Gender and Society

Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society
Dear Subscribers:

The Spring 2008 issue of the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender &
Society was published in early June. The five articles published in
the issue are also available on our website, under Issues.

There were two small, yet substantial errors, in the copyright
footnote of Professor Bridgette Baldwin's article, "In Supreme
Judgment of the Poor: The Role of the United States Supreme Court in
Welfare Law and Policy." The revised version is available under Issues.


Please refer to this revised version for
information on reprinting Prof. Baldwin's article.

Prof. Baldwin, please accept our sincere apology for the mistake.

Sincerely,

Travis Weller
Editor-in-Chief (2007-2008)
Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society

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Dear Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal alumni, colleagues and friends:

The 2007-2008 Editorial Board of the Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal is excited to share a significant announcement regarding the future of the Journal.

In January 2008, with Vol. XXIII, Number 1, the Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal will become the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society.

For years, the editorial board discussed changing the Journal’s name. Other law journals that began as "women’s" law journals began to change their names, becoming “gender” law journals. Initially, the members of the Wisconsin Women’s Law Journal did not see a pressing reason to follow their lead.

In March 2007, the editorial board felt that the time had come. The discussions and the decision to change the name were not taken lightly. We came to see, however, that the advantages to the Journal outweighed any disadvantages.

The new name is more closely aligned with the Journal’s mission statement. For twenty-two years, the Journal has been seeking scholarship that, “examine[s] the intersection of law and gender with issues of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sexual orientation.” As the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society, we will continue to publish articles with this content, now under a more inclusive name that acknowledges the impact of gender on the legal system, without reference to one sex.

We believe the new name will also attract submissions that more closely reflect our mission statement. We hope the new name will advertise the type of content and scholarship we look to publish. The ideas explored in the Journal simply outgrew the former name. The new name better represents the fundamental mission of the Journal—to explore the ways that gender and the law interact.

As the current board, we are optimistic and excited about the change. We feel the Journal is more than a name. It represents a mission, a tradition of legal scholarship and a community of people who share a common goal. We believe the new name will continue to strengthen that tradition of scholarship and community.

We will be celebrating this new name at our 2008 Symposium, “Working from the World Up: Equality’s Future.” The Journal will co-sponsor this Symposium with the University of Wisconsin Law School, the Institute for Legal Studies, and the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emory University. The conference will be hosted by Professors Victoria Nourse and Jane Larson of the University of Wisconsin Law School, and co-hosted by Professor Martha Albertson Fineman, Professor of Law and Director of the Feminism and Legal Theory Project. The keynote address will be given by Patricia Williams, Professor of Law at Columbia University, and invited guests include Vicki Schultz (Yale), Jane Schacter (Stanford), Beth Mertz (Wisconsin and ABF), Boa Santos (Coimbra and Wisconsin), Robin West (Georgetown), Angela Harris and Leti Volpp (Berkeley), and others. Please consider joining us on March 14th and 15th, 2008 for this interesting and exciting event.

Thank you for your continued support,

Editorial Board
Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society