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Unenthusiastic in Pennsylvania

With the race for the Democratic nomination for President still so tight, I now regularly hear news reports that Pennsylvania’s primary might actually count for something this year. Our primary is scheduled for April 22nd, and, until recently, most people … Continue reading

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Externalities Illustrated

Today’s NYT featires an article entitled At Jets Game, a Halftime Ritual of Harassment that reports: At halftime of the Jets’ home game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday, several hundred men lined one of Giants Stadium’s two pedestrian ramps … Continue reading

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South Carolina, States Rights and Feminism

Over at Prawfsblawg Scott Moss asked readers for their favorite bad legal argument. On entrant was the South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon’s position in Reno v. Condon. You can listen to here. The stupid starts really flying around 30 … Continue reading

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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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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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Why Now?

As this NYT article discussed back in August, Internet sites featuring fully clothed children in erotic poses are currently the focus of legal actors. That article observed: While many of the recently created sites are veering into new territory, the … Continue reading

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“Stop the Press Spree Against Working Moms”

Read Sheila Gibbons’ essay by that name here. Below is an excerpt: …Off-kilter news reporting on the reasons women leave jobs, laced with amateur psychology and traces of biological determinism, have been creating a false impression about women’s employment patterns, … Continue reading

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“Violence against women is ‘severe and pervasive’ worldwide with one in three women subjected to intimate partner abuse during her lifetime, according to a UN report.”

The U.N. recently completed an “In-depth study of all forms of violence against women.” This News24 article reports: Violence against women is “severe and pervasive” around the world, with at least one in three women subjected to intimate partner abuse … Continue reading

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The San Francisco Chronicle is publishing a series of investigative reports about sex trafficking

Part One is here. Below is an excerpt: Many of San Francisco’s Asian massage parlors — long an established part of the city’s sexually permissive culture — have degenerated into something much more sinister: international sex slave shops. Once limited … Continue reading

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Belle Lettre: “On Being A Female Blogger, And Yes, A Real One At That”

Ann Bartow has a post below about the unfunniness that is David Lat’s new blog: The Kind of Satire That Often Isn’t Funny: David Lat’s “Hottest ERISA Lawyer in America” Contest: Possibly Lat doesn’t understand that being celebrated for her … Continue reading

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Another Reason Not To Go To Law School If You Haven’t Already

Excerpts from Judge Kent’s opinion in Bradshaw v. Unity Marine Corp., 147 F. Supp. 2d 668 (2001): “…Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish … Continue reading

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“Belle Lettre” on Morality and Contraception

This is a guest post by “Belle Lettre,” of “Law and Letters,” who describes herself as an “Epistolary Geek, J.D., L.L.M. student, and Writer of billet-doux and long law review articles about federalism, hate crimes and race conscious pedagogy. Oh, … Continue reading

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Hands Off

There is a strange post by Eugene Volokh about “involuntary sexual arousal and touching” here, at the Volokh Conspiracy. It elicited a very strong negative reaction from Belle Waring, which is posted here, at Crooked Timber. Volokh’s theory seems to … Continue reading

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Bitches and Bags and Blogs

What does it mean when a man says another is his “bitch”? To me it implies that the man is his “woman,” which is intended to be very insulting. Calling a man a woman is contextually negative because being a … Continue reading

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Why Pointing Out Sexism In Blog Comments Threads Is Important

In “The Down Side of Slashdot” Annalee Newitz writes at Alternet: …any tech or science writer whose stuff goes on the Web (including yours truly) is at least a little bit invested in the idea of getting Slashdotted once in … Continue reading

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“Femicide On the Rise in Latin America”

Femicide On the Rise in Latin America, by Kent Paterson – 3/10/2006, via the Women’s United Nations Report Program & Network: On the eve of International Women’s Day 2006, a delegation of Latin American women made a historic journey to … Continue reading

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Eight Types of Faculty Meeting Attendees

Adapted from: “8 types of meeting attendees” at Jonathan Grubb: 1. The Talker: Person who thinks talking is the same as contributing. (Admittedly, sometimes that’s me.) 2. The Dean: This person may or may not actually be the Dean. The … Continue reading

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Maybe Lexis or Westlaw Could Give the NYT a Discount? Because It Doesn’t Seem Likely NYT Writers Will Actually Log On Too Often…

In a 1/18/06 post entitled “Bashing Feminists” at Left2Right, Michigan Philosophy Professor Elizabeth Anderson wrote: “Ana Marie Cox, self-professed feminist and formerly of Wonkette fame, reviewing “Women Who Make the World Worse” by Kate O’Beirne in the New York Times … Continue reading

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Bra Blogging

Last December Bitch Ph.D. ran two posts about bras: Girly stuff: the Ultimate Bra Post, and More Bra Advice–from a Bra Wizard, no less. The posts and the comments they elicited provide a wealth of advice and opinions about bras. … Continue reading

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Myrna Raeder On The Intersection of Hearsay Exceptions and Domestic Violence Prosecutions

Myrna Raeder (Southwestern U. School of Law) has a new article available on SSRN: Remember the Ladies and the Children Too: Crawford’s Impact on Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Cases, 77 Brooklyn Law Review 311 (2005). Here is the abstract: … Continue reading

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