Columbia Journal of Gender and Law articles from September 2003

Columbia Journal of Gender and Law archives from September 2003

A call for parity. (Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... We began at the beginning. The opening talk of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law's Spring 2003 symposium "Why a Feminist Law Journal?" detailed the career of Myra Bradwell, legal publisher and icon of American women lawyers. (1) ...

A brief history of gender law journals: the heritage of Myra Bradwell's Chicago Legal News.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... In the front of the first issue of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law published twelve years ago, the members of the staff inserted a brief statement of purpose. (1) Claiming that their "working job titles confer[red] no greater or lesser...

A journal of one's own? Beginning the project of historicizing the development of women's law journals.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... Since the 1970s, feminism has helped transform the university and the production of knowledge. Not only have increasing numbers of female students, professors, and administrators entered universities, they have also created women's studies...

I know it when I see it, or what makes scholarship feminist: a cautionary tale. (Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... Before we can intelligently discuss the significance of feminist law journals, it is important, as a preliminary matter, to identify and define what makes scholarship feminist. (1) While we may have an intuitive sense of which writings are...

Feminist legal scholarship: charting topics and authors, 1978-2002. (Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... In their call for papers, the organizers of this symposium posed several questions, including: "Are feminist law journals a victim of their own success? Have they outlived their usefulness?" and "What is the state of feminist legal scholarship...

Proliferation. (specialized forum to promote feminist scholarship) (Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... In the spirit of intellectual inquiry, the editors have chosen to hold a symposium asking how the unique mission of the journal is to be justified. Self-assessment is a courageous undertaking. Here we see exemplified one of the great benefits...

Diversity, discourse, and the mission of the feminist law journal.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... I. INTRODUCTION Why a feminist law journal? In recent years, there has been a proliferation of law school journals. At present many schools have, in addition to the traditional "law review," journals which focus on race, environmental law,...

Moving the margins. (duty to recognize and respond to social needs) (Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... Thank you to the symposium organizers for inviting me to speak. The symposium theme, a n exploration of the justification and need for a feminist law journal, and the panel I participated in focusing on the concept of marginalization, strike me...

Why a duck? Are feminist legal journals an endangered species, and if so, are they worth saving?(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... In the movie Cocoanuts Groucho Marx is explaining the blueprints for a real estate development. He has just pointed out a viaduct, when Chico interrupts: Why a duck? Why a--why a duck? Why-a-no-chicken?" [Groucho]... You try to...

Cultivating feminist critical inquiry.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... This short essay offers two observations regarding the continuing importance of feminist journals to the broader law school enterprise. I first address how feminist journals help to foster a culture of critical inquiry on law school campuses...

Women law journals in the new millennium: how far have they evolved? And are they still necessary?(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... It is no secret that women are entering law school and the legal academy in significant numbers in the new millennium. And their numbers have been on the rise since the early 1970s. For those of us entering law school around that time, inspired...

Two "colored" women's conversation about the relevance of feminist law journals in the twenty-first century.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... INTRODUCTION The invitation to participate in the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law symposium on the relevance of feminist law journals provided an ideal opportunity for us to reassess our collective endeavors as teachers, scholars, and...

Embracing complexity: human rights in critical race feminist perspective.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... Is feminist human rights scholarship prepared to address the current crisis in international law and politics? Globalization, the reassertion of deep cultural divides, war, armed conflict, terrorism, (1) the HIV/AIDS pandemic, (2) the appalling...

Feminist law journals and the rankings conundrum.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... Spring is a fitting season to discuss the relationship between rankings and feminist law journals, as U.S. News and World Report prepares to release its annual rankings of American law schools. Decried by many academics as arbitrary and unfair,...

Tenure politics and the feminist scholar.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... I. CONFRONTING OBSTACLES I begin my remarks here today by assuming that someone else in this symposium has affirmed the positive role played by the feminist law journal, as a material byproduct of the women's movement in academia, in...

Not whistlin' Dixie: now, more than ever, we need feminist law journals.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... Feminist and women's law journals have done terribly important work. They (1) have published articles that would not otherwise have been read, covered issues largely untouched by more traditional reviews, and reviewed books that might otherwise...

Converted or unconverted: to whom shall we preach? (Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... Feminist legal scholarship has given insufficient attention to key analytic approaches that figure centrally in other areas of legal scholarship. This failure of feminist scholarship to make use of methods that have enriched other scholars'...

Lessons about autonomy and integration from international human rights, law journals, and the world of golf.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... In this essay I will consider the questions posed by the symposium--"why have a feminist law journal?" and the specific question of this panel, "which master, autonomy or integration, do we or should we serve?"--together with the parallel...

Form, function, and feminist law journals.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... An inquiry into the function of feminist law journals needs to ask first: functions for whom? The answer must, it seems to me, vary depending upon whose perspective we take. Let me single out for special emphasis the role of feminist...

The rights of women in international human rights law textbooks: segregation, integration, or omission?(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... Our panel was asked to address the question: whom do feminist law journals serve, and how does that affect the answers to questions of autonomy versus integration? One important role of any student-edited law journal is the pedagogical role,...

Gender, sexuality, and power: is feminist theory enough?(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)(Panel Discussion)
September 1, 2003... I. EDITOR'S NOTE: AN INTRODUCTION What are the boundaries of feminism? What is the relationship between feminism and non-feminism? In the following dialogue, four authors critically examine how to describe feminism and what it can and...

On discipline and canon. (Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... While the title of the panel I participated in was "Why Do We Eat Our Young?", I think I prefer: "On Discipline and Canon," or to rework the title of the panel in the program, "Why Do We Eat Our Girlfriends?" In my short remarks, I would...

Journals as a feminist playground.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... When I told the organizers of this symposium I wished to take as my topic the problems of disagreement among feminists, they put me on a panel they had titled "Why Do We Eat Our Young?: Journals As a Feminist Battleground." Like Katherine...

Looking in the honest mirror of privilege: "polite white" reflections.(response to article by Taunya Lovell Banks in this issue, p. 498)(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... When I look in the honest mirror of white feminist legal scholarship I see reflected back at me a failure by those of us "polite white" feminists to seriously address the substantive critiques authored by women of color in the last twenty...

Speaking volumes: musings on the issues of the day, inspired by the memory of Mary Joe Frug.(Why a Feminist Law Journal?)
September 1, 2003... Liz: The symposium began with a discussion about history--the history of feminism and of women's law journals. Many of us who participated were part of this history, and Mary Joe Frug was as well. Since April 4, the day that the symposium was...