Category Archives: Law Teaching

On Friday, March 28 and Saturday, March 29, the CUNY School of Law and the Center for Diversity in the Legal Profession will host the 2008 Haywood Burns Conference: “Teaching Law in a Multi-cultural, Multi-lingual Context”

Among the topics to be presented: Providing access and diversity through Pipeline programs * The immigrant experience in law school * Understanding the multiplicity of”cultures”within law students * Clinical approaches to multiculturalism from the perspective of faculty, student, and client … Continue reading

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“That She’ll Be There To Show Me ‘Round, Whenever Comes That Day.”

Eric Muller, one of my favorite law prof blawgers, recently lost his mother. He posted a very nice tribute to her here, and gave me kind permission to link. –Ann Bartow

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“Faculty Seminar on Active Shooter”

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

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

Leave your suggestions here!

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“It’s More Than a Living”

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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Rate My Law Professor: Presidential Candidate Division

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

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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I’m persuaded I overrreacted to something. Apologies to Rick Garnett. –Ann Bartow

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Marc Bousquet, “How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation”

From this site: As much as we think we know about the modern university, very little has been said about what it’s like to work there. Instead of the high-wage, high-profit world of knowledge work, most campus employees : including … Continue reading

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The Gender of Legal History?

The always wonderful Al Brophy is guest blogging at the Legal History Blog, and he has a post up expressing concern about an apparent gender imbalance among legal historians. –Ann Bartow

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Thank-You Notes After Academic Interviews

My sister, Maureen Crawford Hentz, is the “Manager of Talent Acquisition” at Osram Sylvania and a blogger for boston.com on HR matters.   We had a long discussion over the vacation about the value of thank-you notes sent by job … Continue reading

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

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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What To Make Of This?

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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Campus Interview Mistakes to Avoid

During faculty recruitment season, candidates trade information about schools’ hiring practices.   Active faculty members trade information on candidates with internal and national colleagues.   Here is some gathered advice for candidates about the campus interview.   Very little of … Continue reading

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“The Rocky Road To The Ivory Tower”

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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On Being an Academic and a Mother

Via Feminist Philosophers, this essay entitled: “Making a Place for the Other: A Letter to My Daughter” by Janet A. Kourany of the University of Notre Dame, via the Fall 2007 APA Newsletter. Below is an excerpt: … I have … Continue reading

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How Not To Give A Pre-Exam Pep Talk

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

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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“1.8 million pages of federal case law to become freely available.”

“Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive will … Continue reading

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On Not Looking Like A Law Professor

Read Kevin Maillard’s post at Blackprof here. Been there. Been there so often I wrote about it too (see page 19), but not nearly as engagingly. –Ann Bartow

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South Carolina Bar Examination Weirdness

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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Anita Allen on Philosophy

From The Philadelphia Inquirer: Penn’s Anita Allen is at the top of her field, but she has serious concerns about its lack of openness and diversity. By Carlin Romano Anita Allen remembers an extraordinary remark made by one of her … Continue reading

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The Market for Law Professors

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!

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?

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…

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”

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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Words to the Wise New Feminist Law Professor

Today’s New York Lawyer carried this  opinion-piece of advice from Elizabeth Rotenberg-Schwartz, a fourth-year associate in an NYC  law firm.   Her “Words to the Wise” are “tips for newbies, including the advice she regrets not following herself.”   Most … Continue reading

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Advice For Erwin Chemerinsky

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”

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!

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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That U.C. Irvine Law School

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!

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!

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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Props and News!

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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A Model for Citation

I taught Legal Methods last year, and one of the great ways I found to teach 1Ls how to cite is the Interactive Citation Workstation. Added plus is that both of the authors of the exercises are Feminist Law Profs: … Continue reading

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“Contracts Spotlight: Eboni Nelson”

Check out this post at ContractsProf Blog to read about our awesome new colleague. Via Susan Kuo. –Ann Bartow

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Does Your Law School Have A Lactation Room?

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

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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No surprises that satisfaction lower among female and minority faculty…

Inside Higher Ed reports on a study by  the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) based at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Speaking of the study, which examined  recruitment and retention of next generation professors, Inside … Continue reading

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More About Law Prof Blogging…

Recent scholarship on this topic includes: Nancy Levit, Scholarship Advice for New Law Professors in the Electronic Age J. Robert Brown, Blogs, Law School Rankings, and the Race to the Bottom Jan Ryan Novak and Leslie A. Pardo, The Evolving … Continue reading

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Oh for the love of…

Exactly what possessed Eugene Volokh to look into the sexual orientation of female law profs whose scholarship gets cited a lot? See his “update” at end of this post and try to avoid banging your head on the computer monitor.

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Honing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills

From Feminist Philosophers: A tricky but important thing to teach critical thinking students is how to distinguish illegitimate ad hominem attacks from legitimate questions about a source of information. There’s a nice example in this article on Katie Roiphe.  Roiphe … Continue reading

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

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

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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Eugene Volokh Defends Female-Free Federalist Society Events

Here. No wonder he has to pose all his questions about menstruation on his blog. –Ann Bartow Update: A telling exchange culled from the comments: David Bernstein wrote: Unlike most Fed Society events, the panels at the Bork event were … Continue reading

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Couldn’t The Federalist Society Find A Woman Who Would Say Nice Things About Robert H. Bork?

I guess not! As Eric Muller notes, though, there might have been some female servers at the luncheon. –Ann Bartow Update: Eric Muller notices yet another all male Federalist Society event. Update 2: Mary Dudziak notes: “It looks as if … Continue reading

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ABA Proposal Threatens Diversity In Legal Education

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?

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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