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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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. |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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 ©... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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 ©... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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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... |
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| 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 ©... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| Nadine Strossen |
Reproducing Women's Rights: All over Again |
31 Vermont Law Review 1 (Fall, 2006) |
Thank you so much for that kind introduction, and thank you to the audience for that warm welcome. Congratulations to the Women's Law Group (WLG) on your first quarter-century, and many happy returns for the next one and beyond! When I was a law student, I was very active in my school's Women's Law Association, which was one of the most positive...; Search Snippet: ...Vermont Law Review Vermont Law Review Fall, 2006 Speech Reproducing Women's Rights: All over Again Nadine Strossen [Fna1] [Fnd1] Copyright ©... |
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| Kristen Boike |
Rethinking Gender Opportunities: Nontraditional Sports Seasons and Local Preferences |
39 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 597 (Spring, 2006) |
In Communities for Equity v. Michigan High School Athletic Association, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court decision, holding that the scheduling of high school girls' sports in nontraditional seasons in Michigan violated the Equal Protection Clause. The Supreme Court of the United States, granting certiorari,...; Search Snippet: ...Of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Spring, 2006 Notes Rethinking Gender Opportunities: Nontraditional Sports Seasons and Local Preferences Kristen Boike [Fna1... |
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| Gregg Aronson |
Seeking a Consolidated Feminist Voice for Prostitution in the Us |
3 Rutgers Journal of Law & Urban Policy 357 (2006) |
Liberal, social, and radical feminism are among the most predominant feminist doctrines on the issue of prostitution. The core tenets of these schools of thought are vastly different. Each focuses on what they believe to be the root causes of prostitution and each seeks to improve the quality of life for these women in different ways. Some lobby...; Search Snippet: ...Of Law & Urban Policy 2006 Student Note Seeking a Consolidated Feminist Voice for Prostitution in the Us Gregg Aronson [Fn1] Copyright... |
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| James Allon Garland |
Sex as a Form of Gender and Expression after Lawrence V. Texas |
15 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 297 (2006) |
The Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas has been touted in many circles as a significant gay rights opinion, but it is much more than that. While it is certainly the first decision of the Court to recognize a constitutionally protected interest in same-sex intimacy, it is even more significant as the first opinion from the Court to speak...; Search Snippet: ...And Law 2006 Sexual Expression Sex as a Form of Gender and Expression after Lawrence V. Texas James Allon Garland [Fna1... |
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| Brenda V. Smith |
Sexual Abuse of Women in United States Prisons: a Modern Corollary of Slavery |
33 Fordham Urban Law Journal 571 (January, 2006) |
I initially began working on this paper in connection with a project that looked at the transatlantic abolition movement in the United States and Europe from 1830 to 1870 with a focus on early feminist efforts. In that initial effort, it became clear that sexual abuse of women in prison and the sexual abuse of female slaves shared many...; Search Snippet: ...Special Feature: Women as Perpetrators of Crime Sexual Abuse of Women in United States Prisons: a Modern Corollary of Slavery Brenda... |
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| Tiffany Lyttle |
Stop the Injustice: a Protest Against the Unconstitutional Punishment of Pregnant Drug-addicted Women |
9 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 781 (2005-2006) |
Beginning in the late 1970s, an innovative prosecutorial strategy arose: states began prosecuting pregnant women because of their criminal behavior and its effects on their unborn and newborn children. Prior to this creative use of the criminal justice system, women had never been prosecuted, let alone punished, for this behavior during pregnancy....; Search Snippet: ...A Protest Against the Unconstitutional Punishment of Pregnant Drug-addicted Women Tiffany Lyttle [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006 New York University Journal... |
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Study Underscores the Importance of Mentoring for Women of Color |
06-7 Compensation and Benefits for Law Offices 2 (July, 2006) |
Next month, the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession will release the results of its much anticipated Women of Color Research Initiative at the association's annual meeting in Hawaii. Among other things, the surveyors contend that the data will examine the professional trajectory of women lawyers of color based on research in the late 1990s...; Search Snippet: ...Offices July, 2006 Study Underscores the Importance of Mentoring for Women of Color Copyright © 2006 Institute of Management and Administration Inc... |
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| Julia L. Ernst |
The Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues: an Inside Perspective on Lawmaking by and for Women |
12 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 189 (2006) |
I. Introduction 190 II. The Dynamic History of the Women's Caucus 192 III. Inside Mechanics: How the Women's Caucus Worked in the 108th Congress 201 A. People Involved in the Women's Caucus 201 1. Women's Caucus Leaders 202 2. Women's Caucus Membership 205 3. Women's Caucus Staffers 215 B. Mechanisms for Action within the Women's...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Gender & Law 2006 Article the Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues: an Inside Perspective on Lawmaking by and for Women Julia L. Ernst [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006 University of Michigan... |
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| Nancy D. Campbell |
The Construction of Pregnant Drug-using Women as Criminal Perpetrators |
33 Fordham Urban Law Journal 463 (January, 2006) |
[W]hat the law tells us to do is not as important as what the law tells us to be. Despite clear lack of intent to harm those whom they carry, drug-using pregnant women have been constructed as de facto criminal perpetrators. When women become noticeably unable or unwilling to carry out their assigned social roles and responsibilities as parents,...; Search Snippet: ...As Perpetrators of Crime the Construction of Pregnant Drug-using Women as Criminal Perpetrators Nancy D. Campbell [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006... |
