Report: Women authors underrepresented in top-ranked academic journals
INSIDE HIGHER ED — A major political science study from last year explored publication patterns across 10 prominent journals, finding a significant gap in publication rates for men and women. The article said that the gap couldn’t be explained away by a low overall share of women in the field.
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THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION — In Tennessee and elsewhere, professors worry that their arguments for preserving tenure protections to legislators and the public are falling on deaf ears.
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DAILY NEWS JOURNAL — Middle Tennessee State University has secured a non-binding letter of intent with Valparaiso University to transfer the Indiana institution’s law school to Murfreesboro, President Sidney A. McPhee said.
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LOS ANGELES TIMES — The Elder Law and Disability Rights (ELDR) Center, a Santa Ana-based nonprofit legal service for seniors and people with disabilities, employs the help of a few volunteers and law students from various universities including UC Irvine and Chapman in a number of homelessness-related cases.
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LEGAL NEWS — The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan conducted a scholarship presentation to honor recipients of the Annual Ralph M. Freeman Foundation Law School and College Scholarships on Wednesday, May 23, at the Theodore Levin U.S. Courthouse in Detroit.
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NATIONAL JURIST — This article offers advice on what students should be thinking about in the summer before starting law school.
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USPTO — The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that 20 new law schools have joined the USPTO’s Law School Clinic Certification Program, and five currently participating law schools have added a second clinic program, during the 2016-2018 expansion.
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YALE LAW SCHOOL — The Yale Law Journal and the Stanford Law Review have collaborated to publish a special companion symposium titled, “#MeToo and the Future of Sexual Harassment Law.”
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HARTFORD BUSINESS — Even as the use of mandatory arbitration agreements remain popular in America’s workplaces, some employees — law students in particular — are pushing back and some companies and firms are having second thoughts about using them.
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CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS — Three law professors at Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Cleveland offer advice to incoming students about the value and changing nature of legal education.
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