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Dean Edward Rubin, Dean W. H. Knight, Dean Katherine Bartlett A Conversation among Deans from "Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, and a Decade of Gender Studies," Harvard Journal of Law & Gender Conference, March 2006 29 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 465 (Summer, 2006) On March 10, 2006, the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, cosponsoring with the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and the Harvard Law Review, hosted a conference, Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, and a Decade of Gender Studies, to address the number of student experience studies that detail women's lower performance in...; Search Snippet: ...From Results: Legal Education, Institutional Change, and a Decade of Gender Studies, Harvard Journal of Law & Gender Conference, March 2006 Dean Edward Rubin Dean W. H. Knight... 2006  
Rachel Saloom A Feminist Inquiry into International Law and International Relations 12 Roger Williams University Law Review 159 (Fall 2006) A monolithic theory of gender and international law and international relations does not exist. Discussing the interconnection between international law and international relations is an important endeavor for feminist scholarship. Gender and feminist scholars posit various critiques of the international system. This Article will examine the...; Search Snippet: ...Review Roger Williams University Law Review Fall 2006 Articles a Feminist Inquiry into International Law and International Relations Rachel Saloom [Fna1... 2006  
  Aba Finds Parity Is Elusive for Women Lawyers of Color 06-11 Law Office Management and Administration Report 1 (November, 2006) There's no way to sugarcoat the fact that according to industry data, there are institutional barriers to success within large firms for women lawyers. It's also true that although many firms have made great advances to bridge the gap, there's still much work to be done. Indeed, the latest ABA survey of women lawyers of color shows exactly why...; Search Snippet: ...Report November, 2006 Diversity Aba Finds Parity Is Elusive for Women Lawyers of Color Copyright © 2006 Institute of Management and Administration... 2006  
  Aba to Industry: Leading Firms must Revisit Efforts to Support Women Lawyers of Color 06-10 Compensation and Benefits for Law Offices 1 (October, 2006) We all know the numbers: In 2004, only 17% of law partners were women and only 4% were attorneys of color. Indeed, it's no secret that women lawyers have a tough time overcoming institutional barriers to success within major law firms. Given the statistics, it stands to reason that minority women--confronted with the double whammy of race and...; Search Snippet: ...Aba to Industry: Leading Firms must Revisit Efforts to Support Women Lawyers of Color Copyright © 2006 Institute of Management and Administration... 2006  
Peter C. Alexander Another Perspective: the Bankruptcy Code Harms Women and Children 15 Widener Law Journal 599 (2006) For years, I have joined the chorus of scholars who have argued that American bankruptcy laws have had a negative effect on women and children, especially the provisions dealing with the discharge of marital debts. On October 17, 2005, new bankruptcy laws under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) became...; Search Snippet: ...Consumer Protection Act (Bapcpa) Another Perspective: the Bankruptcy Code Harms Women and Children Peter C. Alexander [Fna1] Copyright © 2006 by The... 2006  
Kristin Brandser Kalsem Bankruptcy Reform and the Financial Well-being of Women:: How Intersectionality Matters in Money Matters 71 Brooklyn Law Review 1181 (Spring 2006) After eight years of heated controversy, President Bush signed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 into law on April 20, 2005 and that legislation became effective on October 17, 2005. Massive in size and far-reaching in effect, this piece of legislation has been part of the congressional agenda since 1997. The title...; Search Snippet: ...2006 Article Bankruptcy Reform and the Financial Well-being of Women:: How Intersectionality Matters in Money Matters Kristin Brandser Kalsem [Fnd1... 2006  
