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Feminist Research Resource at Barnard
The Barnard College Library has a large collection of feminist ‘zines. The Barnard Zine Library has its own webpage (here), with finding guides (see here), bibliographies (see here) and teaching resources (here). The teaching guides could be adapted easily for … Continue reading
CUNY Hiring Announcement
From colleagues at CUNY: CUNY School of Law is currently conducting searches for several faculty positions. These include: Two (2) tenure-track faculty positions; Associate Dean for Clinical Programs (the faculty member who heads CUNY’s law clinic); Instructor in the International … Continue reading
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Cincinnati Seeks Director of Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic
From a colleague at the University of Cincinnati: The University of Cincinnati College of Law invites applications for the Director of its Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic, part of our new Center for Race, Gender and Social Justice. … Continue reading
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Calling all Speed Mentors and Speed Mentees, AALS Annual Meeting, January 5, 2012
The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education has planned an exciting program for Thursday, January 5, 2012. From 9:00 – 10:15 AM, the Section will host a “speed mentoring” program. The Section’s Executive Committee is looking for faculty members … Continue reading
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Pay It Forward Via the Teaching Materials Network
From Suzan Rozelle (Stetson), this announcement and reminder about the Teaching Materials Network: It’s that time of year again! Tell your colleagues (directly and by forwarding this to other listservs, blogs, etc., if you can) about the Teaching Materials Network, … Continue reading
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Nebraska Seeks 3 Tenure-Track Faculty Members
From our friends at Nebraska, this Appointments notice: The University of Nebraska College of Law invites applications for three tenure-track faculty positions focusing on teaching in several areas, including telecommunications and cyber law, business associations as well as other transactional law … Continue reading
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Roberta Romano on Research and Teaching in the Business-Law Related Area
One of the plenary sessions at the AALS Workshop on Women Rethinking Equality, June 21-22, 2011, was “Women as Scholars.” I was honored to participate in the panel discussion with several other great women. Roberta Romano (Yale; photo at right) … Continue reading
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Blogging Do’s and Don’ts
The panel this morning at the “Women Rethinking Equality” meeting is “Women as Scholars.” I have been asked to speak about blogging as a venue for scholarly work, and the particular challenges that law professor bloggers may face. I’ve made … Continue reading
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Women Reproducing Inequality? Plenary Speakers at AALS Meeting
At the AALS Workshop on Women Rethinking Equality, there are 6 plenary sessions. The chart below lists each session’s title, speakers and moderator. The participant’s home institution is listed next to his or her name. To the right of the … Continue reading
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Initial Report from AALS 2011 Workshop on “Women Rethinking Equality”
The AALS’s 2011 Workshop on “Women Rethinking Equality” is underway at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. For a quick look at the conference program, see here. There are 172 people pre-registered for the conference. The program has two … Continue reading
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Center for Reproductive Rights-Columbia Law School Fellowship
From our friends at the Center for Reproductive Rights, this request for applications for the two-year fellowship offered by the Center and Columbia Law School: The Center for Reproductive Rights – Columbia Law School Fellowship (“CRR-CLS Fellowship”) is a two-year, … Continue reading
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On Faculty Collegiality and Civility
Or the lack thereof. Yeesh.
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University of the Andes School of Law (Bogotá, Colombia) Gender and Law Research Group
Feminist Law Professors is pleased to welcome to the blogroll five members of the faculty at the University of the Andes School of Law: Gloria Marcela Abadía Cubillo; Helena Alviar García; Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra; Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll and Paula Torres Holguín. All are … Continue reading
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Does a Faculty Member’s Gender Matter? When Overt Discrimination Isn’t the Problem (Anymore)
There’s a new study out of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst that says it does, at least in science and engineeering. Here’s how an article over at Slate breaks it down: [Jane Stout, Nilanjana Dasgupta, Matthew Hunsinger, and Melissa … Continue reading
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Visitor Opportunities at the University of South Carolina School of Law
The University of South Carolina School of Law is looking for visitors in the following subject areas for next academic year. Depending upon matches to needs, the visits will be either a semester or a year. Constitutional Law (fall) Wills, … Continue reading
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Tapping Reeve’s New Idea
Angela Fernandez, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has published Tapping Reeve, Coverture, and America’s First Legal Treatise. Here is the abstract. In his 1816 treatise, The Law of Baron and Wife, Tapping Reeve of Litchfield Law School fame, rejected … Continue reading
An Interesting Critical Tax Student Note Topic
I often get asked by students for tax topics for their student notes. Normally, I suggest some places to look where they can get a sense of hot topics, etc., but don’t suggest an actual topic. But yesterday, I came … Continue reading
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Productivity Apps for Law Profs
The January 2, 2011 edition of the Chronicle reviewed “6 Top Smartphone Apps to Improve Teaching, Research, and Your Life.” Here are the ones that looked most useful to law profs: Attendance by David M. Reed (Computer Science, Capital University). … Continue reading
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Should the AALS Limit Annual Meeting Appearances to One Per Person?
