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To Be Female, Black, Incarcerated, and Infected with Hiv/aids: a Socio-legal Analysis |
41 Criminal Law Bulletin ART 3 (2005) |
Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York; and Executive Director of The Law and Policy Group, Inc. Professor Browne-Marshall has written extensively in the area of minority group protections under constitutional and international law.; Search Snippet: ...41, Issue 1 Winter 2005 Criminal Law Bulletin to Be Female, Black, Incarcerated, and Infected with Hiv/aids: a Socio-legal... |
2005 |
African/Black American |
| Rebecca L. Van Court |
Uterine Fibroids and Women's Right to Choose |
26 Journal of Legal Medicine 507 (December, 2005) |
Ellen, a woman aged 50 having constant pelvic discomfort and ovulatory pain, was diagnosed with two uterine fibroids. When her nurse practitioner suggested she undergo a hysterectomy, she discussed the procedure with a surgeon. Ellen admitted that, at that time, the hysterectomy procedure sounded so simple and easy. After her hysterectomy, Ellen...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Legal Medicine December, 2005 Commentary Uterine Fibroids and Women's Right to Choose Hysterectomies and Informed Consent Rebecca L. Van... |
2005 |
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| Sheldon Goldman , Elliot Slotnick , Gerard Gryski , Sara Schiavoni |
W. Bush's Judiciary: the First Term Record |
88 Judicature 244 (May-June 2005) |
American politics intensified during the 2004 presidential election year. Although the appointment of judges was not a major issue in the campaign, both parties addressed it in their party platforms and on occasion the issue was publicly raised, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court. When the hoopla was over, George W. Bush won reelection...; Search Snippet: ...Place on the Bench Professionally Qualified, Ethnically Diverse Men and Women Who Share the President's Judicial Philosophy. Sheldon Goldman [Fna1] Elliot... |
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| Bridget Hiedemann , Jutta M. Joesch |
Whose Sons and Daughters Are Treated Differently? (Re)examining the Child Gender Literature Through the Lens of Race and Ethnicity |
4 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 119 (Fall/Winter 2005) |
In recent years social scientists have accumulated evidence of differences in family structure, labor market outcomes, and child care in response to sons and daughters in the United States. Newspaper headlines such as It's a Boy! Will You Marry Me? and It's a Girl! (Will the Economy Suffer?) provide the essence of the growing body of literature...; Search Snippet: ...December 2005 (Re) Examining Race and Gender Whose Sons and Daughters Are Treated Differently? (Re)examining the Child Gender Literature Through the Lens of Race and Ethnicity [Fna1] Bridget... |
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Women and War: a Critical Discourse |
20 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 321 (2005) |
As the contemporary world is embroiled in many forms of war, there is no better time than now to confront the realities and complexities of violent conflict. Women and children disproportionately bear the burden of war in society, whether it is in the effect of a militarized culture, or the physical effects of war in society. Rape and sexual...; Search Snippet: ...And Justice Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 2005 Symposium Women and War: a Critical Discourse Copyright (C) 2005 the Regents... |
2005 |
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| Ann Bartow |
Women in the Web of Secondary Copyright Liability and Internet Filtering |
32 Northern Kentucky Law Review 449 (2005) |
I. Introduction II. World Wide Women III. Filtering and Feminism A. No One Goes to Public Libraries Any More Because They Are Too Crowded. B. Bleeping Mothers C. Censorship, Copyrights, and a Culture of Commodification 1. Filtering Women World Wide 2. Copyright Controls 3. Commodification and Culture D. Unfiltered Feminism and Democratic Discourse...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 2005 Secondary Liability under the Copyright Act Article Women in the Web of Secondary Copyright Liability and Internet Filtering... |
2005 |
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| Brenda Kruse |
Women of the Highest Court: Does Gender Bias or Personal Life Experiences Influence Their Opinions? |
