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| Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee |
Distant Silences and Default Judgments: Access to Justice for Transnationally Abandoned Women |
16 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 95 (2013) |
Modern transnational mobility in the South Asian diaspora --when combined with traditional practices that enforce women's dependence upon their husbands for social and economic standing--has had devastating consequences for South Asian women who marry across borders. Contemporary global shifts have produced new types of consumerism in the form...; Search Snippet: ...Silences and Default Judgments: Access to Justice for Transnationally Abandoned Women Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee Copyright (C) 2013 University of Pennsylvania Journal... |
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| Jamie R. Abrams |
Distorted and Diminished Tort Claims for Women |
34 Cardozo Law Review 1955 (June, 2013) |
Childbirth is distinctly characterized in tort law by the literal emergence of a potential putative plaintiff. This Article seeks to position the birthing woman--distinct from the pregnant woman or the parent--squarely within the negligence framework and, in doing so, to challenge prevailing assumptions dominating obstetric medical decision-making....; Search Snippet: ...Review June, 2013 Article Distorted and Diminished Tort Claims for Women Jamie R. Abrams [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 2013 Yeshiva University; Jamie... |
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| Jennifer Chacón |
Feminists at the Border |
91 Denver University Law Review 85 (2013) |
Ann Scales was a critic of militarism. She challenged her readers to engage in a radical critique of all of the excuses for and covers for the use of force that is, a radical critique of militarismin whatever context it appears. She also cautioned that this critique is perhaps most important in contexts where the influence of militarism is less...; Search Snippet: ...Denver University Law Review Denver University Law Review 2013 Article Feminists at the Border Jennifer Chacón [Fnd1] Copyright © 2013 Denver University... |
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| Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde |
Fight the Tower: a Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia |
12 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 367 (Fall/Winter, 2013) |
Everything in my life, like leaving a war torn country as a refugee and entering a strange new land, organizing for social justice as a young adult, and graduating with a doctorate in Ethnic Studies, should have prepared me for the obstacles a woman of color would face in academia. It did not. Although I was trained as an academic, I was not...; Search Snippet: ...In Academia Fight the Tower: a Call to Action for Women of Color in Academia Kieu-linh Caroline Valverde [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Seletha R. Butler |
Financial Expert: a Subtle Blow to the Pool and Current Pipeline of Women on Corporate Boards |
14 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law L. 1 (Winter, 2013) |
L1-2Abstract . L32 I. Introduction. 3 II. Governmental Protectionism Through Laws and Regulations. 4 A. An Overview: Laws, Regulations, and the SEC. 6 B. The Expert Law and Expert Regulation. 7 C. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the Audit Committee. 11 1. A Snapshot of SOX. 11 2. History, Purpose, and Function of the Audit Committee--Pre-SOX and...; Search Snippet: ...A Subtle Blow to the Pool and Current Pipeline of Women on Corporate Boards Seletha R. Butler [Fna1] Copyright © 2013 By... |
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| Kathleen Kelly Janus |
Finding Common Feminist Ground: the Role of the next Generation in Shaping Feminist Legal Theory |
20 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 255 (Spring 2013) |
This article explores the ways in which current feminist frameworks are dividing the women's movement along generational lines, thereby inhibiting progress in the struggle for gender equality. Third-wave feminists, or the generation of feminists that came of age in the 1990s and continues today, have been criticized for focusing on personal stories...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Gender Law & Policy Spring 2013 Article Finding Common Feminist Ground: the Role of the next Generation in Shaping Feminist Legal Theory Kathleen Kelly Janus [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Duke... |
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| Gina Gribow |
Forced Obstetrical Intervention: the Role of Religion and Culture, and the Woman's Autonomous Choice |
