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Burnout Doesn't Frighten Me, Meredith A.G. Stange
Burnout Doesn't Frighten Me, Meredith A.G. Stange
College of Law Faculty Publications
This past semester we all taught during an unprecedented worst-case scenario, moving our courses online at the literal drop of a hat. Although I know my experience is not unique, from March to the end of the semester in May, I felt like I was just treading water. I realized that feeling unsure of myself, feeling disconnected from my students, and feeling like I was just treading water really was not me. In fact, I had not felt this way in the classroom since my first few years of teaching. Those were days I did not want to revisit because, …
Voting Like A Duck: Reflecting On A Year Of Legal Writing Voting Rights, Meredith A.G. Stange
Voting Like A Duck: Reflecting On A Year Of Legal Writing Voting Rights, Meredith A.G. Stange
College of Law Faculty Publications
Over the years, in various legal writing forums, I have heard that legal writing professors should try to “look like ducks.” This means we should publish, teach doctrinal courses, and otherwise do everything we can to make ourselves look like the tenure-track, non-legal writing faculty. The theory is that the more we look like tenure-track faculty, the harder it will be to treat those of us who are not tenure track differently. This has always bothered me because it seems to minimize the work that legal writing professors do and makes it seem that in order to have value, we …
Amor Y Esperanza: A Latina Lesbian Becomes A Law Professor, Elvia R. Arriola
Amor Y Esperanza: A Latina Lesbian Becomes A Law Professor, Elvia R. Arriola
College of Law Faculty Publications
Writing about my presence in the legal academy is about identifying the act of resistance in simply being myself as a Latina lesbian who was trying to develop as a feminist legal theorist when I thought about law teaching as a career in the late 1980s. Now recently retired, I can be grateful that I became a law professor at a time when fairly serious efforts were being made to diversify law faculties with the hiring of more women and racial and ethnic minorities. But in 1991, when I entered the academy as an assistant professor, not many law professors …