Category Archives: Law Schools

CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ANNOUNCES NEW FELLOWSHIP WITH COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL

Posted on March 17, 2008 by Ann Bartow

The Center for Reproductive Rights today announces a new fellowship with Columbia Law School for graduates pursuing legal academic careers in reproductive health and human rights. The Center-Columbia Fellow will be affiliated with both Columbia Law School and the Center, … Continue reading →

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“Law School Progress, In a Nutshell”

Posted on March 11, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Not really a fan of the Nutshell horn books, (a sentiment I once inadvertently expressed to a colleague who had authored one, whoops), but this post comprehensively captures the law school experience with impressive brevity. And, see also. –Ann Bartow

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“Faculty Seminar on Active Shooter”

Posted on February 29, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Stripped only of logistical and personally identifying information, here is the text of an e-mail I received: Faculty, instructors, teaching assistants and others who teach at USC are invited to participate in this seminar on active shooter situations. Topics include: … Continue reading →

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New Law School Ratings Approach May Benefit Women

Posted on February 27, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Via Nancy Rapoport at Money Law and Brian Leiter, consider this article at Inside Higher Ed about a new approach to rating law schools that will be published by The Green Bag, and rather unsubtly called The Deadwood Report. (NB: … Continue reading →

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Tuition-Free Stanford Undergrads

Posted on February 24, 2008 by Bridget Crawford

Last week Stanford announced that it will join the ranks of colleges that will waive tuition for undergraduate students whose families earn less than $100,000 per year. Does any law school have the money (and the vision) to do the … Continue reading →

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Know a lost literary classic suitable for use in law school?

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Ann Bartow

Leave your suggestions here!

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“It’s More Than a Living”

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Ann Bartow

At Center of Gravitas, GayProf has a post up about why he likes teaching history. A recent reminder at another blog about how lucky we law profs are made me especially happy to read it. Below is a short excerpt … Continue reading →

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House Passes the “College Opportunity and Affordability Act”

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Bridget Crawford

Earlier this week, the House passed the “College Opportunity and Affordability Act” (a copy of the bill is here). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a press release (available here) in which she predicted the bill’s impact: Making college more affordable … Continue reading →

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Rate My Law Professor: Presidential Candidate Division

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Ann Bartow

The WSJ Blog is soliciting comments about Prof. Obama’s classroom performance here. Prof. Clinton has been out of the classroom since 1980 (the “career highlights” section notes her stint that U of Arkansas, Little Rock) so her teaching evals are … Continue reading →

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Violence Against Law Profs

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Ann Bartow

SSRN’s LSN Legal Educator e-mail notice from today included an abstract for a new article by Carol Parker of U. of Tennessee-Knoxville College of Law, nursing professor Sandra Thomas (also of UTK), and Dr. Helen Smith of violentkids.com. This article … Continue reading →

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Judge Who Helped Found the Charleston School of Law and Serves on its Board of Advisors (Even Though It Is For Profit!) Denied New Term Due To Sexist and Racist Remarks …

Posted on January 19, 2008 by Ann Bartow

… according to this account in The State. Below is an excerpt: A U.S. magistrate judge accused of making disparaging sexist and ethnic remarks was not reappointed Friday by the state’s U.S. District judges, according to sources familiar with the … Continue reading →

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Leading vs. Managing

Posted on December 25, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

Earlier this month, I read an opinion column in the Chronicle of Higher Education.   The author, a fundraiser at a small college, articulated the difference between leadership and management: While some elements of good leadership and good management overlap, … Continue reading →

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Marina Angel, “Women Lawyers of All Colors Steered to Contingent Positions in Law Schools and Law Firms”

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Abstract: This article examines the drastic organizational changes that have taken place in law firms and law schools in the last thirty years and how they have seriously disadvantaged women. Women have been almost 50% of law school graduating classes … Continue reading →

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Hamline Is Looking For A New Dean

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Ann Bartow

From the FLP mailbox: Hamline University’s School of Law is at a propitious moment in its 35-year history. The next Dean will be asked to build on the law school’s qualitative strengths and to provide comprehensive leadership that will result … Continue reading →

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Query: Which Is More Excruciating, Dental Work The Involves Drilling Or A Long, Contentious Faculty Meeting?

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Answer: It depends on what kind of painkillers the dentist is offering.

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What To Make Of This?