24 Hastings Women's Law Journal 177 (Winter 2013) |
The significance our society places on an individual's autonomy and right to bodily integrity seems unparalleled as it has been repeatedly noted that [n]o right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or...; Search Snippet: ...Obstetrical Intervention: the Role of Religion and Culture, and the Woman's Autonomous Choice Gina Gribow [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Uc Hastings... |
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| Bari R. Burke |
Foreword to When a Woman Campaigns: Emily Sloan's Races to Become Montana's First Female County Attorney |
74 Montana Law Review 343 (Summer 2013) |
Emily Sloan was not the first woman to run for public office in Montana; Ella Knowles, the state's first female attorney, ran for Attorney General in 1892, long before women were granted suffrage nationally or in Montana . Helen Piotopowaka Clarke was the first woman elected to public office in Montana; she was elected Lewis and Clark County...; Search Snippet: ...Montana Law Review Summer 2013 Essay Foreword to When a Woman Campaigns: Emily Sloan's Races to Become Montana's First Female County Attorney Bari R. Burke [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Montana... |
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| Lolita Buckner Inniss |
From Space-off to Represented Space: a Review of Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home by Anita Hill. Boston: Beacon Press, 2011. 195 Pp. $25.95 Hardback. |
28 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 138 (Winter 2013) |
In Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home, author Anita Hill explores some of the literal and figurative meanings of home, focusing specifically on African-American women in their quest for home. Hill layers discussions of law, literature, and culture with stories of individual women, both historic and contemporary. In...; Search Snippet: ...To Represented Space: a Review of Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home by Anita Hill. Boston: Beacon Press... |
2013 |
African/Black American |
| Theresa M. Beiner, William H. Bowen School of Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
Gender & Justice: Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter. By Sally J. Kenney. New York and London, Uk: Routledge, 2013. 310 Pp. $35.95 Paper |
47 Law and Society Review 975 (December, 2013) |
Political scientist Sally J. Kenney's recent book, Gender & Justice: Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter, does more than simply make the case for a gender diverse judiciary. She also suggests how to accomplish this by using case studies from a variety of countries as examples of what has and has not worked. Ultimately relying on arguments used...; Search Snippet: ...Society Review December, 2013 Book Review Kathleen E. Hull, Editor Gender & Justice: Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter. By Sally J. Kenney. New... |
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| Stephanie Bontrager, Kelle Barrick, Elizabeth Stupi |
Gender and Sentencing: a Meta-analysis of Contemporary Research |
16 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 349 (Spring 2013) |
Daly and Bordt's review of sentencing studies published between 1960 and 1990 found that women were generally at an advantage over male defendants in sentencing decisions. Given twenty-one years of additional gender/sentencing inquiry, and extensive revisions to criminal justice policy and practice since the publication of the meta-analysis,...; Search Snippet: ...Justice Journal of Gender, Race and Justice Spring 2013 Article Gender and Sentencing: a Meta-analysis of Contemporary Research Stephanie Bontrager... |
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| Maria Noel Leoni Zardo |
Gender Equality and Indigenous Peoples' Right to Self-determination and Culture |
28 American University International Law Review 1053 (2013) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 1053 II. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND THE COLLECTIVE RIGHT TO CULTURE. 1059 A. The Importance of Recognizing Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 1059 B. The Scope of the Collective Rights to Self-Determination and Culture. 1068 III. ADDRESSING GENDER INEQUALITY WITHIN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES. 1073 IV....; Search Snippet: ...The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and International Human Rights Law Gender Equality and Indigenous Peoples' Right to Self-determination and Culture... |
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| Kareem Crayton |
Gender Unbound? |
