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Gender
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
A Contemporary Assessment of the Role of Women on the Jury
By Tracy Thomas
Vivian Rotenstein & Valerie Hans, Gentlewomen of the Jury, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, Forthcoming 2023This Article undertakes a contemporary assessment of the role of women on the jury.…
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Feminist Legal Theory CRN Call for Papers for 2023 LSA Annual Conference in San Juan
By Jamie Abrams
The planning committee for the Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network has issued a Call for Papers for the 2023 Law & Society Annual Meeting. The Call for Papers and instructions…
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CFP International Research Conference on Feminist Legal Theory, Gender and Law in Athens, Greece
By Tracy Thomas
International Conference on Feminist Legal Theory, Gender and LawThe International Research Conference Aims and ObjectivesThe International Research Conference is a federated organization dedicated to bringing together a significant number of…
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Black Women Firefighters Sue DC, Alleging Racial and Gender Bias
By Tracy Thomas
Black Women Firefighters Sue DC, Alleging Racial and Gender BiasFour Black female firefighters in the District sued the city Monday, saying they have been “systematically and continuously discriminated against on…
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An Operational Definition of Feminism for the Corporate Board Structure
By Tracy Thomas
Joan Macleod Heminway, Corporate Management Should All Be Feminists, 40 Law & Ineq. 409 (2022)The title of this essay may alienate some readers, including the very people who may benefit…
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Study Shows Unintended Consequences of MeToo in Fewer Research Projects and Collaborations for Junior Women Academics
By Tracy Thomas
Marina Gertsberg, The Unintended Consequences of #MeToo - Evidence from Research Collaborations In this study, I use research collaborations between junior female and male academics at U.S. Economics departments as a…
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Recognizing and Crediting the Invisible Labor of Women Law Professors of Color
By Tracy Thomas
Ederlina Co, Weathering Invisible Labor, 51 Southwestern Law Review 258 (2022)Professor Meera Deo’s Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia powerfully demonstrates how the legal academy has adopted many…
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Exposing the Patent Archives as an Inaccurate Record of US Invention When Viewed Through the Lens of the Black Woman
By Tracy Thomas
Kara Swanson, Inventing While a Black Woman: Passing and the Patent Archive, 25 Stanford Tech. L. Rev. (forthcoming)This Article uses historical methodology to reframe persistent race and gender gaps in…
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Study of Gender-Based Judging on Swedish Supreme Court Shows Little Effect of Gender
By Tracy Thomas
Johan Lindholm, Mattias Derlen & Daniel Naurin, 'Nevertheless, She Persisted': Gender and Dissent on the Swedish Supreme Court From the abstract:In line with gender-based stereotypes and ideals of female agreeability and…
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Reimagining Gender Through British Equality Law Using Paths from Religion and Disability Law
By Tracy Thomas
Flora Renz & Davina Cooper, Reimagining Gender through Equality Law: What Legal Thoughtways do Religion and Disability Offer?, Feminist Legal Studies, 2022British equality law protections for sex and gender reassignment…