Mary Newman Barnes V. City of Cincinnati: Command Presence, Gender Bias, and Problems of Police Aggression 29 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 485 (Summer, 2006) In 1999, Philip Barnes was denied promotion to sergeant in the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) for failure to appear masculine. Barnes filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio under Title VII and the Equal Protection Clause, and in 2005, he won his anti-discrimination lawsuit against the City of...; Search Snippet: ...Summer, 2006 Comment Barnes V. City of Cincinnati: Command Presence, Gender Bias, and Problems of Police Aggression Mary Newman [Fna1] Copyright... 2006  
Nekima Levy-Pounds Beaten by the System and down for the Count: Why Poor Women of Color and Children Don't Stand a Chance Against U.s. Drug-sentencing Policy 3 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 462 (Spring 2006) I. Introduction. 463 II. Case of Kemba Smith as a Paradigm of Problems Within the War on Drugs . 467 A. Kemba the Kingpin and Mandatory Minimums. 468 B. Prosecutors as Gatekeepers to Freedom for Defendants. 470 1. Conspiracy Charges and the Catch-22. 470 2. Substantial Assistance and the Girlfriend Problem . 472 3. Ineffective Attempts at...; Search Snippet: ...By the System and down for the Count: Why Poor Women of Color and Children Don't Stand a Chance Against U.s... 2006  
Mario L. Barnes Black Women's Stories and the Criminal Law: Restating the Power of Narrative 39 U.C. Davis Law Review 941 (March, 2006) C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3943 I. Revisiting the Power of Narrative. 951 II. Criminal Law and the Continuing Cost of Unforgiveable Blackness (Womanhood and Poverty?). 958 A. Millie Simpson's Data. 962 B. My Grandmother's Story. 963 III. Doctrinal Narratives and Identity Construction. 966 A. My Grandmother's Hypervisibility....; Search Snippet: ...Law Review March, 2006 Color, Feminism, and the State Black Women's Stories and the Criminal Law: Restating the Power of Narrative... 2006 African/Black American
Kimberly Christensen Campaign Finance and Electoral Reform: a Feminist Economics Perspective 24 Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal 131 (2005-2006) In Campaign Finance and Electoral Reform: A Feminist Economics Perspective, we begin by examining the impact of the current regime of campaign finance on the American political system, in terms of the possibilities for corruption, for inegalitarian agenda-setting, and on the quality of representation by office-holders. We then briefly review...; Search Snippet: ...Journal 2005-2006 Article Campaign Finance and Electoral Reform: a Feminist Economics Perspective Kimberly Christensen Copyright © 2006 by Buffalo Public Interest... 2006  
Claire M. DeMatteis Coming of Age: the Women and the Law Section 24-FALL Delaware Lawyer 20 (Fall, 2006) The year was 1900: Five men were admitted to the Delaware Bar, joining the ranks of this all-male group. From 1900 through 1922, women who wanted to practice law in Delaware were blocked by a Delaware Supreme Court ruling that held that the State Constitution required officials of the State, including lawyers, to be men. The year was 1923: The...; Search Snippet: ...Lawyer Delaware Lawyer Fall, 2006 Feature Coming of Age: the Women and the Law Section Claire M. Dematteis Copyright © 2006 By... 2006  
Deborah Tuerkheimer Conceptualizing Violence Against Pregnant Women 81 Indiana Law Journal 667 (Spring, 2006) L1-3,T3Introduction 667 I. L2-3,T3Pregnancy Battering: Prevalence, Dynamics, Consequences 670. A. Social Scientific Understandings. 670 B. Glimpses from Case Law. 674 II. L2-3,T3Traditional Criminal Law Response 677. A. Limitations of Conventional Paradigms. 677 B. Decontextualizing the Violence. 679 C. Disregarding the Pregnancy. 684 III....; Search Snippet: ...Indiana Law Journal Spring, 2006 Article Conceptualizing Violence Against Pregnant Women [Fnd1] Deborah Tuerkheimer [Fna1] Copyright © 2006 by the Trustees Of... 2006 American Indian/Alaskan Native
Hannah Abrams Dan Subotnik, Toxic Diversity: Race, Gender, and Law Talk in America 22 Touro Law Review 827 (2006) Toxic Diversity addresses feminist scholarship and critical race theory, particularly in higher education and legal academia. The book's title is deceiving, leading one to believe that the author sees diversity as poisonous, but that is not Dan Subotnik's message. He asserts a belief in harmony amongst races, ethnic groups, and genders, with...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 2006 Book Review Dan Subotnik, Toxic Diversity: Race, Gender, and Law Talk in America Hannah Abrams [Fna1] Copyright ©... 2006  
