Category Archives: Academia

This is the third in a series of four blog posts that discuss discrimination and harassment in cyberspace, its perpetrators, and its consequences.  The first post, “Identity and Ideas,” is available here.  The second post, “Anonymity and Abuse,” is available … Continue reading →

Columbia Law School’s Center for Gender & Sexuality Law seeks a Project Director for its new Public Rights/Private Conscience Project.  The Director would lead the Project’s research and advocacy on the multiple contexts in which assertions of conscience and/or religious … Continue reading →

The Center for Gender and Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School invites applications for a sabbatical visitor for the 2014-2015 academic year to undertake research, writing and collaboration with Center faculty and students in ways that span traditional academic disciplines. … Continue reading →

[This is the longer version of a post originally titled “Swedish Exposure.” It was originally edited down and posted at another site but ran into sociotechnical difficulties: too many words were deemed “pornographic.”  I think it was the u-word and the … Continue reading →

CALL FOR PAPERS: “APPLIED FEMINISM AND HEALTH” The University of Baltimore School of Law’s Center on Applied Feminism seeks submissions for its Seventh Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference. This year’s theme is “Applied Feminism and Health.” The conference will be … Continue reading →

What’s the first thing that pops into your head when you read the phrase Mail Order Bride? A misogynistic man purchasing a docile foreign woman whom he can dominate? A marriage that likely will end in domestic violence? The Nicole … Continue reading →

  Protestors rally for marriage equality at the Supreme Court on the day DOMA was ruled unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) Lesbian and gay people and their families have much to celebrate in the Supreme Court’s rulings in the DOMA and … Continue reading →

From colleagues at Brandeis: HBI Summer Internship Program Seeks Graduate Student Intern for Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law – June 10 – August 2, 2013 The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University has an opening for a graduate … Continue reading →

The sixth annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference will be hosted by the University of Baltimore School of Law on Thursday and Friday, March 7-8, at the school. Featuring a series of workshops and a keynote address, this year’s conference will … Continue reading →

Call for contributions to Controversies in Tax Law: A Matter of Perspective (Anthony C. Infanti, editor): The Series The Centre for American Legal Studies at Birmingham City University School of Law in Birmingham, England, has established a “Controversies in …” … Continue reading →

Please join us for this symposium at Pace Law School – a series of conversations about the wave of corporate board quotas.  Our discussions will take place at the intersection of feminist theory, corporate governance and democratic legitimacy, informed by … Continue reading →

What new politics and ethical imperatives emerge when the rights of lesbian and gay people begin to gain traction, and when the state becomes a partner in defending those newly-won rights?  In Dating the State: The Moral Hazards of Winning … Continue reading →

The Columbia Law School Center for Gender & Sexuality Law Presents: A Symposium Honoring the Contributions of Patricia Williams to the Scholarship and Practice of Gender and Sexuality Law Friday, March 1st, 2013, 9 am – 7 pm Jerome Greene … Continue reading →

The guy who has been the voice and puppeteer for Elmo, Kevin Clash, resigned yesterday from Sesame Workshop on account of recent accusations that he had sex with under age boys.  Maybe he did it, maybe he didn’t – we … Continue reading →

From the FLP mailbox: Call for Symposium Papers Gender Matters: Women, Social Policy and the 2012 Election  April 2, 2013 at American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC The American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law … Continue reading →

As many now know, CIA Director and retired four-star Army General David Petraeus has resigned his post at the CIA on account of newly emerging information that he had what the media calls an “extra-marital” affair with Paula Broadwell, who … Continue reading →