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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Reading List for Law & Gender on Halloween
By Tracy Thomas
It's Halloween... which for law and gender means time to remember the Salem Witch Trials. Most of the victims of the trials were women. And most of the accusers. Scholars have talked…
Law Deans on Legal Education Blog
Call for Papers: Women in the Law Symposium
Julia Belian (Detroit Mercy) sends word of a call for papers for University of Detroit-Mercy Law Review's extraordinarily timely Women in the Law Symposium. Here are the details:The Detroit Mercy…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Women and the Law Symposium call for proposals
The Detroit Mercy Law Review will host its 2019 Symposium, Women and the Law, on Mar. 8, 2019. The deadline for proposals is Nov. 9, 2018 at 5:00pm EST.Possible topics…
PrawfsBlawg
The Talk and The Whisper
Main Friday, October 05, 2018The Talk and The WhisperIn recent weeks I have been struck by the similarities between the advice different groups give each other. One is the Talk—the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Number of Women Arguing Before the Supreme Court has Fallen Off Steeply
By Tracy Thomas
ABA J, Number of Women Arguing Before the Supreme Court Has Fallen Off SteeplyJustices Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and their male colleagues saw fewer women arguing before them in the…
The Faculty Lounge
Call for Authors: Feminist Judgments – Rewritten Health Law Opinions
This just in: Call for Authors: Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Health Law OpinionsThe U.S. Feminist Judgments Project seeks contributors of rewritten judicial opinions and commentary on those opinions for an edited…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Study Documents Persistent Employment Discrimination Against Older Women and Ineffective Legal Redress
By Tracy Thomas
Joanna Song McLaughlin, Falling Between the Cracks: Discrimination Laws and Older WomenTheories and evidence suggest that older women may experience unique discrimination for being both old and female in the workplace.…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Deja Vu and the Gendered Origins of the Practice of Immigration Law
By Tracy Thomas
Felice Batlan, Deja Vu and the Gendered Origins of the Practice of Immigration Law: The Immigrants’ Protective League, 1907-1940, Law & History Rev. (2018)This essay from Felice Batlan was written after…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The 411 on the Second New Ruth Bader Ginsburg Movie “On the Basis of Sex”
By Tracy Thomas
Absolutely cannot wait for this. (Coming in December). So cool that the costumes (at least in the trailer) closely align with the archival photos.On the Basis of Sex Official Movie…
PrawfsBlawg
My Mom Has Two Jobs
Main Tuesday, July 17, 2018My Mom Has Two Jobs...that's the title of the debut children's book out today by the fabulous Professor Michelle Travis, USF Law faculty. Michelle's research focuses…