Michèle Alexandre Dance Halls, Masquerades, Body Protest and the Law: the Female Body as a Redemptive Tool Against Trinidad's Gender-biased Laws 13 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 177 (Spring 2006) Male domination of the female body is the basic material reality of women's lives; and all struggle for dignity and self-determination is rooted in the struggle for actual control of one's own body . . . . The very word erotic comes from the Greek word eros, the personification of love in all its aspects-born of Chaos, and personifying creative...; Search Snippet: ...Article Dance Halls, Masquerades, Body Protest and the Law: the Female Body as a Redemptive Tool Against Trinidad's Gender-biased Laws Michèle Alexandre [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006 Duke Journal... 2006  
  Data Show Mentoring, Networking Programs Help Women of Color 06-9 Law Office Management and Administration Report 3 (September, 2006) Interested in improving your firm's retention of women lawyers of color? Thankfully, there's a good amount of data available from organizations like NALP, the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, and the ABA's Women of Color Research Initiative. And for good reason. One report in the late 1990s found that women of color working in private...; Search Snippet: ...2006 Law Firm Diversity Data Show Mentoring, Networking Programs Help Women of Color Copyright © 2006 Institute of Management and Administration Inc... 2006  
Miriam A. Cherry Decentering the Firm: the Limited Liability Company and Low-wage Immigrant Women Workers 39 U.C. Davis Law Review 787 (March, 2006) C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 787 I. Feminist Business. 790 II. Corporate Law: Using the Master's Tools?. 795 III. One Possible Solution: The Limited Liability Company. 798 Conclusion. 803; Search Snippet: ...The Firm: the Limited Liability Company and Low-wage Immigrant Women Workers Miriam A. Cherry [Fna1] Copyright © 2006 by the Regents... 2006  
Frank Munger Dependency by Law: Poverty, Identity, and Welfare Privatization 13 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 391 (Summer, 2006) Privatization of welfare reflects the political pressure to limit public responsibility for protection of social citizenship. Recent welfare reforms incorporate three classic market-like privatization mechanisms--contracting out services, forcing allocation of a limited pool of benefits, and deregulation. Deregulation entails strategic diversion...; Search Snippet: ...Skin Tone, and She Knows That the Identity of All African- American Women Can Be Shaped by the Negative Stereotype of the Welfare... 2006 African/Black American
Myrna S., Raeder, Professor,, Southwestern Law, School Domestic Violence in Federal Court: Abused Women as Victims, Survivors, and Offenders 2006 Federal Sentencing Reporter 3912217 (12/1/2006) While domestic violence cases typically are found in state courts, a small but growing number of federal cases involve male batterers and abused women. Although some think that domestic violence is not important enough to warrant federal attention, intimate partner abuse is at the root of a number of recent Supreme Court cases. Moreover, a recent...; Search Snippet: ...Volume 19, Number 2 Domestic Violence in Federal Court: Abused Women as Victims, Survivors, and Offenders December 1, 2006 Myrna S... 2006  
Jill Schachner Chanen Early Exits 92-AUG ABA Journal 33 (August, 2006) From her office in a curved-glass building in downtown Chicago, Tina Tchen has all the trappings of success: a view, positions in national bar associations and a partnership at one of the country's most prestigious law firmsSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. To those who know her, Tchen's success is no surprise. A graduate of a top law school,...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Aba Journal August, 2006 Feature Law Practice Early Exits Women of Color at Large Law Firms Tell Aba Researchers They... 2006  