81 George Washington Law Review 1799 (November, 2013) |
This Essay engages current research on gender norms and biases and the way they interact in the political sphere with female candidates. Since Hillary Clinton's campaign for U.S. President in 2008, many scholarly retrospectives have presented various reasons that her candidacy faltered. As a starting point, this piece addresses one particular...; Search Snippet: ...A Symposium on the Law Governing Our Democratic Process Essay Gender Unbound? Kareem Crayton [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 George Washington Law... |
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| Marcia L. McCormick |
Gender, Family, and Work |
30 Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal 309 (Spring 2013) |
We have prohibited sex discrimination for a relatively short period of time. By statute, sex discrimination in pay was prohibited in 1963, and in other employment contexts in 1964. The Supreme Court, not too much later, began to rule in a series of decisions that at least some sex-based decisions violated the Equal Protection Clause. As this...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal Spring 2013 Article Gender, Family, and Work Marcia L. Mccormick [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013... |
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| Juliet A. Williams |
Girls Can Be Anything . . . but Boys Will Be Boys: Discourses of Sex Difference in Education Reform Debates |
13 Nevada Law Journal 533 (Winter 2013) |
In recent years, K-12 public education has emerged as a central staging ground for debating the nature and significance of gender differences. What might the rise of gender-based advocacy in education suggest about contemporary understandings of sex and gender in the United States? Assessing recent efforts to introduce gender-appropriate learning...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Winter 2013 Section Iv: Masculinities and Education Law Girls Can Be Anything . . . but Boys Will Be Boys: Discourses Of... |
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| Seema Mohapatra, JD, MPH |
Global Legal Responses to Prenatal Gender Identification and Sex Selection |
13 Nevada Law Journal 690 (Spring 2013) |
Over one hundred million women are estimated to be missing from the world's population due to some form of gendercide. Gendercide exists on almost every continent and affects every class of people. Gendercide has traditionally taken the form of sex-selective abortion, infanticide, or death caused by neglect. Sex-selective abortions occur when a...; Search Snippet: ...Health Care Reform, and Beyond Global Legal Responses to Prenatal Gender Identification and Sex Selection Seema Mohapatra Jd Mph [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Sonja C. Tonnesen |
Hit it and Quit It: Responses to Black Girls' Victimization in School |
28 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 1 (Winter 2013) |
INTRODUCTION. 2 Part I. Sexual Harassment Against Black Girls and Young Women in School and the Unfulfilled Promise of Title IX and Zero Tolerance Policies. 6 A. Sexual Harassment Against Black Girls at School. 6 B. The Inadequacy of Title IX and Schools' Efforts to End Sexual Harassment against Black Girls and Young Women in K-12 Schools. 11 Part...; Search Snippet: ...2013 Commentary Hit it and Quit It: Responses to Black Girls' Victimization in School Sonja C. Tonnesen [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 2013... |
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African/Black American |
| Ryan D. Dreveskracht |
House Republicans Add Insult to Native Women's Injury |
3 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review Rev. 1 (2013) |
Introduction. 1 Background and Context. 2 What's the Big Deal? It Isn't That Bad.. 12 Constitutionality and Supreme Court Review. 21 Conclusion. 27; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 2013 Article House Republicans Add Insult to Native Women's Injury Ryan D. Dreveskracht [Fna1] Copyright © 2013 by U. Miami... |
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| Rhiana Gunn-Wright, Barbara Gault |
Improving Outcomes for Marginalized Girls in the Secondary Education and Workforce Development Systems |
20 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 351 (Winter, 2013) |
U.S. policy makers, community leaders, and philanthropists have placed great emphasis on improving the quality of secondary education and increasing attainment of postsecondary credentials, especially for jobs in high-demand sectors. The success of these efforts will require a much greater understanding of the roles that gender and race play in...; Search Snippet: ...Law and Policy Winter, 2013 Article Improving Outcomes for Marginalized Girls in the Secondary Education and Workforce Development Systems Rhiana Gunn... |
