In January, 2006, Ann Bartow launched this blog as an exercise in community. In her inaugural post, Welcome to the “Feminist Law Professors” Blog, Professor Bartow stated the site’s simple aim: The overarching goal of this blog is to build ..read more

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Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network Deadline: Tuesday, October 7, 2024 The Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network (FLT CRN) warmly invites you to participate in its sponsored panels sat the upcoming Annual Meeting on Law & Society to be ..read more

Building on the success of the Equality Law Scholars’ Forum held at UC Berkeley Law in 2017, UC Davis Law in 2018, Boston University Law in 2021, Loyola Law Los Angeles in 2022, and Boston University Law in 2023, and in the spirit of academic engagement and mentoring in the area of Equality Law, we (Tristin Green, Loyola Law Los Angeles; Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Boston University Law; and Leticia Saucedo, UC Davis Law) announce the Sixth Annual Equality Law Scholars’ Forum to be held in Fall 2024. This Scholars’ Forum seeks to provide junior scholars with commentary and critique and to provide ..read more

Announcement of Conference Symposium and Call for Proposals Inheritance and Inequality Fifth Biennial Conference on Critical Trusts & Estates and Symposium of the Drexel Law Review Expressions of interest due May 1, 2024 Program September 27-28, 2024, Philadelphia, PA We are pleased to announce a conference on “Inheritance Inequality” (the Fifth Biennial Conference on Critical Trusts and Estates). The conference will take place on Friday September 27 and Saturday September 28, 2024 at Drexel University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and will ..read more

The organization Aid Access is behind the “Roe-bots” dispensing mifepristone outside the Supreme Court today. Here’s an excerpt from the Aid Access press release: Aid Access, a telemedical abortion service providing abortion pills in all 50 states, in collaboration with Women on Waves and Abortion Access Front, is set to unveil Abortion Robots outside the Supreme Court in Washington D.C. These robots will distribute mifepristone, commonly known as abortion pills, on March 26th at 8:30 AM EST. The abortion robots will be operated remotely from within shield law states, where legal prote ..read more

A new report by UNICEF estimates that 30 million girls have experienced female genital cutting since 2016. The NYT has coverage here (paywall; sorry ..read more

American Tax Policy Institute Research Roundtable and Symposium It’s a Man’s World: Revealing and Addressing Hidden Gender Bias in Tax Law and Policy Expressions of interest due March 31, 2024 Program October 17-18, 2024, Washington DC The American Tax Policy Institute is pleased to issue this Announcement and Call for Contributions to an event on October 17 and 18, 2024, in Washington, DC, that will explore the intersections between and among gender, taxation, and public policy. Conference co-sponsors include Skadden Arps Meagher & Flom LLP, the Elisabeth ..read more

Congratulations to Nadia Ahmad (Barry) and Mary Ziegler (UC Davis). Full announcement here ..read more

Laura Strausfeld of Period Law explains the term here, and why it matters in the fight to eliminate the sales tax on menstrual products ..read more