Posted on December 4, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Every once in a while I visit Overheard In Law School. So far, to my great relief, I haven’t read anything familiar there, meaning as far as I can tell, none of the embarrasing comments were mine. But there’s always … Continue reading →

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“The Rocky Road To The Ivory Tower”

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Ann Farmer provides an overview of the law school hiring trend toward disproportionately steering women to nontenure-track positions here. Via Ms.JD.

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Cripes Those Folks At The Yale Information Society Project Are Clueless, Or Something.

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Via Concurring Opinions we learn that the Yale Information Society Project is hosting a Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace. Already notable for excluding women from its conferences, despite the fact that women are the majority of Internet users, the … Continue reading →

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“Tips to avoid lawsuits from holiday office parties”

Posted on November 26, 2007 by Ann Bartow

From The Boston Globe: Holiday office parties can be a potential minefield for lawsuits so the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP is offering some helpful hints to employers who want to celebrate the season without ending up in litigation. … Continue reading →

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How Not To Give A Pre-Exam Pep Talk

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Advice from a 1L here. I remember receiving a pretty lousy pep talk as a 1L from a law prof who told a story about thinking she flunked an exam, freaking out and crying for days, but actually getting an … Continue reading →

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Hammer v. University of Michigan’s School of Law

Posted on November 16, 2007 by Ann Bartow

This blog asserts: In Hammer v. University of Michigan, Peter Hammer charges the University of Michigan Law School with anti-gay discrimination. Professor Hammer is the first openly gay professor to be considered for tenure at the University of Michigan Law … Continue reading →

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South Carolina Bar Examination Weirdness

Posted on November 10, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Five days after releasing the results of last July’s Bar Exam results, the South Carolina Judicial Department decided that 20 additional bar takers should pass. This was the first time that graduates of the new Charleston School of Law could … Continue reading →

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New and Good Things Happening at Ms. JD

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

From the FLP mailbox: Ms. JD wants you to help us promote women in the legal profession! Male or female, 1L or 3L, we hope that you’ll turn to Ms. JD to find and ask questions on interviewing, taking the … Continue reading →

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The Market for Law Professors

Posted on October 29, 2007 by Ann Bartow

From the FLP mailbox (see also): The Market for Law Professors is an empirical study of the legal academic labor market.   Professors Tracey George (Vanderbilt University) and Albert Yoon (Northwestern University) are the principal investigators.   George and Yoon … Continue reading →

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O Canada!

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Ann Bartow

So I’m in Canada, wearing a jacket my pocket debris suggests I haven’t warn in four years, since the last time I was here. It was 85 degrees Fahrenheit when I left South Carolina, so I packed the coat in … Continue reading →

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Don’t You Have Something More Important To Do?

Posted on October 24, 2007 by Ann Bartow

I just thought I’d get that tired derailment query out there, since it is inevitably raised when you ask a question that makes someone uncomfortable. No, for the next three or four minutes, I don’t. Regarding the expression “law porn,” … Continue reading →

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Guess I’m not going to get a serious answer…

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Dan Solove posted about “A Law Porn Blog” here at Concurring Opinions. I raised this query: “I’m curious, why is the analogy/metaphor law PORN?” And I’d really like to know why “porn” is the descriptor of choice for fancy brochures … Continue reading →

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“Intellectual Subway 101″

Posted on October 23, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Feminist and litigator Nicole L. Black has a post at Sui Generis discussing the strange news about a professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, and his decision to show a video clip from a film called”Really, Really … Continue reading →

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Advice for Feminist 1Ls

Posted on October 22, 2007 by David S. Cohen

Given my background and scholarly interests (and maybe my blogging here!), I’ve been asked by a couple of feminist 1Ls how to get through the first year of law school. So, I thought I’d compile a list of my advice. … Continue reading →

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Advice For Erwin Chemerinsky

Posted on September 26, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Over at TaxProf Blog, Paul Caron is collecting blog post recommendations for the founding Dean of U.C. Irvine’s new law school. I contributed something here. Because I was given a strict 250 word limit, I didn’t mention bathroom parity but … Continue reading →

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“Why Women Leave Academic Medicine”

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Here’s a link to the Inside Higher Ed article with this title. There are some obvious parallels here between academic medicine and academic law. –Tracy McGaugh

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Of The “Most Cited Scholars in Intellectual Property/Cyberlaw Since 2000,” Half Are Women!