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| Elizabeth M. Ziegler , Tamara Isadora Huntley |
It Got Too Tough to Not Be Me: Accommodating Transgender Athletes in Sport |
39 Journal of College and University Law 467 (2013) |
I. Introduction. 468 II. Recent Examples of Transgender or Intersexed Athletes. 471 III. Do Transgender Athletes Have an Advantage in Competition?. 474 IV. Current Regulations. 476 A. Olympic and Professional Levels. 476 B. Intercollegiate Level. 483 C. Interscholastic Level. 488 D. Additional Guidance from the On The Team Report. 491 V. Legal...; Search Snippet: ...Establishing Such Standards. It Was Not Too Long Ago That African Americans Were Not Allowed to Compete with Whites in Sports, and Women Were Not Allowed to Compete in Sports at All. Just... |
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African/Black American |
| Danné L. Johnson |
It's a Scandal: Can Minority Women in the Legal Academy Be Gladiators? |
12 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 349 (Fall/Winter, 2013) |
When I joined the Academy ten years ago, I was attracted to the ability to manage my own time and my own thinking. The ability to impact students and contextualize the law promised to give meaning and depth to my professional life. I discussed my professional choices with men and women of all races and walks of life. I was encouraged. Each law...; Search Snippet: ...For Women in Academia It's a Scandal: [Fn1] Can Minority Women in the Legal Academy Be Gladiators? [Fn2] Danné L. Johnson... |
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Symposium on International Women's Rights: Promoting Global Equality for Women Through the Law |
34 Women's Rights Law Reporter 105 (Winter/Spring 2013) |
DEAN BOUCHOUX: Good morning. Welcome to Rutgers Law School and welcome to the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg Symposium on International Women's Rights. I am Fran Bouchoux and I serve as Senior Associate Dean here at the law school. It has also been my pleasure to serve as the co-chair of the NAWJ 2011 planning conference committee. Two years ago,...; Search Snippet: ...Winter/spring 2013 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Symposium on International Women's Rights: Promoting Global Equality for Women Through the Law Copyright (C) 2013 Women's Rights Law Reporter... |
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Keynote Address: the Women at the United States Supreme Court |
42 Southwestern Law Review 535 (2013) |
Judge Judith Chirlin: I don't want to interrupt the networking that's going on, and the fact that you are enjoying each other's company, but we do have, as you know, a very special treat for our luncheon speaker, so I would like to introduce her. She is a woman who, probably a year and two months ago, most of us in the room had never heard of....; Search Snippet: ...Law School, Los Angeles (February 24, 2012) Keynote Address: the Women at the United States Supreme Court Judge Judith Chirlin: I... |
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| Aya Gruber |
Leniency as a Miscarriage of Race and Gender Justice |
76 Albany Law Review 1571 (2012-2013) |
What is a miscarriage of justice? One might think of many ways in which the wheels of criminal justice jump the tracks. The criminal system might permit the conviction of an innocent or the admission of a coerced confession. The system might permit bribery and influence of state actors. The system might tolerate the mistreatment of victims,...; Search Snippet: ...2012-2013 Article Leniency as a Miscarriage of Race and Gender Justice Aya Gruber [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Albany Law School... |
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| Alyson L. Dimmitt Gnam |
Mexico's Missed Opportunities to Protect Irregular Women Transmigrants: Applying a Gender Lens to Migration Law Reform |
22 Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 713 (June, 2013) |
Mexico is a transit country for hundreds of thousands of migrants traveling north. Due to economic liberalization, women increasingly migrate in search of employment opportunities, a phenomenon called the feminization of migration. As women migrate, they face high risks of sexual and gender-based violence, including sexual assault,...; Search Snippet: ...John O. Haley Comment Mexico's Missed Opportunities to Protect Irregular Women Transmigrants: Applying a Gender Lens to Migration Law Reform Alyson L. Dimmitt Gnam [Fnd1... |
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| Lisa Mottet |
