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Category Archives: Legal Profession
Infanti on Deconstructing the Duty to the Tax System
Feminist Law Prof Anthony C. Infanti (Pittsburgh) has posted to ssrn his article “Deconstructing the Duty to the Tax System: Unfettering Zealous Advocacy on Behalf of Lesbian and Gay Taxpayers.” Here is the abstract: In this article, I consider … Continue reading
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Hair, Race, Politics, Law
Good grief! Via Feministing.
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“Differential Pricing at Law Firms & Gender”
Feminist law prof Christine Hurt has an interesting and important post up on this topic at The Conglomerate. Below is a short excerpt: … I’ve known a number of female associates who try to pick family-friendly departments in law firms … Continue reading
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“Family-Leave Values”
Last Sunday’s NYT had this article about family leave. Here are a couple of excerpts: … Until recently, lawsuits claiming workplace discrimination because of family care-giving obligations were rare : in part because, however harsh it may seem to lose … Continue reading
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Christine Lagarde: First Female Finance and Economy Minister of a G7 Country
The Financial Times reports: Christine Lagarde has become the first female finance and economy minister of a G7 country following a ministerial reshuffle on Tuesday by Nicolas Sarkozy, French president. Ms Lagarde, 51, a former agriculture and trade minister who … Continue reading
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Fear And Loathing In the Judicial Clerkship Hiring Process: Avery, Jolls, Posner and Roth, “The New Market for Federal Juicial Law Clerks”
Article with survey data about misbehaving judges here, with an overview of same at the WSJ Law Blog. Here is the abstract: In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of the … Continue reading
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Eric Muller On Why The Federalist Society Is Indeed “Particularly Unusual” On Matters Of Race And Gender Diversity
Here. Below is an excerpt: What distinguishes the Federalist Society, I suggest, is that it, alone among legal scholars’ groups, is not uncomfortable with the patterns of gender disparity that Eugene has identified, and is therefore not interested in working … Continue reading
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More On Federalist Society Gender Imbalances
Last year’s Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention featured few women. Out of 110 people listed on the program, looks like only 10 women participated, and 3 of them were “moderators” rather than speakers. One of the all-male panels convened around … Continue reading
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Eugene Volokh Defends Female-Free Federalist Society Events
Here. No wonder he has to pose all his questions about menstruation on his blog. –Ann Bartow Update: A telling exchange culled from the comments: David Bernstein wrote: Unlike most Fed Society events, the panels at the Bork event were … Continue reading
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Failed Massachusetts bar applicant sues bar examiners over test question on gay marriage
From the National Law Journal: A Massachusetts bar examination applicant who claims he failed the test because he didn’t answer a question about homosexual marriage and parenting is suing the test administration agency, the state Supreme Judicial Court and four … Continue reading
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Couldn’t The Federalist Society Find A Woman Who Would Say Nice Things About Robert H. Bork?
I guess not! As Eric Muller notes, though, there might have been some female servers at the luncheon. –Ann Bartow Update: Eric Muller notices yet another all male Federalist Society event. Update 2: Mary Dudziak notes: “It looks as if … Continue reading
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File Your Tax Returns, Duh
This from the New York Law Journal: Four attorneys were among seven professionals who have pleaded guilty to failing to file state income tax returns in the latest round of prosecutions resulting from the matching of state tax records against … Continue reading
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ABA Proposal Threatens Diversity In Legal Education
The ABA has put out a story on the “ABA Newsroom” section of its web site titled “ABA Legal Education Section Publishes Proposed Interpretation of Bar Passage Standard for Approval of Law Schools.” In the 5th paragraph, Council of Legal … Continue reading
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Two Posts Elsewhere To Read Congruently
“Why ‘Hey Baby!’ Is A Big Deal” by Ann Friedman at Feministing, and “Precis of the Day: Vicki Schultz, The Sanitized Workplace” by Belle Lettre at Law and Letters.
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“A Nebraska judge bans the word rape from his courtroom.”
Read Dahlia Lithwick’s article, “Gag Order” at Slate for the details. Twisty has some related commentary at IBTP. And, see also.
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Interview With Jill Morrison of the National Women’s Law Center
Read it here, at the Center for New Words.
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Loving v. Virginia Was Decided 40 Years Ago Today
More at IntLawGrrls.
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Ouch.
Check out the footnote in this order (at the bottom of the page). And if you want to see who those twelve law professors are, click here.
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Bush’s Big Irony . . .