Heather S. Goldman Emergency Health Care Services: Disparate Access and Barriers Faced by Women 7 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 1165 (2006) I. Historical perspective of Health Care and Disparate Treatment. 1166 A. EMTALA--A Guaranteed Right to Emergency Health Care. 1167 1. The Rights of Americans to Health Care Before EMTALA. 1167 2. After the Enactment of EMTALA. 1169 B. Disparities in Health Insurance Coverage. 1173 1. An Overview of the Facts and Laws Regarding Health Insurance in...; Search Snippet: ...Emergency Health Care Services: Disparate Access and Barriers Faced by Women Heather S. Goldman [Fna1] Copyright © 2006 by the Georgetown Journal... 2006  
Rachel Kalman Epa's Mercury Cap and Trade Rule: an Environmental Injustice for Women 13 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 111 (Fall 2006) In 2005, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Clean Air Mercury Rule, which will change the way the agency had proposed to regulate mercury emission from power plants not five years before. In 2000, the EPA concluded that coal and oil-fired utility steam generating units were a major source of hazardous air...; Search Snippet: ...Epa's Mercury Cap and Trade Rule: an Environmental Injustice for Women Rachel Kalman [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006 Yeshiva University; Rachel Kalman... 2006  
Cynthia L. Wolken Feminist Legal Theory and Human Trafficking in the United States: Towards a New Framework 6 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 407 (Fall 2006) Human trafficking is modern day slavery. Over the past decade, policy makers in the United States have begun to recognize human trafficking as a distinct act, rather than lumping trafficking into one of its associated acts such as immigration violations, labor law violations, prostitution or other peripheral crimes. In 2000, Congress passed the...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class Fall 2006 Article Feminist Legal Theory and Human Trafficking in the United States: Towards... 2006  
Angela Onwuachi-Willig Foreword: this Bridge Called Our Backs: an Introduction to "The Future of Critical Race Feminism" 39 U.C. Davis Law Review 733 (March, 2006) I've had enough I'm sick of seeing and touching Both sides of things Sick of being the damn bridge for everybody Nobody Can talk to anybody Without me Right? I explain my mother to my father my father to my little sister My little sister to my brother my brother to the white feminists The white feminists to the Black church folks the Black church...; Search Snippet: ...About Scholarly Debates and Conversations Around Critical Race Theory and Feminist Legal Theory, in Particular What They Refer to as to Various Border Crossings: Male Attempts to Engage in Feminist Literary Criticism, White Attempts to Engage in African American Literary Criticism, and Attempts to Engage in Black Male, Black Feminist Criticism. 2006 African/Black American
Keith Guzik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending. Karen Heimer and Candace Kruttschnitt, Eds. New York: New York University Press, 2006. Pp. 352. $70.00 Cloth; $22.00 Paper 40 Law and Society Review 967 (December, 2006) Gender and Crime features 11 original essays from leading scholars in criminology. Grouped into three sections, Gendered Offending, Gendered Victimization, and Intersectionalities, the essays examine a range of topics concerning females' relation to crime, from girls' pathways to delinquency and incarcerated women's histories of victimization...; Search Snippet: ...Society Review December, 2006 Book Review Elizabeth Heger Boyle, Editor Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending. Karen Heimer And... 2006  
Ann Martin Stacey, Cassia Spohn Gender and the Social Costs of Sentencing: an Analysis of Sentences Imposed on Male and Female Offenders in Three U.s. District Courts 11 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 43 (Spring, 2006) Disparity in the treatment of offenders involved in the criminal justice system has been the topic of a substantial amount of research over the past thirty years. Perhaps the most compelling evidence of disparity is found in the demographics of the inmate population in state and federal prisons throughout the United States. Most of those...; Search Snippet: ...Criminal Law Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law Spring, 2006 Article Gender and the Social Costs of Sentencing: an Analysis of Sentences Imposed on Male and Female Offenders in Three U.s. District Courts Ann Martin Stacey Cassia... 2006  
