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| Judith A. Baer, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University |
Rebels at the Bar: the Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's First Women Lawyers. By Jill Norgren. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2013. 268 Pp. $29.95 Cloth |
48 Law and Society Review 238 (March, 2014) |
Jill Norgren, the author of Rebels at the Bar, is a political scientist. But she has produced more than political science. Those members of the profession who are devoted to quantitative methodology might question whether this book counts as political science at all. Studies of first women rarely lend themselves to quantitative methods. The...; Search Snippet: ...At the Bar: the Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's First Women Lawyers. By Jill Norgren. New York: New York Univ. Press... |
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| Rosemary Shaw Sackett |
Reflections of an Aging Female Judge |
17 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 449 (Summer 2014) |
In November of 2012 an invitation came to write an essay for the Journal of Gender, Race & Justice framed around the book Gender and Justice: Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter. The book is the result of nearly ten years of scholarly study by its author Sally J. Kenney on women attaining and retaining judgeships on Federal Courts and on State...; Search Snippet: ...And Justice Summer 2014 Judicial Essays Reflections of an Aging Female Judge Honorable Rosemary Shaw Sackett Copyright (C) 2014 Journal Of... |
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| Maritza I. Reyes , Angela Mae Kupenda , Angela Onwuachi-willig , Stephanie M. Wildman , Adrien Katherine Wing |
Reflections on Presumed Incompetent: the Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Symposium--the Plenary Panel |
29 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 195 (Summer 2014) |
Acknowledgments. 196 I. Introduction--Professor Reyes. 198 II. Opening Remarks--Panelists. 201 A. Facing Down the Spooks--Professor Kupenda. 201 B. Silence of the Lambs--Professor Onwuachi-Willig. 204 C. Working across Racial Lines in a Not-So-Post-Racial World--Professor Wildman. 210 D. Lessons from a Portrait: Keep Calm and Carry On--Professor...; Search Snippet: ...On Presumed Incompetent: the Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Symposium--the Plenary Panel Maritza I. Reyes [Fnd1... |
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| Thomas H. Bienert, Jr. |
Remarkable Women in Orange County Contributed to Our Shared History |
56-MAR Orange County Lawyer 9 (March, 2014) |
I grew up primarily with my mother in a single-parent household. She was attractive, witty, and a strong personality. She was quite intelligent, graduating high school two years early, at sixteen. My mother was, by today's standards, an ideal candidate to graduate college, get an advanced degree, and have a successful career as a professional or...; Search Snippet: ...Lawyer Orange County Lawyer March, 2014 Column President's Page Remarkable Women in Orange County Contributed to Our Shared History Thomas H... |
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| Michael McCann |
Revisiting Sex: Keynote Address Money, Sex, and Power: Gender Discrimination and the Thwarted Legacy of the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
91 Denver University Law Review 779 (2014) |
Introduction. 779 I. Some Frustrating Facts About Continuing Gender Inequality. 781 II. Critical Feminist Theory on the Limits of Rights-Based Strategies for Change. 785 III. A Different Explanation: Power and Politics of Law. 788 A. Discrimination Is Structural. 791 B. Dispensing with Demonstrations of Intent. 792 C. Enhanced Empirical Evidence....; Search Snippet: ...2014 Article Revisiting Sex: Keynote Address Money, Sex, and Power: Gender Discrimination and the Thwarted Legacy of the 1964 Civil Rights... |
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| Dana Kabat-Farr, Lilia M. Cortina , University of Michigan |
Sex-based Harassment in Employment: New Insights into Gender and Context |
38 Law and Human Behavior 58 (2014) |
Legal definitions of sex-based harassment have evolved over the decades; it is important that social science perspectives on this phenomenon evolve as well. This study seeks to refine our understanding of conditions in which sex-based harassment thrives, with empirical evidence from three organizations. Previous research has suggested that...; Search Snippet: ...Behavior 2014 Sex-based Harassment in Employment: New Insights into Gender and Context Dana Kabat-farr Lilia M. Cortina [Fna1] University... |
