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| Sara L. Ainsworth |
Bearing Children, Bearing Risks: Feminist Leadership for Progressive Regulation of Compensated Surrogacy in the United States |
89 Washington Law Review 1077 (December, 2014) |
Compensated surrogacy--an arrangement in which a woman carries and gives birth to a child for someone else in exchange for money--intimately affects women. Yet, feminist law reformers have not led efforts to regulate this practice in the United States. Their absence is notable given the significant influence of feminist lawmaking in a...; Search Snippet: ...The Age of Windsor Symposium Essay Bearing Children, Bearing Risks: Feminist Leadership for Progressive Regulation of Compensated Surrogacy in the United... |
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| Thadd A. Blizzard |
Book Review: Gender and Judging |
25 Hastings Women's Law Journal 267 (Summer 2014) |
The recently published book Gender and Judging brings together a wide-ranging collection of scholarly works that together present the story of women's difficulties in becoming judges, the degree to which they have in some ways overcome those difficulties, and the impact women have had on society in their role as judicial officers. It is a rich...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Hastings Women's Law Journal Summer 2014 Article Book Review: Gender and Judging Hon. Thadd A. Blizzard [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014... |
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| Deborah L. Rhode |
Diversity and Gender Equity in Legal Practice |
82 University of Cincinnati Law Review 871 (Spring, 2014) |
One irony of this nation's continuing struggle for diversity and gender equity in employment is that the profession leading the struggle has failed to set an example in its own workplaces. In principle, the American bar is deeply committed to equal opportunity and social justice. In practice, it lags behind other occupations in leveling the playing...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Spring, 2014 Robert S. Marx Lecture Diversity and Gender Equity in Legal Practice Deborah L. Rhode [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Daniel E. Ho, Mark G. Kelman |
Does Class Size Affect the Gender Gap? A Natural Experiment in Law |
43 Journal of Legal Studies 291 (June, 2014) |
We study a unique natural experiment in which Stanford Law School randomly assigned first-year students to small or large sections of mandatory courses from 2001 to 2011. We provide evidence that assignment to small sections closed a slight (but substantively and highly statistically significant) gender gap existing in large sections from 2001 to...; Search Snippet: ...Studies June, 2014 Pt. 1 Does Class Size Affect the Gender Gap? A Natural Experiment in Law Daniel E. Ho Mark... |
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| Randall T. Shepard , Jon Laramore |
Former Chief Justice Shepard on Conrad Baker's Contributions to Racial & Gender Equality |
57-APR Res Gestae 20 (April, 2014) |
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP hosted several programs on diversity and inclusion last year. One program focused on Conrad Baker, a governor of Indiana and founder of the firm Baker & Daniels, and his contributions to the progress of women and African Americans. The program consisted of an interview of former Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard, a...; Search Snippet: ...Former Chief Justice Shepard on Conrad Baker's Contributions to Racial & Gender Equality [Fna1] Randall T. Shepard [Fna2] Jon Laramore [Fna3] Copyright... |
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| Melissa L. Breger, Mary A. Lynch |
From Kate Stoneman to Stoneman Chair, Katheryn D. Katz: Feminist Waves and the First Domestic Violence Course at a United States Law School |
77 Albany Law Review 443 (2013-2014) |
First-wave feminist, suffragette, and 1898 Albany Law School graduate, Katherine Kate Stoneman, pioneered the admission of women to the Bar of the State of New York. She led the charge against the statutory preclusion of women, overturning the statute in 1886 and winning legislative victory for non-discrimination in admission to the bar. Exactly...; Search Snippet: ...Article from Kate Stoneman to Stoneman Chair, Katheryn D. Katz: Feminist Waves and the First Domestic Violence Course at a United... |
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| Selby M. Conrad , Marina Tolou-Shams, Christie J. Rizzo , Nicole Placella , Larry K. Brown , The Miriam Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island and Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center, Providence, Rhode Island, Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center, |
Gender Differences in Recidivism Rates for Juvenile Justice Youth: the Impact of Sexual Abuse |
38 Law and Human Behavior 305 (August, 2014) |