Should the AALS prefer programs with speakers making only a single AALS appearance? Stated another way, should there be a disincentive (or even a rule precluding) multiple conference appearances by the same faculty member? Here’s what I observe in the … Continue reading
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New Edition of “Feminist Jurisprudence” Casebook
I received in my faculty mailbox today a new edition of Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials, published by West. The authors on this fourth edition are Cynthia Grant Bowman (Cornell), Laura Rosenbury (Wash. U. St. Louis), Deborah Tuerkheimer (DePaul) and … Continue reading
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Guest Blogger Amanda Gonzalez: Must We Wait for Women to be Represented in Classroom Materials?
Must we wait for women to be represented in classroom materials? I’m slightly ashamed to admit that it took me an entire year of law school before I figured out that I needed to use the Examples and Explanations books … Continue reading
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A Network Of One’s Own
Looking for scholars with interests similar to yours? Check out this resource: Collaborative Research Networks. Among its networks are “Collective Human Rights,” “Feminist Legal Theory,” “Gender and Judging,” Gender, Sexuality, and Law,” Integrating Gender Into Legal Education,” International Socio-Legal Feminisms,” … Continue reading
Guest Blogger Liz Kukura – LSRJ Study Highlights Dearth of Reproductive Rights Law & Justice Courses
Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) recently completed its first comprehensive survey of reproductive rights and justice course offerings at all ABA-approved law schools in the U.S. for the last seven years. While perhaps not surprising to many within the … Continue reading
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Schneider and Wildman’s “Women and the Law Stories” from Foundation Press
Elizabeth Schneider and Stephanie Wildman’s edited volume Women and the Law Stories, part of the Foundation Press series, is now in print. Here’s the Table of Contents: Introduction. Telling Stories to Courts: Women Claim Their Legal Rights, by Elizabeth M. … Continue reading
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A Small Step Some Law Professors are Taking in Response to News of Bullying and Harassment
Here’s what a group of colleagues (myself included) did yesterday at my law school. Fourteen faculty and staff members joined together and distributed to all staff and faculty mailboxes the following signed letter and a sticker that reads “Be an Ally. Be … Continue reading
The Center for Reproductive Rights – Columbia Law School Fellowship – Deadline November 1, 2010
From Diana Hortsch, Director of the Law School Initiative at the Center for Reproductive Rights, this notice of a fellowship at Columbia Law School: The Center for Reproductive Rights – Columbia Law School Fellowship (“CRR-CLS Fellowship”) is a two-year, post-graduate fellowship offered … Continue reading
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Teaching Resource on Feminism and Pornography
Those who teach Feminist Legal Theory or other classes in which pornography is a subject of academic discussion might be interested in this recording of an interview by Professor Gail Dines (Wheelock College) with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Professor Dines … Continue reading
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Tenure-Track Positions at Nebraska
From Anna Shavers (Nebraska): The University of Nebraska College of Law invites applications for three tenure-track faculty positions. Areas of particular interest include business associations, corporate finance and governance, transactional skills courses, securitization, venture capital, entrepreneurship, patents, trusts and estates, … Continue reading
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Notice of Faculty Positions at Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis
INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW-INDIANAPOLIS invites applications from entry-level and experienced candidates for tenure-track and tenured appointments beginning in the 2011-2012 academic year. The law school seeks colleagues with distinguished academic records who are committed to excellence in teaching, scholarship, … Continue reading
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Feminist Law Prof 1L Stories Revisited
The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law Review has published another Law Stories issue, this one with the theme "One L Revisited" (including an introduction by author Scott Turow). In this Summer 2010 issue, several law professors and other law … Continue reading
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Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia and The Washington College of Law 2010 Student Legal Essay Writing Competition
This call for essays may be of interest to students of Feminist Law Profs and others: The Modern American (TMA) announces the American University Washington College of Law (WCL) essay competition, open to all full-time and part-time law students … Continue reading
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2010 Status Update – Women and Legal Education
According to blogs in the legal academy, women did not fare well this year in the law school lateral hire market, with the majority of lateral moves being made by men. Further, Supreme Court clerkships are weighty credentials among academics … Continue reading
Focus on Intentional Pedagogy at “Faculty Teaching Day”
Many law schools have annual faculty retreats or “scholarship days” to showcase faculty scholarship. My home institution instituted that tradition two years ago. For the first time this year, we also held a “Faculty Teaching Day,” a half-day program for … Continue reading
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Legally Blind Grading: Do Class Participation Docks and Boosts Unfairly Disadvantage Female and Minority Students?