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| Eujean Park |
Shopping for Gender: the Unlawfulness of an Unregulated Market for Prenatal Gender Selection and Selective Gender Abortion |
20 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 521 (Winter 2014) |
Some time before the water breaks and the parents welcome their baby into the world, there is another moment almost as exciting but just as much anticipated: the day the gender of the baby is revealed. For Megan Simpson, that day was one of disappointment and tears as she found out that her third pregnancy would produce yet another son. Having...; Search Snippet: ...Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender Winter 2014 Note Shopping for Gender: the Unlawfulness of an Unregulated Market for Prenatal Gender Selection and Selective Gender Abortion Eujean Park [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Yeshiva University; Eujean... |
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| Donna Coker |
Stand Your Ground in Context: Race, Gender, and Politics University of Miami Law Review Eleventh Circuit Issue "Stand Your Ground" Laws |
68 University of Miami Law Review 943 (Summer 2014) |
Florida's self-defense law, commonly known as Stand Your Ground (SYG), has been the subject of extraordinary debate, both popular and scholarly. SYG was the subject of hearings conducted by the Senate Judiciary Committee, the United Nations Human Rights Committee, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; the focus of a new American...; Search Snippet: ...Review Summer 2014 Foreword Stand Your Ground in Context: Race, Gender, and Politics University of Miami Law Review Eleventh Circuit Issue... |
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| Barbara Stark |
State Responsibility for Gender Stereotyping |
17 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 333 (Spring 2014) |
Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't. - Justice Antonin Scalia Scholars have recently re-discovered Justice Ruth Bader Ginburg's early anti-stereotyping work. As Cary Franklin notes, Justice Ginsburg's approach was grounded not in a commitment to...; Search Snippet: ...Families: Changing Families, Challenging Laws Symposium Article State Responsibility for Gender Stereotyping Barbara Stark [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Barbara Stark Certainly... |
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| Holly Foster, John Hagan |
Supportive Ties in the Lives of Incarcerated Women: Gender, Race/ethnicity, and Children's Human Rights |
17 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 257 (Spring 2014) |
In keeping with trends of mass imprisonment in the contemporary United States of America, especially the pronounced increase in incarcerated groups from the 1970s forward, women's rates of incarceration have increased six-fold between 1980 and 2008. The majority of female inmates are parents of young children and many of these women were living...; Search Snippet: ...Laws Symposium Article Supportive Ties in the Lives of Incarcerated Women: Gender, Race/ethnicity, and Children's Human Rights Holly Foster John Hagan... |
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| Teresa M. Bruce |
Terrorism du Jour |
21 UCLA Women's Law Journal L.J. 1 (Spring, 2014) |
I have tried to imagine my father as a little boy, playing on the typewriter in Bernice Worden's Plainfield, Wisconsin hardware store. He could probably smell motor oil and leather gloves, the musty pages of books stored too long on shelves, and the earthy dust that would have permeated a small-town family business in the days before big-box...; Search Snippet: ...An Endemic Regime of Fear That Keeps Black Males and Females of All Colors in a State of Subjugation Teresa M... |
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| Kaitlin O'Neil |
The 2012 Battle for the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act: Lessons Learned and Questions Left Unanswered |
35 Women's Rights Law Reporter 243 (Winter 2014) |
In August of 1998, Nataliya Mikhaylovna Fox entered the United States with the assistance of the matchmaking agency Wind of Wanderer who arranged for Nataliya to meet a client in Ukraine. After a failed initial attempt at the matchmaking process, she was introduced to a second client through Encounter Internationals (EI), James Fox. In November of...; Search Snippet: ...The 2012 Battle for the Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act: Lessons Learned and Questions Left Unanswered Kaitlin O'neil [Fna1... |
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| Megan Veith |
