Eight Became TWELVE

TWELVE offers to publish my paper!

It was a tough decision, but I placed it with the NYU Review of Law and Social Change.

Title IX’s Substantive Equity Mandate for Transgender Persons in American Law Schools: A Call for Disaggregated SOGI Data, will appear in issue 44.3, Spring 2020!

EIGHT!

WOWZA! Flattered.

I have eight offers to publish my paper:

Title IX’s Substantive Equity Mandate for Transgender Persons in American Law Schools: A Call for Disaggregated SOGI Data

Must make a placement decision by the end of the weekend…

Gender Netural Pronouns

This week, Meriam Webster Dictionary announced that the pronoun “they” may be used in the singular. The purpose is to offer a gender-neutral pronoun. The debate among legal scholars has been robust.


These are examples of how sentences can be re-written to avoid a gender pronoun.
“New” is relative. These pronouns have actually been in use for many years, but recent, heightened awareness of gender respect has brought them to the limelight.
I am often surprised at the lack of awareness among young adults, regarding gender issues.

Here are the slides that I use in class to discuss gender-neutrality.

Gender Pronouns JAJONES

Entering Academia

I’m so very excited to announce that I will serve as a Visiting Professor of Legal Communication and Analysis for the upcoming school year (maybe two years) at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, a top 20 legal writing program!

https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/

Florida Family Law Bounds of Advocacy

AWESOME! My recent article in Nova Law Review is finally available online: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nlr/vol43/iss1/2/

I can’t wait to get the next two (in the works) out for publication!