Meera Deo -Diversity in Legal Academia

01/09/2024

Honored to be included on this list!

These key players are major forces in shaping legal education. As in years past, in creating our list, we sought nominations from the nation’s law schools an...

10/15/2021

Please join me tomorrow, Fri 10/15 at 2PT for a very special Unequal Profession symposium! An all-star lineup of teachers, scholars, and leaders will be sharing their insights on the book. Registration and more info at the link below.

Professor Meera E. Deo joins us for a discussion with other distinguished legal scholars about her book, Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia (Stanford University Press, 2019). The book draws from her landmark Diversity in Legal Academia (DLA) project, the first formal empirical stu...

04/19/2021

Pleased to be quoted in today’s Washington Post! I share preliminary findings from my Pandemic Effects on Legal Academia study: “The profession as a whole was not very diverse to begin with. If we start sliding backward, we risk [academia] becoming even more male and even more White.”

“If you get the Sunday Post in print like I do, turn to p2 of business section for this excellent piece all university administrators should read featuring ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦⁩”

04/06/2021

Quotes and a fierce pic of yours truly in this article. “If universities don’t adjust those expectations for academics impacted by the coronavirus, female caregivers, especially women of color, could start leaving the field, Deo said. ‘The profession as a whole was not very diverse to begin with. If we start sliding backward, we risk [academia] becoming even more male and even more White.’”

With kids at home, female caregivers are at a major disadvantage

03/09/2021

Proud to be featured along with other "Inspiring Marathi Women of USA" in this special issue featuring "incredible women who broke the mold." Happy
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03/02/2021

Please join us this Friday for this free incredible event featuring EIGHT WOMEN OF COLOR teacher-scholars sharing thoughts inspired by Unequal Profession. Spread the word! Register here: https://rcit.rutgers.edu/apps/payment/register.php?event_id=592

01/15/2021

It's DAY TWO of the COVID Care Crisis Symposium. Hope you'll join us to consider solutions to challenges facing caregivers, junior scholars, women of color, aspiring faculty, and so many others.

Symposium on the COVID Care Crisis and its Implications for Legal Academia

12/07/2020

Join me tomorrow on Facebook Live! https://events.iu.edu/hls/event/155003-race-gender-power-in-global-affairs-meera-deo

12/02/2020

Looking forward to facilitating a discussion with Law Deans Angela Onwuachi-Willig (BU), Danielle Conway (Penn St), Kimberly Mutcherson (Rutgers), Carla Pratt (Washburn), and Danielle Holley-Walker (Howard) at tomorrow's AccessLex Legal Education Research Symposium! They'll share more about the pioneering Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project. Join us! https://web.cvent.com/event/46534a00-a3b1-4628-9309-6fda7d360ac0/summary?rp=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

11/26/2020

It was an honor to join Professors Melissa Murray, Leah Litman, and Kate Shaw on the Strict Scrutiny podcast. We discussed Unequal Profession, faculty hiring, LSSSE data, raceXgender bias, student evals, my ongoing work on the COVID care crisis, and more! Have a listen (or read the transcript) to learn who's been called "Cute as a Button"....

Leah and Melissa and Kate are joined by Meera Deo, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation, and author of Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia (Stanford U Press 2019).

10/31/2020

My essay is titled: Diversity and Exclusion Within Legal Education.

Leading scholars address the ways in which racism pervades the modern administrative state and legal profession.

09/01/2020

Friends, I was a guest on the Ipse Dixit podcast! It was a very different experience and recording--we talked about social science methods, hiring challenges, data from LSSSE - Law School Survey of Student Engagement, and my new project examining raceXgender pressures under COVID-19. Take a listen!

Listen to Meera Deo on Legal Academia from Ipse Dixit. In this episode, Meera E. Deo, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, discusses her book "Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia," which is published by Stanford University Press. Deo begins by describing he...