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Nevada Law Journal CFP: Race AND Gender AND Policing – May 5 deadline
From colleagues at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law Program on Race, Gender & Policing: We are pleased to announce a call for papers…
The Right Coast
Biologists propose radical concept that there are only two genders/sexes
The argument is that because some people are intersex they have developmental conditions resulting in ambiguous sex characteristics the categories male and female exist on a spectrum, and are therefore…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Conference: Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities
By Tracy Thomas
2020 Berkshire Conference on Women“Big Berks”The 2020 “Big Berks” focuses on the histories of women, genders, and sexualities, and this year devotes special attention to a pressing theme of our current…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Studying Women’s Beliefs as to Whether STEM Leaders Think Women are Bad at Doing Science
By Tracy Thomas
Andrew Dustan, Kristine Koutout & Greg Leo, Beliefs About Beliefs About GenderDo women believe that leaders in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields believe that women are bad at doing science? Such…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender and Racial Bias in the US Tax Laws
By Tracy Thomas
Ariel Jurow Kleiman, Amy Matsui & Estelle Mitchell, The Faulty Foundations of the Tax Code: Gender and Racial Bias in Our Tax Laws, San Diego Legal Studies Paper No. 19-423This…
Race and the Law Prof Blog
Kamala Harris and the Complexity of Racial Identity Politics
On December 3, Senator Kamala Harris ended her bid to become the 2020 Democratic nominee for President. Harris has been the most prominent and popular woman of color to be…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Potential Persuasive Influence of the Feminist Judgments Project on Judicial Decision Making
By Tracy Thomas
Kate Webber Nunez, Persuasive or Pipe Dream? The Feminist Judgments Project's Potential Influence on Judicial Decision Making, British Journal of American Legal Studies (Vol. 9 2020 Forthcoming)The Feminist Judgments Project…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New Books: The Preacher’s Wife on Women’s Search for Spiritual Authority
By Tracy Thomas
Kate Bowler, The Preacher's Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women CelebritiesWhether standing alone or next to their husbands, the leading women of megaministry play many parts: the preacher, the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Examining Effective Negotiation Skills Through a Gender Lens
By Tracy Thomas
Andrea Kupfer Schneider, "What's Sex Got to Do With it: Questioning Research on Gender & Negotiation" Nevada Law Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2019Negotiation scholars and teachers often talk about…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Podcast: Law Professor Discusses Gender and US Asylum Law and the Difference Feminist Legal Thought Made
By Tracy Thomas
Signs, Ask a Feminist: Deborah Anker Discusses Gender and US Asylum Law Aziza Ahmed: Hi, this is Aziza Ahmed. I’m a law professor at Northeastern University’s School of Law, and I’m…