Modernizing State Vital Statistics Statutes and Policies to Ensure Accurate Gender Markers on Birth Certificates: a Good Government Approach to Recognizing the Lives of Transgender People |
19 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 373 (2013) |
Introduction. 376 I. Understanding The Problem. 379 A. A Brief Overview of the Legal Landscape with Regard to Correcting Gender on Birth Certificates. 379 1. The Model State Vital Statistics Act (MSVSA). 380 2. Current U.S. State Law and Policies Overview. 381 3. New Policy on Consular Reports of Birth Abroad and Passports. 383 4. The U.K....; Search Snippet: ...Modernizing State Vital Statistics Statutes and Policies to Ensure Accurate Gender Markers on Birth Certificates: a Good Government Approach to Recognizing... |
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| Kathryn Duque Lenhart |
Multiculturalism and Feminism for Hispanic Immigrant Women Accused of Drug Crimes |
2013 Brigham Young University Law Review 1613 (2013) |
A Laotian man kidnaps and rapes a woman in keeping with the Hmong custom of marriage-by-capture. An Iraqi father forces his minor daughters to marry adult Iraqi men. A Chinese immigrant kills his wife for infidelity. A Japanese woman kills her children in the honorable Japanese tradition of mother-child suicide. Cases such as these, which all took...; Search Snippet: ...Young University Law Review 2013 Comment Multiculturalism and Feminism for Hispanic Immigrant Women Accused of Drug Crimes Kathryn Duque Lenhart [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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Hispanic/Latinx American |
| Deborah M. Kolb |
Negotiating in the Shadows of Organizations: Gender, Negotiation, and Change |
28 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 241 (2013) |
For the past twenty-five years, I have been interested in the ways that gender matters in negotiation. I have had a great deal of company in this pursuit, as the topic has been the subject of considerable scholarly research during this period. It is probably fair to date the first comprehensive review of the topic to the 1975 classic, The Social...; Search Snippet: ...Lecture on Dispute Resolution Negotiating in the Shadows of Organizations: Gender, Negotiation, and Change [Fn1] Deborah M. Kolb [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Madeline Porta |
Not Guilty by Reason of Gender Transgression: the Ethics of Gender Identity Disorder as Criminal Defense and the Case of Pfc. Chelsea Manning |
16 CUNY Law Review 319 (Summer 2013) |
A young person sits in a dark room, face lit by the glow of a computer screen. The person types for long stretches, then pauses while waiting for an instant message response from a new friend. The message thread is bursting with the types of confessions familiar in a world of cyber anonymity: job frustration, anxiety, interspersed with...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Summer 2013 Note Not Guilty by Reason of Gender Transgression: the Ethics of Gender Identity Disorder as Criminal Defense and the Case of Pfc... |
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| Lee Ann S. Wang |
Of the Law, but Not its Spirit": Immigration Marriage Fraud as Legal Fiction and Violence Against Asian Immigrant Women |
3 UC Irvine Law Review 1221 (December, 2013) |
Introduction. 1221 I. Immigration Marriage Fraud as a Legal Fiction. 1228 II. The Racial Problem with Coaching . 1235 III. Translation as Fraudulent Speaker. 1239 IV. Love Letters and Whiteness. 1243 V. The Citizen Subject as Innocent Speaker. 1246 Conclusion. 1249; Search Snippet: ...Marriage Fraud as Legal Fiction and Violence Against Asian Immigrant Women Lee Ann S. Wang [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Uc Irvine... |
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Asian American |
| Robin Walker Sterling |
On Surviving Legal De-education: an Allegory for a Renaissance in Legal Education |
91 Denver University Law Review 211 (2013) |
They had done it. After three long years, three of the members of the graduating class of 2035 of Denver Law sat together over burgers at Crimson & Gold, the local student hangout that had sustained them through countless hours of studying, memorizing, outlining, and learning. Geneva Johnson could not believe that she had just graduated from law...; Search Snippet: ...Squarely at the Intersection of Critical Race Theory and Critical Feminist Jurisprudence. Critical Race Theory Is Characterized by Frequent Use Of... |
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| Jonathan A. Wolfson |
Optimal Opt-out: the Effect of the Payroll Tax on Married Women's Labor Force Participation |
31 Quinnipiac Law Review 843 (2013) |
