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Feminist Theory And Feminist Method: Transforming The Experience Of The Classroom, Ann Shalleck

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Pedagogy And Law: Ideas For Integrating Gender Into Legal Education, Marclea V. Rodriguez

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Integrating Gender Into Legal Education: The Obstacles, Challenges, And Possibilities, Marcela Huaita Alegre

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Feminist Legal Theory, Feminist Lawmaking, And The Legal Profession, Elizabeth M. Schneider, Cynthia Grant

Faculty Scholarship

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The Founding Of The Washington College Of Law: The First Law School Established By Women For Women, Mary L. Clark

American University Law Review

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The Founding Of The Washington College Of Law: The First Law School Established By Women For Women, Mary Clark

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Gender, Legal Education, And Judicial Philosophy In The Region, Claudio Grossman

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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Feminist Theory And Feminist Method: Transforming The Experience Of The Classroom, Ann Shalleck

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

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An Analysis Of Gender In Admission To The Canadian Common Law Schools From 1985-86 To 1994-95, Brian M. Mazer

Dalhousie Law Journal

Using statistical data covering a ten year period, this study examines the issue of gender representation in admissions to first year law study at common law schools in Canada. After addressing three identifiable steps in the admission process-applications, offers and registration-the author concludes that while there has been progress and the gap has narrowed, the problem of gender inequality persists.

A Focus On Children And The Law, Aviva A. Orenstein

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Teacher Power In The Law School Classroom, Julie Macfarlane

Dalhousie Law Journal

Law teachers make choices over syllabus material, teaching methods and assessment formats, and thus inevitably exercise some control over what and how students learn. The actualpowerof each individual law professor will depend on the context of her particular classroom and her perceived credibility, generally defined by the university as the demonstration of a particular (rationalist) model of subject expertise. The intrinsic hierarchies and highly competitive culture of law school sustain this traditional model of knowledge along with its congruent image of the professor as autonomous, powerful and the focus of the classroom. Feminist law teachers and others who wish to …

Succeeding In Law School: A Comparison Of Women's Experiences At Brooklyn Law School And The University Of Pennsylvania, Marsha Garrison, Brian Tomko, Ivan Yip

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

This Article reports our findings from a replication of the Penn research conducted at Brooklyn Law School in order to test the experience-performance link reported by the Penn researchers. Brooklyn Law School offers an ideal setting for a test of the Penn research because it already has adopted most of the reforms that the Penn researchers believe would reduce women's alienation from the learning environment and thus improve their academic performance. First, Brooklyn Law School, as compared to other American law schools, has a large proportion of women faculty. During the 1994-95 academic year, thirty-seven percent of its tenured and …

Silent Beneficiaries: Affirmative Action And Gender In Law School Academic Support Programs, Darlene C. Goring

Kentucky Law Journal

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Between Legal Studies And Feminism, Mareike Coppi, Bettina Joos, Ina Steidl

Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice

What turned some Berlin law students into feminists? What were the origins of the "feminist jurisprudence project" at the Humboldt University in Berlin? The answers undoubtedly lie, in part, in the deficiencies in both social life and subject matter faced by women studying law in Germany. In order to explain the origins and subject matter of the feminist jurisprudence project, this article will provide an overview of the curriculum, the university situation, and the disadvantages faced by women law students in Germany.

Confronting Expectations: Women In The Legal Academy, Christine Haight Farley

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

A seemingly insurmountable barrier to women's success in legal academia is the way they are perceived. Numerous studies have shown that women are perceived as less competent than men and that the same work is evaluated more critically when it is thought to have been done by a woman than by a man. This problem exists in all aspects of life, but it is especially acute for women in professional roles, such as academics. Legal academia, however, seems to be particularly resistant to viewing women as equally competent. The article presents original empirical research that shows that student evaluations of …

West Virginia's Pioneer Women Lawyers, Teree E. Foster, Sandra M. Fallon

West Virginia Law Review

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Rosalie Wahl: Her Extraordinary Contributions To Legal Education, James F. Hogg

Faculty Scholarship

Justice Rosalie Wahl is well-known as the first woman to be appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court, but she has made a lesser known, yet critical, contribution to the quality and effectiveness of legal education in this country. As chair of the American Bar Association's Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Wahl created the MacCrate Commission. The MacCrate Report charts the way for improvement in law school teaching and learning, and the discussion following the report lead to the creation of an ABA Commission to take testimony and review the ABA Accreditation Standards. Wahl also chaired this …

New Wcl Program Explores Women's Issues In International Law, Ayesha Qayyum

Human Rights Brief

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Wcl Human Rights Clinic Champions Women's Rights, Angela Collier

Human Rights Brief

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Making Way For A New Standard: Women Redefine The "Ideal Professor", Margaret F. Brinig

Journal Articles

Unfortunately for most women, the profile of an ideal law professor is a married man with a stay-at-home wife. A profile very like that of ideal workers in other legal settings.

It is common knowledge that women who teach law, including very able and committed women, do not achieve tenure and promotion at the same rate as their male counterparts. Although some institutions actually discriminate against women, in most, women lag behind because the committees and administrators deciding promotion and tenure view all applicants through the same lens. Their focus is driven by their law school's need to compete with …

Stress And Health In 1st-Year Law Students: Women Fare Worse, Daniel N. Mcintosh, Julie Keywell, Alan Reifman, Phoebe C. Ellsworth

Articles

The social and psychological consequences of being a female law student may include greater stress and worse health than that experienced by male students. First-year law students at a major state university were surveyed about their physical and psychological health prior to, in the middle of, and at the end of the school year. They were also asked about specific sources of strain (e.g., grades, time pressure) at mid-year. Relative to men, women reported greater strain due to sexism, lack of free time, and lack of time to spend with one’s spouse/partner. Women also displayed more depression and physical symptoms …

Legal Education, Feminist Epistemology, And The Socratic Method, Susan H. Williams

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Case For A Feminist Torts Casebook, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Professor Leslie Bender's recent essay, An Overview of Feminist Torts Scholarship, contributes substantially to the construction of feminist perspectives on tort law. She carefully and comprehensively surveys burgeoning feminist scholarship in the field of torts. Professor Bender closely examines feminist histories of substantive tort law, the application of feminist theory to tort doctrine, to tort law concepts, and to the teaching of torts, tort issues that are important to women's lives, social science research involving feminism and torts, book reviews that are relevant to feminist tort law, and overviews of material that implicate feminist viewpoints of torts. After Professor Bender …

John D. Appel, Robert S. Rifkind

Cardozo Law Review

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Tamar Althouse Scholz, First Woman Law Graduate, Colleen K. Pauwels

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Apostolat Juridique: Teaching Everyday Law In The Life Of Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie (1867-1945), Nicholas Kasirer

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Based on a reading of archival material stored in a convent in east-end Montreal, the author describes the career of Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie, a self-trained jurist who taught and wrote about law for women in convent schools, teachers' colleges, study circles, temperance union meetings and the like over a forty-year period in Quebec at the beginning of this century. Her career as a law teacher is presented as a sign of a less visible facet of the history of legal education in Quebec-beyond the formal institutions of law teaching-that was closely tied to the home and the private world of …

Birth Of A Journal, Journal Of Gender & The Law Founding Committee

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Roe V. Wade And The Dred Scott Decision: Justice Scalia's Peculiar Analogy In Planned Parenthood V. Casey, Jamin B. Raskin

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Babies, Parents, And Grandparents: A Story In Two Cases, Karen Czapanskiy

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Expanding Our Vision Of Legal Services Representation– The Hermanas Unidas Project, Stacy Brustin

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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