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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... |
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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American Indian/Alaskan Native |
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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... |
2013 |
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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... |
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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| Brenda V. Smith , Melissa C. Loomis |
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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| Michelle P. Crockett |
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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| Nicole Hancock |
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... |
2013 |
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| Ali Ammoura |
Banning the Hijab in Prisons: Violations of Incarcerated Muslim Women's Right to Free Exercise of Religion |
88 Chicago-Kent Law Review 657 (2013) |
On November 1, 2011, officers at the Orange County Superior Court took Souhair Khatib, a practicing Muslim woman who wore the hijab, the Islamic headscarf, into custody, and to her dismay and humiliation, ordered her to remove her hijab and to remain without it while in custody. Khatib explained to the officers that her religion forbade her from...; Search Snippet: ...Note Banning the Hijab in Prisons: Violations of Incarcerated Muslim Women's Right to Free Exercise of Religion Ali Ammoura [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Patricia A. Broussard |
Black Women's Post-slavery Silence Syndrome: a Twenty-first Century Remnant of Slavery, Jim Crow, and Systemic Racism--who Will Tell Her Stories? |
16 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 373 (Spring 2013) |
One hot summer's day in the late 1950s, a young mother put her three young children down for a nap. She also bathed and prepared four of her sister's children for naptime. This young woman had volunteered to care for her nephew and nieces while their mother, her younger sister, was in the hospital delivering her fifth child. A short while after...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Gender, Race and Justice Spring 2013 Article Black Women's Post-slavery Silence Syndrome: a Twenty-first Century Remnant Of... |
2013 |
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| Michael Selmi , Sonia Weil |
Can All Women Be Pharmacists?: a Critique of Hanna Rosin's the End of Men |
93 Boston University Law Review 851 (May, 2013) |
Introduction. 851 I. Rosin's Evidence for the Rise of Women. 855 A. The Recession. 855 B. Pharmacists Yes, but What Other Occupations?. 857 C. Education. 861 D. The Issue of Choice. 864 II. Why Do We Need the End of Men?. 867 Conclusion. 870; Search Snippet: ...University Law Review May, 2013 Panel Ii: Employment Can All Women Be Pharmacists?: a Critique of Hanna Rosin's the End Of... |
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| Barbara S. Mishkin |
Cfpb Office of Women and Minority Inclusion to Propose Diversity Standards for Regulated Entities |
67 Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 77 (2013) |
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection's (CFPB) Office of Women and Minority Inclusion (OMWI) has issued its first annual report to Congress covering the OMWI's activities in 2012 (the report). The Dodd-Frank Act required the CFPB and various other federal agencies including the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). Treasury, OCC, FDIC, NCUA, SEC and...; Search Snippet: ...Report Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 2013 Cfpb Office of Women and Minority Inclusion to Propose Diversity Standards for Regulated Entities... |
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| Cindy A. Schipani , Terry Morehead Dworkin |
Class Action Litigation after Dukes: in Search of a Remedy for Gender Discrimination in Employment |
46 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 1249 (Summer 2013) |
In this Article we argue for substantial reforms to our system of combating workplace gender discrimination in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes. To help counter discrimination victims' decreasing access to the courts, our proposals call for a narrow construction of the holding of Dukes. At the same time,...; Search Snippet: ...Action Litigation after Dukes: in Search of a Remedy for Gender Discrimination in Employment [Fnd1] Cindy A. Schipani [Fna1] Terry Morehead... |
2013 |
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| Lisa Lucile Owens |
Coerced Parenthood as Family Policy: Feminism, the Moral Agency of Women, and Men's "Right to Choose" |
5 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (2013) |
Part of what makes human agency moral is the demand that individuals think through their choices and, to the extent that they are choices made freely and unilaterally, that they shoulder most if not all of the consequences that visit upon those choices. It is not uncommon for the state to intervene in this moral field, shifting to choice-bystanders...; Search Snippet: ...Coerced Parenthood as Family Policy: Feminism, the Moral Agency of Women, and Men's Right to Choose Lisa Lucile Owens [Fna1] Copyright... |
