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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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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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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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Where are the Women? SSRN Downloads Edition
I recently posted here a list of law schools ranked #23-#100 by U.S. News, ranked by recent SSRN downloads. For anyone who would like to use it, the data file is here as an Excel spreadsheet and here in CSV … Continue reading
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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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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
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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Where are the women? Another post about gender disparities at elite law journals.
In disciplines outside law, faculty appointments and promotions (including tenure) are not in the hands of student journal editors. Of course, they do not depend entirely on student-editors in law either – but they do in part. Coming from Canada … Continue reading
Where are the women? Not in the most recent issue of the Columbia Law Review, that’s for sure.
Columbia Law Review, Volume 109 Issue 3 (March 2009) Article Contracting for Innovation: Vertical Disintegration and Interfirm Collaboration Ronald J. Gilson, Charles F. Sabel & Robert E. Scott Notes Paradox of Presumptions: Seller Warranties and Reliance Waivers in Commercial Contracts … Continue reading
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Another “Where are the Women?” Entrant: The most recent volume of the Harvard Law Review features two articles by men and notes and case summaries by “anonymous.”
I assume there is some way to figure out who wrote the notes? Current system seems like a pretty effective way to hide gender disparities among other things. Meanwhile, here’s the ToC: Vol. 122 · April 2009 · No. 6 … Continue reading
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Garance Franke-Ruta Asks: “Is The New York Times Still Pro-Choice? And Where are the Women?”
At The American Prospect she writes: …”The past two years have seen one of the most contentious and closely watched presidential contests in 40 years, the retirement of the first female Supreme Court justice, the appointment of two new justices, … Continue reading
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Is Ginsburg’s Decision in Sessions v. Morales-Santana Good for Women?
In Sessions v. Morales-Santana, a decision written by Justice Ginsburg, the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional today a federal law that makes it more difficult for U.S. citizen fathers than mothers to transmit citizenship to non-marital child born abroad. Previously, unmarried … Continue reading
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On Presidents’ Day: Is Voting for the Female Candidate Bad for Women?
Amy Schiller wrote in May, 2013 in The Nation (here) “The Feminist Case Against a Woman President.” Here is an excerpt” A woman in the Oval Office would not result in greater motivation for feminist action—it may actually dampen it. … Continue reading
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Why Do Some Gay Men Hate Women?
Writer Ryan O’Connell asks What’s the Deal with Misogynistic Gay Men? over here at Thought Catalog. And he’s not even talking about the gay men who overtly don’t like women (don’t want to work with them, socialize with them, etc.). … Continue reading
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Are 1/3 of Pornography Consumers Women?
As a counterpoint to the recent Newsweek story on “buying sex,” consider this (2009) Nielsen study, as reported by CNN: In the first three months of 2007, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, approximately one in three visitors to adult entertainment Web sites was female; during … Continue reading
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How Many Law School Chairs are Named After Women?
Yesterday’s post with the good news of Kim Krawiec’s appointment as the Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor at Duke Law School made me wonder about the number of law school chairs that are named after women. Hey, readers! We need … Continue reading
What is the effect of portraying college life as a catfight among straight women? In whose interest is it to describe the relationship among straight college women as essentially competitive and perhaps to blame for bad behavior on the part of college men?
Those are two questions Historiann asks in this excellent post about yesterday’s NYT article, The New Math on Campus. The point of article in my view is to help sell the idea of making achieving gender balance at colleges a … Continue reading
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Is Tenure a Trap for Women?
IS TENURE A TRAP FOR WOMEN? The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Daily Report Not if the tenure system is adapted to suit the modern realities of professors’ lives. By MARY ANN MASON The fear of failure influences many female academics … Continue reading
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The Murders of Mexican Lawyers Linked to Murders of Women?