Dick and Jane Harper are the stereotypical upper middle-class family. In the film Fun with Dick and Jane, Dick (Jim Carrey's character) has been promoted to Vice President of Communications and he encourages his wife Jane (Téa Leoni's character) to quit her job to spend more time with their son. While her decision to quit working, coupled with the...; Search Snippet: ...Opt-out: the Effect of the Payroll Tax on Married Women's Labor Force Participation Jonathan A. Wolfson [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013... |
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Program Seeks Lawyers to Help Hispanic and Women Farmers in Discrimination Claims Process |
38-FEB Montana Lawyer 16 (February, 2013) |
The Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) and the National Agricultural Law Center is seeking lawyers to assist Hispanic and women farmers to complete and submit claims forms in a non-judicial process to resolve past claims of discrimination in USDA Farm Loan Programs. The USDA Hispanic and Women Farmers and Ranchers Claims Process (HWFRCP) is...; Search Snippet: ...Feature Story Hwfrcp Claims Process Program Seeks Lawyers to Help Hispanic and Women Farmers in Discrimination Claims Process Copyright © 2013 by State Bar... |
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Hispanic/Latinx American |
| Jill C. Engle |
Promoting the General Welfare: Legal Reform to Lift Women and Children in the United States out of Poverty |
16 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice Just. 1 (Winter 2013) |
It is no secret that women have long been economically disadvantaged in the United States. During the nation's first century, laws sanctioned female subjugation. Most notably, the United States legal system adopted the English common law principle of coverture whereby wives lacked legal status of their own and were instead covered by their...; Search Snippet: ...2013 Article Promoting the General Welfare: Legal Reform to Lift Women and Children in the United States out of Poverty Jill... |
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| Sheerine Alemzadeh |
Protecting the Margins: Intersectional Strategies to Protecting Gender Outlaws from Workplace Harassment |
37 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 339 (2013) |
Sexual harassment jurisprudence is predicated on heteronormative constructions of desire and power in the workplace. Harassment claims brought by gay and lesbian workers explode this binary gender paradigm by challenging the premise that desire can only flow between workers of different biological sexes. While courts have striven to integrate LGBT...; Search Snippet: ...Change 2013 Article Protecting the Margins: Intersectional Strategies to Protecting Gender Outlaws from Workplace Harassment Sheerine Alemzadeh [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 2013... |
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| Constance A. Anastopoulo , Daniel J. Crooks III , nujlsp@gmail.com |
Race and Gender on the Bench: How Best to Achieve Diversity in Judicial Selection |
8 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 174 (Spring, 2013) |
How can states increase diversity on the bench? This article begins by presuming that increasing racial and gender diversity is a worthy goal--among other positive results, a diverse bench increases the judicial system's perceived legitimacy by increasing a diverse citizenry's confidence that judges will treat them fairly and impartially. Next we...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law & Social Policy Spring, 2013 Article Race and Gender on the Bench: How Best to Achieve Diversity in Judicial... |
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| I. Bennett Capers |
Real Women, Real Rape |
60 UCLA Law Review 826 (April, 2013) |
There are several reasons to find rape shield laws troubling. From the point of view of many defense lawyers and civil libertarians, rape shield laws, by curtailing a defendant's ability to offer evidence of an accuser's prior sexual conduct, unfairly circumscribe a defendant's right to confront witnesses and present relevant evidence in his...; Search Snippet: ...Ucla Law Review Ucla Law Review April, 2013 Article Real Women, Real Rape I. Bennett Capers Copyright (C) 2013 Regents Of... |
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| Alizabeth Newman |
Reflections on Vawa's Strange Bedfellows: the Partnership Between the Battered Immigrant Women's Movement and Law Enforcement |
42 University of Baltimore Law Review 229 (Winter 2013) |
