Cutting the Mustard

Library Journal

This book is attorney Heins's description of a controversial case and why she failed to win it. Nancy Richardson, Dean of Student Affairs at Boston University's School of Theology, was dismissed in 1981. She sued, claiming she was the victim of sexism. Heins gives substantial coverage of the relevant and contradictory case law but does not place events and decisions at B.U. within a larger context. Heins's themeon the subjectivity of determinations about excellencehas been covered better in George R. LaNoue and Barbara A. Lee's Academics in Court (Univ. of Michigan Pr., 1987). Essential for followers of the case, but others deserve more substantive discussion. Susan E. Parker, Harvard Law Sch. Lib.