The Continuing Gender-health Divide: a Discussion of Free Choice, Gender Discrimination, and Gender Theory as Applied to the Affordable Care Act |
21 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 341 (Spring, 2014) |
Men and women are historically, socially, and biologically different from each other. Therefore, they utilize different health care services from each other, or similar services, but in different ways. With so much gender variation, measuring equality in the current health care system is a difficult task. However, for gender equality to exist in...; Search Snippet: ...On Poverty Law and Policy Spring, 2014 Note the Continuing Gender-health Divide: a Discussion of Free Choice, Gender Discrimination, and Gender Theory as Applied to the Affordable Care Act Megan Veith... |
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| Gwendolyn Griffith , Partner, Tonkon Torp LLP |
The Evolution of Women's Wealth: Implications for Wealth Planners |
2014 Aspatore 4160088 (July, 2014) |
This book is about the transmission of wealth during life and at death. Most of its chapters focus on techniques for meeting clients' goals in wealth transmission, including providing for loved ones, minimizing federal and state taxes, and structuring trusts and other vehicles to preserve wealth. These chapters assume that a client has accumulated...; Search Snippet: ...And Understanding its Impact on Estate Plans the Evolution of Women's Wealth: Implications for Wealth Planners Gwendolyn Griffith [Fna1] Partner Tonkon... |
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| Wendy A. Bach |
The Hyperregulatory State: Women, Race, Poverty, and Support |
25 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 317 (2014) |
Introduction. 318 I. The Failures of Liberal Theory and the Idea of the Supportive State. 320 A. The Autonomous Subject and the Vulnerable Subject. 322 B. Towards a More Responsive State. 326 II. Hyperregulation and Poverty. 329 A. A Bit of Social Welfare History. 330 B. Privacy Deprivation and Criminalization as the Price of Support. 331 C. From...; Search Snippet: ...Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 2014 Article the Hyperregulatory State: Women, Race, Poverty, and Support Wendy A. Bach [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Jamie R. Abrams |
The Illusion of Autonomy in Women's Medical Decision-making |
42 Florida State University Law Review 17 (Fall, 2014) |
This Article considers why there is not more conflict between women and their doctors in obstetric decision-making. While patients in every other medical context have complete autonomy to refuse treatment against medical advice, elect high-risk courses of action, and prioritize their own interests above any other decision-making metric, childbirth...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Fall, 2014 Article the Illusion of Autonomy in Women's Medical Decision-making Jamie R. Abrams [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014... |
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| Romonda D. Belcher |
The Importance of Women and the Judiciary |
17 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 421 (Summer 2014) |
My journey to the bench began in Plymouth, North Carolina, a small town on the east coast, population less than 4,000. As a young child I can remember being the only little black girl at my classmates' birthday parties. I don't know if I was the only black child invited or if I was the only one who showed up. At the time, I am not sure if I even...; Search Snippet: ...Race and Justice Summer 2014 Judicial Essays the Importance of Women and the Judiciary Honorable Romonda D. Belcher Copyright (C) 2014... |
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| Barbara A. Noah |
The Inclusion of Pregnant Women in Clinical Research |
7 Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 353 (2014) |
In the past three decades, there has been unprecedented growth in medical research utilizing human subjects, with much promise for new treatments that extend life, improve quality of life, and prevent disease and disability. Safe prescribing of drug therapies requires that researchers design clinical trials to test products for the benefit of all...; Search Snippet: ...Law: Exemplary Insight into Trending Topics the Inclusion of Pregnant Women in Clinical Research Barbara A. Noah [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014... |
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| Samuel Vincent Jones |
The Invisible Women: Have Conceptions about Femininity Led to the Global Dominance of the Female Human Trafficker? |
7 Albany Government Law Review 143 (2014) |