Young female offenders represent a growing number of young offenders. Studies have shown that youth in the juvenile justice system, particularly young females, report higher rates of lifetime sexual abuse than their nonoffending peers. The aim of this study was to examine gender differences in risk factors for recidivism, including a history of...; Search Snippet: ...Law and Human Behavior Law and Human Behavior August, 2014 Gender Differences in Recidivism Rates for Juvenile Justice Youth: the Impact... |
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| Ian Farrell , Nancy Leong |
Gender Diversity and Same-sex Marriage |
114 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 97 (11/10/2014) |
Opponents of same-sex marriage have recently adopted a curious new argument. The argument goes something like this. The Supreme Court has held that diversity is a compelling state interest in institutions of higher education. Opposite-sex marriage includes gender diversity, while same-sex marriage does not. Therefore, states may allow opposite-sex...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Sidebar Columbia Law Review Sidebar November 10, 2014 Gender Diversity and Same-sex Marriage Ian Farrell [Fna1] Nancy Leong... |
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| Saurabh Vishnubhakat |
Gender Diversity in the Patent Bar |
14 John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law 67 (2014) |
I. Introduction. 68 II. Relevant Dimensions of Gender Diversity. 68 III. The Patent Bar Gender Data File. 72 A. Data and Methodology. 72 B. Practitioners in the Active Roster. 73 C. Practitioners Named on Granted Patents. 75 IV. Discussion. 76 V. Conclusion. 77 Appendix: Tables and Figures. 79; Search Snippet: ...Law John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law 2014 Article Gender Diversity in the Patent Bar Saurabh Vishnubhakat [Fna1] Copyright © Saurabh... |
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| Cheryl L. Wade |
Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards: How Racial Politics Impedes Progress in the United States |
26 Pace International Law Review 23 (Spring 2014) |
The excellent conference organized by Darren Rosenblum comparing global approaches to board diversity inspired me to think about how progress in this context has unfolded in the United States. Even though the issue of diversity on corporate boards has become a global issue, few U.S. boards have moved beyond mere tokenism when it comes to female...; Search Snippet: ...International Law Review Pace International Law Review Spring 2014 Article Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards: How Racial Politics Impedes Progress In... |
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| Cynthia Lee |
Honoring Angela Harris: a Review of "Gender, Violence, Race, and Criminal Justice" |
47 U.C. Davis Law Review 1037 (April, 2014) |
I would like to start by thanking Melissa Murray for inviting me to participate in this celebration of Angela Harris's work on September 27, 2013, at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. Angela is one of the nation's leading critical race scholars, and is also recognized as one of the nation's preeminent feminist scholars. Her...; Search Snippet: ...Festschrift Honoring Angela Harris Honoring Angela Harris: a Review of Gender, Violence, Race, and Criminal Justice Cynthia Lee [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Mary Anne Franks |
I Am/i Am Not: on Angela Harris's Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory |
102 California Law Review 1053 (August, 2014) |
In 1990, Angela Harris wrote an article that interrogated the limitations of feminist legal theory. Nearly a quarter of a century later, the insights and challenges Harris offered in Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory continue to reverberate. The influence of her ideas can be seen in the fractured and passionate conversations about...; Search Snippet: ...I Am Not: on Angela Harris's Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory Mary Anne Franks [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 California... |
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| Kaitrin Vohs |
I Don't Know the Question, but Sex Is Definitely the Answer : the Over-simplification of Same-sex Sexual Harassment since Oncale V. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. |
40 William Mitchell Law Review 1611 (2014) |
I. Introduction. 1612 II. Bringing a Claim Under Title VII. 1613 III. History of Title VII. 1615 A. Inclusion of Sex Discrimination. 1615 B. Inclusion of Sexual Harassment Based on Hostile Work Environment. 1616 C. Inclusion of Same-Sex Sexual Harassment. 1618 IV. Emerging Circuit Split. 1620 A. Narrow Reading of Oncale. 1621 B. Broad Readings of...; Search Snippet: ...Pay Act of 1963, Edith Green, Believed That Discrimination Against Black Americans Was More Severe than Discrimination Against Women. [Fn31] Furthermore, They Believed That Smith's Actual Motive Behind Introducing... |
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| Angela Nicole Johnson |
Intersectionality, Life Experience & Judicial Decision Making: a New View of Gender at the Supreme Court |
28 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 353 (2014) |
