Feminist Law Professors
Feminist Law Professors highlights the work of feminist law professors and contains information about articles and events that are likely to be of interest to them.
Author: Author Ann Bartow is a law professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law in Columbia, S.C.
Blawg Related Categories: Careers • Women in the Law • Law Professors • Law Schools • Legal Theory • University of South Carolina • Law Professor • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Feminist Law Professors
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Guest Post by Nick J. Sciullo: On Womyn and Humyn With A “Y”
This story is a story of the law review process and one scholar’s attempt to do something, anything, about the patriarchal underpinnings of law schools, law, and legal thoughts. My ideas on feminism have not…
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“The through-the-legs shot is the upskirt shot with a velvet glove”
So opines Feminist Law Prof Jim Chen, who asks whether anyone would have published comparable shots of Joe Biden or Barack Obama or John McCain: October 8th Reuters photo of Sarah Palin: March 2007 Associated…
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Connecticut equalizes marriage law
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled today that the state must allow same-sex couples to marry. In yet another decision with a one-vote margin,* this time 4 to 3, the court ruled in Kerrigan v…
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Same Sex Victory in Connecticut - A Real One!
Just got word that the Connecticut Supreme Court found an equal right to marry - yup, “marry,” in the state constitution. Not civil unions. Marriage. Here’s the short version from my good friend Dan…
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“… if you’re going to talk about how far we’ve come when it comes to porn, if you’re going to posit Paul “Max Hardcore” Little as the latest victim of the Bush administration, if you’re going to lament one more strike against your First Amendment rights, you should bear witness as to what a porn star drenched in vomit looks like.”
That’s a quote from (link is to a NSFW site) Susannah Breslin, in her response to a Salon column by Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald sets up a false dichotomy between the DoJ’s prosecution of pornographer Max…
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Gender Imbalance In Law Reviews, A Continuing Saga
Concurring Opinions features the tables of contents of select law reviews when new issues appear. Judging by the first names, admittedly an imperfect measure, it looks like neither the Michigan Law Review nor the Boston…
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CFP: Women’s Right Law Reporter, Rutgers School of Law Newark
The Women’s Rights Law Reporter is a quarterly journal of legal scholarship and feminist criticism published by students at the Rutgers School of Law in Newark, NJ. Now-Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg founded the…
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Comments You Are Most Likely to Hear From Feminist Law Professors
On the Freakonomics blog at the New York Times, Justin Wolfers reminded readers (here) of economist George Stigler’s suggestion that during presentations of a scholarly work, audience members would increase academic efficiency by shouting out a number that corresponded…
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The Howard University School of Law Will Host Fifth Annual Wiley A. Branton Symposium On October 24, 2008
Program-at-a-glance here. Additional information here. Via Okianer Christian Dark.