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Abstract
Dorothy Goes to Law School: Stories of Institutional Inertia
and Response in the American Legal Academy
K Lee Adams
Although efforts have been made to include women in the legal academy, the institutional
response to calls for change has been erratic. The largely white male academic
hierarchy tends to resist substantive change, which inhibits law schools from
fully including women. Like The Wizard of Oz who could not respond to Dorothy's
demand, traditional academic institutional responses to women's voices are often
inadequate, as seen in the experiences of women law students themselves. These
stories demonstrate that law schools should provide non-traditional means to empower
female students to communicate their needs and provoke change.
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