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Danielle Conway, The Power of `We’: The Indispensability of Woman in Law and Society, From the Declaration of Sentiments...

In July 2026, Danielle Conway writes in her latest article that “[a]t the time of the first and second edits of this Essay, I served as Dean and Donald J. Farage Professor of Law,...

What the Cornell case reveals about how sexual assault allegations are handled

Anger and backlash are building at Cornell University this week over the way the school handled an alleged gang rape in 2024. The case has renewed questions about how sexual assaul...

How Sexism Helps Put Women on Death Row

We need a legal standard that would prohibit sexism and gender bias in criminal trials.

I Defend Due Process—the Cornell Case Shows Victims Need More

Privacy Lawsuit Over Prof's Book That Mentions Former TA's Childhood Sexual Abuse Can Go Forward

An "endarkened feminist approach to revolutionizing teacher consciousness" is alleged to be unprivacied as well.

‘Not One More Jane Doe’: From Kavanaugh to Cornell, Enough Is Enough

"For the past week, all I can see is red—for the naked distrust and disgust in which women are regarded, and the willingness to believe, vouch for, and dig hard for any rationale t...

The ‘Cornell 7’ legal circus reveals #MeToo’s unjust double standards

Despite the ginned-up publicity she’s willingly courted in the "Cornell 7" case, New York state law shields Jane Doe with anonymity.

‘She Was in Denial’: Jane Doe’s Lawyer Fires Back at Critics

Attorney Thomas Giuffra alleges Cornell minimized the allegations before they reached Tompkins County prosecutors, and is pushing back against those questioning her credibility The...

Close the Victim-Blaming Loophole the Cornell Seven Exposed

Ten years ago, Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Stanford University student and swimmer Brock Turner to six months in county jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a...

This Is One of the Saddest Facts About the Cornell Rape Case

Campus rape investigations are often riddled with problems — but eliminating them would be much worse.

Trial by Social Media? The Boundaries of Feminist Teaching in China

A law school professor was dismissed after online controversy over her course on women’s rights.

The Tangled Legacy of Gloria Steinem

Jill Filipovic has written perhaps the most incisive—and, not unrelatedly, most personal—of many tributes to the recently deceased Gloria Steinem. Filipovic rightly credits Steinem...

Book of the Week

Long acclaimed as one of the foundational texts introducing students to a variety of reasoning techniques and helping them understand how judges decide cases, Reason in Law has bee...

Labels Are Not Enough: Why Calling It ‘Sexual Harassment’ May Not Be Enough to Defeat Arbitration

The Perfect Victim Is a Dead Woman

This is a story about choices that are not really choices. It is a story about impossible circumstances propelling us down pathways we believe unimaginable. You always believe it c...

When “Gender Deception” Is a Crime

A new book revisits a notorious British sexual-assault trial in which a woman was convicted of posing as a man in bed.

The Political Morality of Reconstruction: An Interpretivist Justification of Mixed-Method Judicial Review

In its 2022 decision Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court overturned nearly 50 years of legal precedent protecting the constitutional right...

Understanding Reactions to Sexual Assault, We Tend to Forget ‘Girls Play Dead’

When news broke about the Cornell 7 case, author Jennifer Percy looked first at the text messages between Jane Doe and one of the men she accused of raping her. “I just wanted to a...

Lindsay Clancy and When Justice Cannot Reach a Verdict

by Deborah Wilson at CDN - Sometimes the most important verdict is the one a jury cannot reach. After weeks of testimony and nearly 40 hours of deliberations, the jury in the Lind...

Watch: 'Black Feminist' Cornell Professor Flees When Reporter Confronts Her for Disregarding Jane Doe Facts

On Wednesday, a Cornell ‘black feminist’ professor was pressed by a reporter on the Jane Doe lawsuit. When her ignorance was revealed, she didn’t try to explain; she tried to […] T...

Disqualifying Letitia James

Three days before New York Attorney General Tish James was appointed by Governor Kathy Hochul to supersede Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten in the investigation...

Women and People of Color as Deans: The Other Side of the Glass Cliff

Over the last few months, I have been mining the AALS Rosenblatt’s Deans Database for posts on the AALS TaxProf Blog. This recent article sheds light on the experiences of women an...

As you read about the Cornell Seven, remember Tamar

Seven men. One woman. And allegations so horrifying there is a temptation to look away. Don’t. Look closely, not only at the men accused, but at what this case reveals about the re...

Cornell rape case gets special prosecutor. And, Renee Good's family sues the government

New legal action in two closely watched cases: one at Cornell, the other over Renee Good's death. We take a closer look.