36 University of Toledo Law Review 995 (Summer 2005) |
MANY feminist commentators have theorized that judges' gender and life experiences influence their decisions. This comment hypothesizes that this phenomenon is particularly apparent in Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's decisions pertaining to employment discrimination. Before becoming Supreme Court Justices, both faced...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Summer 2005 Women of the Courts Symposium Comment Women of the Highest Court: Does Gender Bias or Personal Life Experiences Influence Their Opinions? Brenda Kruse... |
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| Dana V. Kaplan |
Women of the West: the Evolution of Marital Property Laws in the Southwestern United States and Their Effect on Mexican-american Women |
26 Women's Rights Law Reporter 139 (Spring-Summer 2005) |
Colonialism and conquest are inevitably tied to clashes of culture and law. It was no different when the United States defeated Mexico in 1848 and captured what has become the American Southwest. The role women played in this clash of societies must be considered in the context of the swiftly changing legal status of women in the eastern United...; Search Snippet: ...Law Reporter Women's Rights Law Reporter Spring-summer 2005 Note Women of the West: the Evolution of Marital Property Laws in the Southwestern United States and Their Effect on Mexican- American Women Dana V. Kaplan [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2005 Women's Rights Law... |
2005 |
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| Joshua M. Kagan |
Workers' Rights in the Mexican Maquiladora Sector: Collective Bargaining, Women's Rights, and General Human Rights: Law, Norms, and Practice |
15 Journal of Transnational Law & Policy 153 (Fall, 2005) |
We believe it's indispensable to democratize the world of work, because the workers have been kidnapped by their own unions. For ninety percent of them, their unions are just a pretense. They work under protection contracts and corrupt arrangements, which are never renegotiated. In our country, Mexicans can elect a new president, but the workers...; Search Snippet: ...Article Workers' Rights in the Mexican Maquiladora Sector: Collective Bargaining, Women's Rights, and General Human Rights: Law, Norms, and Practice Joshua... |
2005 |
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| Rosemary Gartner , Candace Kruttschnitt |
A Brief History of Doing Time: the California Institution for Women in the 1960s and the 1990s |
38 Law and Society Review 267 (June, 2004) |
Recent scholarship on penality describes profound changes in the ideology, discourses, and policies shaping criminal punishment in the late-twentieth-century United States. To assess the implications of these changes for those subject to criminal punishment, we examine the experiences of women in prison at two key points in the recent history of...; Search Snippet: ...A Brief History of Doing Time: the California Institution for Women in the 1960s and the 1990s [Fna3] Rosemary Gartner [Fna1... |
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| Timothy T. Clydesdale |
A Forked River Runs Through Law School: Toward Understanding Race, Gender, Age, and Related Gaps in Law School Performance and Bar Passage |
29 Law and Social Inquiry 711 (Fall 2004) |
Analyses of the National Longitudinal Bar Passage Study (N = 27,478), demonstrate that law schools enlarge entering academic differences across race, age, disability, and socioeconomic origins rather than reduce them, and that academic differences in turn impact bar passage. Such differences cannot be reduced to (1) academic preparation, effort, or...; Search Snippet: ...A Forked River Runs Through Law School: Toward Understanding Race, Gender, Age, and Related Gaps in Law School Performance and Bar... |
2004 |
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| Katrina C. Rose |
A History of Gender Variance in Pre-20 Century Anglo-american Law |
14 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 77 (Fall 2004) |
I. Introduction. 78 II. The Relevance Today. 82 A. The Gender Recognition Act of 2004. 82 B. What Came Before. 84 III. Hermaphrodites and the Law. 86 A. History. 86 B. Today. 89 IV. Three Cases in Point. 91 A. The Hall Case of 1629. 91 B. Hunt v. Poulter. 98 C. The Queen v. Boulton and Others. 102 V. Other Cases. 108 A. England. 108 B. America--The...; Search Snippet: ...Women and the Law Fall 2004 Article a History of Gender Variance in Pre-20 Th Century Anglo-american Law Katrina C... |