As posted here on Feminist Law Profs, Mary Cheney and her partner Heather Poe welcomed their new son Samuel David into the world on May 23. The White House promptly issued a photo of Grandparents Vice-President Dick and Lynne Cheney … Continue reading
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Male Attorney More Effective As Female Online
Over at Madisonian Theory, Fred Yen notes: Today’s law.com has a interesting story about law firms conducting investigations to enforce clients’ IP rights on the Internet. It describes how a Covington and Burling lawyer impersonated a”flirtatious 27 year old female … Continue reading
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Blogging Your Court Case Is A Very Bad Idea!
Froomkin nails this, so let me free ride off his trenchant analysis: The mind boggles. Blogger unmasked, court case upended: As Ivy League-educated pediatrician Robert P. Lindeman sat on the stand in Suffolk Superior Court this month, defending himself in … Continue reading
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Score One For Difference Feminism As A Study Of Immigration Courts Finds: “One of the most significant factors determining whether a judge would be likely to approve asylum petitions was sex, the study found. Female immigration judges grant asylum at a 44 percent higher rate than their male colleagues.”
The study, by law profs Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Philip Schrag and Andrew Schoenholtz is accessible here. Below is the abstract: This study analyzes databases of merits decisions from all four levels of the asylum adjudication process: 133,000 decisions by 884 asylum … Continue reading
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Survey re: Women Lawyers Working Together
The ABA Journal and UC Hastings’ Center for WorkLife Law recently posted an online survey, Women Lawyers Working Together, to find out how women attorneys treat each other. Take the survey!
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Mother’s day complaint claims United States courts violate children’s and mothers’ human rights.
From the FLP mailbox: a StopFamilyViolence.org PRESS RELEASE On May 11, just before Mother’s Day weekend, ten mothers, one victimized child, now an adult, and leading national and state organizations filed a complaint against the United States with the Inter … Continue reading
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Womenstake.org, the New Blog of the National Women’s Law Center
Check out Womenstake.org here! The NWLC homepage is here. You can read more about its history of outstanding legal accomplishments here.
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“Whistle-Blower on Student Aid Is Vindicated”
A NYT article reports in pertinent part: When Jon Oberg, a Department of Education researcher, warned in 2003 that student lending companies were improperly collecting hundreds of millions in federal subsidies and suggested how to correct the problem, his supervisor … Continue reading
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An Important Copyright Case About Photos of Naked Women, As Discussed By Men
From the Tech Law Forum: Counsel for Perfect 10 v. Google Square Off On February 2, 2007, Justin Hughes, Director of the Cardozo Law School’s intellectual property program, moderated a panel discussion at Santa Clara University. The talk focused on … Continue reading
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“Many female lawyers dropping off path to partnership”
From The Boston Globe: … Female lawyers continue to face intractable challenges in their attempts to become partners, causing them to abandon law firm careers — and the legal profession entirely — at a dramatically higher rate than men, according … Continue reading
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“Does a Judge’s Party of Appointment or Gender Matter to Case Outcomes? An Empirical Study of the Court of Appeal for Ontario (Canada)”
Authors Moin A. Yahya and James Stribopoulos conclude that it does. Here is the abstract of their article: A recent study by Cass Sunstein identified ideological differences in the votes cast by judges on the United States Court of Appeals … Continue reading
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“The Rules of the Game”
Over at The Conglomerate, Feminist Law Prof Christine Hurt has an interesting post up called “The Rules of the Game,” which she wrote to describe advice offered at a symposium, by women for women, about how to succeed at law … Continue reading
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Well, Those “ReputationDefender” Guys Certainly Are Well Connected, Anyway
I’ve already noted that for profit start up “ReputationDefender” management managed to get itself featured in stories in the Washington Post (here and here), and in basically an unpaid (I assume) commercial on NPR. The ReputationDefender homepage touts this media … Continue reading
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THERE’S NO CRYING IN LAW SCHOOL!
The inquiry recently posted by Nate Oman at Concurring Opinions and re-posted at Feminist Law Profs about part-time employment possibilities for lawyers made me think of the scene in A League of Their Own in which the manager of the … Continue reading
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Part Time Lawyering?
