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. Posts cover court cases, legislation and scholarship related to sexual discrimination for like-minded readers, as well as alert them to relevant conferences.
Author: Ann Bartow is a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law.
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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The Supposedly Liberal Doods Are STILL Odiously Hypersexualizing Sarah Palin
I don’t know why she is resigning her governorship, and I’m no Palin fan, but she absolutely did not deserve this: … As Hunter [S. Thompson] said, “When the going gets weird, the weird turn…
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Nellie McKay: Feminists Don’t Have a Sense of Humor
Via Tennessee Guerilla Women
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A Feminist Legal History of U.S. Patriotism
To mark the July 4 holiday, I’m reading a book by Francesca Morgan (History, Northeastern Illinois University). In Women and Patriotism in Jim Crow America (UNC Press 2005), Morgan details the activities of these women’s volunteer…
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Judge Kozinski Will Not Be Sanctioned For Hosting Web Site Featuring Racist, Degrading Porn
The SF Chron reported (in part): … In a decision that it labeled an admonishment, the panel told Kozinski that his conduct “created a public controversy that can reasonably be seen as having resulted in…
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Missing Girls
Got back from China yesterday, and one thing my colleagues and I noticed was the (completely anecdotal) vast majority of the children anywhere we looked were male. We were told that the Chinese governmnet is…
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Susan Williams on “Feminist Theory and Freedom of Speech”
Susan Williams, the William W. Foskett Professor of Law at Indiana Maurer School of Law has published her article, Feminist Theory and Freedom of Speech, 84 Ind. L.J. 999 (2009). The article was previously published in…
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US News Schools 23-100 by Recent SSRN Downloads
Paul Caron & Bernard Black (here) and Brian Leiter (here) have laid out the arguments for and against using SSRN downloads as a measure of faculty scholarship. I don’t have anything new to add, but…
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Krawiec on Law Schools and Institutional Goals
“‘We all contribute in our own ways’ is not a valid institutional goal.” That’s the title of Feminist Law Prof Kim Krawiec’s post here at the Faculty Lounge. ”It’s an excuse for poor management,”…
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Robson on India High Court’s Invalidation of Sodomy Law
Feminist Law Prof Ruthann Robson (CUNY) posted here at Constitutional Law Profs on the declaration by the Dehli High Court that India’s criminal prohibition on sodomy is unconstitutional. Here is an excerpt of her post: The Court…
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Adrienne Suarez’s Code of Ethics for Female Attorneys
Ms. JD reports (here) on Adrienne Suarez’s “Code of Ethics for Female Attorneys.” 1. I pledge to respect the female attorneys who came before me, because their paths were steeper, rougher, and unfamiliar. I pledge…