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13 Short Symposium Essays in Connection with “Are You There, Law? It’s Me, Menstruation?” @ColumbiaJGL

Posted on March 25, 2021 by admin

On April 9/10, 2021, the Columbia Journal of Gender & Law will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Judy Blume’s book, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret and the 30th anniversary of the journal with a symposium … Continue reading →

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Battling Trolls, Goblins and Structural Sexism: How the Period Emoji Ended up on your Phone

Posted on October 1, 2020 by admin

Guest post by Carmen Barlow and Lucy Russell If you have a smartphone, it’s pretty likely you’ve used an emoji. These tiny images have become a language of their own and whether it’s a goblin mask, a sad cat or … Continue reading →

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Signatories Sought for Letter Urging NCBEX to Require All States to Permit Test-Takers to Bring Menstrual Products to Bar Exam

Posted on July 19, 2020 by admin

We recently have been made aware that certain state bar examiners – including some administering the exam next week – prohibit people from bringing their own menstrual products to the bar exam.  For the reasons explained below and in the … Continue reading →

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A Letter to Law Review Editors and Promotion and Tenure Committees at Law Schools

Posted on July 17, 2020 by admin

  The open letter to law reviews, administration, and promotion and tenure committees seeks to raise awareness of the gendered effects of COVID on women faculty. The letter is open for colleagues to join by signing via the link https://forms.gle/LPuZ3e9safLwMPfg9   … Continue reading →

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Is Betsy DeVos Our Current Generation’s Phyllis Schlafly?

Posted on May 23, 2020 by admin

The following is a guest post by Rachel Cohen. Ms. Cohen is a 2020 graduate of NYU School of Law. Earlier this month, the Department of Education under Betsy DeVos issued final regulations on Title IX, which, among other things, … Continue reading →

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Same-Sex Voting and Phallocentric Legislation—Toward Next Era Democracy?

Posted on October 7, 2019 by admin

The present battle over reproductive rights is an attempted coup by conservatives, who see an opportune moment. Ushered in by the election of Donald Trump as well as the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, … Continue reading →

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Hearing Women: Reflections on the Anniversary of Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony

Posted on September 26, 2019 by admin

by Stephanie M. Wildman September 27 marks the anniversary of a skirmish that ranks in the pantheon of modern civilian conflicts over what kind of society America will be. Many believed Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony one year ago about … Continue reading →

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Why The Gender Pay Gap Took Center Stage In Michelle Wiliams’s Emmy Speech by @NaomiCahn

Posted on September 23, 2019 by admin

When Michelle Williams accepted a 2019 Emmy for best actress in a limited series or TV movie for her role as the Broadway dancer and actress Gwen Verdon in FX’s “Fosse/Verdon,” she started with the normal thank yous, and ended … Continue reading →

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Reflecting on Twenty-Five Years of Duke Journal of Gender & Law

Posted on August 21, 2019 by admin

In 1994, Professor Katharine Bartlett founded the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy to solidify gender law as an intellectually disciplined and complex field of legal scholarship. Despite women’s ongoing struggle to achieve equal rights and treatment in nearly … Continue reading →

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CFP: Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Inclusion & Equity in the Law School Classroom

Posted on July 11, 2019 by admin

Dear Colleagues, We are writing to invite you to consider submitting contributions to a new book we are editing. It is tentatively titled Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Inclusion & Equity in the Law School Classroom. This book will be published … Continue reading →

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New Bibliographic Resource on Gender and the Law in Japan

Posted on May 21, 2019 by admin

I’ve posted two two working papers up on the Social Science Research Network.  The first, developed with one of my students, Kallista Hiraoka, aims to present a comprehensive bibliography of English language scholarship on the subject.  The bibliography contains approximately 140 … Continue reading →

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Perspectives on Touching

Posted on April 2, 2019 by admin

Humans are tactile creatures.  It is one of the senses on which we depend for physical, emotional and spiritual health and safety.  It is a sense particularly important to communication, connection, growth and development.  Our body integrity and sense of … Continue reading →

