Category Archives: Law Schools

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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“Harvard Isn’t Enough”

Posted on May 18, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Caryn McTighe Musil reports in Ms. Magazine: … [B]etween 1986 and 2006, the percentage of women [University] presidents has risen from 10 percent to 23 percent. Yet women continue to advance more slowly up faculty ranks and earn less salary … Continue reading →

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About Tenure

Posted on May 14, 2007 by Ann Bartow

At Balkinization, Brian Tamanaha posted “Straight Talk About Tenure” in which he criticizes the tenure system for giving powerful protection to lazy, under performing law professors. Every faculty has a few bad apples, but I think Tamanaha might underestimate the … Continue reading →

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The JD Project

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Feminist Law Prof Vernellia Randall writes: The JD Project’s mission is to increase the racial diversity of the legal profession with specific attention on helping minority students excel in law school and pass the bar. I am writing both to … Continue reading →

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An Important Copyright Case About Photos of Naked Women, As Discussed By Men

Posted on May 4, 2007 by Ann Bartow

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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AALS Workshop on Family Law: Bridging the Gap Between Social Science and Law

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Family law scholars have increasingly turned to the empirical sciences in their teaching and scholarship to help define problems worthy of exploration, provide the data necessary to develop and test hypotheses, and deepen their understanding of the interaction between law, … Continue reading →

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Reports of Strife At Ave Maria School of Law

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Mirror of Justice has an account. Below is an excerpt: “… As evidenced by a number of documents available on the internet [link], as well as by some rather angry, though sometimes humorous blogs [link], and by the experience and … Continue reading →

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Boalt Dean Recommends Expulsion For Law Student Who Posted Threat Re: U.C. Hastings?

Posted on April 27, 2007 by Ann Bartow

I can’t find an authenticatable source for this, just several blog entries, such as this one and this one. The first link seems to be to a real blog, at least. The second linked blog may be a piece of … Continue reading →

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Anonymous Threat on “AutoAdmit” re: U.C. Hastings Is Dispatched By Law Enforcement

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Brian Leiter has an account here.

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Tennessee Seeks Visiting Faculty for Spring 2008

Posted on April 11, 2007 by Ann Bartow

The University of Tennessee College of Law seeks visitor(s) for Spring 2008. Tennessee needs visitors to teach tax, wills & trusts, and family law in the Spring 2008 semester. For more information, or to apply, contact Doug Blaze, Art Stolnitz … Continue reading →

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THERE’S NO CRYING IN LAW SCHOOL!

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Ann Bartow

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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Something About The Timing Gives Me Pause

Posted on March 8, 2007 by Ann Bartow

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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Trial Advocacy Competition Rape Problem

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Ann Bartow

An anonymous e-mailer expressed deep concern about the fact pattern chosen by the Texas Young Lawyers Association to be the basis of the final rounds of its National Trial Advocacy Competition. An edited version of the email text is as … Continue reading →

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Oh, Great

Posted on February 16, 2007 by Ann Bartow

David Lat is now running a “Law Librarian Legal Hotties” contest at Above the Law. How do I know this? The Law Librarian Blog. Oh yuck. Or rhyming words to that effect. Will this generate the same tasteful commentaries (see … Continue reading →

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Legal Scrutiny For University Ties to Loan Lenders

Posted on February 3, 2007 by Ann Bartow

According to this NYT article, there is: … a sharpening focus by government officials on the often undisclosed relationships between loan companies and colleges and universities, particularly as tuition has soared and private student loans have become a lucrative, fast-growing … Continue reading →

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More Disinformation About Law Faculty Hiring

Posted on January 26, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Over at MoneyLaw Tom Bell is asserting that “at least in terms of hiring, women and minorities enjoy significant advantages.” He bases this claim on data that says nothing about the qualifications of the underlying pool of applicants, and completely … Continue reading →

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And the Number of Female Authors Published In the January 2007 Edition of the Yale Law Journal Appears To Be…

Posted on January 21, 2007 by Ann Bartow

Zero.

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Brian Leiter Poses The Query: “How Far Will Law Schools Go to Win the Rankings Race?”

Posted on January 21, 2007 by Ann Bartow

And answers: Why, as far as it takes, of course, at least as long as manipulation and deceit yield results. Rankings metrics could value (and therefore incentivize) things like diversity in student bodies, instead of rewarding rich law schools for … Continue reading →

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New On-Line Forum on Gender & Legal Education/Profession

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Bridget Crawford

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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Her Husband Got Her the Job, Isn’t He Awesome?