Introduction. 144 I. Female Victim-Male Culprit Reasoning Precludes Proper Detection of Female Traffickers. 148 A. Conceptions About Female Autonomy, Violence, and Aggression. 150 B. How Female Victim-Male Culprit Reasoning Influenced the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). 155 II. The Female Human Trafficker Revealed. 156 A. Highly Capable...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Albany Government Law Review 2014 Article the Invisible Women: Have Conceptions about Femininity Led to the Global Dominance of the Female Human Trafficker? Samuel Vincent Jones [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Albany... |
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| Mary Anne Case |
The Ladies? Forget about Them. A Feminist Perspective on the Limits of Originalism |
29 Constitutional Commentary 431 (Summer 2014) |
One hundred years ago, in An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, Charles Beard asked of the Framers: Did they represent distinct groups whose economic interests they understood and felt in concrete, definite form through their own personal experience with identical property rights, or were they working merely under the...; Search Snippet: ...Of the United States the Ladies? Forget about Them. A Feminist Perspective on the Limits of Originalism Mary Anne Case [Fna1... |
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| Clark Forsythe |
The Medical Assumption at the Foundation of Roe V. Wade & its Implications for Women's Health |
29 Issues in Law and Medicine 183 (Fall, 2014) |
Too little attention has been paid over the past forty years to the complete lack of a factual record in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, and to the Court's fundamental assumption that drove the outcome. The decision and opinions were driven by the medical claim that abortion was safer than childbirth, which was raised for the first time...; Search Snippet: ...At the Foundation of Roe V. Wade & its Implications for Women's Health Clark Forsythe [Fna1] Copyright © 2014 by the National Legal... |
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| Clarke Forsythe |
The Medical Assumption at the Foundation of Roe V. Wade & its Implications for Women's Health |
71 Washington and Lee Law Review 827 (Spring, 2014) |
I. Introduction. 829 II. The Medical Premise of Roe v. Wade. 833 A. The Impact of Roe and Doe. 835 B. The Mistake that Left the Justices with No Record. 836 C. The Source of the Medical Mantra. 838 D. No Factual Record in the Abortion Cases. 840 E. Impact of the Medical Mantra. 844 1. The Public Health Vacuum. 844 2. The Expansion to Viability (and...; Search Snippet: ...At the Foundation of Roe V. Wade & its Implications for Women's Health Clarke Forsythe [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Washington and Lee... |
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| Leigh Goodmark |
The Role of Clinical Legal Education in the Future of the Battered Women's Movement |
22 Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy 27 (2013-2014) |
Over the last forty years, the battered women's movement has transformed the legal response to domestic violence in the United States. During the same time period, clinical legal education (including clinics dedicated to representing women subjected to abuse ) has grown tremendously and has fundamentally changed the way that lawyers in the United...; Search Snippet: ...Of Clinical Legal Education in the Future of the Battered Women's Movement Leigh Goodmark [Fn1] Copyright (C) 2013 Buffalo Journal Of... |
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| Eugene M. Hyman (ret.) |
The Scarlet Eletter and Other Roadblocks to Redemption for Female Offenders |
54 Santa Clara Law Review 119 (2014) |
Introduction. 120 I. Collateral Consequences. 124 A. Employment. 125 B. Economic Barriers to Employment. 129 C. Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Record Affect the Well-Being of Children. 131 D. Domestic Violence and Custody of Children. 133 E. Welfare Benefits. 134 F. Safe and Affordable Housing. 135 G. Access to Higher Education. 136 H. Loss...; Search Snippet: ...Article the Scarlet Eletter and Other Roadblocks to Redemption for Female Offenders Judge Eugene M. Hyman (Ret.) [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014... |
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| Lianna E. Donovan |
The Violence Against Women Act's Protection of Immigrant Victims: Past, Present, and Proposals for the Future |
66 Rutgers Law Review 745 (Spring 2014) |