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The Senate Responds to Kavanaugh’s Accusers

Posted on September 27, 2018 by admin

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school has turned Kavanaugh’s judicial confirmation into an extremely polarizing political issue. In the midst of the #metoo movement, Dr. Ford’s accusation … Continue reading →

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New Children’s Book: “My Mom Has Two Jobs”

Posted on September 12, 2018 by admin

I recently took a break from writing law review articles to publish my first children’s picture book, which celebrates working moms — including lawyer moms. The book is titled, My Mom Has Two Jobs. I had the idea for this … Continue reading →

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Shaming and Blaming Mothers Under the Law: It’s Time We Stop Expecting Mothers to Be Perfect

Posted on September 7, 2018 by admin

The perfect mother is a ubiquitous, if impossible, part of American life. We see her in spandex at the gym, working out—self-care!—a week after delivering twins. She’s at center-stage when internet experts opine about how mothers can prevent teenagers’ opioid … Continue reading →

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Of Mosquitoes and “Moral Convictions”: How Rolling Back the Affordable Care Act’s Contraceptive Mandate Jeopardizes Women’s and Children’s Health

Posted on December 5, 2017 by admin

December 5 is the deadline to submit comments on the Trump Administration’s recent action to gut the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate, which requires employer-sponsored health plans to ensure women’s access to free, effective contraception.  This decision, announced in October … Continue reading →

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Shayara Bano v. Union of India: A Watershed Moment in the Battle for Women’s Rights in India

Posted on September 13, 2017 by admin

The following is a guest post by Malcolm Katrak. Mr. Katrak is a Law Clerk to Justice (Retd.) S. N. Variava, Former Judge, Supreme Court of India. In the past, he has worked with Mr. Darius Khambata, Former Vice-President, London … Continue reading →

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Guest Blogger Vasujith Ram on Taxes on Sanitary Napkins in India

Posted on July 25, 2017 by admin

The Constitution of India was recently amended to introduce the ‘Goods and Services Tax’ (GST). The GST subsumes almost all the existing indirect taxes in India (such as Excise Duty and Service Tax, levied and collected by the Federal Government, … Continue reading →

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Neil Gorsuch, Hobby Lobby, and the Question of Complicity

Posted on April 6, 2017 by admin

Neil Gorsuch may be a soft-spoken and gentlemanly Harvard-educated lawyer’s lawyer.  But his decision in the Hobby Lobby case, 723 F.3d 1114 (10th Cir. 2013), apparently overlooked by most commentators, demonstrates just how much American women have to fear if … 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

Posted on June 27, 2014 by admin

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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Faith Stevelman on the Credibility Gap for Women in Teaching Business Law

Posted on May 14, 2014 by admin

The following was posted by Faith Stevelman (NYLS, Visiting Professor at University of Washington) to the Section on Women in Legal Education’s listserv and is reprinted with permission: Yes indeed, as the enrollment and jobs crises roll along, there will … Continue reading →

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Sex-Positive Law

Posted on November 22, 2013 by admin

Sexual pleasure is a good thing. It’s not just moral philosophy that supports the value of pleasure (although much of it does); it’s common sense. We value pleasure simply because it is pleasurable. People devote significant time and money to … Continue reading →

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Rubenfeld’s Big Step Backward in Rape Law

Posted on October 27, 2013 by admin

Earlier this year Jed Rubenfeld authored, in the Yale Law Journal, one of the strangest articles about rape law that has ever been written. While it is often a mistake to draw unneeded attention to dangerous ideas, a response to … Continue reading →

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Israel Faces a New Front of Segregation

Posted on June 26, 2013 by admin

Two female soldiers were recently punished because one was braiding the other’s hair outside of the tent. A religious soldier complained that this was an immodest behavior, and the two were disciplined. The public uproar made the military reverse their … Continue reading →