Danielle Pelfrey Duryea Gendering the Gentrification of Public Housing: Hope Vi's Disparate Impact on Lowest-income African American Women 13 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 567 (Fall, 2006) HOPE VI must have seemed so promising. When, in 1992, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) introduced the program later dubbed HOPE VI, replacing the country's worst public housing projects with mixed-income, mixed-use, low-density new developments while providing targeted social services to low-income residents must have seemed...; Search Snippet: ...Of Public Housing: Hope Vi's Disparate Impact on Lowest-income African American Women Danielle Pelfrey Duryea [Fna1] Copyright © 2007 by Georgetown Journal On... 2006 African/Black American
Myrna S. Raeder Gender-related Issues in a Post-booker Federal Guidelines World 37 McGeorge Law Review 691 (2006) I. Introduction. 692 II. Gendered Differences in Female Criminality. 693 III. The Gendered Impact of Sentencing on Children of Incarcerated Mothers. 698 IV. The Gendered Impact of Sentencing on Loss of Parental Rights. 699 V. Booker's Impact on How Judges Determine Sentences. 705 A. Variations About the Weight Given to the Guidelines in Sentencing....; Search Snippet: ...Practice in a Post-booker World Rethinking Sentencing Post-booker Gender-related Issues in a Post-booker Federal Guidelines World Myrna... 2006  
Kim Taylor-Thompson Girl Talk--examining Racial and Gender Lines in Juvenile Justice 6 Nevada Law Journal 1137 (Spring 2006) Much of the talk about juvenile justice in the United States centers on the plight of young men of color: for good reason. Their disproportionate presence in the system warrants, at a minimum, close examination and candid conversation. As critical as that discussion remains, it may be deflecting attention from the fastest growing segment of the...; Search Snippet: ...Spring 2006 Special Issue on Legal Representation of Children Article Girl Talk--examining Racial and Gender Lines in Juvenile Justice Kim Taylor-thompson [Fna1] Copyright ©... 2006  
Judith E. Koons Gunsmoke and Legal Mirrors: Women Surviving Intimate Battery and Deadly Legal Doctrines 14 Journal of Law & Policy 617 (2006) Gunsmoke trail. Oh tell me of days gone by. - Theme from Gunsmoke [Y]ou wanna control. I mean, that's where the hitting comes from. To put fear in em. - Participant in Batterers' Intervention Program We do not ask of the man in the barroom brawl that he leave the bar before the occurrence of an anticipated fight, but we do ask the battered woman...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law & Policy 2006 Article Gunsmoke and Legal Mirrors: Women Surviving Intimate Battery and Deadly Legal Doctrines Judith E. Koons... 2006  
Alexandra Blake Flamme Hernandez V. Ashcroft: a Construction of "Extreme Cruelty" under the Violence Against Women Act and its Potential Impact on Immigration and Domestic Violence Law 40 New England Law Review 571 (Winter 2006) In June of 1985, Judy Norman shot and killed her husband while he slept. For the previous twenty years, he subjected his wife to serious physical and mental abuse. He beat her almost every day with anything that was nearby (fly swatter, fist, shoe, baseball bat), put cigarettes out on her skin, smashed glasses on her head, threw hot coffee on her,...; Search Snippet: ...Ashcroft: a Construction of Extreme Cruelty under the Violence Against Women Act and its Potential Impact on Immigration and Domestic Violence... 2006  
Lisa C. Ikemoto In the Shadow of Race: Women of Color in Health Disparities Policy 39 U.C. Davis Law Review 1023 (March, 2006) C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L31025 I. The Federal Government's Role in Addressing Racism and Patriarchy in Health Care: 1940s-1970s. 1028 A. The Federal Government's Influence. 1028 B. Racism in Health Care: The Civil Rights Era. 1029 C. Patriarchy in Health Care: The Women's Health Movement and the Abortion Wars. 1031 D. Women of...; Search Snippet: ...Repertoire of Women of Color in the Shadow of Race: Women of Color in Health Disparities Policy Lisa C. Ikemoto [Fna1... 2006  
