Legal Academics in the News — Roundup

Ok–working away on constitutionalism and secession, so I'm sticking me head up for two stories from the last couple of days about legal academics  in public.  First, Ben Barton in the Washington Post on the collective biographies of the Supreme Court; they link to his recent article on ssrn on this.  And, most interesting to me, the focus on Sandra Fluke's co-edited (though I might call it co-authored) comment, "Employment Discrimination Against LGBTQ Persons," in the Georgetown Journal of Gender and Law.  (An excerpt is here.)  I love it when people actually read what appears in law journals, but it seems to me that Fluke's comment is really directed at describing courts' approach to claims by  LGBTQ employees.  For sure, Fluke and her co-author Karen Hu come from the perspective that failure to provide insurance coverage for transgender surgery is discrimination, but this is largely about describing the existing approach.  This strikes me as making more out of the issue than her comment warrants.  But then again, it's also further evidence that somtimes the public reads our work.