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2. Which of the possible tactics (listed below) are likely to be the most effective? (Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using the tactics you discuss.)
3. What do you think the Legal Writing Institute can do to solve the problem of inequality in legal writing faculty employment?Select a group spokesperson and one idea/insight from your small group discussion that you would like to share with the large group.<br />List of Possible Tactics for Solving the Problem<br />Try appeals to equity, fairness, common goals <br />Make law schools and accrediting agency “uncomfortable with the situation” <br />Try interest conversion theory (Who are our natural allies?)<br />Apply pressure from specific sources <br />Students <br />Alums, bar, and bench <br />Non-legal writing faculty <br />Accrediting agencies (ABA) <br />National organizations such as LWI, ALWD, Scribes, SALT, our AALS section <br />Consider the traditional tools for changing unfavorable employment situations <br />Information & urge reform <br />Negotiation <br />Unionize <br />Negative publicity <br />Public protest <br />Slowdown, walkout, strike <br />Litigation <br />Ballot<br />Put an X next to all the approach(es) that you think is/are effective. You can vote for as many approaches as you wish.<br />_____Things are fine the way they are <br />_____Focus on local solutions (if you vote for this one, include one of the bullets below)<br />_____Keep working for small, incremental improvements <br />_____Work on making big changes—such as a switch to tenure track-- one law school at a time <br />_____Focus on systemic/nationwide solutions (if you vote for this one, include one of the bullets below)<br />______Work on small improvements at all law schools <br />______Work on big changes to the whole system <br />_____Work simultaneously on both local and systemic changes<br />_____Other? (Please explain briefly below.)<br />
![Bibliography, Small Group Discussion Directions, Ballot<br />Why Law Schools Discriminate Against Legal Writing Faculty:<br />What Can We Do to Right This Wrong?<br />Anne M. Enquist<br />Seattle University School of Law<br />June 29, 2010<br />Bibliography<br />Marina Angel, The Glass Ceiling for Women in Legal Education: Contract Positions and the Death of Tenure, 50 J. Leg. Educ. 1 (2000).<br />Maureen J. Arrigo, Hierarchy Maintained: Status and Gender Issues in Legal Writing Programs, 70 Temple L. Rev. 117 (1997).<br />Peter Brandon Bayer, A Plea for Rationality and Decency: The Disparate Treatment of Legal Writing Faculties as a Violation of Both Equal Protection and Professional Ethics, 39 Duq. L. Rev. 329 (2000-2001).<br />Mary Beth Beazley, “Riddikulus!” Tenure-Track Legal –Writing Faculty and the Boggart in the Wardrobe, 7 Scribes J. Leg. Writing 79 (2000).<br />Jo Anne Durako, A Snapshot of Legal Writing Programs at the Millennium, 6 Legal Writing: J. Legal Writing Inst. 95 (2000).<br />Jo Anne Durako, Dismantling Hierarchies: Occupational Segregation of Legal Writing Faculty in Law Schools: Separate and Unequal, 73 UMKC L. Rev. 253 (2004-2005).<br />David B. Grusky, ed., Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, Westview Press (2008).<br />Lucille A. Jewel, Bourdieu and American Legal Education: How Law Schools Reproduce Social Stratification and Class Hierarchy, 56 Buff. L. Rev. ____ (December 2008).<br />James J. Fishman, Tenure: Endangered or Evolutionary Species, 38 Akron L. Rev. 771 (2005).<br />Marjorie E. Kornhauser, Rooms of Their Own: An Empirical Study of Occupation Segregation by Gender Among Law School Professors, 73 UMKC L. Rev. 293 (2004).<br />Jan M. Levine & Kathryn M. Stanchi, Women, Writing, & Wages: Breaking the Last Taboo, 7 Wm. & Mary Women & L. a551 (2001).<br />Jan M. Levine, Voices in the Wilderness: Tenured and Tenure-Track Directors and Teachers in Legal Research and Writing Programs, 45 J. Leg. Educ. 530 (1995).<br />Rhonda F. Levine, ed., Social Class and Stratification: Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (1998).<br />Nancy Levit, Keeping Feminism in its Place: Sex Segregation and the Domestication of Female Academics, 49 U. Kan. L. Rev. 775 (2001).<br />Susan P. Liemer and Jan M. Levine, Legal Research and Writing: What Schools Are Doing, and Who is Doing the Teaching (Three Years Later), 9 Scribes J. Leg. Writing 113 (2003-2004).<br />Susan P. Liemer and Hollee S. Temple, Did Your Legal Writing Professor Go to Harvard?: The Credentials of Legal Writing Faculty at Hiring Time, Brandeis L. J. (forthcoming).<br />Richard K. Neumann, Jr., Women in Legal Education: A Statistical Update, 73 UMKC L. Rev. 419 (2004).<br />Michael L. Seigel & Kathi Miner-Rubino, Some Preliminary Statistical, Qualitative, and Anecdotal Findings of an Empirical Study of Collegiality Among Law Professors, 13 Widener L. Rev. 1 (2006).<br />Kent D. Syverud, The Caste System and Best Practices in Legal Education, 1 J. ALWD 12 (2001).<br />Kathryn M. Stanchi, Who Next, the Janitors? A Socio-Feminist Critique of the Status Hierarchy of Law Professors, 73 UMKC L. Rev. 467 (2004).<br />Kathryn M. Stanchi and Jan M. Levine, Gender and Legal Writing: Law Schools’ Dirty Little Secrets, 16 Berkeley Women’s L.J. 3 (2001).<br />Nina Tarr, In Support of a Unitary Tenure System for Law Faculty, 30 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 57 (2003).<br />Melissa H. Weresh, Form and Substance: Standards for Promotion and Retention of Legal Writing faculty on Clinical Tenure Track, 37 Golden Gate U. L. Rev. 281 (2007).<br />Small Group Discussion Directions<br />Get into small groups of 4-5 and for 15 minutes, discuss one or more of the following questions. <br />,[object Object]](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/bibliography-100712202456-phpapp02/85/Bibliography-for-presentation-on-Why-Law-Schools-Discriminate-Against-Legal-Writing-Faculty-1-320.jpg)