At Concurring Opinions Nate Oman writes: Recently one of my students asked me a question that I am embarrassed to say I don’t know the answer to. Maybe there isn’t one. She explained to me that she would like to … Continue reading
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Ms. JD Conference
I spent last Saturday at the Yale Law School attending Legally Female, the first conference sponsored by Ms. JD. It was a terrific experience in many ways, as one would expect from a gathering of feminist law students. I’ll write … Continue reading
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“The Horrifying Honaker Nomination”
Guest (re)post by Sharon Breitweiser, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Wyoming: Talk about a blast from the past… President Bush is at it again, this time in my own backyard. I swear, nothing this administration does surprises me anymore, yet … Continue reading
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The Number of Women Authors Published In The March 2007 Edition Of The Yale Law Journal?
Zero! And how many women authors were published in the previous (January 2007) issue? Zero again!
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Elizabeth M. Schneider, “The Dangers of Summary Judgment: Gender and Federal Civil Litigation”
The abstract: This Article examines the problematic application of summary judgment in federal courts through a study of gender cases. Identifying a new dimension of the interrelationship between procedure and gender, I examine the ways in which summary judgment impacts … Continue reading
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Something About The Timing Gives Me Pause
Over at Concurring Opinions, David Hoffman began a post about the WaPo article on Xoxohth’s “law school hotties” contest with these words: Reputation Defender is a new start-up that seeks to commodify internet self-help. According to yesterday’s WashingtonPost article on … Continue reading
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1000 Books For Peace Project
Adapted from an e-mail by Prof. Jeremy Levitt: The purpose of this post is to inform you about a special project that the Program for Human Rights and Global Justice at Florida International University is undertaking to support the reconstruction … Continue reading
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Gender Bias In Supreme Court Outcomes?
Interesting but alarming new research: “Have We Come a Long Way Baby: Female Attorneys Before the United States Supreme Court” by John Szmer, (UNC-Charlotte), Tammy Sarver (Benedictine) and Erin Kaheny (UW-Milwaukee): Abstract: Numerous statistics indicate the presence of gender bias … Continue reading
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If You Blog and Practice Law In New York
I had dinner with a friend who is under the impression that lawyers who are members of the NY Bar must now blog with extreme care, due to these new rules. Public Citizen’s objections are as follows: New rules governing … Continue reading
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The Anonymous Lawyer On Juggling Home and Work
I found this amusing but I admit I have a fairly oddball sense of humor (or, being a feminist, arguably no sense of humor at all): The Wall Street Journal has a new blog about juggling home and work. That’s … Continue reading
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Ambriz v. Kelegian: In Which Justice Might Finally Be Coming To a Rape Victim
Here is an excerpt from the facts recitation in a successful appeal from SJ: At the time of Ambriz’s rape, three of the four entrances to Ambriz’s building did not close and lock properly because the mechanisms on the entrance … Continue reading
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Saying “Sexism” in Polite Company
FeministLawProf Deborah Rhode writes that “Subtle Sexism Exists” in a recent edition of the National Law Journal. Rhode argues that discrimination against women seems to have declined, but still exists in many forms: There is . . . a more … Continue reading
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Two Discrimination Suits Filed Against NYC Law Firms
In Charney v. Sullivan and Cromwell LLP, Aaron Charney alleges discrimination based on sexual orientation. Among other things, the Complaint alleges that a partner tossed a document at Charney’s feet and said, “Bend over and pick it up : I’m … Continue reading
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UK Judges Try to Block Rape Trial Reforms
The British newspaper The Guardian reports: Government plans for changes in the law to boost rape conviction rates are in disarray after the judges who would have to put them into practice told ministers they oppose them. The Council of … Continue reading
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Internet Shaming
The WSJ reported: Last month, Eva Burgess was eating breakfast at the Rose Cafe in Venice, Calif., when she remembered she needed to make an appointment with her eye doctor. So the New York theater director got on her cellphone … Continue reading
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More on Domestic Violence Lawyers and Biden’s Proposal
Yesterday, I wrote about Senator Biden’s proposed bill to have 1) a network of legal volunteers for domestic violence cases and 2) more loan forgiveness for lawyers who do that work as a regular part of their job so that … Continue reading
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Biden’s Plan to Fight Domestic Violence
Women’s eNews reports that Senator and Presidential-hopeful Joseph Biden plans to introduce bills in the spring to continue his work against domestic violence. (Biden was the author of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994.) Two key parts of his … Continue reading
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New On-Line Forum on Gender & Legal Education/Profession
We received this e-mail notice of a new on-line community concerned with gender issues in legal education and the legal profession: This past year, a group of women from law schools across the country met to discuss gender issues both … Continue reading
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