Series III. PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS, 1976-1999 (#3.13-5.12, T-199.1-T-199.33)

Series III, PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS, 1976-1999 (#3.13-5.12, T-199.1-T-199.33), contains correspondence, notes, planning material, reference material, drafts, proposals, resolutions, reports, budgets, schedules, transcriptions, clippings, audiotapes, and related material on several programs, projects, and issues undertaken by SWLE. Arranged chronologically, the series includes material on the part-time employment program (investigating part-time teaching options); the women law teachers' workshop (also known as the women teachers' law clinic), which addressed special teaching concerns of women law professors (includes workshop proposal and budget); the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) boycott, enacted to prevent AALS from holding annual meetings in states that had not ratified ERA (includes proposals and resolutions); the financial aid resource list project (connecting women law students with financial aid sources); the TIAA/CREF insurance issue, or Manhart case, which addressed sex-based bias in benefits for law professors (includes preliminary report, Colby College suit, and resolutions); a bibliography project on women in the law (the bibliography was never published); the childcare project (includes first-hand accounts of women law teachers dealing with work and family); the employment center project (helping women law graduates find jobs); the women deans' panel held at the 1984 AALS annual meeting (includes speakers' transcripts and material on Joan Wexler's denial of tenure, citing sexism); the women's networking groups (includes the 1985 feminist legal scholarship questionnaires used to compile contact lists); 1986 AALS annual meeting planning material focused on the SWLE panel presentation of sex-bias in criminal law (includes program proposals and budget, final report on sex-bias in criminal law, and audiotapes of the session; and the "Assimilation or Innovation" workshop, which addressed issues of integrating women into the field of law teaching (includes workshop schedule, speakers' presentations, and the 1980 American Bar Association's grant study on the "Integration of Women into Law Faculties").

There are also thirty-three audiotapes of session programs sponsored or co-sponsored by SWLE at AALS annual meetings. Planning material related to corresponding sessions from 1986 is in #5.3-5.6; planning material for other sessions may be found throughout the collection. The AALS numbers (e.g., AALS 6001, AALS 7001, AALS 9801, etc.) on the audiotapes, appear to have been assigned by AALS to distinguish individual conferences; the tape numbers (e.g., Tape 1, Tape 15, etc.) represent the tape number assigned by AALS for each session that was recorded during a specific conference. The T-199 numbers (T-199.1, T-199.2, etc.) are call numbers assigned to each individual audiotape by the Schlesinger Library, and should be used when requesting these audiotapes.