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Parade of Male Dean Candidates

Posted on March 26, 2013 by admin

As a soon-to-be-tenured female faculty member, I have been watching the news of recent law school dean appointments at Connecticut, UNLV, IU-Indy, and Northern Kentucky with interest. Three points stand out among all the announcements. First, these candidates are all … Continue reading →

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Student Reflection: Obstacles to Gender Equality at Work and Home, in Reaction to Rosenblum

Posted on March 15, 2013 by admin

The following is a guest post by Margaret Serrano, a student at Pace University School of Law (JD expected 2013). Pace Law School Professor Darren Rosenblum posted yesterday to his Huffington Post Blog (here) to criticize Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In … Continue reading →

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Internship for Law Students: Hadassah-Brandeis Institute

Posted on February 26, 2013 by admin

From colleagues at Brandeis: HBI Summer Internship Program Seeks Graduate Student Intern for Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law – June 10 – August 2, 2013 The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute at Brandeis University has an opening for a graduate … Continue reading →

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CFP: Beyond Roe: Reproductive Justice in a Changing World

Posted on February 21, 2013 by admin

Beyond Roe: Reproductive Justice in a Changing World Throughout 2013, five law schools in the Delaware Valley will hold events exploring various aspects of reproductive justice in the 40 years post-Roe v. Wade. The final event in this series is … Continue reading →

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CFP Grounding Cosmopolitanism: Theory and Practice Through the Prism of Women’s Rights

Posted on January 11, 2013 by admin

Grounding Cosmopolitanism: Theory and practice through the prism of women’s rights – Extended call for papers The project will explore the outstanding question – both theoretical and practical – of how to live together in diversity through the prism of … Continue reading →

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Major Steps Backwards for Women in the Law – I Don’t Have More Than a Lifetime to Wait – Do You?

Posted on October 21, 2012 by admin

Over the last six months there have been a number of disturbing studies and reports issued documenting that women are losing ground in our strides towards equality in the legal profession. The National Law Journal reported this past week about … Continue reading →

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Alimony Should Be Gender-Neutral

Posted on July 5, 2012 by admin

Marriage has been showing up in headlines across the country, from new stories trumpeting Obama’s statement of support for marriage equality to those debating the First Circuit’s judicial blow to DOMA. While shifts in access to legal marriage and the economic … Continue reading →

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In Memory of Jane Larson 1958-2011

Posted on January 2, 2012 by admin

Professor Jane Larson died December 24, 2011, at her home in Madison, Wisconsin. She was a noted feminist legal historian on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Law School. Colleagues around the country are expressing their shock and sorrow … Continue reading →

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Review of Rene Almeling, “Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm”

Posted on September 14, 2011 by admin

Rene Almeling’s new book, Sex Cells:  The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm, explores the inner workings of the world of donor gametes, and then sets these observations in the larger contexts of gender and commodification.  Almeling, a sociologist at Yale, collected data … Continue reading →

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Request for Signatories to Amicus Brief in Hosana-Tabor Case (First Amendment, Employment Discrimination and Gender Issues)

Posted on July 24, 2011 by admin

We have drafted an amicus brief for law professors in the Hosanna-Tabor case, which involves a ministerial exception to employment laws and has important implications for gender discrimination. Cheryl Perich was a kindergarten and fourth grade teacher at Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical … Continue reading →

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CFP: “Theory and Praxis in Reducing Women’s Poverty”

Posted on July 11, 2011 by admin

Dear Colleagues: The AALS sections on Poverty Law and Clinical Legal Education will sponsor a joint session at the upcoming 2012 AALS Annual Meeting, entitled Theory and Praxis in Reducing Women’s Poverty. In collaboration with the American University Washington College … Continue reading →

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Guest Blogger Amanda Gonzalez: How We Can Support Legal Education for Women in the United States…and Abroad

Posted on June 20, 2011 by admin

In the United States, women have a long way to go to reach parity with men when it comes to partnerships in leading law firms. Despite strides, women are still only 16% of equity partners at major law firms and … Continue reading →

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Guest Blogger Marie Owens: Are Criminal Justice and Law “Masculine” Professions?