Introduction. 745 I. Intimate Partner Violence in Context. 747 A. Intimate Partner Violence Generally. 747 B. Intimate Partner Violence and Immigrant Victims. 751 II. The Dangerous Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Immigration Law. 754 A. The Concepts of Coverture and Chastisement in Early Immigration Law. 754 B. Congressional...; Search Snippet: ...Review Rutgers Law Review Spring 2014 Notes the Violence Against Women Act's Protection of Immigrant Victims: Past, Present, and Proposals For... |
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| Catharine A. MacKinnon |
Toward a Renewed Equal Rights Amendment: Now More than Ever |
37 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 569 (Summer 2014) |
The sexes are human equals. Yet women, on the whole, are not men's legal equals or, by most any standard, men's social equals. The laws that guarantee against discrimination--mainly the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 --have, I argue, gone about as far as they will or can to produce...; Search Snippet: ...21 (1987), and Catharine A. Mackinnon, Unthinking Era Thinking, in Women's Lives, Men's Laws 13 (2005). Lisa Cardyn Is Warmly Thanked... |
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| Catherine Jean Archibald |
Transgender Student in Maine May Use Bathroom That Matches Gender Identity--are Co-ed Bathrooms Next? |
83 UMKC Law Review 57 (Fall, 2014) |
No State shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. -Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 1. No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law . . . . -Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This is an exciting time for...; Search Snippet: ...Article Transgender Student in Maine May Use Bathroom That Matches Gender Identity--are Co-ed Bathrooms Next? Catherine Jean Archibald [Fna1... |
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| Christopher Deluzio |
Tribes and Race: the Court's Missed Opportunity in Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl |
34 Pace Law Review 509 (Spring, 2014) |
Adoption policy in the United States has unequivocally embraced the idea that every child, irrespective of race, has an equal right to a loving home and supportive parents. To that end, public adoption agencies and family courts are largely barred from considering the race of either the child or the couple seeking adoption when deciding custody and...; Search Snippet: ...Race: the Court's Missed Opportunity in Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl Christopher Deluzio [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Pace University School Of... |
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| Verónica Caridad Rabelo, Lilia M. Cortina , University of Michigan |
Two Sides of the Same Coin: Gender Harassment and Heterosexist Harassment in Lgbq Work Lives |
38 Law and Human Behavior 378 (August, 2014) |
This project investigated the incidence, interplay, and impact of gender-and sexuality-based harassment, as experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) employees in higher education. Unlike much queer empirical research, participants in this study were residents of noncoastal regions of the U.S. that are predominantly White, rural, and...; Search Snippet: ...Human Behavior August, 2014 Two Sides of the Same Coin: Gender Harassment and Heterosexist Harassment in Lgbq Work Lives Verónica Caridad... |
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| Janel A. George |
Undermining Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Discipline Disparities |
19-DEC NBA National Bar Association Magazine 18 (December, 2014) |
Although many African American girls were pivotal in advancing educational opportunity before and during the Civil Rights era, the educational outcomes of African American girls are being undermined by practices influenced by race and gender bias, including overly punitive discipline practices in schools. A recent report by the NAACP Legal Defense...; Search Snippet: ...Nba National Bar Association Magazine December, 2014 Undermining Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Discipline Disparities Janel A. George [Fna1] Copyright © 2014 by the National Bar Association; Janel A. George a Lthough Many African American Girls Were Pivotal in Advancing Educational Opportunity Before and During the Civil |
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| Jennifer Pusch |
Urban Struggles: an Analysis of Title Ix and Urban High Schools Athletic Opportunities for Girls |
29 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 317 (Summer 2014) |
Introduction. 317 I. Title IX. 319 A. Title IX History. 319 i. Build-Up. 320 ii. Legislation. 321 B. Breakdown of Act/Judicial Interpretation. 321 C. Failure in Urban High Schools. 323 i. Statistics. 323 ii. Reasons for Opportunities Lag. 324 II. Importance of Athletics. 325 III. Title IX is NOT the Answer. 326 A. Historical Use of Title IX -...; Search Snippet: ...Of Title Ix and Urban High Schools Athletic Opportunities for Girls Jennifer Pusch [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Wisconsin Journal of Law... |
