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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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Please Keep Your Toes Covered in Class
Over at Prawfsblawg, Bennett Capers asks (here): Given the importance of this first impression, am I the only one that obsesses at the start of the school year about what to wear on the first day of class, down to … Continue reading
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Westlaw Cuts Support to Law Schools in Puerto Rico
Westlaw has decided to discontinue providing free printers and associated supplies (paper, ink) to law school libraries in Puerto Rico. Westlaw provides these to other law schools on the U.S. mainland, and did provide them to the four Puerto Rican … Continue reading
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NYU Law hires homophobic bigot to teach, wait for it, human rights law.
Leiter has the details.
Posted in Academia, Feminism and Law, Law Schools, Law Teaching, LGBT Rights
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“The Biden Curve”
Is Sarah Palin really dumber than Joe Biden? Or is something else going on? From the WSJ: ************* Over the weekend, as we noted yesterday, Vice President Biden said that if Israel decides it needs to take military action against … Continue reading
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“Professor Sotomayor” – A View of the New Justice from Columbia Law School
Sonia Sotomayor, nominated by President Obama to the U.S. Supreme Court, has taught a course on Federal Appellate Court advocacy at Columbia for several years. While President Obama’s adjunct teaching job at the University of Chicago is often cited … Continue reading
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Media Source for Berlin Images 1989-1990 (and Tangential Thoughts on Feminism’s Focus)
The Deutsche Kinemathek Museum for Film and Television and the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education) are collaborating on the “Internet Archive,” an on-line resource for film, television footage and photography from Germany in 1989 and 1990. … Continue reading
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The Broken Windows of Law School Faculties
I’ve discovered the Positive Coaching Alliance through volunteering with my local youth Little League. That organization uses the “broken windows” concept in training coaches, parents and players to take a holistic (my word, not theirs) approach to sports — as … Continue reading
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Avoiding a Biased Exam: Always Expect Students to Know the Law But Never Expect Them to Know the Facts
(Cross-posted at PrawfsBlawg) I remember being a law student and taking the class Women and the Law with the terrific Susan Grover when a topic came up that would (thankfully) inform the way that I draft my law school exams … Continue reading
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“This job is easy for people who’ve never done it,”Justice Thomas said later.”What I have found in this job is they know more about it than I do, especially if they have the title, law professor.”
Ouch. Those are the concluding words of this article.
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The University of South Carolina School of Law’s Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year is: Prof. Danielle Holley-Walker!
Hooray! Proof that our students have excellent judgment and taste.
Posted in Academia, Law Schools, Law Teaching, South Carolina
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Not Your Grandmother’s Library of Congress
The Library of Congress now has its own YouTube Channel (here)! For law profs looking for video clips to supplement teaching materials, this may become a valuable resource in the future. For now, the channel has clips of discussions by … Continue reading
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Nell Jessup Newton has been appointed Dean of the University of Notre Dame Law School
Press release here. Via Leiter.
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Disaster Law Reader: Call For Papers
Editors: Kathleen A. Bergin and Tracy L. McGaugh Hurricane Katrina was unlike any other weather disaster to hit the United States in the way it exposed deficiencies in federal, state, and local disaster planning and management. It was also unique … Continue reading
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Yale Law School Has A Woman “Acting Dean”
Current Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh has been nominated by President Obama to serve as the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. Taking his place as Acting Dean is Prof. Kate Stith. More here.
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From the Department of: “Women Law Profs Don’t Know Anything About Hate Speech”
Columbia Law School division. This lecture series is advertising this speaker line up: ‘Hate Speech’ and Incitement to Violence This workshop series is being convened by Professor Kendall Thomas and Lecturer-in-Law Peter Molnar, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Feminism and Law, Law Schools, Law Teaching, The Underrepresentation of Women
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Let Them Eat Quiche
Tomorrow the International Law Society at my law school hosts its annual fund raiser. It’s an all you can eat lunch comprised of donated homemade ethnic foods. Here are the University-related fundraisers I’ve already contributed to this academic year: the … Continue reading
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More about academic bullying…
…here at Minding the Workplace, where there is also a post about workplace bullying generally. Via.
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“Deconstructing the First Year: How Law School Experiences Lead to Misunderstandings of What Lawyers Do”
Great post you should read by this title at Clinicians With Not Enough To Do.
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Grandparents of Law Students More Likely to Die Than Any Other Segment of Population
My very funny colleague and Feminist Law Prof Michael Mushlin asked this question today: Have you ever noticed that at about this time in the semester, law students’ grandparents, with whom they are “very close,” seem to die at a … Continue reading
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A Mother’s Lesson in LSD
My mother is one of the most straight-laced people I know. The woman has never been intoxicated in her life and has never dropped the “f-bomb.” She has tremendously accurate grammar and an iron will. I was simultaneously surprised and … Continue reading
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June 26, 2009 Family Law Conference: A Family Law Education Conference With Topics to Enliven Your Teaching
William Mitchell College of Law has issued a call for papers and presenters for its upcoming workship, “Family Law Conference: A Family Law Education Conference With Topics to Enliven Your Teaching.” Share your teaching theories, ideas and experiments! Selected papers … Continue reading
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Advising Students Who Want to Practice Feminist Law
Of the professors on the blogroll here, I’m still one of the newer ones. So I’m looking to those who have been doing this for a longer time for some advice. A regular part of our job is … Continue reading
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Law School Grade Reform – Not So Fast
Many of Columbia’s peer schools have recently undertaken reforms in their grading systems. Harvard and Stanford have moved in the direction of Yale’s system – three passing grades (1: Honors/High Pass, 2: Pass and 3: Restricted Credit/Low Pass) and … Continue reading
What if you plan on e-mailing your professor?
