| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Gender in Title or Summary | Ethnicity in Title |
| Karen Yao |
"A VAST CREVICE": OLDER ASIAN WOMEN'S UNTOLD EXPERIENCE WITH SEXUAL VIOLENCE |
105 Boston University Law Review 1075 (April, 2025) |
Content Warning: This Note discusses sexual assault, rape, and violence. The legal field's silence on sexual violence against older women--especially older women of color--echoes. Piercing the silence, this Note discusses sexual violence against older Asian women through the lens of legal narrative theory to illuminate an often-overlooked group;... |
2025 |
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Asian American |
| Hannah Naylor |
"THERE WERE NO FOUNDING MOTHERS": REIMAGINING CONSTITUTIONAL EQUALITY |
113 California Law Review 2089 (December, 2025) |
Efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) have resurged due to fourth-wave feminism and the #MeToo movement's exposure of widespread sexual harassment and abuse; Women's Marches protesting Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election; and the U.S. Supreme Court's recent gutting of reproductive rights and affirmative action. For the first time... |
2025 |
Yes |
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| Samantha Rubinstein |
"THIS AIN'T TEXAS": THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT'S ROLE IN CHALLENGING RESTRICTIONIST STATES' EXTRATERRITORIAL SURVEILLANCE OF PEOPLE SEEKING ABORTIONS AND GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE |
26 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 1341 (2025) |
Since the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade, holding that the right to choose to have an abortion is no longer constitutionally protected, twelve states have totally banned abortions and seven states have severely restricted abortions early in pregnancy. Bans on gender-affirming care have... |
2025 |
Yes |
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| Summer Bell |
A VICIOUS CYCLE: AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF BLACK WOMEN'S LEGAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY IN THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC |
39 Emory International Law Review 743 (2025) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 745 I. Black Women's Disproportionate Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in Malawi and the United States. 747 A. Factors that Increase HIV/AIDS Vulnerability for Malawian Women. 747 1. Economic Vulnerability. 748 2. Commercial Sex Work. 750 3. Intimate Partner Violence.. 751 4. Cleansing Rituals that Increase HIV/AIDS... |
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Yes |
African/Black American |
| Jill C. Engle |
ACCESS, WELFARE, AND LAWSUITS: RESTORING REPRODUCTIVE AND ECONOMIC AUTONOMY POST-DOBBS |
59 University of Richmond Law Review 389 (Winter, 2025) |
Access to abortion and increased poverty for women and children are inversely correlated: as access to abortion decreases, feminine and child poverty increase. Women who try to access abortions are more likely to already be mothers, and more likely to be living below the poverty line. In post-Dobbs America, abortion is illegal or severely... |
2025 |
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| Emile Loza de Siles |
AMAZING GRACE: THE INSPIRING LIFE AND LASTING IMPACT OF GRACIELA OLIVÁREZ, THE NATION'S FIRST LATINA LAW PROFESSOR AND MORE |
28 Harvard Latin American Law Review 1 (Spring, 2025) |
The world needs heroes. People of color and women in the legal academy need heroes. We need those who pioneer and point the way into untraveled terrain. We need those who inspire, lift up, and exemplify what life in service to justice and knowledge means and, especially, what it truly means to work for justice to those long denied it due to... |
2025 |
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Hispanic/Latinx American |
| Marley Forest |
ANOTHER BROKEN PROMISE: THE MMIWG2S CRISIS AND THE VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL INDIAN TRUST OBLIGATION |
100 Washington Law Review 793 (October, 2025) |
Abstract: Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people go missing and are murdered at rates nearly ten times the national average in the United States. This disproportionate epidemic of violence has been labeled the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit (MMIWG2S) crisis. Several factors exacerbate this crisis. First,... |
2025 |
Yes |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
| Jill C. Engle |
BIRTH ON MOTHER EARTH: MITIGATING THE MATERNAL HEALTH CRISIS |
32 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 53 (Spring, 2025) |
Introduction. 54 I. The Maternal Health Crisis & Collateral Problems for Women of Color. 58 A. Poor Maternal Health Outcomes. 58 B. Suppression of Birth Practices of Indigenous and People of Color. 66 C. Climate Change Exacerbates the Maternal Health Crisis. 71 II. Strategies That Improve Maternal Health Outcomes. 75 A. Midwives and Other... |
