The MSU Law Review Symposium on "Gender and the Legal Profession's Pipeline to Power" is in full swing of today. I'll be live blogging and tweeting (@ProfBCrawford #genderandlegalprof) throughout the day. Here's the morning's line-up:
Welcome & Opening Plenary: Deborah Rhode (Stanford), Women and the Path to Leadership
Panel 1--Gender, Race and the Judiciary
Moderator: Linda Greenhouse
Renee Newman Knake (MSU), Rethinking Gender Equality in the Legal Profession's Pipeline to Power
Keith Bybee (Syracuse), The Limits of Debate or What We Talk About When We Talk About Gender Imbalance on the Bench
Sally Kenney (Newcomb College, Tulane), Gender at Work: The First Women on State Supreme Courts
Angela Onwuachi-Willig (Iowa) and Amber Fricke (Iowa), The Inexorable Zero: Female Judges of Color [unintentionally omitted from initial post; updated 4/14/12--BJC]
Panel 2--Gender Equality: From the Boardroom to the Electorate
Moderator: Winona Singel (MSU)
Doug Branson (Pitt), Diversity in Corporate Governance
Christine Corcos (LSU), Toward Cognatic Primogeniture: The Rise of Equal Rights of Succession in the Modern European Constitutional Monarchy
Erika Falk (Communications, John Hopkins), Unnatural, Incompetent, and Unviable: Press Portrayals of Women Candidates for President
Panel 3--The Roots of Gender Inequality in the U.S. and Abroad
Moderator: Melanie Jacobs (MSU)
Jen Mullins (American), Reactions to Lose: Investigating Lack of DiPersistent Gender Disparity in Student Note Publication
Dara Purvis (Illinois), Gendered Self-Evaluation of Female Law Students
Abigail Rury (Iowa), All Things Being Equal, Women versity Among the Recent Appointments to the Iowa Supreme Court.
More to come!
(cross-post at Faculty Lounge)