for example. … Continue reading
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Why Do Ads for Programs Targeted At Female Lawyers Include Cutesy Pictures?
There’s something about the inclusion of the red shoes in this advertisement that I find … annoying. This is a digital flyer for a program sponsored by the Historical Society of the New York Courts and the New York City … Continue reading
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Henderson on “The Intersectional Life and Times of Lutie A. Lytle”
Taja-Nia Y. Henderson (Rutgers) has published a new article in the Iowa Law Review: ‘I Shall Talk to My Own People’: The Intersectional Life and Times of Lutie A. Lytle, 102 Iowa L. Rev. 1983 (2017). For those not familiar … Continue reading
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For Men in the Legal Academy Who Want to Help Fight Sexism
Men in the legal academy, if you want to help fight sexism… …do cite good scholarship by women. Empirically survey your own footnotes before sending in that manuscript….don’t accept invites to speak on panels without racial and gender balance. Ask … Continue reading
How Clothes (Un)Make the (Wo)Man
I read a wonderful piece this morning in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the ways in which some black academics use fashionable clothing to signal identity. This academic fine dressing is described as part of the black dandy movement, the … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Not in this Issue of “The Tax Lawyer”
According to its website, “The Tax Lawyer and The State and Local Tax Lawyer are published by the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association with the assistance of the Georgetown University Law Center and its students.” Check out … Continue reading
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Free ABA Telecast – “The Tax Code and Income Inequality: Limitations and Political Opportunities”
The ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice is hosting this free teleconference, co-sponsored with the ABA Section on Taxation. Feminist Law Prof Francine Lipman (UNLV) is one of the featured speakers. FREE TELECONFERENCE* The Tax Code and Income … Continue reading
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Strategic Deployment of a Black Female Attorney in the Bill Cosby Case
In this piece on NPR, Feminist Law Prof Lolita Buckner Inniss (Cleveland-Marshall) comments on Bill Cosby’s decision to hire Monique Pressley as his attorney: The decision to hire her is also strategic, says Buckner Inniss. “Her gender and her race … Continue reading
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A New Blog Devoted To the History of Women Lawyers
Bari Burke, University of Montana School of Law, has launched a new blog, Montana’s Early Women Lawyers: Trail-Blazing, Big Sky Sisters-In-Law. Each post focuses on an interesting (and unknown) story about a female lawyer from the past, which Professor Burke … Continue reading
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Herma Hill Kay Receives AALS Section on Women in Legal Education Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award for 2015
From the mailbox: The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education is delighted to announce that Professor Herma Hill Kay, the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, is the 2015 recipient of the AALS Section … Continue reading
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A Documentary On Anita Hill
Sheryl Day Stolberg of the New York Times discusses the new documentary “Anita” about Anita Hill, who became the reluctant central figure in the Clarence Thomas judicial hearings so many years ago. More here.
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Judgment Assignment and Gender On the Canadian Supreme Court
Peter James McCormick (Independent) is publishing Who Writes? Gender and Judgment Assignment on the Supreme Court of Canada in volume 51 of the Osgoode Hall Law School Law Review (2014). Here is the abstract. This article poses the question: now … Continue reading
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Where The Girls Aren’t
Ryan A. Malphurs, Courtroom Sciences Inc., Jaime Bochantin, DePaul University, L. Hailey Drescher, University of Kansas, and Melissa Wallace Framer, Arizona State University, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, have published Too Much Frivolity, Not Enough Femininity: A Study of Gender … Continue reading
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Converge! Re-Imagining the Movement to End Gender Violence
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS – SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL TO converge@law.miami.edu DUE DATE: Friday, October 18, 2013 (may be extended) For more conference information see http://www.law.miami.edu/academics/converge/ CONVERGE! Re-imagining the Movement to End Gender Violence, will bring together survivors, activists, and … Continue reading
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Feminist Law Prof Renee Newman Knake as “Legal Rebel”
Renee Newman Knake (Michigan State) is one of the “legal rebels featured in this month’s ABA Journal magazine. Here is an excerpt from the profile: Two years ago, professional responsibility law professor Renee Newman Knake knew she could no longer … Continue reading
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Examining the Crisis In Legal Education
Paula A. Monopoli, University of Maryland School of Law, has published Gender and the Crisis in Legal Education: Remaking the Academy in Our Image at 2012 Michigan State Law Review 1742. Here is the abstract. American legal education is in … Continue reading
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Bernette Johnson Becomes Louisiana’s First African American Supreme Court Chief Justice
Bernette Johnson has been sworn in as Louisiana’s first African American Supreme Court Chief Justice, succeeding Catherine (Kitty) Kimball. Chief Justice Johnson filed a federal lawsuit last year after Justice Jeffrey Victory claimed that he had more seniority than she … Continue reading
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Claudine V. Pease-Wingenter, “Halting the Profession’s Female Brain Drain While Increasing the Provision of Legal Services to the Poor: A Proposal to Revamp and Expand Emeritus Attorney Programs”
Claudine V. Pease-Wingenter (Phoenix) has posted to SSRN her article, “Halting the Profession’s Female Brain Drain While Increasing the Provision of Legal Services to the Poor: A Proposal to Revamp and Expand Emeritus Attorney Programs,” 37 Oklahoma City Law Review … Continue reading
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Major Steps Backwards for Women in the Law – I Don’t Have More Than a Lifetime to Wait – Do You?
