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Where are the Women? Not Too Many in the October, November or December Issues of the Columbia Law Review. Eighteen of Twenty-One Published Authors are Male. Only One Author is a Woman Law Prof.
October: In memoriam–Louis Lowenstein. Tributes by Harvey J. Goldschmid, Kenneth P. Kopelman, Arthur W. Murphy, William Savitt and David M. Schizer. 109 Colum. L. Rev. 1263-1277 (2009). Miller, Darrell A.H. Guns as smut: defending the home-bound Second Amendment. 109 Colum. … Continue reading
New study concludes having women at the top of institutions is crucial to increasing the number of women among the junior faculty ranks.
From Inside Higher Ed: Does having a woman in the top job (or the No. 2 slot) make a difference? When it comes to faculty hiring, the answer appears to be Yes. And having a critical mass of women on … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Pretty sparse (just one woman co-author!) in the last Georgetown L.J. and none at all in the recent Virginia L. Rev.
98 GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL, NO. 1, NOVEMBER, 2009. Jacobi, Tonja and Matthew Sag. Taking the measure of ideology: empirically measuring Supreme Court cases. 98 Geo. L.J. 1-75 (2009). [H][L][W] Oman, Nathan B. A pragmatic defense of contract law. 98 Geo. … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Not in the June 2009 Yale Law Journal, that’s for sure.
118 YALE LAW JOURNAL, NO. 8, JUNE, 2009. Engdahl, David E. The classic rule of faith and credit. 118 Yale L.J. 1584-1659 (2009). [H][L][W] Cabranes, Hon. Jose A. Our imperial criminal procedure: problems in the extraterritorial application of U.S. constitutional … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? The Staff and Advisors of “Media Matters for America” Remain Overwhelmingly Male
The list is here. I (quickly) counted 38 men and 15 women, meaning the list is about 72% male and 28% female. Same old, same old. –Ann Bartow
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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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Where are the Women? – Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Advisory Board Edition: 19 men, 2 women.
UPDATE: All of the EFF Fellows appear to be … fellows. EFF Advisory Board members as of today per EFF website: Andrew Bridges is a partner in the San Francisco office of Winston & Strawn LLP where he litigates and … Continue reading
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Where are the women? Not organizing or participating in very many colloquia at NYU Law, apparently.
From this site: Fall 2009 Colloquia Constitutional Theory Colloquium Professors David Golove and Richard Pildes Hauser Colloquium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Law Professor Ryan Goodman Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy Professors Ronald Dworkin and Thomas Nagel Colloquium … Continue reading
NAWL 2009 National Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms
From this site: On October 26, 2009, the NAWL and the NAWL Foundation released the results of the fourth annual Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms. The Survey is the only national study of the nation’s … Continue reading
“I get knocked down: Women publishing law review notes”
Rebecca Tushnet writes: I read an interesting article in the Journal of Legal Education (unfortunately not online) about the underrepresentation, relative to law school enrollment and law review participation, of women publishing notes on the main journals of the top … Continue reading
Where are the women? None are in the inaugural Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc.
Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc is pleased to present the”first take”pieces for its inaugural Roundtable from Professors Hal Bruff, Steven Calabresi, Gary Lawson, Rick Pildes, and Christopher Yoo. The debate is on Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight … Continue reading
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“At this moment, there are more females serving on the United States Supreme Court than there are writing for Late Show with David Letterman, The Jay Leno Show, and The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien combined. Out of the 50 or so comedy writers working on these programs, exactly zero are women.”
Via TGW: In this Vanity Fair article, Nell Scovell talks about the sexual politics and “hostile work environment” that she experienced while writing for David Letterman. –Ann Bartow
Dan Brown’s “Lost Symbol” is awful. Her eyes were as big as saucers when it hit her like an uncoming train.
I’ll leave more detailed reviews for others, but here is something I found particularly stupid, at page 31. Protagonist Robert Langdon is lecturing to one of his freshman “intro” Harvard classes: …”In this age when different cultures are killing each … Continue reading
How are my legal subject areas doing re: gender balance?
Brian Leiter conducted a poll regarding the Top Law Faculties for Intellectual Property and Cyberspace Law. The results give a window into the subject specific gender balance at each of the “Top 24″ schools. There were 95 men and 45 … Continue reading
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Carol W. Greider of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine was one of three women who won a science Nobel last week, and she sounds like a sister!
Excerpt from a NYT interview with Nobel Laureate Carol W. Greider: …Q. MANY REPORTERS HAVE ASKED WHY TELOMERES RESEARCH SEEMS TO ATTRACT SO MANY FEMALE INVESTIGATORS. WHAT’S YOUR ANSWER? A. There’s nothing about the topic that attracts women. It’s probably … Continue reading
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Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University is the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics in the 41-year history of the award
From the NYT: The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on Monday to two American social scientists for their work in describing the numerous relationships within a company or among companies and individuals that shape market behavior. The … Continue reading
Gender Equality?
