Jordana Goodman on Authorship Credit and the Gender Gap

In this episode, Jordana Goodman, Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor at the Boston University School of Law, discusses her new article Ms. Attribution: How Authorship Credit Contributes to the Gender Gap.  She argues that misattribution in the authorship of legal work disparately impacts underrepresented members of the legal profession, with a focus on women in patent law.  In her article, Professor Goodman reports empirical findings from a large novel dataset of agency actions and responses during the patent examination process in the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  She also addresses the larger professional and cultural implications of these findings and proposes reforms.  Professor Goodman’s article is forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology and is available on SSRN.  She is on Twitter at @Jordi_Goodman.This episode was hosted by Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Professor in the School of Law and Professor in the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University.  Professor Vishnubhakat is on Twitter at @emptydoors.Disclosure:  Professors Goodman and Vishnubhakat are now collaborating on a follow-up paper that explores the gender gap among attorneys in administrative patent litigation before the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ipse Dixit is a podcast on legal scholarship. Each episode of Ipse Dixit features a different guest discussing their scholarship. The podcast also features several special series."From the Archives" consists historical recordings potentially of interest to legal scholars and lawyers."The Homicide Squad" consists of investigations of the true stories behind different murder ballads, as well as examples of how different musicians have interpreted the song over time."The Day Antitrust Died?" is co-hosted with Ramsi Woodcock, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law, and consists of oral histories of the 1974 Airlie House Conference on antitrust law, a pivotal moment in the history of antitrust theory and policy.The hosts of Ipse Dixit are:Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of LawLuce Nguyen, a student at Oberlin College and the co-founder of the Oberlin Policy Research Institute, an undergraduate public policy organization based at Oberlin CollegeMaybell Romero, Assistant Professor of Law at Northern Illinois University College of LawAntonia Eliason, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi School of LawSaurabh Vishnubhakat, Associate Professor of Law at Texas A&M School of LawJohn Culhane, Professor of Law at Widener University Delaware Law SchoolBenjamin Edwards, Associate Professor of Law at the UNLV William S. Boyd School of LawMatthew Bruckner, Associate Professor of Law at Howard University School of LawComments and suggestions are always welcome at brianlfrye@gmail.com. You can follow the Ipse Dixit on Twitter at @IpseDixitPod. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.