Professor What If has some advice and observations here. Below is an excerpt: Every time a semester is about to start or has just started, my email box is inundated with”URGENT”pleas from students. Many of the things they are writing … Continue reading
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Don’t Most of Us Wish…
This CNN article asserts that law professors (Number 14 on the list of “Jobs with under 40-hour work weeks”) work an average of 35.2 hours per week and 1664 hours each year, and earn $158,353. To which I reply: … Continue reading
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The Awesome Candidate X Has A Shiny New Job!
Candidate X guest posted here, asking for advice about going on the teaching market while breastfeeding an infant. FLP readers offered a lot of kind support both on blog and off. No surprise there – you’re feminists! Here’s an update … Continue reading
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Four Oklahoma City University law professors allege discrimination and harassment.
Details here and here. Paul Secunda has some observations here.
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Deanships and Diversity
There are currently between 10-15 active law school dean searches being conducted around the country. It’s no secret that women, people of color, and every other category of academic short of a white male are under-represented in the higher reaches … Continue reading
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Today Is Final Day to Comment on ABA’s Proposal to Eliminate Student-Faculty Ratio Data
Paul Caron has a critique of the proposal here. The impact on student/faculty ratio was one of the arguments that finally persuaded the doubters at my law school to hire a professional, full time legal writing faculty, which has been … Continue reading
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Law Student Writing Competition on Domestic Violence Issues
From the FLP Mailbox, this announcement of the annual law student writing competition sponsored by the ABA Commission on Domestic Violence: Law students are invited to submit articles addressing domestic violence and the law from a national or international … Continue reading
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Be Careful What You Wish For
So I’m probably the only one who missed this interesting development in the ongoing saga of reform of the ABA Standards for the Approval of Law Schools. There has been much hoo-ha and concern about the Special Committee Reports on … Continue reading
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Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law
From the Program’s homepage: Lawyers need to be knowledgeable participants in the cultural and social debates such films provoke about the significance of our roles in the creation and maintenance of a just, democratic society. To fulfill this role, we … Continue reading
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Law Student Writing Competition – National Association of Pregnant Women
From the FLP mailbox, this announcement of the NAPW Law Student Writing Competition: Issues of concern to pregnant and birthing women have often been missing from discussion in law school courses and among reproductive rights activists. Thanks in large part … Continue reading
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Rethinking Faculty Recruitment
Instead of the traditional Faculty Recruitment Conference, what if the AALS coordinated a matching program à la medical school residencies? My talented colleague Karl Coplan made this suggestion during a recruiting break today. I have initial thoughts on … Continue reading
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Love-Hate at the Faculty Recruitment Conference
I simultaneously like and dislike the Faculty Recruitment Conference. I like meeting people, reading the scholarship of professors-to-be; talking to candidates about their interests in teaching and scholarship; seeing friends from other faculties; spending time with my current colleagues … Continue reading
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How does one juggle breast feeding and landing a law teaching job? Advice needed!
I’m writing for advice on an issue peculiar to female law profs and I was hoping that I could post a question on Feminist Law Profs seeking advice. Specifically, I am on the legal teaching market this year and I … Continue reading
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On Grades, Sorting, and Sucking Up
Brian Leiter has another post about grading changes at several top law schools, noting: “There are rumors aplenty that Columbia and NYU may move to something like the Yale system of essentially two grades–Honors/Pass–now that Harvard and Stanford are going … Continue reading
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Feminist law prof glass ceilings
Inspired by recent events at my own institution as well as conversations with other feminist law profs I’ve run into at recent conferences, here’s a pattern I see – wonder if others experience this. One fem law prof summed … Continue reading
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Sex, Testation and Undue Influence
In the basic Wills, Trusts & Estates course, students learn that transfers brought about by undue influence, duress and fraud are invalid. The Restatement (Third) of Property: Wills and Other Donative Transfers § 8.3(b) defines undue influence this way: … Continue reading
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They Always Eat the Boy
“Why do they always eat the boy?” That was the (not-really-serious) question my witty colleague Sasha Greenawalt whispered to me when someone mentioned the case of Regina v. Dudley and Stephens, 14 Q.B.D. 273 (1884), that staple of first-year Criminal … Continue reading
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Taxing Sarah Palin’s Per Diem
The Washington Post has a story today about how the State of Alaska paid Sarah Palin a per diem for days when she was at her home in Wasilla. As a tax teacher, the first question that popped into my … Continue reading
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Erika Abner, ““Situated Learning and the Role of Relationships: A Study of Mentoring in Law Firms”
Abstract: This article examines the multiple workplace influences, including mentors and other developmental relationships, on the growth and development of young lawyers from law school through the first few years of practice. Eleven lawyers in six different large multi-service law … Continue reading
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Someone Needs To Teach A Course In “Tee Shirt Law”
From here: A routine trip to the Social Security office Monday turned into 30 minutes of shock, disbelief and irritation for Lapriss Gilbert, who was forced to leave the federal building by a guard who objected to her “lesbian.com” T-shirt. … Continue reading
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“Herr Professor Daddy? I didn’t think so.”
Post every woman academic should read, here.
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