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| Amanda Clark |
A Hometown Dilemma: Addressing the Sexual Harassment of Undocumented Women in Meatpacking Plants in Iowa and Nebraska |
16 Hastings Women's Law Journal 139 (Winter 2004) |
While much has been written about sex discrimination and sexual harassment in agricultural labor, significantly fewer efforts have been made to examine the ongoing problem of sexual harassment in the meatpacking industry. Although a few female employees have successfully brought charges against packing plants in the past few years, winning jury...; Search Snippet: ...Note a Hometown Dilemma: Addressing the Sexual Harassment of Undocumented Women in Meatpacking Plants in Iowa and Nebraska Amanda Clark [Fna1... |
2004 |
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| Deborah A. Morgan |
Access Denied: Barriers to Remedies under the Violence Against Women Act for Limited English Proficient Battered Immigrant Women |
54 American University Law Review 485 (December, 2004) |
Introduction. 486 I. Background. 490 A. The Violence Against Women Act. 490 B. The Story of May, an LEP Battered Immigrant Woman. 492 1. Language barriers to accessing VAWA information. 493 2. Language barriers to completing a VAWA application. 495 C. USCIS's Language Access Obligations Under Executive Order 13,166. 496 1. Title VI of the Civil...; Search Snippet: ...Comments Access Denied: Barriers to Remedies under the Violence Against Women Act for Limited English Proficient Battered Immigrant Women Deborah A. Morgan [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2004 American University Law... |
2004 |
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| Patricia W. Hatamyar , Kevin M. Simmons |
Are Women More Ethical Lawyers? An Empirical Study |
31 Florida State University Law Review 785 (Summer, 2004) |
I. Introduction. 786 II. Methodology. 787 A. How Does One Measure Ethical Attorney Conduct?. 787 B. The Sample of Disciplined Attorneys. 788 C. Collecting the Data. 789 1. Reports of Disciplinary Actions. 789 2. Gender Proportions in Total Attorney Populations. 792 D. Coding the Data. 793 1. Determining Gender. 794 2. Type of Violation...; Search Snippet: ...Review Florida State University Law Review Summer, 2004 Article Are Women More Ethical Lawyers? An Empirical Study Patricia W. Hatamyar [Fna1... |
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| Naomi Mendelsohn |
At the Crossroads: the Case for and Against a Cultural Defense to Female Genital Mutilation |
56 Rutgers Law Review 1011 (Summer 2004) |
With the arrest of Khalid Adem in 2003, the United States witnessed its first ever documented case of female genital mutilation (FGM). Though FGM has been criminalized by statute since 1996 , there had not been any criminal indictments or prosecutions for FGM in the United States until Adem's 2003 arrest. However, just a year later, in 2004, the...; Search Snippet: ...Crossroads: the Case for and Against a Cultural Defense to Female Genital Mutilation Naomi Mendelsohn [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2004 Rutgers University... |
2004 |
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| David E. Bernstein, George Mason University |
Barbara Young Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920. New York: Cambridge University Press; 2001. Xx, 405 Pp. $65.00 (Cloth). $23.00 (Paper) |
46 American Journal of Legal History 86 (January, 2004) |
Recasting American Liberty provides a commendable example of using case reports to support a powerful thesis. Barbara Welke relies on legal cases involving railroads to show the important role gender played in creating injury, in the social construction of injury, and in determining the legal system's response to injury. For example, a lady was...; Search Snippet: ...January, 2004 Book Review Barbara Young Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920. New York... |
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| Emily J. Sack |
Battered Women and the State: the Struggle for the Future of Domestic Violence Policy |
2004 Wisconsin Law Review 1657 (2004) |