The gender of judging implicates constitutional as well as “rule of law” concerns. A new article, Judging Women,posted on ssrn has been garnering attention. The study comparing male and female judges provides an empirical perspective: “Primarily using a dataset … Continue reading
The Yale Law School Information Society Project’s Upcoming Conference is Entitled: “JOURNALISM AND THE NEW MEDIA ECOLOGY: WHO WILL PAY THE MESSENGERS?” and 32 Out of 39 Listed Speakers Are Male.
Website here, program here. New media conference, same old YLS misogyny. Not so random aside: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) launched an Ethical Journalism Initiative in 2008. The IFJ considers fair gender portrayal as part of ethical journalism, … Continue reading
“Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: NASA’s Lost Female Astronauts”
Women were more qualified to to go into space than men. Having the wrong gonads kept them grounded. This Wired.com article reports: … In the late 1950s, the United States government contemplated training women as astronauts, and newly released medical … Continue reading
Today the Army will make Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa L. King commandant of its drill sergeant school at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina. It is a first. No woman has previously run one of the Army’s rigorous schools for drill instructors.
From the NYT: … The eighth of 12 children, the sergeant major is the daughter of a sharecropper who grew cucumbers and tobacco near Fort Bragg, N.C. Her first job in the Army was as a postal clerk, a traditional … Continue reading
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Where Are the Women? – Upcoming Conferences Installment
I. First up: the John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics, and Culture at Villanova’s law school. Here is the list of “Conference Participants,” which appears to be entirely male: Joseph Vining Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor University of Michigan … Continue reading
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Where Are the Women? Not at George Mason’s “Gridlock Economy Conference,” that’s clear.
George Mason University, School of Law is convening a conference entitled: Tragedies of the Gridlock Economy – How Mis-configuring Property Rights Stymies Social Efficiency. Here are the listed participants: Michael Heller Richard Epstein Harold Demsetz Michael Meurer F. Scott Kieff … Continue reading
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“A new study conducted by Wikimedia Foundation suggests that only 13% of Wikipedia contributors are women.”
This won’t surprise anybody who actually pays attention to the climate of the editing discussions on many wikipedia pages. This blog post notes: According to the The Wall Street Journal, the survey took place in November of last year, with … Continue reading
Who Gets Preferential Treatment at University of Illinois? (From the ‘Where Are the Women’ Files)
U n i v e r s i t y o f I L L I N O I S Illinois Law Review, Issue 2009:4 (August 2009) Articles The Trouble with Twombly: A Proposed Pleading Standard for Employment Discrimination Cases … Continue reading
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Where Are the Women? Texas Twofer Edition
First up: 50 SOUTH TEXAS LAW REVIEW, NO. 4, SUMMER, 2009. Symposium: Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror. 50 S. Tex. L. Rev. 617- 974 (2009). [H][L][W] Hansen, Victor. Understanding the role of military lawyers in the war on … Continue reading
Where are the Women? Not in 77 GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW, NO. 3, APRIL, 2009, that’s for sure.
The George Washington Law Review, Issue 77:3 (April 2009) Articles Matthew I. Hall, The Partially Prudential Doctrine of Mootness, 77 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 562 (2009) [PDF] Anthony J. Colangelo, “De facto Sovereignty”: Boumediene and Beyond, 77 Geo. Wash. L. … Continue reading
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Where Are The Women? The Virginia Law Review’s latest symposium issue features 15 authors, 12 of them male.
VOLUME 95 JUNE 2009 ISSUE 4 Virginia Law Review 95:4 (June 2009) Symposium Issue: The SEC in a Time of Discontinuity The SEC in a Time of Discontinuity: Introduction to Virginia … Continue reading
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South Carolina’s state govt is only the fifth most dysfunctional state govt in the nation
At least according to this article, which claims the six states with the worst leadership are: 6. California 5. South Carolina 4. Alaska 3. Illinois 2. Nevada 1. New York I’m sure the fact that we have the fewest women … Continue reading
NYC now has Jane Jacobs Way, named for the famed author-activist who changed the course of urban planning in the 1960s.
From this NYT story: Ms. Jacobs, who died in 2006, lived between West 11th and Perry Streets at 555 Hudson Street and immortalized the”sidewalk ballet”of that block in her book,”The Death and Life of Great American Cities.”As of Tuesday morning, … Continue reading
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“The Education of Sonia Sotomayor”
That is the title of this essay at the WaPo written by one of Judge Sotomayor’s Princeton profs. Below are a couple of excerpts: … Had I known in the spring of 1973 that this hesitant freshman from the Bronx … Continue reading
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Where Are The Women? The latest issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy has one named woman author out of twenty-three?
From here: Volume 32, Number 3 – Summer 2009 THE GEORGE W. BUSH ADMINISTRATION: A RETROSPECTIVE Reflections on Events and Changes at the Department of Justice John Ashcroft 813 National Security and the Rule of Law Michael B. Mukasey 831 … Continue reading
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15 plaintiffs lost their lawsuit against the Vancouver Olympic Games Organizing Committee when the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled that the decision to exclude their sport is out of the organizing committee’s control.