2025 |
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| Christine M. Slaughter , Camille Burge-Hicks , Nadia E. Brown |
BLACK WOMEN ARE SUPREME: AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION OF BLACK WOMEN'S EVALUATIONS OF KETANJI BROWN JACKSON |
16 ConLawNOW 171 (2025) |
On February 25, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the United States Supreme Court and fill the vacancy left by Justice Stephen Breyer. As Ketanji Brown Jackson testified at her confirmation hearing, many news outlets commented on how Black women across America saw themselves reflected in her candidacy. Although... |
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African/Black American |
| Brendan Williams |
FETAL PERSONHOOD AND THE JUDICIAL EROSION OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS FOLLOWING DOBBS |
28 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 72 (Spring, 2025) |
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? - William B. Yeats In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned its prior precedents recognizing a constitutional right to abortion, a recognition that began nearly a half-century before with its decision in Roe vs.... |
2025 |
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| Skyler Ligon |
GIVING CREDIT WHEN YOU ARE DUE: TAX CREDITS FOR BIRTH MOTHERS POST-DOBBS |
102 Washington University Law Review 923 (2025) |
Pregnancy is extremely dangerous for women. Maternal mortality rates are tragically high in the United States, and women of color have the greatest risk of death or other complications during and after pregnancy. Although some legislation aims to provide assistance to women with children--such as the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax... |
2025 |
Yes |
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| Xueying (Cathy) Zeng |
INVISIBLE LABOR, INVISIBLE RIGHTS: AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS ON THE UNITED STATES' AU PAIR PROGRAM |
45 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 340 (2025) |
Immigrant women of color have long formed the backbone of the American domestic workforce, and in the past few decades, they have been increasingly stepping in to fill the country's deepening childcare crisis. While scholars have examined the racialized, gendered, and classed dimensions of domestic labor and the transnational global nanny chain,... |
2025 |
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| Catharine A. MacKinnon, Max Waltman |
LEGAL PROSTITUTION: A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY? |
Harvard Winter, Journal 2025(71 UCLA L. Rev. 1844) International Law |
Not far from the Labor Court, a woman in a snake-skin dress sits next to a wooden outhouse. The city has set up these so-called labor boxes for prostitutes. There, they are supposed to work and do their business simultaneously. It smells like feces and urine. She had just given a john a blowjob for twenty euros, the prostituted woman says--the drug... |
2025 |
Yes |
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| Joel Andrews Cosme-Morales |
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MORALES Y BENET v. LA JUNTA LOCAL DE INSCRIPCIONES: THE USE OF THE INSULAR CASES TO DENY WOMEN'S VOTING RIGHTS IN PUERTO RICO |
32 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 101 (2025) |
In both Puerto Rico and the United States, we are governed by an electoral system founded on the principle of one person, one vote. Voting in early U.S. history was a privilege, not a universal right, restricted by race and gender. As a result, the institutional structures of early American political and legal systems tended to exclude certain... |
2025 |
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| Mary B. Trevor, Cynthia Bemis Abrams |
POWERS PLAYS: WOMEN AND PROGRESSIVE TELEVISION BATTLE QUID PRO QUO SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY |
9 Howard Human & Civil Rights Law Review 187 (2024-2025) |
In her role as an art investment associate, Whitley Gilbert is excited to meet with her firm's Vice President of Finance, Mr. Holtworth, and present him with a major purchase opportunity. As she does so, he begins to invade her personal space and suggests they get better acquainted over dinner. He expresses support for her recommendation and says... |
2025 |
Yes |
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| Jordan Robinson |
SIN, SICKNESS, OR SELF-DEFENSE? HOW MEDICALIZING WOMEN'S ACTS OF SURVIVAL CONFOUNDS JUSTIFICATION AND EXCUSE, AND UNDERMINES JUSTICE |
58 UIC Law Review 699 (Spring, 2025) |
I. Introduction. 699 II. Background. 707 A. The Legal Treatment of Survivor-Defendants. 707 1. Perfect Self-Defense. 710 2. Imperfect Self-Defense. 713 3. The Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground. 714 B. The Discredited Theory of Battered Spouse Syndrome. 717 1. Battered Spouse Syndrome Evidence. 718 C. The Historic Toleration of Male Violence.... |