Iris Halpern Increasing Healthcare Coverage for Women of Color in the Workplace: a Proposal for Legislative Change in Labor Law 21 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 132 (2006) As the percentage of the medically uninsured continues to climb, the state of healthcare coverage in America has become a topic of volatile debate. The number of uninsured individuals reached 45.8 million in 2004, reaching a disconcerting one-sixth of the total population. National unemployment rates, however, continue to hover at a far lower 5%. A...; Search Snippet: ...Gender, Law & Justice 2006 Recent Development Increasing Healthcare Coverage for Women of Color in the Workplace: a Proposal for Legislative Change... 2006  
Reginald Oh Interracial Marriage in the Shadows of Jim Crow: Racial Segregation as a System of Racial and Gender Subordination 39 U.C. Davis Law Review 1321 (March, 2006) C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L31323 I. Racial Segregation in Public Schools and the Traditional View of Brown: A Case About Equal Educational Opportunity. 1324 II. Antimiscegenation Laws and the Preservation of White Racial Purity. 1329 III. Racial segregation and Antimiscegenation: What Loving Has to Do with Brown. 1333 A. Rice v. Gong...; Search Snippet: ...Jim Crow: Racial Segregation as a System of Racial and Gender Subordination Reginald Oh [Fna1] Copyright © 2006 by the Regents Of... 2006  
Carolyn B. Ramsey Intimate Homicide: Gender and Crime Control, 1880-1920 77 University of Colorado Law Review 101 (Winter 2006) The received wisdom, among feminists and others, is that historically the criminal justice system tolerated male violence against women. This article dramatically revises feminist understanding of the legal history of public responses to intimate homicide by showing that, in both the eastern and the western United States, men accused of killing...; Search Snippet: ...University of Colorado Law Review Winter 2006 Article Intimate Homicide: Gender and Crime Control, 1880-1920 Carolyn B. Ramsey [Fna1] Copyright... 2006  
Camden J. McDaris Legal Protection Only for Those Who Are Most like "Us"? What Animal Activists Can Learn from the Early Women's Movement about Society's Resistance to Acknowledging Rights 2 Journal of Animal Law 159 (2006) All social movements share essential similarities: they consist of out-groups that society views as illegitimate; persuasion is the sole means available to transform perceptions of reality and to achieve legitimacy, since social movements cannot rely on established legal channels to reward or punish behavior; and advocates must often spend great...; Search Snippet: ...Like Us? What Animal Activists Can Learn from the Early Women's Movement about Society's Resistance to Acknowledging Rights Camden J. Mcdaris... 2006  
Martha M. Ertman Legal Tenderness: Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law 18 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 545 (2006) I. Introduction. 546 II. A Brief Survey of the Checkered Past of Gender, Race, and Contract Law. 552 III. The Three Senses of Tender . 555 A. Legal Tender. 555 B. Tenderness. 556 1. Tenderness and the Postal Rule. 561 2. Tenderness and Premarital Agreements. 561 3. Tenderness and Alternative Dispute Resolution. 562 C. Tend Her. 563 IV....; Search Snippet: ...Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 2006 Book Review Legal Tenderness: Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law Martha M. Ertman [Fnd1] Copyright ©... 2006  
Marie A. Failinger Lessons Unlearned: Women Offenders, the Ethics of Care, and the Promise of Restorative Justice 33 Fordham Urban Law Journal 487 (January, 2006) Latasha, the child of an alcoholic father and herself an alcohol abuser by thirteen, was arrested at nineteen after she hit a police officer with a baseball bat. The officer was attempting to arrest her when she tried to take her child back from her boyfriend and his new girlfriend and instead ended up assaulting the girlfriend's mother. It was...; Search Snippet: ...2006 Special Feature: Women as Perpetrators of Crime Lessons Unlearned: Women Offenders, the Ethics of Care, and the Promise of Restorative... 2006  
Michelle S. Jacobs Loyalty's Reward -- a Felony Conviction: Recent Prosecutions of High-status Female Offenders 33 Fordham Urban Law Journal 843 (March, 2006) Over the past four years, the American public has witnessed a seemingly unending number of corporate and white-collar scandals. Corporate scandals in the business world are not a new phenomenon; indeed, every decade has had its share. Michael Milken, the Wall Street wonder of the eighties, along with his associate, Ivan Boesky, were both dethroned...; Search Snippet: ...Loyalty's Reward -- a Felony Conviction: Recent Prosecutions of High-status Female Offenders Michelle S. Jacobs [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006 Fordham Urban... 2006  
