If the effects of patriarchy and racism on our social world are everywhere, though sometimes lurking beneath the surface, one would expect them to be pervasive in the microcosm that I inhabit: legal education. This is precisely what Professor Meera Deo argues in her new book, Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia (2019). Failing to embrace diversity, Deo argues, white male professors are holding back women of color by not hiring them; not welcoming them properly when they are hired; setting traps for them on the road to promotion and tenure; and tolerating an atmosphere of hostility toward them, even from students. Acts of kindness toward minority women, for Deo, are dwarfed by acts of ill will.
Disparaging law schools is sure to offend the sensibilities of faculty, particularly those who have given much of themselves to legal
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