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DUKELAW A Celebration of Women: 70 Years at Duke < C' c.. 3 Law School CD ()1 Z c 3 u ~ rv IN THIS ISSUE The Public's Perception of Crime: Feminist Theory: Just Politics Is It Accurate? or Legitimate Scholarship? Sara Sun Beale Katharine T. Bartlett Professor of La w Professor of La w Law School - all of whom went on to be judges. Since 1927 when Miriam Cox broke the gender barrier as the first woman to study at Duke Law School, society has undergone a sea change with respect to women's roles. Duke University has its first female president, Nan Keohane, who took office in 1993. And our sister university in Chapel Hill has just appointed a female, Molly Broad, to lead its statewide system of campuses. I'm particularly proud of the fact that Duke Law School has been nation FROM THE DEAN ally recognized for creating an environ ment in which women can prosper. Our FROM THE PRESIDENT On October 17, Duke Law School will female faculty are in the top ranks of host a symposium celebrating the 70th legal scholars and our female students I congratulate Duke University School anniversary of women enrolling at the are not only excelling academically but of Law on its celebration of women and School. We are fortunate to have are also significant leaders in our stu its efforts to encourage a sense of their Christine M. Durham '71, a justice on dent-edited journals and organizations. history, connection and contributions as the Utah Supreme Court, chair the Of the Law School's 6,300 alumni, Duke alumnae. As you read the alumnae event. The idea for the celebration was 1,521 are women. Fewer than 40 of proftles and articles in this issue, you'll planted by Elisabeth Petersen '72 after a those alumnae graduated before 1970. see that the history of women at Duke conversation with fellow alumnae Jean This is a good time to take stock of how Law School mirrors what was happen Coker '70, Becky Halbrook '71 and far we have come and what challenges ing for women nationally, through each Justice Durham about the progress lie ahead. of the last seven decades. women have made in the legal profes We've come a long way from the sion and issues that remain for women Pamela B. Gann '73 time when women were educated only so as lawyers. Beth Wilkinson '88, assistant Dean that they could be better wives and director of development for the Law mothers. Fortunately, there were progres School, enthusiastically agreed to coor (Editor's note: We are pLeased to announce sive thinkers like M. Carey Thomas at dinate the symposium. that Dean Gann has been reappointed by Bryn Mawr who believed young women The "Celebration of Women" pro the University's Board of Trustees for should be educated exactly like young vides an opportunity for the Law School another five-year term as dean of Duke men, and for exactly the same reasons: to not only to recognize and honor the Law SchooL. In his announcement of become educated persons, professionally achievements of its alumnae but also to Dean Gann's reappointment, Provost active in law or medicine or scholarship, look back on the struggles of those who John Strohbehn said, "it is important to advancing the boundaries of learning as came before and the challenges that still note that the Law School has excelled in men had always done. confront women in the legal profession. many ways because of Pam's leadership The accomplishments of Duke's This issue of Duke Law Magazine and her careful and wise stewardship.") women law graduates fulfill Thomas' reviews the history of women at the Law vision. But the path has been neither School and celebrates trailblazers such easy nor straight. We all know that there as Justice Durham, Betsy Levin, the first are still barriers to women - in becom tenured female faculty member, and ing partners in law firms, leaders in busi Evelyn Cannon, Brenda Becton and ness and finance and even in the acade Karen Bethea-Shields, the first three my, which is among the most progressive African-American women to attend the institutions on issues such as equality of opportunity. Half the people in college and almost half of those in graduate Contents school are women, yet there are far Dean's Message fewer women faculty members and even Message from President Keohane fewer on the tenured faculty. A Celebration of Women: 70 Years at Duke Law School As we think about the future, we From 1927 to the Present: Duke Law School Celebrates its Alumnae ............................................ 3 have to addres the issue of full equali A Brief History of Women at the Law School ...................... .. ........................................................ .4 ty for women. Change is slow and A Timeline of American Women in the Law .......................................................................... .... .4-21 progress can be elusive, but I feel fortu Duke Law School Ranks High in Climate for Women Students .................................................... 10 Alumnae Snapshots: Outstanding Women From Each Decade nate to work at an institution where Caroline Phillips Stoel '37 ................................................................................................... 12 these issues can be raised and discussed, Margaret Adams Harris '40 .... ........... ..... .................... .. ... ................. ................. ............... ... 13 where progress is being made, and Grace Collins Bodd ie '51 ..................................................................................................... 15 where the contributions of women can Sandra Jeanne Strebel '62 .................................................................................................. 16 be celebrated. Christine Meaders Durham '71 ...................................... ..................................................... 18 Sonja Steptoe '85 ............ ........ ....... ............ ................ ... ........ ... ...... .............. ... ........... .. .. .... 19 Barbara C. Matthews '91 .................................................... ................................................ 21 NannerI O. Keohane First African -American Women Students Kept Going When the Going was Tough ...................... 22 President Betsy Levin : Blazing the Tenure Trail ...................................................... .. .................................... 25 Duke University The Road Less Travelled ... ........ ................................ ........ ....... .. .. ................................................. 26 Law School Names First Mordecai Scholars .......................................................................... ...... 30 Women Students Close the Leadership Gap ................................................................................. 31 Faculty Perspectives The Public's Perception of Crime: Is It Accurate? .........................................................................32 Feminist Theory: Just Politics or Legitimate Scholarship? ........................................................... 35 As Duke University's eighth president, Dr: Keohane came to Duke in 1993 from the The Docket presidency of Wellesley College. She grad Law School's Career Placement Rate Soaring ...................................................... ........................ 39 Upcoming Conference : Deterring Corporate Misconduct ............................................................ 41 uated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley International Conference Breaks New Ground in Efforts to where she took honors in political science. Curtail Intellectual Property Piracy .................................................... ............................ .42 She earned an M.A. at Oxford University Around the Law School on a Marshall Scholarship and her Ph.D. Two Grads Land Supreme Court Clerkships ................ .. .................... .. ........................................ .43 in po lit ical science from Yale in 1967. Hooding Ceremony 1997: Photo Memories ................................................................................ 44 D,: Keohane has taught at Swarthmore, Hundreds Turn Out at Justice to Honor Walter Dellinger .............................................................. 45 the University of Penn5ylvania and Stanford Faculty Briefs ... ... ....... .. ....... ........ ..... ... ... ........................................ ........ ... ... ............. .. ... .. ......... .... 46 where she 1V0n a prestigious teaching award. Alumni News In 1995 she was inducted into the National A Diplomat's Day is Never Done ...................... .. .......................................................................... .49 Women's Hall of Fame. Dr. Keohane has Arne Kluwer Takes to the High Seas ........................................................................................... .. 50 written extensively in the fields of political Seeking Nominations for Alumni Awards .......................................... ...... .... .................................51 philosophy, feminism and education. Rick Jansen 's Legacy Provides for Mongolia's Street Children .. .. .................. .... ............ .............. 53 Richard Salem Featured in Self Magazine ................................................................................... 53 Professional Notes .................... ................................................................................................. ... 54 Personal Notes ......... .......................................... .........................................................................