  New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Women in the Courts 27 Women's Rights Law Reporter 121 (Spring 2006) MS. NESSEL: Hi, I'm Lori Nessel, I'm a professor here at Seton Hall and I just wanted to take a minute to welcome everyone here to our presentation sponsored by the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Women in the Courts. We are particularly pleased to be hosting this event here at Seton Hall. Both because as we celebrate our fiftieth anniversary...; Search Snippet: ...Reporter Spring 2006 Transcript New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Women in the Courts Copyright (C) 2007 Women's Rights Law Reporter... 2006  
Yvette Joy Liebesman No Guarantees: Lessons from the Property Rights Gained and Lost by Married Women in Two American Colonies 27 Women's Rights Law Reporter 181 (Summer 2006) It was all Mrs. Bumble. She WOULD do it, urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round to ascertain that his partner had left the room. That is no excuse, replied Mr. Brownlow. You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife...; Search Snippet: ...Lessons from the Property Rights Gained and Lost by Married Women in Two American Colonies Yvette Joy Liebesman [Fna1] Copyright ©... 2006  
Kathleen O'Connor Ives Out of the Loop: Female Federal District Court Candidates Disadvantaged by a Nomination Process Imbued with Favoritism 16 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 103 (Fall 2006) I. Introduction. 104 II. Women's Involvement in the Judicial Nomination Process. 106 A. Female Judges on the Federal Bench: More than Window Dressing. 106 B. The Structure of the Nomination Process at the Federal District Court Level. 107 1. Misconstrued Objectives of the Hearings. 107 2. The Role of Congressional Members in the Nomination Process....; Search Snippet: ...And the Law Fall 2006 Note out of the Loop: Female Federal District Court Candidates Disadvantaged by a Nomination Process Imbued... 2006  
Mary Shaw-Perry, Ph.D., CHES Perceptions and Beliefs about Type 2 Diabetes among Non-diabetic Black Women 10 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law 51 (Fall 2006) Racial and ethnic disparities have existed in America since the birth of the nation. A vital part of working toward the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities lies in understanding the lived experiences of those deemed high risk for preventable diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Few studies have explored the perceptions and beliefs that...; Search Snippet: ...And Beliefs about Type 2 Diabetes among Non-diabetic Black Women Mary Shaw-perry , Ph.d., Ches Copyright (C) 2006 Depaul University... 2006 African/Black American
Sonia K. Katyal Performance, Property, and the Slashing of Gender in Fan Fiction 14 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 461 (2006) Introduction. 461 I. Property and Performativity. 470 A. The Performance and the Performer. 471 B. The Audience and the Author in Copyright. 476 II. Female Appropriation of Popular Culture: The Story of Slash. 479 A. Theorizing Slash Fan Fiction. 481 B. The Deconstruction (and Reconstruction) of Gender as Performance. 489 III. The Governing Power...; Search Snippet: ...The Law 2006 Article Performance, Property, and the Slashing of Gender in Fan Fiction Sonia K. Katyal [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006... 2006  
Renée M. Landers Plus Ça Change, plus C'est La Même Chose: the Representation of People of Color (And Women) in Boston Law Firms 50-DEC Boston Bar Journal 15 (November/December, 2006) In Grutter v. Bollinger, the U.S. Supreme Court held diversity an interest sufficiently compelling to justify the use of race-based affirmative action at the University of Michigan Law School. In so holding, the Court pointedly noted that law schools represent the training ground for a large number of our Nation's leaders. The Court catalogued...; Search Snippet: ...La Même Chose: the Representation of People of Color (And Women) in Boston Law Firms Renée M. Landers [Fna1] Copyright © 2006... 2006  
Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol Power, Democracy, and Participation: the Gender-neutral Notion of Trade and the Exclusion of Women from the Table 100 American Society of International Law Proceedings 170 (March 29-April 1, 2006) The centennial celebration of the American Society of International Law is an appropriate and exciting occasion during which to have a conversation about international legal theory. This discussion provides the framework within which internationalists can continue to develop, expand, and transform existing legal theoretical frameworks to account...; Search Snippet: ...Law Theory: Possibilities and Problems Power, Democracy, and Participation: the Gender-neutral Notion of Trade and the Exclusion of Women from the Table Berta Esperanza Hernández-truyol [Fna1] Copyright © 2006... 2006  
Verna L. Williams Private Choices, Public Consequences: Public Education Reform and Feminist Legal Theory 12 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 563 (Spring, 2006) We believe that the program challenged here is a program of true private choice. With that statement, the United States Supreme Court upheld a voucher program in the city of Cleveland that provided public funds to religious schools. Like many urban school systems, Cleveland was facing an educational crisis that required creative thinking, at least...; Search Snippet: ...2006 Articles Private Choices, Public Consequences: Public Education Reform and Feminist Legal Theory Verna L. Williams [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006 College... 2006  
Therese A. Huston Race and Gender Bias in Higher Education: Could Faculty Course Evaluations Impede Further Progress Toward Parity? 4 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 591 (Spring/Summer, 2006) Colleges and universities are making uneven progress towards reaching gender and racial equity. Although great strides have been made to increase the proportion of female to male students at the undergraduate level, less progress has been made in balancing the proportion of female to male faculty. Likewise, certain racial and ethnic groups have...; Search Snippet: ...Justice Spring/summer, 2006 Pedagogy and Social Justice Race and Gender Bias in Higher Education: Could Faculty Course Evaluations Impede Further... 2006  
Cynthia Grant Bowman , Dorothy Roberts , Leonard S. Rubinowitz Race and Gender in the Law Review 100 Northwestern University Law Review 27 (Special Issue 2006) A number of years ago a noted historian of the American West, Patricia Limerick, addressed the plenary session of the Association of American Law Schools. In her speech, she described how the received history of the West consisted of a narrative in which explorers like Lewis and Clark entered and discovered a vast empty territory. This account was,...; Search Snippet: ...Century: Celebrating 100 Years of Legal Scholarship Histories Race and Gender in the Law Review Cynthia Grant Bowman [Fna1] Dorothy Roberts... 2006  
Stephanie Hindson , Hillary Potter , Michael L. Radelet Race, Gender, Region and Death Sentencing in Colorado, 1980-1999 77 University of Colorado Law Review 549 (Summer 2006) This paper examines the administration of the death penalty in Colorado. We first identify all cases (n=21) in which defendants were sentenced to death in Colorado, 1972-2005, and all cases (n=110) in which the death penalty was sought, 1980-1999. We then compare the race and gender of all homicide victims with the race and gender of victims in the...; Search Snippet: ...Review University of Colorado Law Review Summer 2006 Article Race, Gender, Region and Death Sentencing in Colorado, 1980-1999 Stephanie Hindson... 2006  
Victor L. Streib Rare and Inconsistent: the Death Penalty for Women 33 Fordham Urban Law Journal 609 (January, 2006) There is also overwhelming evidence that the death penalty is employed against men and not women . . . It is difficult to understand why women have received such favored treatment since the purposes allegedly served by capital punishment seemingly are equally applicable to both sexes. Picture in your mind a condemned murderer being sentenced to...; Search Snippet: ...Perpetrators of Crime Rare and Inconsistent: the Death Penalty for Women Victor L. Streib [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006 Fordham Urban Law... 2006  
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