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Respect For Diversity: The Case Of Feminist Legal Thought, Carl W. Tobias Jan 1989

Respect For Diversity: The Case Of Feminist Legal Thought, Carl W. Tobias

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Respect for diversity was one quality many faculty members considered significant when searching in 1987 for a new dean of the University of Michigan School of Law. Yet other so-called elite law schools and less prestigious institutions recently have evinced little concern for diversity and even indifference toward the idea. Tenure and appointment disputes at several Ivy League schools have sparked heated controversy and call into question their institutional commitments to diversity. Those disputes have involved the legitimacy of work by women in legal theory and feminist legal thought, although considerable contentious activity also seems to reflect a general lack …


In Praise Of Student-Edited Law Reviews: A Reply To Professor Dekanal, John Paul Jones Jan 1989

In Praise Of Student-Edited Law Reviews: A Reply To Professor Dekanal, John Paul Jones

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Prof. Jones responds to a previous writer's arguments that the student-edited law review be replaced by journals edited by law faculty members. He argues that there are not enough willing faculty editors and staff members to sustain the present number and production rate of law journals.