Women in Law

On the BBC programme The Conversation, Kim Chakenetsa talks with two lawyers, from Egypt and the UK, about the discrimination they face and the need for a more diverse legal profession. Omnia Gadalla is a professor of law and sharia at Al-Azhar University, Alexandre Wilson is a UK barrister. This conversation can be heard here. 26 min, no transcript.

More on the Harvard Admissions Suit

The trial to hear evidence about how Harvard chooses which applicants to admit is over, with a ruling to come much later because the evidence is so « dense », according to Max Larkin of NPR’s local Boston station. You can find his report here. 4 min, transcript available

How Harvard Chooses Its Students and Is That Legal

NPR’s All Things Considered has a piece about a lawsuit, brought on behalf of Asian-American students, criticizing how Harvard chooses its students. 3 min 41 sec, transcript available.
NPR's Morning Edition speaks with a reporter from their Boston affiliate. The report can be found here. 3min 36 sec, transcript available.

The History of Gerrymandering 

There have been several mentions of gerrymandering on this blog, but for some in-depth historical background, you can to to a New York Times retro report on the subject and learn its relationship to an attempt to ensure that minorities, especially black Americans, could be elected. 11 min, 36 sec, no transcript, but the video is accompanied by a long newspaper article. You can also turn on the subtitles.

More on Loving v. Virginia

On NPR's Fresh Air, Terry Gross interviews the author of a book about the appropriately named U.S. Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia, which was handed down 50 years ago this month and which struck down a Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages. 42 min, 57 sec, transcript available. The story has also recently been told in a film, Loving. June 12th, the day the decision was announced, has been designated as  Loving Day. There's even a special song to commemorate the occasion -- with a tutorial to help you play it on your own guitar.

More from Maui

This blog has already mentioned Kathleen Sullivan's analysis of the Supreme Court's last term given in Maui during the judicial conference held there in August by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Several panel discussions from the conference have also been posted on the 9th Circuit's YouTube channel.  The topics of the panel discussions include

• The Direction and Economic Impact of Health Care Reform Post the Supreme Court Decision
• Tracking the Trackers:  Privacy Protection in the Internet Age
• Tracking and the Government: What is the Government Learning about us? Should we be concerned? 
• What Color is Justice: Racial Disparities in the Criminal Process 
• Federal Courts, Federal Law and Professional Sports:  Emerging Trends in Antitrust, Labor and Intellectual Property

These discussions are between 60 and 90 minutes long, no transcripts.