Over the last six months there have been a number of disturbing studies and reports issued documenting that women are losing ground in our strides towards equality in the legal profession. The National Law Journal reported this past week about … Continue reading
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Symposium Round-Up: “Gender and the Legal Profession’s Pipeline to Power”
Here’s a round-up of my posts relating to the “Gender and the Legal Profession’s Pipeline to Power” Symposium held at Michigan State University College of Law. The posts are spread among the Legal Ethics Forum, The Faculty Lounge and this … Continue reading
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Three Student Reactions to “Gender and the Legal Profession’s Pipeline to Power”
As I left yesterday’s conference, I saw three law review students relaxing in the lobby. I asked them for a few reactions that I could post on the blog. They were willing to speak as long as I did not … Continue reading
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Involving Men in the Conversation
At the MSU Law Symposium on “Gender and the Legal Profession’s Pipeline to Power,” more than one speaker has commented on how “great” it is to see so many men in the audience. I’m eyeballing the room, and I’d say … Continue reading
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Epstein’s ‘Women in Law’ Goes Digital
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein’s classic text Women in Law is now available as an e-book for Kindle, Nook, and iPad, with a new introduction by Deborah Rhode. Here is an excerpt from the intro: When Cynthia Fuchs Epstein published her pathbreaking … Continue reading
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Women in the Media as in Society?
Despite the backlash following his “slut” and “prostitute” references about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh continues to denigrate women. More recently, he targeted Tracie McMillan, journalist and author of the book, The American Way of Eating, and stated, … Continue reading
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CFP: IMPRINTS Virtual Journal of the International Models Project on Women’s Rights
From the FLP mailbox, this CFP: The International Models Project on Women’s Rights (IMPOWR) is an initiative of the ABA Section of International Law and our goal is to establish a global, collaborative research database on women’s rights under law. … Continue reading
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More On the Harris Case
I recently received an email from Tim Casey of Legal Momentum regarding the Crystal Harris divorce case, about which I blogged recently. He enclosed a report prepared by the Certified Family Law Specialists Committee of the San Diego County Bar Association, … Continue reading
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The Polyandrous Neo-Office Wife
An article in a recent issue of the ABA Journal may help to shed some light on how women partners fare at larger law firms in terms of office support. The article describes how, in a survey of 142 legal secretaries at larger law … Continue reading
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Ms. JD Call for Writers in Residence
From the FLP mailbox, this message from Amanda Gonzalez, Ms. JD Executive Director and guest blogger here at Feminist Law Profs: Do you feel your creative spirit fading as you work tirelessly to perfect your legal writing skills? Do you … Continue reading
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CFP: “Gender and the Legal Profession’s Pipeline to Power,” April 12-13, 2012
From our colleagues at Michigan State, this CFP: The Michigan State University Law Review is holding a symposium, “Gender and the Legal Profession’s Pipeline to Power,” April 12-13, 2012. The symposium will serve as a catalyst to raise awareness about, … Continue reading
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What Does Marital Status Have to Do with Fitness to Practice Law?
Why do some state bars ask about an applicant’s marital status? Whether one is now or ever was married seems irrelevant to one’s character and fitness to practice law. I’m all for asking whether an applicant has complied with all court-ordered … Continue reading
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Guest Blogger Marie Owens: Are Criminal Justice and Law “Masculine” Professions?
As a member of the graduating class of South Texas College in 1957, Joe Kegans practiced law for twenty years before being appointed to the 230th Criminal District Court. One of the earliest women to earn a criminal justice degree … Continue reading
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Sisters On the Bench
Hannah Brenner, Michigan State University College of Law, is publishing Gender and the Judiciary in South Africa: A Review of the Documentary Film Courting Justice, in a forthcoming issue of the Yale Journal of International Affairs. Here is the abstract. … Continue reading
First Openly Gay Justice Confirmed for Hawaii Supreme Court
Yesterday, the Hawaii Senate unanimously confirmed Sabrina McKenna to the Hawaii Supreme Court. McKenna is the first openly gay person to be appointed to the court, and her appointment marks the first time that the five-member court will have two … Continue reading
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On the Issues Magazine Article “Judging Our Future” on Female Judges
In this month’s On the Issues magazine there is a quick article (here) about the presence/absence of women judges in the United States. “Judging our Future: Supreme Women Move Up” gives some of the stats: Since Elena Kagan took her … Continue reading
Power: Written all over your face(?)
Judgments of Power From College Yearbook Photos and Later Career Success by Nicholas O. Rule and Nalini Ambady in Social Psychological and Personality Science published online 4 October 2010 Abstract: ….the authors find that inferences of power from photos of … Continue reading
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Guest Blogger Amanda Gonzalez: Must We Wait for Women to be Represented in Classroom Materials?
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
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
Are the Media’s Representations of Supreme Court Nominees Gendered?
Renee Newman Knake and Hannah Brenner, both of Michigan State University College of Law, have published Rethinking Gender Equality in the Legal Profession: What the Media’s Depiction of Supreme Court Nominees Reveals About the Pipeline to Power as an MSU Legal … Continue reading