2025 |
Yes |
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| Rachel Mucha |
STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS AND THE FUTURE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR WOMEN IN AMERICAN AGRICULTURE |
113 California Law Review 1797 (October, 2025) |
The federal government has a well-documented history of discrimination against women in American agriculture. And the government now has many compelling reasons--from remedying past discrimination to shoring up food security--to provide targeted support to women farmers. But the Biden Administration's attempts to provide targeted financial support... |
2025 |
Yes |
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| M. Isabel Medina |
TEACHING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IN POLARIZED TIMES: RIGHTS AND STRUCTURE |
72 UCLA Law Review Discourse 482 (2025) |
Teaching constitutional law today has been impacted by two trends reflecting a polarized electorate and politics: first, recent restrictions targeting education prohibiting the use of critical race theory, critical legal theory, feminist theories, intersectionality, and other critical legal perspectives in the classroom; and second, recent U.S.... |
2025 |
Yes |
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| Patricia Broussard, Joi Cardwell |
THE DOBBS DECISION AND THE EROSION OF U.S. MORAL AUTHORITY: A HYPOCRITICAL STANCE ON BODILY AUTONOMY WITH WORLDWIDE IMPLICATIONS |
49 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 142 (Spring, 2025) |
The Supreme Court's act of overruling Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization has revealed a pattern of regressive behavior that is at odds with International Human Rights Law. This decision is indicative of the insidious machinations to strip away... |
2025 |
Yes |
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| Deborah Tuerkheimer |
UNWANTED PREGNANCY: SEX, CONTRACEPTION, AND THE LIMITS OF CONSENT |
110 Minnesota Law Review 829 (December, 2025) |
Rape exceptions to abortion bans, widely popular among the American electorate, are cleaved from a rule that defines pregnancy as the byproduct of choice. According to the logic of this rule and its remarkably limited exception, a person who is not raped consents to sex and therefore to the pregnancy that results. An empirical analysis of women's... |
2025 |
Yes |
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| Dr. Dana Raigrodski |
WINNING THE BATTLE, LOSING THE WAR: RAHIMI, WOMEN, AND THE SUPREME COURT |
49 Southern Illinois University Law Journal 385 (Spring, 2025) |
[A]ll too often, as one senator noted during the debate over § 922(g)(9), the only difference between a battered woman and a dead woman is the presence of a gun. On June 21, 2024, when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in United States v. Rahimi, Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and women's rights advocates breathed a... |
2025 |
Yes |
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| Benjamin H. Barton |
A TALE OF TWO LAW SCHOOLS |
78 Arkansas Law Review 163 (2025) |
On the august occasion of the 100th anniversary of the University of Arkansas School of Law, this Essay celebrates one of its singular achievements: the decision of then-Dean Robert Leflar to admit Silas Herbert Hunt, the first African American allowed to enroll for graduate or professional studies at any all-white university in the former... |
2025 |
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| Lisa Lucile Owens |
AN ARGUMENT FOR HOUSING REPARATIONS |
77 Maine Law Review 243 (June, 2025) |
Abstract Introduction I. The Sacred Intentions of Reparations A. Envisioning Repair B. The Need for Reparatory Housing Policy C. The Promise of Housing Reparations II. Constitutional Barriers to Housing Reparations A. A Compelling Government Interest B. Narrow Tailoring III. The Modest Success of Municipal Housing Reparations Initiatives A.... |
2025 |
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| Christina Koningisor |
COOPTING PRIVACY |
105 Boston University Law Review 765 (April, 2025) |
Privacy law in the United States is sectoral in nature. And at every turn, it privileges the police. On the front end, privacy statutes uniformly exempt law enforcement agencies, allowing police to gather private information when access is denied to other government and private actors. And on the back end, public records laws contain myriad privacy... |
2025 |
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| Crystal Hsu |
CREDIBILITY & CHARACTER: COMBATTING EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE AGAINST SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE |
105 Boston University Law Review 1645 (September, 2025) |
