Law with the Ladies

It struck me today as I was sitting in my first class of Law, Science and Biotechnology that all my law professors this semester are women. Even in my clinical at the Center for Patient Partnership most of the staff from whom my supervisor and resources will come are women. In remembering back to my undergraduate education, I can only recall having three female professors over the course of four years. The Politics Department in which I spent most of my time studying and working was directed by three men -- all wonderful in their own rights and people for whom I hold a good deal of esteem and gratitude. At the same time, today on my 36th birthday I felt encouraged by the notion that my education this term was going to be led by women.

In addition to Law, Science and Biotechnology, I will be studying Constitutional Law II (focuses on the first and fourteenth amendments), Administrative Law (government/agency law), and Mediation (hands-on skills course). With almost of all these courses I could have just as easily taken them with a male professor. I didn't specifically choose to take any of these courses with a female professor, except one. Having taken the optional political science courses in high school and majored in politics in college (all with male teachers), I was desperate to take Constitutional Law with a female professor. In the Spring term we were placed in Con Law I sections based on our electives so I was not able to choose my professor (it was still a good course). So, it became even more important to me to study Con Law II with a female professor.

Maybe it won't matter at all. Maybe it will make me feel very differently about the law. I don't know how it will affect me, if at all, but I have a feeling I will in a matter of weeks. Stay tuned.