2013 |
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| Lauren Kois , Jessica Pearson , Preeti Chauhan , Margaret Goni, Lisa Saraydarian , John Jay College of Criminal Justice and City University of New York, Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, New York and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, John Jay College of C |
Competency to Stand Trial among Female Inpatients |
37 Law and Human Behavior 231 (2013) |
Competency to stand trial evaluations are conducted by forensic mental health professionals to opine whether defendants possess the mental abilities to understand, appreciate, and reason in regard to their court proceedings. The majority of research on competency to stand trial evaluations has focused on males, with research on female defendants...; Search Snippet: ...Law and Human Behavior 2013 Competency to Stand Trial among Female Inpatients Lauren Kois [Fna1] John Jay College of Criminal Justice... |
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| Andrea J. Ritchie |
Crimes Against Nature: Challenging Criminalization of Queerness and Black Women's Sexuality |
14 Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law 355 (Spring 2013) |
Over the past two centuries, racialized policing of sexualities deemed deviant was, in Louisiana, facilitated by the existence of a centuries-old crime against nature law. In 1982, the legislature added a crime against nature by solicitation provision (CANS), which singled out solicitation of oral or anal sex for compensation for harsher...; Search Snippet: ...Article Crimes Against Nature: Challenging Criminalization of Queerness and Black Women's Sexuality Andrea J. Ritchie [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Loyola University... |
2013 |
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| Carla-Michelle Adams, Esq. |
Criminalization in Shades of Color: Prosecuting Pregnant Drug-addicted Women |
20 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 89 (Fall 2013) |
The development of the fetal protection movement and the legal acknowledgement of fetal rights has resulted in states beginning to hold expecting mothers legally accountable for their drug abuse during pregnancy through the imposition of criminal sanctions. It is estimated that each year 375,000 drug dependent infants will be born from...; Search Snippet: ...Article Criminalization in Shades of Color: Prosecuting Pregnant Drug-addicted Women Carla-michelle Adams, Esq. [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Yeshiva University... |
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| Kaaryn Gustafson |
Degradation Ceremonies and the Criminalization of Low-income Women |
3 UC Irvine Law Review 297 (May, 2013) |
This Article, a call for both empirical social scientists and critical race theorists to engage with each other in careful interpretive analysis, applies sociologist Harold Garfinkel's concept of ceremonial degradation to policies, practices, and proposals targeting low-income women of color in the United States. This Article offers several...; Search Snippet: ...Article & Essay Degradation Ceremonies and the Criminalization of Low-income Women Kaaryn Gustafson [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Law Library, University Of... |
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| Ramona Fernandez |
De-tenured: a Latina Endures More than Four Decades in the Educational Industrial Complex |
12 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 421 (Fall/Winter, 2013) |
Our ancestors' journals are one long cry of pain. - Joanna Russ It is possible that North American academia has made little to no progress in racial and gender equality in the very halls that should lead us to a better world. The stories in Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia frighten anyone with the...; Search Snippet: ...Confusion. My Ambiguous Physical Appearance, Coupled with a Highly Marked Latino Name and a Mother Whose Eastern European Ancestry Was Passed... |
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| Susan E. Trent |
Detroit as Catalyst for Discussion on Women Lawyers in History |
32-NOV American Bankruptcy Institute Journal 20 (November, 2013) |
Detroit is likely best known for three things: automobiles, Motown and sports. Its historical contribution to the American dream is significant--from Henry Ford's affordable cars rolling off the line, to the creation of uniquely American music performed by legendary artists like The Four Tops, The Jackson 5 and The Supremes, to the thrilling sports...; Search Snippet: ...Journal November, 2013 Feature Detroit as Catalyst for Discussion on Women Lawyers in History Susan E. Trent [Fna1] Copyright © 2013 By... |
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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... |
2013 |
Asian American |
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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... |
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| 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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| 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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