Suffolk ACS Presents: Making Space for Women Students in the Study of Constitutional Law
All are welcome. Lunch will be served.

It is said that, despite formal equality in law school admissions, every study of the experiences of women law students over twenty years – from the early impressionistic study by women study at Yale and Lani Guinier’s the empirical study, BECOMING GENTLEMEN, to the recently published study at Harvard – tells the same story of disheartening inequalities: women law students continue to feel silenced in the classroom, alienated by the pedagogy, and harassed by male peers and faculty alike. They feel more stress, become more ill, and perform less well. The official explanations are several: Women remain less than 20 percent of those who stand at the front of the doctrinal classrooms; the pedagogy of law school classes continues unchanged; and, the curriculum itself still refuses to admit the relevance of gender, race, class or sexuality to the moral authority of law as subject.

Come hear Professor Day present a discussion of her strategies for making space for women law students in the study of Constitutional Law.