In her viral victim impact statement and subsequent memoir, Know My Name, Chanel Miller described her experience as a survivor of sexual violence before, throughout, and after Brock Turner's trial. Turner's sentencing sparked nationwide outrage that caused legal reform in the name of benefitting survivors; however, the reforms did not bring about... |
2025 |
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| Dipika Jain, Natasha Aggarwal, Kanmani Ray, Surbhi Karwa, Disha Chaudhari, Rishav Devrani |
EDUCATION EQUITY FOR TRANSGENDER AND GENDER-DIVERSE PERSONS IN INDIA: INSIGHTS INTO IMPLEMENTATION HURDLES |
32 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 1 (2025) |
Education is a fundamental right under Article 21A of the Constitution of India, which mandates free and compulsory education for children up to 14 years of age. Additional educational rights are enumerated in the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 (hereinafter the Transgender Persons Act or the Act). This anti-discrimination... |
2025 |
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American Indian/Alaskan Native |
| Andy J. Carr |
FREE SPEECH AND ANTI-DEMOCRATIC VIOLENCE |
31 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 1 (Winter, 2025) |
The resurgence of far-right extremist groups--like sovereign militias, white supremacists, and avowedly fascist gangs--has exposed the First Amendment's vulnerabilities to the leaderless resistance model of extremist organizing. This model, first popularized by white supremacist Louis Beam, specifically aims to insulate extremist leaders from... |
2025 |
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| Robert G. Schwemm |
GILEAD: MUNICIPAL LIABILITY FOR PUNITIVE DAMAGES UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT |
57 Connecticut Law Review 1053 (May, 2025) |
The 1968 Fair Housing Act (FHA) has always been understood to apply to local governments, which have proved to be among the most frequent and significant violators of this law, especially in their opposition to housing of particular value to racial minorities and persons with disabilities. Yet not until the Second Circuit's decision last year in... |
2025 |
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| Renee Nicole Allen |
LEGAL ACADEMIA'S WHITE GAZE |
109 Minnesota Law Review 1827 (April, 2025) |
For Black law faculty, Blackness, the Black experience, and Black legal and social identity are not trends. Yet, there are inflection points where legal scholarship about race, particularly Blackness, is in vogue. The most recent rise in such legal scholarship came in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder and the worldwide Black Lives Matter... |
2025 |
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| Lauren van Schilfgaarde |
NATIVE REPRODUCTIVE SELF-DETERMINATION |
UCLA Law Review (July, 2025) |
Like the overall well-being of Indigenous peoples, Native reproductive health has been deeply impacted by the direct and collateral consequences of settler colonialism. Today, Natives experience some of the most dire reproductive health disparities. Unlike other health care systems, however, Native health care is sui generis. The federal government... |
2025 |
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American Indian/Alaskan Native |
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RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL |
54 Georgetown Law Journal Annual Review of Criminal Procedure 659 (2025) |
Under the Sixth Amendment, criminal defendants have a right to trial by an impartial jury drawn from the state and district where the crime allegedly occurred. The right to a jury trial exists only in prosecutions for serious crimes, as distinguished from petty offenses. In determining whether a crime is serious under the Sixth Amendment, courts... |
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| Ariel E. Dulitzky |
RIGHTING SPORTS LAW: THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS |
32 Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal 343 (2025) |
The intersection of sports and human rights is a growing and increasingly complex field, involving key actors like Sporting Governing Bodies (SGBs) such as the International Olympic Committee (IOC), intergovernmental institutions like the United Nations (UN), and regional bodies. Since 2009, the UN has recognized the IOC as a permanent... |
2025 |
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| Christopher S. Havasy |
SOCIAL JUSTICE CONFLICTS IN PUBLIC LAW |
113 California Law Review 1315 (August, 2025) |
Social justice is everywhere in public law. Scholars and activists are calling for racial justice, climate justice, and health justice, among other claims. When commentators speak about multiple different social justice claims, it is often through an intersectional lens that views these claims as co-constitutive with one another, such as, There... |
2025 |