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| Linda Coco |
Visible Women: Locating Women in Financial Failure, Bankruptcy Law, and Bankruptcy Reform |
8 Charleston Law Review 191 (Winter 2013-2014) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 192 II. SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE AND GENDER DIVISION. 196 A. Female Financial Actors: Economic Inferiority and Financial Exclusion. 201 B. Implementing the Gender Order. 205 C. Gender Neutrality: Language and Power. 206 D. BAPCPA's Means Testing: One-Size-Fits-All Men and Women. 208 E. Women as Support Creditors Under BAPCPA. 212 III....; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Charleston Law Review Winter 2013-2014 Article Visible Women: Locating Women in Financial Failure, Bankruptcy Law, and Bankruptcy Reform Linda Coco... |
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| Leader Nancy Pelosi |
When Women Succeed, America Succeeds |
25 Hastings Women's Law Journal 173 (Summer 2014) |
Last week I was in Seneca Falls, New York, and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. It was such a source of pride to me. I was thrilled. But very thrilled, because after votes, 19 of my colleagues, my women colleagues, came up there. You can just imagine how the crowd reacted to seeing this beautiful diverse group of women Members...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Hastings Women's Law Journal Summer 2014 Article When Women Succeed, America Succeeds [Fna1] Leader Nancy Pelosi [Fnaa1] Copyright ©... |
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| Ashley Valdez |
Who's Really Determining Our Social Policy? Revisiting the Relationship Between Congress and the Courts in Workplace Gender Discrimination |
25 Hastings Women's Law Journal 327 (Summer 2014) |
Betty Dukes worked as a Wal-Mart employee in Pittsburg, California since 1994. She started as a cashier, but eventually received a promotion to customer service manager. Despite years of service and positive performance reviews, the employment relationship soured when Wal-Mart disciplined Dukes for violating company policy. When filing her claim,...; Search Snippet: ...Revisiting the Relationship Between Congress and the Courts in Workplace Gender Discrimination Ashley Valdez [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Uc Hastings College... |
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| Karen Leroux |
With Allies, Some Women Lawyers Overcame the Odds |
97 Judicature 206 (January-February 2014) |
Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's America's First Women Lawyers by Jill Norgren. NYU Press. 286 pages. $29.95 In Rebels at the Bar, historian Jill Norgren invites readers to peer into the lives of eight women representing the first generation of women lawyers in the late nineteenth century United States. By...; Search Snippet: ...766903 Judicature Judicature January-february 2014 Books with Allies, Some Women Lawyers Overcame the Odds Karen Leroux [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014... |
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| Lindsay Hart |
With Inadequate Protection under the Law, Transgender Students Fight to Access Restrooms in Public Schools Based on Their Gender Identity |
41 Northern Kentucky Law Review 315 (2014) |
Coy Mathis appeared to be a typical a six-year-old girl with long blonde hair and a big smile. Coy wore dresses, played with stereotypically girls' toys, and had predominately female playmates. What could not be observed was that Coy was born a boy. But, independently and at an early age, Coy became distraught when treated as a boy and refused to...; Search Snippet: ...Fight to Access Restrooms in Public Schools Based on Their Gender Identity Lindsay Hart [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Northern Kentucky University... |
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| Claire M. DeMatteis |
Women and the Delaware Bar and Bench: it Takes Generations |
14 Delaware Law Review 125 (2014) |
Despite the pride Delaware rightly claims as The First State, it was the last state to admit women to the bar. That was nearly a century ago, in 1923. Today, more than one-third of all attorneys in Delaware are women. Yet, on our world-renowned business courts - the Supreme Court and the Court of Chancery - exactly one woman has served on either...; Search Snippet: ...2014 Wl 2621182 Delaware Law Review Delaware Law Review 2014 Women and the Delaware Bar and Bench: it Takes Generations Claire... |
