Beyond specific incidents of harassment, some women editors complain of episodes that have been, as second-year student and co-articles editor Annelise Riles puts it, "more subtle and harder to put a label on."

"Certain men walk past you there and will not acknowledge you in a conversation," Riles says. "Guys will ask my co-editor questions, and might ignore me."

And according to second-year student and editor Kunal M. Parker, before the Review's elections in January many women were advised not seek upper-level positions.

"There were women at the Law Review that were told...these positions go to the 'intellectual powerhouses' of the Review," Parker says.

"A lot of women on the Review told me it was such a coup to get my position [of articles editors]," Riles said. "I think most of the women at the Review feel this way."

Although this year marked the election of the Review's third woman president, Emily Schulman, Parker says Schulman's was a struggle against unfriendly attitudes towards women.

"Emily made it in spite of it, not because it wasn't there," Parker says.

"[The women presidents] have had to work harder in a way that the long string of male presidents haven't," Parker says.

Wolstein counters that other editors at the Review were supportive when she said she was interested in running for high office.

"The only person that ever discouraged me from running for a position for the very reason that I was a woman was the Law Review's woman president," Wolstein says.

"She said she didn't think it would make a good impression on the incoming [second-year law students] if they came back in August to see two women 'running around in leadership positions,'" Wolstein says.

FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP

When the original Mary Joe Frug article was considered for publication, a bitter debate ensued in the Review staff about the editing of the piece.

That debate, which foreshadowed the eventual parody, is emblematic of the Review's varying attitudes towards feminist scholarship.

"It's a fairly divided organization [on the issue of feminist scholarship]" Parker says.