From the Salt Lake City Tribune: … “No one wanted to go to court over this, but we had no choice,” Deedee Corradini, president of Women’s Ski Jumping-USA, said in a statement. “It’s terribly disappointing, but the experience and effort … Continue reading
Where Are The Women? A precious few were published in recent addition of the UCLA Law Review
Invited articles by fourteen men, but only two women, in a Symposium edition? Volume 56, Issue 5 (June 2009) Symposium: The Second Amendment and the Right to Bear Arms After D.C. v. Heller Gun Control After Heller: Threats and Sideshows … Continue reading
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Are all the pundits who matter at DailyKos male?
Over at Daily Kos is a post entitled “Abbreviated Pundit Round-up,” by “BarbinMD” with a first sentence that touts itself as “Your one stop pundit shop.” The pundits receiving links and blurbs? William Kristol, Tony Blankley, Richard Cohen, Cal Thomas, … Continue reading
Where are the Women? Northwestern Law Review Edition
Current Issue: Special Issue 2009: Vol. 103, Issue 2 SYMPOSIUM: ORIGINAL IDEAS ON ORIGINALISM Foreword: Original Ideas on Originalism Brian A. Lichter & David P. Baltmanis Constitutional Ambiguities and Originalism: Lessons from the Spending Power Lynn A. Baker Framework Originalism … Continue reading
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The Underrepresentation of Women Here and Here
Scanning my daily web feed this morning, I noted two items about the underrepresentation of women in different settings, both of which should be of interest to readers of this blog. The first is an American Lawyer story about the … Continue reading
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Where are the women blast from the recent past: In the “Demisesquicentennial” issue of the University of Chicago Law Review, fourteen out of fourteen authors are dudes, and for bonus points, the secondary authors noted are male too!
5 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW, NO. 2, SPRING, 2008. Demisesquicentennial. 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 603-883 (2008). Nagareda, Richard A. Class actions in the administrative state: Kalven and Rosenfield revisited. 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 603-648 (2008). Rothstein, Jesse … Continue reading
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Women are under-represented in clinical cancer research published in high-impact journals, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Citation and Abstract: Under-representation of women in high-impact published clinical cancer research Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil 1 *, Amy R. Motomura, BSE 1, Sudha Amarnath, BS 2, Aleksandra Jankovic, MS 3, Nathan Sheets, BS 2, Peter A. Ubel, MD 3 … Continue reading
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“… women still account, on average, for fewer than one in five big-firm partners.”
From The American Lawyer: … Looking specifically at gender diversity, our analysis found that women made up 34 percent of lawyers at the firms we surveyed: 45 percent of nonpartners and 19 percent of partners. It’s a respectable but not … Continue reading
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Where the Men Are (and Women Aren’t): GW Law Review Edition
If the dearth of female contributors to major law reviews weren’t so distressing (see, e.g., here and here and here), I’d think that this issue of the GW Law Review — with ZERO articles by women — was a joke. … Continue reading
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William and Mary Law Review – the All William and No Mary Edition
Issue 50:6 (May 2009) Articles Andrew Koppelman, Corruption of Religion and the Establishment Clause Thomas A. Lambert, Dr. Miles is Dead. Now What?: Structuring a Rule of Reason for Evaluating Minimum Resale Price Maintenance Robert T. Miller, The Economics of … Continue reading
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That Sotomayor Quote
Taken from Sotomayor’s Judge Mario G. Olmos Memorial Lecture in 2001, which she delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, here is the context: … Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility … Continue reading
“Justice Sonia Sotomayor” has a nice ring to it!
Don’t have anything interesting or important to add to all the conversation around the announcement that President Obama has nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to teh Supreme Court, but couldn’t let it go unremarked. I like this NTY story about … Continue reading
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Michigan Law Review Where Are The Women Redux: Fifteen articles, sixteen if you count the Foreword, only one written by a woman?
Michigan Law Review, Issue 107:8 (June 2009) (Past issues are available on our website.) FAULT IN CONTRACT LAW FOREWORD Omri Ben-Shahar & Ariel Porat, Fault in American Contract Law, 107 Mich. L. Rev. 1341 (2009) ARTICLES Richard A. Posner, Let … Continue reading
Another NYU Law Review Edition of: Where Are The Women?
Volume 84 May 2009 Number 2 ARTICLES Categoricalism and Balancing in First and Second Amendment Analysis Joseph Blocher A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth Victor Fleischer Toward Procedural Optionality: Private Ordering of Public Adjudication Robert J. Rhee NOTES A Relational … Continue reading
The House Subcommittee on Capital Market, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises Convenes An All Dude Witness List To Testify About Credit Ratings Agencies
Rep. Paul Kanjorski chairs the House Financial Service’s Committee‘s Subcommittee on Capital Market, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises is holding a hearing on credit ratings agencies this afternoon. Here is the witness list (names link to pre-submitted statements): … Continue reading
How many women authors are in your syllabi?
After observing that: … a quick tally of the authors represented on my syllabi (10 courses so far) reveals that 12% of the articles or books I was required to read were written by women. Now in my third quarter … Continue reading
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Where Are the Women? Duke Law Journal Edition
The April 2009 issue of the Duke Law Journal is chock full of interesting looking material. The gender ratio calculation is complicated by the fact that some authors made more than one contribution, but even counting them only once, the … Continue reading
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