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The Ramblings of a Legal Academic

  • The real reason there are so few women judges

    Originally posted on SEMPER VIRIDIS: British lawyers and the British public are angry with Lord Sumption’s urging to go slow on sex equality to avoid the ‘appalling’ consequences to our legal system that could come from striving to get more women on the bench. How out of touch can a Supreme Court judge get? (That… Continue reading

  • Performance related pay? Really?

    I got a bit cross about an article in the Times Higher about paying academics bonuses to boost our productivity. You can read the article here. The article reports on a study carried out in Germany which suggests that paying bonuses (it seems some fairly substantial bonuses) to academics means that productive academics cluster together… Continue reading

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  • Rentboy Raid

    Originally posted on Law and Sexuality: The US DHS website describes how it came into existence: ‘Eleven days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge was appointed as the first Director of the Office of Homeland Security in the White House. The office oversaw and coordinated a comprehensive national strategy to… Continue reading