Legal News

new LWI Moot Court Committee creates listserv
Do you coach moot court teams? Advise moot court boards or societies? Enjoy the thrill of appellate advocacy? Fret over the administrative aspects of running a competition? The Legal Writing Institute has created a new committee for you, the Committee...

Coalition for Women Prisoners Re-entry Committee Publishes New Book for Women Returning Home from Incarceration
Coalition for Women Prisoners? Re-entry Committee Publishes New Book for Women Returning Home from Incarceration May 2008 My Sister?s Keeper, A Book for Women Returning Home From Prison or Jail, is a unique compilation of the words and experiences of...

Come Together: Healing Tensions Among Women Working for Equality ~ A Womens History Month Blog Carnival
A Women?s History Month  Blog Carnival Come Together: Healing Tensions among Women Working for Equality What Tami Said and Women?s Space are partnering to host a blog carnival to encourage a dialogue between all women committed to gender equality...

Another Survey on Working Women and Families
Friend of the blog Dana Nguyen sends us this blog posting from Crooked Timber. The title, "Working Women Hurt their Families" sums up what some people will conclude from a study by sociologists at Cambridge, which appears in Women And...

Women for Parity
A group of feminist activists has launched a new blog, “Women for Parity” at http://www.womenforparity.net.  Bloggers there offer political commentary on women’s issues...

Do Women Blog
Do female law professors blog? I mean, I know a few of them do. Orly Lobel is one of the regular PrawfsBlawg bloggers, and several other women, including Katy Kuh, Liz Glazer, Miriam Cherry, Laura Appleman, and Elaine Chiu, have guest blogged here...

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Lipitor
Review of Studies Show No Significant Benefit in Women

Diamond Antitrust
De Beers Diamond Company creates $295 million class action fund for anticompetitive gem prices.