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April 11, 2001

Michelle Anderson, J.D., Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System, 2001 Vill. Women's L.F. 041106.

In testimony given before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System in December 2000, Professor Anderson addressed the present state of rape law in Pennsylvania. Professor Anderson discussed the leading Pennsylvania criminal cases addressing rape. Professor Anderson's testimony concludes that the substantive law of rape in Pennsylvania continues to evince a profound gender bias and that the processing of rape complaints by police in Pennsylvania can also be gender biased.

September 8, 2000

Katherine Franke, J.D., LL.M., J.S.D, What's Wrong with Sexual Harassment?, 2000 Vill. Women's L.F. 090801.

In a lecture given at Villanova University School of Law in March 2000, Professor Franke addressed the recent Supreme Court decisions that have sought to clarify the nature of the right against sexual harassment in the workplace. Professor Franke discussed these cases and critiqued the way in which the court's new jurisprudence of sexual harassment creates structural impediments to remedying the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace.

Jo Anne Durako, Stop the Presses: Gender Differences Discovered in the Legal Writing Profession, 2000 Vill. Women's L.F. 090802.

After 25 years of empirical research gathered by legal writing professors to study the legal writing profession, Professor Durako discovered a disturbing disparity. Inclusion of a question regarding gender differences in the legal writing profession in a recent survey revealed some startling news: women directors of legal writing programs are treated less well than men.

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