Posted on November 17, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Many extremely brilliant law professors are romantically paired with other law professors; on a personal level, some of my favorite people in legal education are part of “two law prof” couples; and there is an overlap between these categories that … Continue reading →

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Geoffrey Stone on “Gay Marriage in New Jersey”

Posted on October 31, 2006 by Ann Bartow

At the U of Chicago Law School’s Faculty Blog. Here is an excerpt: We have come a long way. I remember the first time a student wrote on a classroom blackboard “Come to the First Meeting of Gay Law Students … Continue reading →

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“How To Land A Rich Man” Reconfigured As Advice For The Fundraising Law Dean

Posted on October 22, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Last summer the wretched Forbes (capitalist “tool“) published a “Special Report” called How To Land A Rich Man. The original text is unaltered and indented. Interspersed in italics are comments that are intended to adapt the advice for law school … Continue reading →

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Check Out The Cocky Law Blawg!

Posted on October 3, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The Cocky Law Blawg features “Legal Research Tips & Musings from the Coleman Karesh Law Library,” and is based at the University of South Carolina School of Law, so you just know it’s cool!

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“Poison Ivy”

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The Economist has published a review of Daniel Golden’s book,”The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges:and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates.”The Economist review has as its subtitle: “Not so much palaces of … Continue reading →

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It’s a pissing match, so having a penis is required.

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The June 2006 edition of the Yale Law Journal is available here, and as Eric Muller notes, it boasts a Colloquium with “head-turningly nasty exchanges between Yale lawprof Jed Rubenfeld and Minnesota lawprof Michael Stokes Paulsen.” It also contains three … Continue reading →

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Cat Blogging One’s Way To Tenure and Promotion?

Posted on July 30, 2006 by Ann Bartow

I’m not a regular Instapundit reader, but I’ve been to that site enough to have a general sense of the typical posts, and I found this one rather flabbergasting: SOME THOUGHTS ON ACADEMIC BLOGGING from me and from some other … Continue reading →

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AALS Annual Meeting Program Notice: THE CHANGED ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF LAW SCHOOLS AND ITS IMPACT ON FACULTY

Posted on July 25, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The topic is of crucial importance to law profs. The facilitators were chosen to represent diverse teaching constituencies in brief opening statements and over half the program will be an open discussion among all the participants (facilitators and audience). THE … Continue reading →

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A New Gender Divide in Colleges

Posted on July 11, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The NY times has an interesting series on”the new gender divide”, citing Department of Education statistics that show women as more likely to graduate college with high honors:”men whatever their race or socioeconomic group, are less likely than women to … Continue reading →

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Visiting, Gender, and Prestigious Law Schools

Posted on July 7, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Brian Leiter compiled a list of folks visiting at “the six top law schools” next year and posted it here. Looks like out of ten visitors at Yale Law School, one of the most liberal law schools in the US … Continue reading →

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On-Line Bullying By Law Students

Posted on July 3, 2006 by Ann Bartow

See this post at the Law School Academic Support Blog. Via the Leiter Law School Reports, where Brian Leiter notes: One putatively prelaw discussion board–memorably described in the comments here as the place where “the amount of racism, anti-semitism, and … Continue reading →

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Why So Few Female Supreme Court Law Clerks?

Posted on June 30, 2006 by Bridget Crawford

On June 29, 2006, the Supreme Court ended its 2005-2006 term.   The Justices employed 37 law clerks this past term, 13 of whom were women.   During the 2004-05 term, 15 of 35 law clerks were women.   Initial … Continue reading →

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Sexism in the Classroom

Posted on May 22, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Law student blogger la somnambule had this to say: In a seminar yesterday a few comments were passed. We were discussing the role of ‘undue influence’ in contract law. This doctrine was developed to assist people who have entered a … Continue reading →

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Commencement!

Posted on May 5, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Just returned from graduation, held outdoors at “The Horseshoe,” an old and very beautiful part of campus. The weather was cloudy but happily the rain stayed away, and it was nice not having the sun beat down on us, given … Continue reading →

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Feminist Law Prof Michelle Anderson to Become Dean of the City University of New York School of Law!