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61-SEP Federal Lawyer 30 (September, 2014) |
On Friday, July 11, the Federal Bar Association held its inaugural Women in the Law Conference at George Washington University. The conference covered the past, present, and future of women in the legal profession as well as touching on some legal issues that women face today. D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia A. Millett gave the morning keynote address...; Search Snippet: ...2014 Wl 4409835 Federal Lawyer Federal Lawyer September, 2014 Department Women in the Law Power and Progress Copyright © 2014 by Federal... |
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| Molly A. Schiffer |
Women of Color and Crime: a Critical Race Theory Perspective to Address Disparate Prosecution |
56 Arizona Law Review 1203 (2014) |
This Note seeks to acknowledge, explain, and offer a remedy to the problem of disparate prosecution of women of color. Women of color are disproportionately arrested and prosecuted for felonies around the country, and are overrepresented in the criminal justice system compared to their white women counterparts. Black and Native women are prosecuted...; Search Snippet: ...Wl 7006140 Arizona Law Review Arizona Law Review 2014 Note Women of Color and Crime: a Critical Race Theory Perspective To... |
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| Carmen G. González |
Women of Color in Legal Education |
61-JUL Federal Lawyer 48 (July, 2014) |
As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in the landmark decision of Grutter v. Bollinger upholding the University of Michigan Law School's race-conscious admissions process, the educational benefits of a diverse student body are substantial. These include enhanced cross-racial understanding; classroom discussions that are livelier, more spirited,...; Search Snippet: ...Federal Lawyer Federal Lawyer July, 2014 Women in the Law Women of Color in Legal Education Challenging the Presumption of Incompetence... |
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| Nicole Buonocore Porter |
Women, Unions, and Negotiation |
14 Nevada Law Journal 465 (Spring 2014) |
In a period when union membership is at an all-time low (at least in the private sector), some (or perhaps many) people have given up hope that the labor movement can be revived. I believe that the labor movement still has the potential to be successful but needs to be re-imagined and reinvigorated. One way (among many) of doing this is to increase...; Search Snippet: ...Nevada Law Journal Spring 2014 Symposium: Democracy and the Workplace Women, Unions, and Negotiation Nicole Buonocore Porter [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014... |
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| Danielle J. Larson |
You're Breaking Up: the Faulty Connection Between Congressional Intent and Supreme Court Interpretation in Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl, 133 S. Ct. 2552 (2013) |
93 Nebraska Law Review 517 (2014) |
I. Introduction. 518 II. Background. 519 A. Legislative History of ICWA. 519 1. Indian Child Removal Pre-ICWA. 519 2. Factors Driving Removal Rates. 520 a. Physical Abuse. 520 b. Ethnocentrism. 520 c. Institutional Structure. 523 B. Overview of ICWA. 524 C. Existing Indian Family Exception. 525 D. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield....; Search Snippet: ...Intent and Supreme Court Interpretation in Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl, 133 S. Ct. 2552 (2013) Danielle J. Larson Copyright ©... |
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| Nick Tamburri |
A Lack of Civility: How New Jersey Law Fails to Protect Women |
43 Seton Hall Law Review 1041 (2013) |
M.R. had been living in New Jersey for six years when he met A.R. in 1985. The two became romantically involved and moved to Mississippi in 1987, where they were married shortly after the birth of their first child. They had two more children and moved back and forth between Mississippi and New Jersey several times during their marriage before...; Search Snippet: ...Lack of Civility: How New Jersey Law Fails to Protect Women Nick Tamburri [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Seton Hall University School... |
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| Lisa Pratt |
Access to Vaginal Birth after Cesarean: Restrictive Policies and the Chilling of Women's Medical Rights During Childbirth |
20 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 105 (Fall, 2013) |
