Women in Legal Education

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Session Type: Section Pedagogy Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square

Room: Golden Gate 7

Floor: Lobby Level

This pedagogy-focused panel will examine how instructors experience and respond to classroom disruptions and interruptions, and what kind of support law schools can provide to the affected instructors. First, the panel will explore how student behavior in class often varies according to the race and gender of the instructor. Second, it will consider how instructors who report and seek guidance regarding the behavior in question receive “classroom management” feedback but are not necessarily provided with support that speaks to the problem’s gender and racial dimensions. Finally, the panel will propose how to frame classroom disruptions and interruptions as administrative concerns that impact the law school community rather than just one isolated professor and class.