On New Year's Day, acting at the request of an order of Catholic nuns in Colorado, Justice Sotomayor temporarily blocked the Obama administration, acting under the Affordable Care Act, from requiring some religiously affiliated groups to provide health insurance coverage of birth control. In response, commentators attacked the Justice and blamed...; Search Snippet: ...Intersectionality, Life Experience & Judicial Decision Making: a New View of Gender at the Supreme Court Angela Nicole Johnson [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Susan Frelich Appleton |
Leaving Home? Domicile, Family, and Gender |
47 U.C. Davis Law Review 1453 (June, 2014) |
Introduction. 1455 I. Domicile--Then and Now. 1457 A. Domicile as Home. 1459 B. Domicile and Domestic Relations Law. 1463 1. Old School Domestic Relations Law. 1464 2. Beyond Domestic Relations?. 1470 3. Contemporary Reinforcements. 1472 C. Domicile's Enduring Gender. 1476 II. Family Law and Family Life Today. 1481 A. A Glimpse of Twenty-First...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review June, 2014 Lecture Leaving Home? Domicile, Family, and Gender Susan Frelich Appleton [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Susan Frelich Appleton... |
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| Margaret E. Montoya |
Máscaras Y Trenzas: Reflexiones Un Proyecto De Identidad Y Análisis a Través De Veinte Años |
32 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review Rev. 7 (2014) |
Using Spanish to Wrestle Brown Space into White Space On the street at night I whistled popular tunes from the Beatles and Vivaldi's Four Seasons. The tension drained from people's bodies when they heard me. Brent Staples, quoted by Claude M. Steele From their inception, names--including first names, surnames, names of groups, and even story, book,...; Search Snippet: ...Speak the Greeting in Spanish, I Am Constructing Myself as Latina, as a Brown Woman, [Fn18] and Triggering the Stereotypes That Accompany Those Identities. By Speaking Spanish and Deliberately Using Other Racial and Gender Markers, I Am Surfacing Stereotypes about Latinas in Order to Debunk Them and Expand the Performative Choices... |
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| Melissa Hart |
Missing the Forest for the Trees: Gender Pay Discrimination in Academia |
91 Denver University Law Review 873 (2014) |
Women in virtually every job category still make less than men. Academia is no exception. This Article will explore some of the structural explanations for this continued disparity and the continued resistance to seriously confronting those structural barriers to equality. Using the still-unfolding story of a charge of discrimination filed against...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 2014 Article Missing the Forest for the Trees: Gender Pay Discrimination in Academia Melissa Hart [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 2014... |
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| Chelsea V. King |
Procedurally Criminal: How Peremptory Challenges Create Unfair and Unrepresentative Single-gender Juries |
21 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 187 (Fall, 2014) |
Introduction I. The Gender-Based Peremptory Challenge A. In General: Peremptory Challenges B. Batson: Equal Protection Protects Jurors from Racial Discrimination C. Extension of Batson Rationale, Prohibiting Discriminatory Peremptory Challenges to Gender D. Peremptory Challenges in Practice II. The Right to an Impartial Jury of One's Peers A....; Search Snippet: ...Procedurally Criminal: How Peremptory Challenges Create Unfair and Unrepresentative Single- Gender Juries Chelsea V. King [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 College Of... |
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| Joanna Woolman , Sarah Deer |
Protecting Native Mothers and Their Children: a Feminist Lawyering Approach |
40 William Mitchell Law Review 943 (2014) |
I. Introduction. 944 II. Background: Native American Experiences with Child Protective Services. 947 A. Precolonial Native Motherhood. 947 B. Colonization and Native Mothers. 950 1. Missionary Belief Systems About the Cultural Inferiority of Native Women's Mothering Skills. 950 2. Native Mothers and the Early American Child Protection System. 951...; Search Snippet: ...At Child Protection Protecting Native Mothers and Their Children: a Feminist Lawyering Approach Joanna Woolman [Fnd1] Sarah Deer [Fndd1] Copyright ©... |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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... |
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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... |
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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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| 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... |
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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... |
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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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| 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... |
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Asian American |