[T]his is our failure and our challenge for the twenty-first century: to reclaim a movement, to reform a vision, and to resituate ourselves within a feminist politic that refuses to sacrifice women's experience and autonomy to the prerogatives of the state. INTRODUCTION During the same two decades in which immigrants in the U.S. have seen their...; Search Snippet: ...On Vawa's Strange Bedfellows: the Partnership Between the Battered Immigrant Women's Movement and Law Enforcement Alizabeth Newman [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2012... |
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| Julie Goldscheid |
Rethinking Civil Rights and Gender Violence |
14 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 43 (Winter, 2013) |
Advocacy seeking justice for survivors of domestic and sexual violence historically has invoked civil rights law and rhetoric to advance legal remedies and public policy reform. Although many have come to think of a civil rights remedy as a private right of action against an individual, when we think about civil rights and gender violence, we...; Search Snippet: ...Of Gender and Sexuality Law Article Rethinking Civil Rights and Gender Violence Julie Goldscheid [Fna1] Copyright © 2013 by Julie Goldscheid Abstract... |
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| Angelo Guisado |
Reversal of Fortune: the Inapposite Standards Applied to Remedial Race-, Gender-, and Orientation-based Classifications |
92 Nebraska Law Review 1 (2013) |
I. Introduction. 2 II. Background. 5 A. A Discussion of the Injustices Remedial Legislation Is Meant to Combat. 5 1. Race. 5 2. Gender. 7 3. Sexual Orientation. 7 B. An Introduction to Remedial Legislation. 8 1. The Freedman's Bureau. 9 2. The Fourteenth Amendment. 10 C. An Examination of the Tiered Framework that Applies in Reviewing Both...; Search Snippet: ...Reversal of Fortune: the Inapposite Standards Applied to Remedial Race-, Gender-, and Orientation-based Classifications Angelo Guisado [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013... |
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| Amy J. Schmitz |
Sex Matters: Considering Gender in Consumer Contracting |
19 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 437 (Winter 2013) |
We hear about the so-called War on Women and persisting salary gaps between men and women in the popular media, but contracts scholars and policymakers rarely discuss gender. Instead, dominant voices in the contracts field often reflect classical and economics-driven theories built on assumptions of gender neutral and economically rational...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law & Gender Winter 2013 Article Sex Matters: Considering Gender in Consumer Contracting Amy J. Schmitz [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013... |
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| Neville Hoad |
Sovereign Feeling: the South African Constitution, Hiv/aids, and the Right to Sexual Orientation and Dignity |
18 UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs 125 (Fall, 2013) |
As the gay rights movement gathered momentum in many parts of the world, countries increasingly started considering if and how to protect the rights of their citizens to be free from discrimination based on sexual orientation. In 1996, South Africa, a relatively new country still reeling from the racial discrimination that permeated society during...; Search Snippet: ...Angeles, Feb. 14-15, 2013); African Same-sex Sexualities and Gender Diversity Conference (Pretoria, Feb. 13-16, 2011); Modern Languages Association... |
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| Alexandria Gutierrez |
Sufferings Peculiarly Their Own: the Thirteenth Amendment, in Defense of Incarcerated Women's Reproductive Rights |
15 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 117 (2013) |
When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women. Superadded to the burden common to all, they have wrongs, and sufferings, and mortifications peculiarly their own. The Thirteenth Amendment did not end slavery over night. Despite...; Search Snippet: ...Peculiarly Their Own: the Thirteenth Amendment, in Defense of Incarcerated Women's Reproductive Rights Alexandria Gutierrez [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Regents Of... |
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| Philip N. Cohen |
The "End of Men" Is Not True: What Is Not and What Might Be on the Road Toward Gender Equality |
93 Boston University Law Review 1159 (May, 2013) |
Introduction. 1159 I. An Empirical Critique of The End of Men. 1160 A. Education and Employment. 1161 B. Inequality Within Couples. 1166 C. Women's Power. 1168 D. Gender and Violence. 1172 E. Women on Top. 1177 II. The Place of Feminism. 1178 Conclusion: Linked Responses. 1181; Search Snippet: ...Is Not and What Might Be on the Road Toward Gender Equality Philip N. Cohen [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Trustees Of... |
