This plenary will focus attention on our shared context in contemporary legal academia. This panel will focus on issues that continue to impede women’s equal opportunity in legal academia: from the lack of women in certain substantive areas of law teaching, to continuing challenges faced by women teachers in the classroom, with particular attention to those faced by younger women, women of color, lgbt women, and pregnant women; to problems confronting women as visitors; to the devaluation of scholars who write outsider scholarship in all forms, including feminist legal theory, critical race theory, and queer theory; to the effect of parenting leaves on consideration for tenure; to the continuing reluctance to integrate issues of gender equality in scholarship and teaching in all substantive areas of the law. Breakout sessions will take place in the plenary room, allowing participants to discuss in small groups the issues raised by the plenary.