Posted on April 11, 2011 by admin

As a member of the graduating class of South Texas College in 1957, Joe Kegans practiced law for twenty years before being appointed to the 230th Criminal District Court. One of the earliest women to earn a criminal justice degree … Continue reading →

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Power: Written all over your face(?)

Posted on December 17, 2010 by admin

Judgments of Power From College Yearbook Photos and Later Career Success by Nicholas O. Rule and Nalini Ambady in Social Psychological and Personality Science published online 4 October 2010 Abstract: ….the authors find that inferences of power from photos of … Continue reading →

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Guest Blogger Amanda Gonzalez: Must We Wait for Women to be Represented in Classroom Materials?

Posted on December 12, 2010 by admin

Must we wait for women to be represented in classroom materials? I’m slightly ashamed to admit that it took me an entire year of law school before I figured out that I needed to use the Examples and Explanations books … Continue reading →

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Guest Blogger Liz Kukura – LSRJ Study Highlights Dearth of Reproductive Rights Law & Justice Courses

Posted on November 29, 2010 by admin

Law Students for Reproductive Justice (LSRJ) recently completed its first comprehensive survey of reproductive rights and justice course offerings at all ABA-approved law schools in the U.S. for the last seven years.  While perhaps not surprising to many within the … Continue reading →

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Challenging the Opponents of Marriage Equality

Posted on November 16, 2010 by admin

In addition to former representative Bob Barr’s interesting address on how his views have evolved on DOMA (the subject of my earlier post here) , the St. John’s U. School of Law Nov. 12th symposium, “Legal, Secular, and Religious Perspectives … Continue reading →

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Former U.S. Congressman Bob Barr on Marriage Equality

Posted on November 15, 2010 by admin

Having already called for the repeal of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act when he ran for president in 2008 as the Libertarian Party nominee, Bob Barr returned to the topic of DOMA’s dysfunctions during an extensive lunchtime address at … Continue reading →

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Guest Blogger Seth Stern: Justice Brennan’s Woman Problem

Posted on November 9, 2010 by admin

In the month since the publication of the biography of Justice William J. Brennan Jr. I co-authored, no passage has attracted more attention than our account of his refusal to hire female clerks. It probably shouldn’t have come as a surprise … Continue reading →

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Guest Blogger Amanda Gonzalez: Can Acting Like a Man Really Work Against Patriarchy?

Posted on November 4, 2010 by admin

I have a confession to make: I truly love trashy television and radio. I’m not above any of it. Not 16 and Pregnant, not Justin Bieber, not Real Housewives. I love it all. As I was singing along to the … Continue reading →

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Cell Phone Drive to Benefit Domestic Violence Victims

Posted on October 4, 2010 by admin

This year, Domestic Violence Awareness Month coincides with the ABA’s National pro bono week which occurs from October 24 through 30, 2010. The ABA’s Domestic Violence Commission is encouraging women’s bar and law student associations around the country to host … Continue reading →

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Memo to Yale Law School Professor Adam Cohen: “What Price Waterhouse did is like saying ‘nigger.’”

Posted on August 19, 2010 by admin

A member of the blogroll who has requested anonymity contributes the following post: Adam Cohen, who is apparently a law professor at Yale Law School, seems not to be familiar with the case of Hopkins v. Price Waterhouse, and that Cohen … Continue reading →

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2010 Status Update – Women and Legal Education

Posted on April 29, 2010 by admin

According to blogs in the legal academy, women did not fare well this year in the law school lateral hire market, with the majority of lateral moves being made by men. Further, Supreme Court clerkships are weighty credentials among academics … Continue reading →

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