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Woohoo, I love my scholarly subject area! Here’s the list, as computed by Brian Leiter: 1. Mark Lemley (Stanford University): 2110 citations, age 41. 2. Robert Merges (University of California, Berkeley): 1280 citations, age 48. 3. Pamela Samuelson (University of … Continue reading →

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Say It Ain’t So, UC Davis

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

        I received in today’s mail UC Davis School of Law’s glossy brochure announcing the school’s “New Faculty Members & Endowed Chairs and Professorships.” The Dean’s Message proudly proclaims, [T]he School now has six endowed Chairs and … Continue reading →

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Forgotten For Even A Second How Much Men Hate Us?

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Me neither, but if you are feeling masochistic for some reason, read the comments thread here.

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That U.C. Irvine Law School

Posted on September 15, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Over at MoneyLaw (and also at her own blog) Belle Lettre provides background and a link round up of the Chemerinsky debacle, and Brain Leiter’s most recent post on the subject adds even more details. Yesterday Chemerinsky had an Op-Ed … Continue reading →

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Law Prof Opportunity!

Posted on September 14, 2007 by Ann Bartow

UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, LAS VEGAS:WILLIAM S. BOYD SCHOOL OF LAW invites applications for at least one tenure-track Associate Professor or tenured Full Professor of Law position, with appointment to begin with the 2008-2009 academic year. We have substantial flexibility in … Continue reading →

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Miami is looking for visitors, and it’s a very cool law school in pleasingly warm climate!

Posted on September 3, 2007 by Ann Bartow

The University of Miami School of Law is looking for several visitors for the 2008-09 school year. We are particularly interested in commercial law, civil procedure, family law, and T&E. If coming to Miami for a year of work and … Continue reading →

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Depression on Campus: Who Has a Right to Know?

Posted on September 1, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

From an article in the LA Times entitled “Crisis on Campus,” this description of the tension between students’ privacy rights and what the author calls “families’ need to know”: [A suicidal student]  was referred to a school psychiatrist who agreed … Continue reading →

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Props and News!

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Ann Bartow

I just saw the [below] post in which FeministLawProf David Cohen gave props to me and Christine Hurt for giving props to him in our Interactive Citation Workbook and Workstation exercise. I specifically chose David’s post as a citation example … Continue reading →

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Does Your Law School Have A Lactation Room?

Posted on August 14, 2007 by Ann Bartow

American University’s Washington College of Law does. The Pence Law Library created a new service for its female students/mothers. One of its new study rooms has been designated as the “Lactation Room”. Following a trend of University Libraries across the … Continue reading →

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POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: Director, Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) and Associate or Full Professor at the U of Oregon

Posted on August 14, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Position: Director for the Center for the Study of Women in Society and tenured associate or full professor. Three-year renewable appointment as CSWS Director beginning as early as September 2008. The Director’s academic appointment will be .5 FTE in CSWS … Continue reading →

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Law Schools Need To Stop Lying!

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Seriously, lying to improve Useless News & World Distort rankings is despicable, and yet there is good evidence that it is happening here. –Ann Bartow

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Eric Muller On Why The Federalist Society Is Indeed “Particularly Unusual” On Matters Of Race And Gender Diversity

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Ann Bartow

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

Posted on July 10, 2007 by Ann Bartow

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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The Percentage of Female Law Students Declines

Posted on July 8, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

According to these statistics from the American Bar Association, the percentage of female J.D. candidates declined from 47.5% in 2005-2006 to 46.90% in 2006-2007.   The drop is attributable to a decline in 1L female enrollment (46.90% in 2005-2006 vs. … Continue reading →

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ABA Proposal Threatens Diversity In Legal Education

Posted on July 3, 2007 by Ann Bartow

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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Maybe They Should Just Change The Name To Male Law School?

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Ann Bartow

So last year’s list of YLS visitoring law profs was 90% male. According to Leiter, this is the 2007-08 roster: Yale Law School William LaPiana (New York Law Sch.) Mitchel Lasser (Cornell University) Thomas Merrill (Columbia University) Theodore Ruger (University … 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.”

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Ann Bartow

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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Janet Conney v. The Regents of the University of California, et al.

Posted on May 29, 2007 by Ann Bartow

The AAUW’s summary is here, below is an excerpt: … In 1998, Conney received a geriatric psychiatry fellowship position at UCLA where she researched, published, and was mentored by senior colleagues. The department director offered her a promotion to assistant … Continue reading →

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Jason P. Nance and Dylan J. Steinberg, “The Law Review Article Selection Process: Results from a National Study”

Posted on May 27, 2007 by Ann Bartow

The abstract: The student-edited law review has been a much criticized institution. Many commentators have expressed their belief that students are unqualified to determine which articles should be published in which journals, but these discussions have been largely based on … Continue reading →

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