Category Archives: Academia

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Dear Friends, You may be interested in these great feminist panels to be held at the upcoming Law & Society meeting (note the work of the new Feminist CRN!)  Here are the details: Violence Against Women  panels Saturday, June 4, 10:15-12:00 Author-Meets-Reader – Restorative … Continue reading →

Daniel Solove is garnering a lot of positive attention for an essay he published in the Chronicle of Higher Education to promote his new book. It was republished in part here and here and no doubt other places as well.  The thesis of … Continue reading →

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Dear Colleagues, There are two recent video postings that you may find of interest – 1) Holly Maguigan and Joshua Dressler’s “debate” (more like a discussion) of self defense issues when battered women are defendants (Fordham.) Go to http://vimeo.com/22909809. It’s a … Continue reading →

Metro Weekly has the story, but this is outrageous.  Paul Clement, partner at King & Spalding, signed the firm up to represent the House of Representatives in defending DOMA, the agreement between the firm and the government contains a provision … Continue reading →

There are no female authors among the 8 writers published in Issue 52:4 (March 2011) of the William and Mary Law Review. C’mon, editors, you can do better. -Bridget Crawford

Many readers of this blog will appreciate a recent essay in the Fordham Law Review, “Consider the Source: When the Harasser is the Boss,” available on SSRN.  The essay is coauthored by my William & Mary colleague Susan Grover and … Continue reading →

From Laura Wolford, Tulane University The Newcomb College Center for Research on Women (NCCROW) is searching for a visiting women’s historian for the 2011-2012 academic year. We are looking for a 20th century American historian with a preference for someone … Continue reading →

I’m teaching Race and the Law for the first time this semester. Last week we spent some time with Ricci v. DeStefano (the New Haven firefighters’ case) as a way of discussing disparate treatment and disparate impact doctrine. They had … Continue reading →

In a sharp shift, the President has ordered the Justice Department to stop defending section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (which is the provision that says that same-sex marriages will not be recognized under federal law). President … Continue reading →

My colleague Prof. Amy Ronner has a new and intriguing article on adoption by gay parents, “When Courts Let Insane Delusions Pass the Rational Basis Test: The Newest Challenge to Florida’s Exclusion of Homosexuals from Adoption.” It’s available on SSRN:  … Continue reading →

The New York Times has a nice idea for a Valentine’s Day gift that the Obama administration can give to the LGBT community–ceasing to defend the indefensible Defense of Marriage Act.

Those of us running the law review gauntlet in the next few weeks might be interested in Nancy Levit’s and Allen Roston’s updated chart (here) about law journal submissions, expedites and rankings from different sources for the spring 2011 submission … Continue reading →

The Governor of Illinois signed that state’s civil union legislation into law yesterday. The law takes effect June 1. The copy of the legislation that I was able to find (and locating one was no easy task on the Illinois … Continue reading →

Georgetown University Law Center Associate Law Librarian Roger Skalbeck and Yale Law School Librarian for Emerging Technologies Jason Eiseman have published a study entitled  “Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2010.” Here are a couple of excerpts: On the … Continue reading →

…for LGBT state employees to find out how (in)secure their jobs are for the next four years. Most states still do not have nondiscrimination legislation in place that protects their LGBT citizens from being fired because of their sexual orientation … Continue reading →

The New York Times web site today includes an article highlighting some of the costs associated with same-sex couples’ recent victory in their fight for marriage equality under the federal tax laws. The article is interesting but misses the larger context—because … Continue reading →

Don’t get caught in a bad hotel!!!

Information here! Many law profs are respecting the boycott and will not enter the Hilton during the AALS. I will be one of them. As the linked website notes: The cleaners, cooks, dish washers, and kitchen, door, bar, bell hop, … Continue reading →

From Adam Candeub: Hot Topics Panel at the AALS E-Marriage:  Emerging Trends Meet the Law Mae Kuykendall          (MSU College of Law)                 Moderator Adam Candeub          (MSU College of Law)                 Presentation of the E-Marriage Concept Larry Ribstein            (Illinois College of Law)               Critical … Continue reading →