Introduction to Remarks from the 75th Anniversary of Women at Columbia Law School

On October 18-19, 2002, Columbia University celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first class into which, after years of pressure and debate, Columbia Law School finally admitted women. Over the course of the weekend, participants examined women’s fight to gain admittance and the changing experiences of women law students and lawyers since those first few women entered in 1927. In particular, the events highlighted both the addition and acknowledgment of stellar women faculty members and the giant leap in women’s enrollment that occurred in the 1970s culminating in the class entering in 2001, the first class in which women comprised more than fifty percent of the student body. Without minimizing how much work is left to do, the celebration allowed the Columbia Law School community to take a step back and appreciate how far we have come. The anniversary celebration began with a keynote address from the Honorable Mary Robinson, in the Fall 2003 installment of the Barbara Aronstein Black Lecture Series on Women and Law. Robinson served as the first woman president of Ireland from December 1990 through September 1997. Directly following this prestigious post, she served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights until September 2002. Since then, she has continued her efforts to expand human rights as the director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, which works to create a more ethical globalization process by integrating human rights standards and supporting local and national human rights efforts. In her lecture, Robinson described the capacity of women to work for their own human rights, as well as the need for women to share their resources and support each other in these important struggles. Highlighting endeavors such as the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, Robinson noted the efforts that law schools and law students have made to advance women’s human rights, but emphasized the need for such privileged and resourceful institutions to develop more new ways to contribute

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The papers in this issue of the journal, fortuitously rather than intentionally, focus attention on two themes pertinent to outdoor education researchers and practitioners. The authors address issues concerned with outdoor education in the school context and the role it might play in educating for sustainability

Why a Feminist Law Journal? Introduction to the Issue

The Columbia Journal of Gender and Law (JGL) editorial board formed in 1989, and we produced our first issue in 1991. But fourteen years after our conception, we found ourselves wondering, “Why a Feminist Law Journal?”-questioning both whether we are a feminist journal, and whether there should be feminist journals. We invited members of the legal academy to help us scrutinize the role of journals like ours by asking the following questions: Is our purpose still relevant? Considering how theory and practice look today, is a journal focused on the intersection b etween law and gender, women, or feminism still a useful forum? Do we have clear goals? Are journals devoted to gender or women even feminist? What does “feminist” mean, and is that a worthy mission? The answers came pouring in from legal scholars across the nation. The participants at our April 4, 2003, symposium and the contributors to this special issue offer a dizzying array of opinions about whether we and our sister journals at schools around the country continue to provide a valuable academic space. They question the relationship between feminism and journals focusing on women or gender. They examine the interplay between students who produce law journals and authors who publish in them, highlighting how our power to select and edit articles may dramatically affect professors’ quests for tenured positions, while also contributing to our own education as feminists and lawyers. They contemplate the varied needs not only of our diverse audience of students, scholars, and practitioners, but also of the diverse women and men who can benefit concretely from feminist legal analysis

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This article also appeared on p. 3 of the Summer 2017 print edition.Pamela Cravez, new editor of the Alaska Justice Forum, announces changes to the publication, including an updated design and enhanced online presence

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This article also appeared on p. 3 of the Fall 2017 print edition.Pamela Cravez, editor of the Alaska Justice Forum, gives an overview of articles in the current edition of the Alaska Justice Forum

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An update on the Alaska Justice Forum during times of change at the University of Alaska Anchorage, including the publication's transition to an all-digital format

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Editor's Note (English). Special Editor's Note

This special issue compiles a number of articles which take a serious look at grammar teaching and learning at Primary and Secondary School. Grammar has always had a central role in educational considerations and still remains one of the most discussed aspects among those who, in one way or another, have been involved in education

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The American people need all the facts and just the facts, not platitudes, demagoguery, or a political agenda.Horace Johns, health care reform, healthcare reform, healthcare, health care, insurance