Daily Archives: September 5, 2012

Feminist Legal Theory/Professor Rosenbury/Fall 2012

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Course Information and First Week Assignments


The syllabus for Feminist Legal Theory has been posted on the course website under “Syllabus.”  The supplemental materials for the first day of class have also been posted under “Course Materials.”  By the start of class, hard copies of the syllabus and supplemental materials for the first day will also be available in the copy center.

The readings for the course can be found either in the required casebook, Cynthia Grant Bowman, Laura A. Rosenbury, Deborah Tuerkheimer & Kimberly Yuracko, Feminist Jurisprudence: Cases and Materials (4th ed. 2011), hereinafter referred to as CB, or in supplemental materials (Supp.) that will be available electronically and at the copy center.

For the first week of class, please be prepared to discuss the following:

For Monday 9/10:

I. Introducing Feminisms and Feminist Legal Theories
A. Popular Images of Gender, Race, Class, Ability, and Age: An Example from the 2012 Olympics, (Supp.)
B. Formal Equality Theory
Text Note, CB 115-16
Mary Anne Case, No Male or Female, CB 116-19
C. Law and Constructions of Gender
Mary Joe Frug, A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto (An Unfinished Draft), CB 177-81

For Tuesday, 9/11:

D. Intersections of Law and Culture
United States. Virginia, CB 68-80
Michael A. Messner, Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity, CB 809-15

Please email Professor Rosenbury at  lrosenbury at law.harvard.edu with any questions.

Harvard Law School Professor Hal Scott Seeks Research Associates for the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation

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Professor Hal S. Scott, Director of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, is looking for Research Associates who are interested in working for the Committee.  Research Associates work up to 20 hours per week, at $20 per hour, on a variety of topics related to financial regulation.

The membership of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, an independent and nonpartisan 501(c)(3) research organization, comprises thirty leaders from the investor community, business, finance, law, accounting and academia: http://www.capmktsreg.org/committeemembers.html.  In 2009, the Committee produced a definitive research study on the global financial crisis.  For more information on the Committee please visit: http:www.capmktsreg.org/.  Several HLS students involved with the Committee’s work were recently featured in the Harvard Law Bulletin: http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/bulletin/2011/summeroffice_1.php.

Qualifications:  Open to law students and lawyers.  Must have Wall Street or other financial experience, or demonstrated interest in finance and banking.  Familiarity with the Dodd-Frank Act at plus.  Incoming students are encouraged to apply.

Work may be performed remotely from anywhere in the United States.

Interested candidates please email the Committee’s Chief of Staff, Jennifer Grygiel at  jgrygiel at capmktsreg.org, attaching a resume.  Please refer to code CCMR-9 in your cover letter.