INTRODUCTION I. THE RISE AND FALL OF VBAC A. The History of the VBAC Movement B. Current Medical Research on the Safety of VBAC C. Legal Framework II. LAWS AND POLICIES THAT RESTRICT VBAC A. Hospital Policies That Prohibit VBAC B. Midwifery Laws and Regulations That Prohibit or Restrict VBAC C. Birth Center Laws, Regulations, and Policies Against...; Search Snippet: ...Vaginal Birth after Cesarean: Restrictive Policies and the Chilling of Women's Medical Rights During Childbirth Lisa Pratt [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013... |
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| Naurice Frank Woods, Jr. |
Adaline and the Judge: an Ex-slave Girl's Journey with Albion W. Tourgée |
5 Elon Law Review 199 (2013) |
Ohio native Albion Winegar Tourgée (1838-1905) is, perhaps, best known for his time spent in North Carolina immediately after the Civil War as the state's most infamous carpetbagger and the author of bestselling novels, such as A Fool's Errand. During and after his time living in the South, Tourgée remained a lightning rod for controversy. Much of...; Search Snippet: ...Review 2013 Article Adaline and the Judge: an Ex-slave Girl's Journey with Albion W. Tourgée Naurice Frank Woods, Jr. [Fn1... |
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| Joan Entmacher , Amy Matsui |
Addressing the Challenges Women Face in Retirement: Improving Social Security, Pensions, and Ssi |
46 John Marshall Law Review 749 (Spring 2013) |
It is a truth universally acknowledged (or it should be) that women are more economically vulnerable than men in retirement. On average, women's lifetime earnings are lower than men's, and divorce, single parenthood, and widowhood have a particularly detrimental impact on women's economic security. Thus, women reach retirement with lower Social...; Search Snippet: ...John Marshall Law Review Spring 2013 Article Addressing the Challenges Women Face in Retirement: Improving Social Security, Pensions, and Ssi Joan... |
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After Dothard: Female Correctional Workers and the Challenge to Employment Law |
8 FIU Law Review 469 (Spring, 2013) |
This article examines a profession where women have made great strides corrections. Using an equality framework, corrections and other non-traditional professions were the first target of the feminist movement in the 1970s. By and large, feminists were successful in creating greater porosity for women in law enforcement, emergency services,...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Fiu Law Review Spring, 2013 Article after Dothard: Female Correctional Workers and the Challenge to Employment Law Brenda V... |
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Alone on an Island |
92-SEP Michigan Bar Journal 42 (September, 2013) |
The representation of women of color in law firms, particularly in the partnership ranks, is abysmally low. This phenomenon is more closely examined from the perspective of an attorney who is intimately connected with the ongoing diversity issue that many firms throughout the country continue to struggle with. Arecent article in The New York Times...; Search Snippet: ...Alone on an Island the Realities of Practicing Law for Women of Color Michelle P. Crockett [Fna1] Copyright © 2013 by State... |
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| Sarah Primrose |
An Unlikely Feminist Icon?: Justice Harry A. Blackmun's Continuing Influence on Reproductive Rights Jurisprudence |
19 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 393 (Winter 2013) |
One's philosophy, one's experiences, one's exposure to the raw edges of human existence, one's religious training, one's attitudes towards life and family and their values, and the moral standards one establishes and seeks to observe, are all likely to influence and to color one's thinking and conclusions about abortion. - Justice Harry A....; Search Snippet: ...Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender Winter 2013 Article an Unlikely Feminist Icon?: Justice Harry A. Blackmun's Continuing Influence on Reproductive Rights... |
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Are We There Yet?!? a Statistical View of Equality for Women in Idaho |
56-JAN Advocate 28 (January, 2013) |
One recent Saturday morning, I sat at my dining room table next to my fourth-grade son, Joshua. He was working on his Idaho history project and learning about our great state. Joshua was listing the symbols represented in Idaho's state seal, along with an explanation for each one. The grain and plow represent agriculture, the miner represents the...; Search Snippet: ...Are We There Yet?!? a Statistical View of Equality for Women in Idaho Nicole Hancock [Fna1] Copyright © 2013 by the Idaho... |
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