Posted on April 25, 2006 by Ann Bartow

From this press release: An academic leader with a passion for social justice, Professor Anderson is a graduate of Yale Law School where she was Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal and Editor of the Yale Journal of Law … Continue reading →

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That Was A New One

Posted on April 24, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Anyone who has served on a law school admissions committee, and read the truckload of applications that admissions committee service usually entails, is aware of the fact that letters of reference submitted by aspiring law students often contain accolades about … Continue reading →

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Well This Stinks

Posted on April 18, 2006 by Ann Bartow

University of Houston Law Center Dean Nancy Rapoport announced her resignation yesterday, effective May 31. A Houston Chronicle article reports that the resignation is related to the school’s fall in the U.S. News rankings. Here is an excerpt which I … Continue reading →

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Oink.

Posted on April 16, 2006 by Ann Bartow

So I’m glad that Iowa law prof Tung Yin and his family safely survived the Iowa City tornados, but I really could have lived without this exchange in the comments of his blog post about it: Glad you’re safe, Prof. … Continue reading →

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“Gender Gap in Professorial Pay”

Posted on April 13, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Paul Caron at TaxProf Blog has a post up with interesting (and depressing) information and additional links.

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Still More on the American Association of Law Deans, Tenure, and Long Term Contracts

Posted on April 9, 2006 by Ann Bartow

For background, read this and this, two posts by Marina Angel. From “Law Deans Dispute ABA’s Tenure Power” by Leigh Jones in the National Law Journal: The American Law Deans Association has submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of … Continue reading →

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Harvard Restocks the Faculty Shelves

Posted on April 6, 2006 by Ann Bartow

According to the Leiter Law School Reports: In the last three years, Harvard has now hired eight faculty laterally to the tenured ranks: Jody Freeman from the University of California, Los Angeles Jack Goldsmith from the University of Virginia Daryl … Continue reading →

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Update re: American Law Dean Assoc. (“ALDA”) Attack on Tenure and Long Term Contracts

Posted on March 31, 2006 by Ann Bartow

See this post for background. Information continues to come in [about “ALDA”]. This is a right wing rump group of deans, a combination of deans of elite law schools who do not want to meet diversity requirements and barely accredited … Continue reading →

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American Law Deans Association (ALDA) Attacks Tenure and Long Term Contracts; ABA Standards § § 205(c), 405, and 603(d)

Posted on March 30, 2006 by Ann Bartow

This statement [Download file] to the U.S. Department of Education was sent by the Board of Directors of ALDA, purporting to speak on behalf of the organization. So far I’ve determined: 1. The statement was probably sent in early March; … Continue reading →

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Student Live-Blogs Property Class

Posted on February 21, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Would be funny if not hitting so close to home.

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Marina Angel’s Call For Action: Addressing the channeling of women of all colors and men of color to non tenure track law school teaching and administrative positions.

Posted on February 17, 2006 by Ann Bartow

There has been an explosion in the number of non tenure track teachers at law schools. These are predominately clinical and legal writing positions, but the number of lower level administrators (associate and assistant deans and directors) with 1/2 to … Continue reading →

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Symposium Invitation:”Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change and a Decade of Gender Studies”

Posted on February 16, 2006 by Ann Bartow

On Friday, March 10, 2006, the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, the Harvard Law Review and the Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review will host a symposium entitled”Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change and a Decade of Gender Studies,”in the … Continue reading →

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Carrie Yang Costello:”Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender, and Success at Professional Schools”

Posted on February 8, 2006 by Ann Bartow

The Amazon.com summary: “The fact that women and people of color tend to underperform at professional schools is a source of controversy. Conservatives blame affirmative action, while liberals blame intentional discrimination. The extensive research reported in Professional Identity Crisis belies … Continue reading →

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David Horowitz Names “The 101 Most Dangerous Professors in America”

Posted on February 6, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Once again, women appear to be grossly underrepresented, so if you see Horowitz, make every effort to frighten him, so as to appear in future editions of his book. Kudos to feminist law prof Regina Austin for making the list, … Continue reading →

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Remarks by Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan on the Status of Women in Law

Posted on January 31, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Full text of her 11/17/05 lecture here. A couple of excerpts below: …”Last year, a working group of Harvard Law students issued a study on women’s experiences. What they discovered closely tracked findings from other top schools that have studied … Continue reading →

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Gender Preferences in Hiring

Posted on January 29, 2006 by Ann Bartow

Aspazia at Mad, Melancholic Feminista has a thoughtful post here about gender issues in faculty hiring, with a special emphasis on Philosophy, which is her discipline. Meanwhile, for anyone who hasn’t seen them, the AALS has posted 2004-2005 faculty composition … Continue reading →

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