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Title: Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School, and Institutional Change by Lani Guinier, Michelle Fine, Jane Balin ISBN: 0-8070-4404-0 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: DUPED...women with significantly more mental disorders ...
Comment: This book compares women who are "significantly more likely to report eating disorders, sleeping difficulties, crying, and symptoms of depression or anxiety" with the stronger (mentally and academically) male students attending Penn U. The wording of the book is cloaked in the language of research, but the actual focus groups are selected non-randomly (hand-picked?). Those interviewed included females who entered law school with PRE-existing problems and who were more than ready to express grievances with the school. The book strongly suggests that there is an insidious and dangerous gender-discrimination in law schools...due to the law school's refusal to accomodate the female nature. It also leads the unwary to believe that these women are representative of the female gender. The book would have been quite different, I'm sure, if those interviewed had been randomly selected. If you find that reading about staged interviews that portend to expose gross gender-differences (and discriminations)in law school is a wise use of your time and money, then put this one in your cart... b/c that's exactly what you'll get in this book. Otherwise...save your money, or buy a different book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent review of law school
Comment: As a lawyer who graduated from a good law school in the 1980's, I found this book to be excellent. The findings resonnated with my own law school experience, which was alienating at best and miserable at worst. I was finally able to make sense of what happened to me in law school and why I found the work so frustrating. I was taught to be competitive and my nature was more compromising. As my experience and that of so many others who have worked in the court system, a lawyer's best skill is negotiation. The vast majority of cases filed in court today are settled. Those skills could be developed in law school more than the aggressive winner takes all approach. I'm glad I read this book. It is not for casual readers, but I would highly recommend it for any women lawyer or women who is even thinking of going to law school.
Rating: 1
Summary: Reads like a research paper. Dry, dull and not helpful.
Comment: This book is a dated snapshot of one school and its culture towards female law students. It was hard to find any applicability system-wide.
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Title: Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams by Richard Michael Fischl, Jeremy R. Paul ISBN: 0890897603 Publisher: Carolina Academic Press Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Women Lawyers: Rewriting the Rules by Mona Harrington ISBN: 0452273676 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: January, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Miner's Canary : Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy by Lani Guinier, Gerald Torres ISBN: 0674010841 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 21 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Supreme Court Explained by Ellen Greenberg ISBN: 0393316386 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Learning the Law: Success in Law School and Beyond by Steven J. Frank ISBN: 0806518715 Publisher: Citadel Trade Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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