According to this blog: Two unidentified gunmen executed Mario Escobedo Salazar and his son Edgar Escobedo Anaya, also a lawyer, in their Juarez office on Tuesday, January 6. The double homicide comes nearly seven years after Chihuahua State Judicial Police … Continue reading
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Law School Rankings By USNews: Does Cheating Benefit or Harm Women?
US News is considering altering the way “student quality” is measured for rankings purposes by including the LSAT scores of part time students, as is described here: The first idea is that U.S. News should count both full-time and part-time … Continue reading
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Op-Ed by Margaret M. Russell and Stephanie M. Wildman: Who Speaks For All Women?
Who speaks for all women? The maelstrom following the recent endorsement of Barack Obama by NARAL (the National Abortion Rights Action League) dramatically pumped up the volume of a months-old debate among women: namely, can a true women’s rights supporter … Continue reading
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There are 795 (not including Michigan and Florida, whose super delegate votes do not count) total Democratic super delegates. How many are white? How many are women?
Anyone know? Some information is here. NB: The majority of registered voters are white, and I’d guess that the majority of super delgates are white as well. The majority of registered voters are female. Somehow I … Continue reading
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Could Access To Cable Television Improve The Status of Women?
A paper entitled “The Power of TV: Cable Television and Women’s Status in India” claims so. The abstract reports: Cable and satellite television have grown rapidly throughout the developing world. The availability of cable and satellite television exposes viewers to … Continue reading
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Carhart and Its Effects — Which Women?
The Reproductive Rights Prof Blog has a good re-cap of the AALS Hot Topic panel on Gonzales v. Carhart. Michael Dorf also has offered his thoughts on some of the political issues raised in the panel. Here, I’d like to … Continue reading
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Does Title IX Hurt Women?
The Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed Eileen McDonagh and Laura Pappano, authors of the new book Playing With the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports (Oxford University Press, 2008). According to the authors, Title IX “has … Continue reading
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E.J. Graff asks: “What’s with the sexualized threats against women?”
And gets some answers in the comments, though perhaps not the kind she was hoping for.
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In Defense of Law Review Affirmative Action
As you may have seen, the new Scholastica submission service allows law reviews to collect demographic information from authors. A flurry of blog posts has recently cropped up in response; as far as I can tell, they range from negative … Continue reading
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There are the Women! Contracts Prof Blog Edition
Professor Jeremy Telman (Valparaiso), Editor of the ContractsProfBlog, writes (here): Bridget Crawfod [sic] often asks “Where are the Women?” when women are unrepresented or underrepresented in publications or conferences. Well, the answer to “Where are the women writing on contracts … 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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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
Why were there so few women at the World Economic Forum?
Morice Mendoza asks: Where Are the Women? Via Jill at Writes Like She Talks.
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Kotkin on “Gender and the Elite Law Reviews”
Feminist Law Prof Minna Kotkin (Brooklyn) has posted to ssrn her article, “Gender and the Elite Law Reviews: An Empirical Study of Authorship.” Here is the abstract: Have you ever stood in the faculty library looking at the covers … Continue reading
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CFP—Rewriting the Abortion Narrative: The Power of Popular Culture
Abstracts are due 2/15/22 Rewriting the Abortion Narrative: The Power of Popular Culture With the Supreme Court poised to radically change or even overturn Roe v. Wade after hearing the Mississippi Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, … Continue reading
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CFP: 12th Feminist Legal Theory Conference at University of Baltimore School of Law: Applied Feminism and Privacy – Deadline 11/1
From colleagues at the University of Baltimore: The Center on Applied Feminism at the University of Baltimore School of Law seeks paper proposals for the Twelfth Feminist Legal Theory Conference. We hope you will join us for this exciting conference on … Continue reading
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Interview with Dana Brooks Cooper, Florida Attorney Challenging the “Tampon Tax”