Introduction. 1658 I. The History of the Justice System's Treatment of Domestic Violence. 1661 A. Domestic Violence Policy in America Through the Late Twentieth Century. 1661 B. The Beginnings of the Battered Women's Movement. 1666 1. Civil Protection Orders. 1667 2. Civil Challenges to Police Domestic Violence Policies. 1667 C. Changes in Domestic...; Search Snippet: ...3246048 Wisconsin Law Review Wisconsin Law Review 2004 Article Battered Women and the State: the Struggle for the Future of Domestic... |
2004 |
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| Therese S. Leung |
Building Assets for Women: a Guide to Designing Individual Development Accounts for Low-income Women |
11 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 405 (Fall, 2004) |
Founded in 1995, Venture for Women (VFW) is a non-profit economic development organization devoted to the sole purpose of empowering women to become economically self-sufficient through entrepreneurship. VFW operates offices located throughout the New England region of the United States and currently provides courses, workshops, individual...; Search Snippet: ...Poverty Law and Policy Fall, 2004 Article Building Assets for Women: a Guide to Designing Individual Development Accounts for Low-income Women Therese S. Leung [Fna1] Copyright © 2004 by Georgetown Journal On... |
2004 |
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| Kellye Y. Testy |
Capitalism and Freedom--for Whom?: Feminist Legal Theory and Progressive Corporate Law |
67-AUT Law and Contemporary Problems 87 (Autumn 2004) |
A widespread academic view is that the public corporation represents the natural selection of the fittest organizational adaption to the economies of scale, difficulties of agency costs, and problems of technology. . . . [T]he natural selection analogues are incomplete. . . . [P]olitics created the fragmented Berle-Means corporation . . . every bit...; Search Snippet: ...H. Schroeder Special Editor Article Capitalism and Freedom--for Whom?: Feminist Legal Theory and Progressive Corporate Law [Fnaa1] Kellye Y. Testy... |
2004 |
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| Mary Louise Frampton |
Collaboration: the True Spirit of Brown V. Board of Education |
15 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal L.J. 1 (Spring 2004) |
On the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, we confront the sobering reality that our public schools are rapidly becoming resegregated, that our at risk students are predominantly children of color, and that racial stereotyping in our educational system continues. This crisis motivated the November 2003 symposium, Rekindling the...; Search Snippet: ...The Future. This Historic Collaborative Symposium Issue Produced by the African- American Law & Policy Report, the Asian Law Journal, the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, the Berkeley Women's Law Journal, and the California Law Review Underscores Not Only... |
2004 |
Multiple Groups |
| Richard J. Lundman |
Driver Race, Ethnicity, and Gender and Citizen Reports of Vehicle Searches by Police and Vehicle Search Hits: Toward a Triangulated Scholarly Understanding |
94 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 309 (Winter 2004) |
The debate over race and ethnically targeted vehicle searches by police is currently dominated by two loosely organized and very different coalitions. The first consists of civil rights and social movement organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),...; Search Snippet: ...Law and Criminology Winter 2004 Criminology Driver Race, Ethnicity, and Gender and Citizen Reports of Vehicle Searches by Police and Vehicle... |
2004 |
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| Peggie R. Smith |
Elder Care, Gender, and Work: the Work-family Issue of the 21 Century |
25 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 351 (2004) |
Introduction. 352 I. Background. 355 A. Demographic Transformations: The Aging of the Baby Boomers. 355 B. The Need for Elder Care. 356 C. The Gendered Dimensions of Elder Care. 360 II. Elder Care as a Work-Family Issue for Employees. 364 A. Elder Care versus Child Care. 365 1. Care Reversals. 365 2. Proximity Concerns: Too Close for Comfort and...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Employment and Labor Law 2004 Article Elder Care, Gender, and Work: the Work-family Issue of the 21 St Century... |
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| Eyana J. Smith |
Employment Discrimination in the Firm: Does the Legal System Provide Remedies for Women and Minority Members of the Bar? |