I’ve been doing a series of guest posts (here, here, here, and here) over on PrawfsBlawg concerning what I refer to as “legally blind grading” in law school, i.e., the grading process under which law professors are deprived of information … Continue reading
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CFP: Teaching Gender as a Core Value
Call for Panelists AALS Section on Women in Legal Education “Teaching Gender as a Core Value” 2011 AALS Annual Meeting January 4-8, 2011 San Francisco, California The AALS Section on Women in Legal Education will hold a program during the … Continue reading
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The Internet Pile-on over a Woman Dean’s Paycheck
The legal blogosphere has been embroiled recently in a series of discussions about Karen Rothenberg, formerly dean at Maryland law. For those living in a cave (or avoiding Above the Law as a paper-finishing strategy), the basic facts are these: … Continue reading
Call for Volunteers: Paying it Forward to other Women in Legal Education
Feminist Law Prof Colleen Medill (Nebraska), on behalf of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education, is assembling a list of women law profs who might be willing to share materials, experiences, perspectives, etc. with other women law profs. … Continue reading
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“What Makes a Great Teacher?”
Check out this article in the Atlantic Monthly. Here is an excerpt: … Starting in 2002, Teach for America began using student test-score progress data to put teachers into one of three categories: those who move their students one and … Continue reading
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African-American History Teaching Resources
There are some nice teaching resources for African-American history at AfroAmericanHeritage.com. Many of the materials are geared more for primary and secondary school students, but there are some especially nice posters that would make for good law school classroom … Continue reading
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Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition
From the FLP Mailbox, this notice of a student writing competition that Feminist Law Profs might want to pass along to their students: National Association of Women Lawyers ® Fifth Annual Selma Moidel Smith Law Student Writing Competition The National … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Among “Law Stories” Editors
Law Stories is a 30-strong (and growing) volume series published by Foundation Press and edited by Paul Caron, the Charles Harstock Professor and Associate Dean of Faculty at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Each “Stories” volume … Continue reading
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Contact the AALS About Restoring Child Care Services During the Annual Meeting.
If you’re a law professor with young children, you’ve probably noticed that AALS has discontinued the previous practice of offering child care services to members attending the annual meeting, due to low enrollment in the past. Our understanding is that … Continue reading
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George Mason School of Law Sued for Sexual Harassment
From Law.com: … This July, Kyndra Rotunda filed a lawsuit against the Arlington, Va., school, where just three years before she had happily signed on as director of a legal assistance clinic for military service members. In her suit, she … Continue reading
USC Law Prof Elyn Saks Won a MacArthur Foundation Award
Mary Dudziak has the details.
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iPhone Apps for Law Students and Profs
From the October 2009 edition of the ABA Journal, this information about iPhone applications that will interest students and professors: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ($2.99); Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure ($2.99); Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act ($4.99); Federal Rules … Continue reading
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On Hiring
My law school isn’t doing any hiring this year, but I was still very interested in this posts: Hire with Wisdom and Interview with Kindness at Center of Gravitas, and a five part eries by Squadratomagico 1) The … Continue reading
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The Epistemology of Law Teaching
Somehow I missed “Wake Up and Smell the Epistemology,” a thought-provoking article by Tim Clydesdale (Sociology, College of New Jersey) from the January 23, 2009 edition of The Chronicle of Higher Education (pay site – sorry- day passes available). Professor … Continue reading
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Law School Classroom or Meeting of the Connecticut Legislature?
Answer here.
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List of Fellowships for Aspiring Law Professors
Here. I got my start in law teaching as an Hon. Abraham L. Freedman Graduate Teaching Fellow at Temple University’s School of Law and it was a wonderful experience. I learned how to teach in a supportive, mentor rich environment, … Continue reading
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Westlaw Reinstates Services to Puerto Rican Law Schools
Today I received this update on the Westlaw situation (described here) from José Julián Ãlvarez González, pictured at left, Professor of Law at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law (reprinted and attributed with his permission): After a very … Continue reading
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