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| Marissa Jackson Sow |
SOCIAL MURDER AND THE ANTISOCIAL CONTRACT |
85 Maryland Law Review 79 (2025) |
Social murder is widely understood as the reckless and calculated killing by the State of people who are considered surplus and thus made redundant by the State. It is not merely an outcome, however; social murder, is an antidemocratic process, and--certainly as it is manifesting in the United States under the second Trump Administration--is also... |
2025 |
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| Francesca Laguardia |
SPARING THE GORY DETAILS: LEGAL AND SOCIAL INERTIA AND THE REFUSAL TO CONFRONT THE BODY IN PREGNANCY |
20 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 83 (Spring, 2025) |
Health, including pain, suffering, blood, and guts, has always played an outsized role in legal and public analysis of abortion. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the health implications of forced childbirth have returned to the public's attention, as evidenced by prevalent health exceptions to abortion bans, legal actions in regard to those... |
2025 |
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| Maytal Gilboa |
SUBSTITUTE VICTIMS |
66 Boston(66 Harv. Int'l L.J. 153) (March, 2025) |
Introduction. 799 I. Delineating the Problem.. 807 A. The Less Costly Victim. 807 B. The Gist of the Problem. 810 II. Substitute Victims and Tort Law: Demonstrating the Problem. 811 A. Negligence. 811 1. Substitute Victims. 812 2. Policy Implications. 814 B. Nuisance. 815 1. Substitute Victims. 816 2. Policy Implications. 819 C. Product Liability... |
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| Evelyn Marcelina Rangel-Medina |
THE DISPOSABLE "ESSENTIAL" WORKERS OF COVID-19 |
66 Boston College Law Review (January 2025) |
Introduction. 71 I. Structural Inequalities in Low-Wage Essential Employment. 76 A. Six Structural Factors Underlying Inequality in Employment. 76 B. COVID-19 Exacerbated Structural Inequity for Low-Wage Workers of Color. 82 C. Essential Workers in the Food Chain System During COVID-19. 88 1. Agricultural Essential Workers. 89 2. Meatpacking... |
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| Lahny Silva |
THE TRAP CHRONICLES, VOL. 3: FELONS & FIREARMS |
84 Maryland Law Review 309 (2025) |
If your life was in jeopardy everyday, is you tellin' me you wouldn't need weaponry, just because of your felonies? Introduction. 310 I. The Law. 315 A. Section 922(g)(1). 316 1. Federal Firearms Act. 316 2. 1968 Gun Control Act. 317 3. War on Drugs. 318 4. Today. 320 B. The Gun Cases. 322 II. Frame. 328 A. Colorblindness. 329 1. Gun Cases & Race.... |
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Voiding Voir Dire: Rethinking AB 3070 and California's Murky Approach to Peremptory Challenge Reform |
61 Criminal Law Bulletin 1 (66 B.C. L. Rev. 69) |
Michael Yoakam is a student at the UC Davis School of Law, Class of 2026; B.S. UC Davis, 2020. This research was contributed to by Professor Gabriel Jack Chin and Dillon Beckett. Their combined expertise, guidance, and unwavering support made this Article possible. Correspondence regarding this Article should be directed to mayoakam@ucdavis.edu. |
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| Vera Shikhelman |
VOTING PATTERNS AND DIVERSITY OF BACKGROUNDS IN THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE |
46 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 649 (Spring, 2025) |
It is widely recognized that the decisions of judges are influenced to some extent by their backgrounds. In recent years this understanding gained traction in the international legal system, and there is an attempt to diversify the composition of international judicial institutions. This article explores empirically the question of whether the... |
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| Bojan Perovic |
WHAT'S FREEDOM GOT TO DO WITH IT? OCCUPATIONAL FREEDOM AND THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE |
41 Georgia State University Law Review 983 (Summer, 2025) |
This Article critically examines the concept of occupational freedom, arguing that the legal right to choose and pursue a profession, as enshrined in many constitutional systems, remains largely theoretical for vast segments of the population. While legal frameworks recognize occupational freedom, socioeconomic barriers, systemic discrimination,... |
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| April L. Cherry |
"I WISH I KNEW HOW IT WOULD FEEL TO BE FREE": A LAMENTATION ON DOBBS v. JACKSON'S PERNICIOUS IMPACT ON THE LIVES AND LIBERTY OF WOMEN |
72 Cleveland State Law Review 301 (2024) |
I wish I knew how It would feel to be free I wish I could break All the chains holdin' me On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned nearly fifty years of precedent when it declared in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization that abortion was not a fundamental right, and therefore it was not protected by the Fourteenth Amendment and... |