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| Susan Tiefenbrun |
The Cultural, Political, and Legal Climate Behind the Fight to Stop Trafficking in Women: William J. Clinton's Legacy to Women's Rights |
12 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 855 (Summer 2006) |
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Mead Trafficking in women for the purpose of enslaving them in sex work is one of the oldest and most heinous violations of women's rights. Trafficking had never effectively been addressed until the Clinton...; Search Snippet: ...And Legal Climate Behind the Fight to Stop Trafficking in Women: William J. Clinton's Legacy to Women's Rights Susan Tiefenbrun [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006 Yeshiva University; Susan... |
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| K.B. Turner, Ph.D., James B. Johnson, Ph.D., Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Department of Political Science, University of Nebraska at Omaha |
The Effect of Gender on the Judicial Pretrial Decision of Bail Amount Set |
70-JUN Federal Probation 56 (June, 2006) |
SCHOLARS HAVE LONG been interested in learning whether males and females are treated differently by criminal justice officials, including police, prosecutors, judges, and probation officers. Research has examined the effect of gender on police discretion. For instance, Visher (1983) found some evidence that the gender of the suspect influences...; Search Snippet: ...2163112 Federal Probation Federal Probation June, 2006 the Effect of Gender on the Judicial Pretrial Decision of Bail Amount Set K.b... |
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| Sydney Tarzwell |
The Gender Lines Are Marked with Razor Wire: Addressing State Prison Policies and Practices for the Management of Transgender Prisoners |
38 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 167 (Fall 2006) |
The dominant binary understanding of gender is a powerful coercive force: individuals are pressured to conform to cultural ideals of male or female from the moment they are assigned a sex on their birth certificate. Refusal or inability to conform to gender expectations that align with one's assigned sex can have drastic repercussions....; Search Snippet: ...Review Columbia Human Rights Law Review Fall 2006 Note the Gender Lines Are Marked with Razor Wire: Addressing State Prison Policies... |
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| Brenda Oppermann |
The Impact of Legal Pluralism on Women's Status: an Examination of Marriage Laws in Egypt, South Africa, and the United States |
17 Hastings Women's Law Journal 65 (Winter 2006) |
The concept of the rule of law becomes muddied when a government recognizes more than one body of law. Nowhere is this more apparent than in legally pluralistic countries where traditional law and national law exist side by side. Because these bodies of law grew out of culturally distinct customs and practices, their coexistence frequently results...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Winter 2006 Article the Impact of Legal Pluralism on Women's Status: an Examination of Marriage Laws in Egypt, South Africa... |
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| Kevin R. Johnson |
The Legacy of Jim Crow: the Enduring Taboo of Black-white Romance |
84 Texas Law Review 739 (February, 2006) |
Over the last one hundred years, racial equality has made momentous strides in the United States. State-enforced segregation ended. Slowly but surely, the nation dismantled Jim Crow. As part of that dismantling, the Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriage, which were popular in many states. Interracial relationships have increased...; Search Snippet: ...Of Black-white Romance Dear Senator: a Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond. By Essie Mae Washington-williams & William Stadiem... |
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| Meredith Render |
The Man, the State and You: the Role of the State in Regulating Gender Hierarchies |
14 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 73 (2006) |
73 Introduction: Women are Still Treated Differently at Work, But the Assimilation Model Has Helped Us to Stop Caring. 74 I. Conceptualizing Equality in a Hierarchical Schema. 82 A. The Current Gender Schematic: Cherry-Picking and Trickle-Down. 84 B. If to Schema is Human, then Whether to Schema is not the Question. 98 C. Discrimination...; Search Snippet: ...State and You: the Role of the State in Regulating Gender Hierarchies Meredith Render [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006 American University Journal... |
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| Linda C. Fentiman |
The New "Fetal Protection": the Wrong Answer to the Crisis of Inadequate Health Care for Women and Children |
84 Denver University Law Review 537 (2006) |
In 1999, Regina McKnight, a homeless, mentally retarded woman who was pregnant and addicted to cocaine, was charged with murder when her child was stillborn. The South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed her murder conviction and upheld the twenty-year sentence imposed. In 2002, a severely mentally disabled woman became pregnant after being raped by...; Search Snippet: ...Wrong Answer to the Crisis of Inadequate Health Care for Women and Children Linda C. Fentiman [Fnd1] Copyright © 2006 Denver University... |
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| Maneesha Deckha |
The Salience of Species Difference for Feminist Theory |
17 Hastings Women's Law Journal L.J. 1 (Winter 2006) |
The internationally renowned celebrity Pamela Anderson is a spokesperson for the organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). A Canadian by origin, she recently called for a boycott of Kentucky Fried Chicken Canada (KFC Canada). In a video asking Canadians to stop supporting the company, Anderson informs viewers that KFC...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Winter 2006 Article the Salience of Species Difference for Feminist Theory Maneesha Deckha [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006 Uc Hastings College... |
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| I. Bennett Capers |
The Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass |
31 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 1 (2006) |
Richard Wright's Native Son, the first novel by an African American to be featured as a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, was nothing short of groundbreaking in the annals of American literature. The novel opens with the sound of an alarm going off--Richard Wright's wake-up call to America to open its eyes and address issues of race and...; Search Snippet: ...Social Change 2006 Articles the Trial of Bigger Thomas: Race, Gender, and Trespass I. Bennett Capers [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2006 New... |
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