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| Robin R. Runge |
The Evolution of a National Response to Violence Against Women |
24 Hastings Women's Law Journal 429 (Summer 2013) |
Violence against women reflects as much a failure of our Nation's collective willingness to confront the problem as it does the failure of the Nation's law and regulations. Both our resolve and our laws must change if women are to lead free and equal lives. The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA 1994) was the first comprehensive legislative...; Search Snippet: ...Remarks the Evolution of a National Response to Violence Against Women Robin R. Runge [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Uc Hastings College... |
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| Carolyn B. Ramsey |
The Exit Myth: Family Law, Gender Roles, and Changing Attitudes Toward Female Victims of Domestic Violence |
20 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law L. 1 (2013) |
This Article presents a hypothesis suggesting how and why the criminal justice response to domestic violence changed, over the course of the twentieth century, from sympathy for abused women and a surprising degree of state intervention in intimate relationships to the apathy and discrimination that the battered women's movement exposed. The riddle...; Search Snippet: ...Of Gender & Law 2013 Article the Exit Myth: Family Law, Gender Roles, and Changing Attitudes Toward Female Victims of Domestic Violence [Fnd1] Carolyn B. Ramsey [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Lindsey A. Guerrero |
The Force-feeding of Young Girls: Mauritania's Failure to Enforce Preventative Measures and Comply with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women |
21 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 879 (Winter, 2013) |
I. Introduction. 880 II. Force-Feeding in the Modern Era: A Desire for Change. 882 III. Current Barriers to Change. 884 IV. Applicable Law. 886 A. International Law. 886 1. The CEDAW. 886 2. The Optional Protocol. 889 B. Domestic Law. 890 1. The Constitution of Mauritania and the 2001 Personal Status Code. 890 2. Shari'a Law. 891 a. Three...; Search Snippet: ...Problems Winter, 2013 Student Note the Force-feeding of Young Girls: Mauritania's Failure to Enforce Preventative Measures and Comply with The... |
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| Ajmel Quereshi |
The Forgotten Remedy: a Legal and Theoretical Defense of Intermediate Scrutiny for Gender-based Affirmative Action Programs |
21 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 797 (2013) |
Introduction. 798 I. The Rise and Fall of Gender-Based Affirmative Action: An Examination of the Development and Decline of Intermediate Scrutiny. 800 A. The Rise of Intermediate Scrutiny: The Development of the Court's Jurisprudence with Regard to Statutes That Differentiate on the Basis of Gender. 801 B. The First Step Backwards: The Supreme...; Search Snippet: ...Remedy: a Legal and Theoretical Defense of Intermediate Scrutiny for Gender-based Affirmative Action Programs Ajmel Quereshi [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013... |
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| Tamara S. Smallman |
The Glass Boardroom: the Sec's Role in Cracking the Door Open So Women May Enter |
2013 Columbia Business Law Review 801 (2013) |
This Note explores the current status of gender diversity disclosures under the SEC's 2009 Proxy Disclosure Enhancements. It draws on original data compiled from the Fortune 50's 2012 proxies in its analysis of both corporate compliance under the SEC's revised rule and current female representation in America's most influential boardrooms. In a...; Search Snippet: ...Boardroom: the Sec's Role in Cracking the Door Open So Women May Enter Tamara S. Smallman [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Columbia... |
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| Jorge R. Fragoso |
The Human Cost of Self-deportation: How Attrition Through Enforcement Affects Immigrant Women and Children |
28 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 69 (Spring 2013) |
Introduction. 70 I. The Modern INA and its Effect on Immigrant Women. 71 A. Citizens, Immigrants, and Nonimmigrant Aliens under the INA. 72 i. Employment-Based Preference. 73 ii. Family-Based Preference. 74 B. Grounds for Removal. 75 C. A Snapshot of Undocumented Immigrants Living in the U.S.. 76 II. Additional Hurdles for Immigrant Women in...; Search Snippet: ...Cost of Self-deportation: How Attrition Through Enforcement Affects Immigrant Women and Children Jorge R. Fragoso [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Wisconsin... |
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