2024 |
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| Charisa Smith |
A POST-DOBBS FUTURE: BAILING WATER DOWNSTREAM TO CENTER DEMOCRACY'S CHILDREN |
54 Seton Hall Law Review 747 (2024) |
The reversal of Roe v. Wade by Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization not only imperils vital reproductive freedom across the United States but also illuminates the countless ways that childhood precarity will be exacerbated downstream now that forced births are sanctioned by the state. While an individual's reasons for exercising abortion... |
2024 |
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| Sara A. Colangelo |
BRIDGING SILOS: ENVIRONMENTAL AND REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS |
112 California Law Review 1255 (August, 2024) |
The climate crisis is a perilous yet underexamined example of the intersection of environmental injustice and reproductive injustice. The physical manifestations of the climate crisis affect key elements of reproductive justice: women's rights to have children, to not have children, and to parent children in healthy, sustainable communities. Reams... |
2024 |
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| Tashayla Sierra-Kadaya Borden |
CRIMINALIZING ABUSE: SHORTCOMINGS OF THE DVSJA ON BLACK WOMAN SURVIVORSHIP |
124 Columbia Law Review 2065 (November, 2024) |
Commentators posit that reducing domestic abuse requires an increase in prosecutions and a decrease in criminal reform efforts. The abuser is as set a role as the sympathetic victim, with little room to examine how both may exist simultaneously within an individual. A deeper look into what occurs for survivors reveals that legal discourse often... |
2024 |
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African/Black American |
| Sheryl Osakue |
DO NOT MESS WITH MY CROWN: THE CROWN ACT IS A STEP FOR BLACK MEN AND WOMEN TO BE ACCEPTED AND VALUED FOR THEIR UNIQUE CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS |
25 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 147 (2024) |
How do you prepare for a job interview? Most people prefer not to wear a wrinkled shirt or high-water pants to avoid looking unprofessional, messy, or unkempt. Unfortunately, Black men and women are left not only preparing the perfect work outfit but also thinking, How should I style my hair to conform to the image of a [fill in the blank]. This... |
2024 |
Yes |
African/Black American |
| Gemma Donofrio |
DOBBS, BRUEN, AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: FEWER ABORTIONS, MORE GUNS, AND THE EFFECTS OF BOTH ON SURVIVORS OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE |
102 North Carolina Law Review 699 (March, 2024) |
The central focus of this Article is to posit that the approach of courts in invoking notions of privacy to largely ignore intimate partner violence throughout most of American history continues to eclipse the full ramifications of both reproductive rights and Second Amendment case law. Homicide is a leading cause of death for pregnant women, more... |
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| Yael Zakai Cannon |
EQUITABLE THRIVING: A LIFECOURSE APPROACH TO MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH JUSTICE |
113 Georgetown Law Journal 253 (December, 2024) |
Black women are at least three times more likely to die due to a pregnancy-related cause than White women. Grave racial disparities also abound in severe maternal morbidity, or significant unexpected health consequences of labor and delivery. The Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, eliminating the... |
2024 |
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African/Black American |
| Jordana R. Goodman , Paul R. Gugliuzza , Rachel Rebouché |
INEQUALITY ON APPEAL: THE INTERSECTION OF RACE AND GENDER IN PATENT LITIGATION |
58 U.C. Davis Law Review 829 (December, 2024) |
Today, roughly 40% of U.S. lawyers are women, 15% are people of color, and 8% are women of color. Yet people of color, and women of all racial identities, rarely climb to the most elite levels of law practice. This Article, based on a first-of-its-kind, hand-coded dataset of the gender and perceived race of thousands of lawyers and case outcomes,... |
2024 |
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| Colleen Campbell |
INTERSECTIONALITY MATTERS IN FOOD AND DRUG LAW |
95 University of Colorado Law Review 1 (Winter, 2024) |
Feminist scholars critique food and drug law as a site of gender bias and regulatory neglect. The historical exclusion of women from clinical trials by the FDA prioritized male bodies as the object of clinical research and therapies. Likewise, the FDA's prior restriction on access to contraceptive birth control illustrates how patriarchal and... |
2024 |
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