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The Intersectional Race And Gender Effects Of The Pandemic In Legal Academia, Angela Onwuachi-Willig
The Intersectional Race And Gender Effects Of The Pandemic In Legal Academia, Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Faculty Scholarship
Just as the COVID-19 pandemic helped to expose the inequities that already existed between students at every level of education based on race and socioeconomic class status, it has exposed existing inequities among faculty based on gender and the intersection of gender and race. The legal academy has been no exception to this reality. The widespread loss of childcare and the closing of both public and private primary and secondary schools have disproportionately harmed women law faculty, who are more likely than their male peers to work a “second shift” in terms of childcare and household responsibilities. Similarly, women law …
Law School News: Introducing Rwu Law's Sixth Dean 07-01-2020, Michael M. Bowden
Law School News: Introducing Rwu Law's Sixth Dean 07-01-2020, Michael M. Bowden
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Law School News: Aals Honors Barron With Major Pro Bono Award 11/14/2019, Michael M. Bowden
Law School News: Aals Honors Barron With Major Pro Bono Award 11/14/2019, Michael M. Bowden
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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On Legal Scholarship, Danielle K. Citron, Robin West
On Legal Scholarship, Danielle K. Citron, Robin West
Shorter Faculty Works
Academic critics contend that legal scholarship is overly argumentative or too “normative,” simply stating what the law should be, as well as what the law is. It isn’t about pure scholarship’s pursuit of knowledge within the discipline of a recognized academic field. Critics from the bar and the judiciary proffer the opposite complaint: legal scholarship is too academic and not professional enough, enamored with fads, unmoored from any discipline and of little use to the practicing lawyer or sitting judge. Law schools’ legions of cost-conscious critics complain that paying high salaries to professors with low course loads drives up tuitions. …