Earlier this year, Bridget J. Crawford spoke with Dana Brooks Cooper, Esq. of Barret, Fasig & Brooks in Tallahassee, Florida. Ms. Brooks is representing the plaintiff in a class action that challenges the Florida “tampon tax,” the state sales tax … Continue reading
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Int’l J. of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Issue on “Transnational Reproductive Travel”
The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics has a new issue devoted to “Transnational Reproductive Travel”. Here is the TOC (links require JSTOR or other log in — check with your University librarian; sorry no known open source): Introduction … Continue reading
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CFP: Applied Feminism and Work
From the FLP mailbox, this CFP: CALL FOR PAPERS: “APPLIED FEMINISM AND WORK” The University of Baltimore School of Law’s Center on Applied Feminism seeks submissions for its Eighth Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference. This year’s theme is “Applied Feminism … Continue reading
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Krause, “Some Thoughts from a Health Lawyer on Hobby Lobby”
Over at Hamilton and Griffin on Rights, Joan Krause (UNC) has posted “Some Thoughts from a Health Lawyer on Hobby Lobby.” Here is an excerpt: As a health law professor who teaches a course on women’s health care issues, I … Continue reading
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Guest Blogger Emily Gillingham, “This is Inconsistent with What She’s Been Telling Us”: Why the Criticism of Hillary’s Record on Women Matters
There has been quite a hubbub lately over Hillary Clinton’s criminal defense of an alleged child rapist in 1975, when she was 27 years old and just starting out as a legal aid attorney. (See, e.g., here.) Her client was … Continue reading
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“For most Americans, life expectancy continues to rise—but not for uneducated white women. They have lost five years, and no one knows why. “
TAP story by Monica Potts entitled “What’s Killing Poor White Women?” here.
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Helie and Ashe on “Multiculturalist Liberalism and Harms to Women”
Anissa Helie (CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice) and Marie Ashe (Suffolk) have posted to SSRN their article Multiculturalist Liberalism and Harms to Women: Looking Through the Issue of ‘The Veil’, 19 UC Davis J. of Int’l L. & … Continue reading
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Irresistible Impulse: Supreme Court of Iowa Finds Employer Can Fire Employee He Deems an “Irresistible Attraction”
The question is not before us of whether it would be sex discrimination if Tenge had been terminated because Lori perceived her as a threat to her marriage but there was no evidence that she had engaged in any sexually suggestive conduct. Tenge v. Phillips Modern Ag. Co., 446 F.3d 903 (8th Cir. 2006). … Continue reading
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“Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women”
That’s the title of this article. Below is an excerpt: … Charlotte Laws first encountered these sites in January this year, after her daughter Kayla, who is in her mid-20s, had her computer hacked. In Kayla’s email account was one … Continue reading
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CFP: “Black Women in Politics”
From the FLP mailbox: The editors of The National Political Science Review (NPSR) invite submissions from the scholarly community for review and possible publication for a Special Issue on: BLACK WOMEN IN POLITICS: MOVING FORWARD — NEW QUESTIONS, NEW DIRECTIONS … Continue reading
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District Of Oregon Dismisses Stereotype of the Emotional, Gossipy, and Flirtatious Woman & Then Labels the Plaintiff One
As noted by Bridget, in delivering the luncheon address at the MSU Symposium on “Gender and the Legal Profession,” the Honorable Nancy Gertner said that “[t]he reason that people are losing discrimination cases is not because it didn’t happen. It’s because … Continue reading
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Harassment, male privilege, and jokes that women just don’t get
(Cross-posted to Concurring Opinions blog) A familiar theme comes up frequently in internet discussions: Women who complain about online harassment are just missing the joke.
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CALL FOR PAPERS The University of Baltimore School of Law’s Center on Applied Feminism seeks submissions for its Fifth Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference. This year’s theme is “Applied Feminism and Democracy.” For more information about the conference, please visit … Continue reading
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Some Say CEDAW is Bad Idea
Christina Hoff Sommers, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, writes here in the Policy Review on Feminism by Treaty: Why CEDAW is Still a Bad Idea. Here is an excerpt: The question the Senate has … Continue reading
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