6 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 789 (Spring 2004) |
It has been fifty years since the ratification of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and still a question remains as to whether legal professionals, primarily attorneys, have a rightful claim under Title VII against their employers for acts of employment discrimination. The case law in this area is sparse; this is partly because of the...; Search Snippet: ...In the Firm: Does the Legal System Provide Remedies for Women and Minority Members of the Bar? Eyana J. Smith [Fnd1... |
2004 |
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| Josie Foehrenbach Brown |
Escaping the Circle by Confronting Classroom Stereotyping: a Step Toward Equality in the Daily Educational Experience of Children of Color |
19 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 335 (2004) |
As the fiftieth anniversary of the decision in Brown v. Board of Education approaches, we must assess what obstacles continue to obstruct the path to equal educational opportunity for children of color. That project can be constructively, albeit painfully, informed by an imaginative look backward to the transformed future the original Brown...; Search Snippet: ...Socio-economic Status. The Iepc Research Team Found Racial and Gender Disparities Persisted Even When Controlling for Poverty Status and Found... |
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| Brianna M. Sinon, Esq. |
Failing Girls: a Cure Worse than the Disease -- Charging, Trying and Sentencing Female Juvenile Offenders as Adults |
7 Howard Scroll: The Social Justice Law Review 32 (Fall, 2004) |
[T]he chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime . I have seen twelve year-old [children] working in chains on the public streets of Atlanta, directly in front of schools, in company with old and hardened criminals; and this indiscriminate...; Search Snippet: ...Scroll: the Social Justice Law Review Fall, 2004 Article Failing Girls: a Cure Worse than the Disease -- Charging, Trying and Sentencing Female Juvenile Offenders as Adults Brianna M. Sinon, Esq. Copyright © 2004... |
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| Denise Benjamin Sirmons |
Federal Contracting with Women-owned Businesses: an Analysis of Existing Challenges and Potential Opportunities |
33 Public Contract Law Journal 725 (Summer, 2004) |
I. L2-4,T4Introduction 727 II. L2-4,T4Statistical Survey of Women in Business 728 A. L3-4,T4Emergence of Female Entrepreneurship 729. B. L3-4,T4Snapshot of Women Businesses Compared to Minority-Owned Firms 733. III. L2-4,T4Statistical Survey of Federal Contracting with Women-Owned Businesses 737 A. L3-4,T4Participation of Women-Owned Businesses in...; Search Snippet: ...Public Contract Law Journal Summer, 2004 Article Federal Contracting with Women-owned Businesses: an Analysis of Existing Challenges and Potential Opportunities... |
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| Emily Epstein |
Federal Sexual Harassment and the "Reasonable Woman" Standard |
5 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 377 (Spring, 2004) |
I. Title VII. 377 A. Elements of a Prima Facie Case. 378 1. Unwelcomeness. 378 2. Because of . Sex Rationale. 379 B. Types of Sexual Harassment Claims. 380 1. Quid Pro Quo. 380 2. Hostile Environment. 380 II. The Reasonable Woman Standard. 381 A. The Gender-Neutral Approach. 381 B. The Advantages of a Reasonable Woman Standard. 382 C. The...; Search Snippet: ...Law Employment Law Chapter Federal Sexual Harassment and the Reasonable Woman Standard Emily Epstein Copyright © 2004 by the Georgetown Journal Of... |
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| Alisa D. Nave |
Feminist Legal Theory: an Anti-essentialist Reader, Edited by Nancy E. Dowd and Michelle S. Jacobs. New York: New York University Press, 2003. 417pp. $70.00 Cloth; $22.00 Paper. |
19 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 313 (2004) |
What is feminism? The answer depends on whom you ask. As new challenges transform traditional civil rights issues, feminist legal theory itself has been challenged and, in many cases, dismissed as essentialist or incomplete. As Michelle S. Jacobs, one of the editors of Feminist Legal Theory: An Anti-Essentialist Reader, aptly comments, at its worst...; Search Snippet: ...Womens Law Journal Berkeley Women's Law Journal 2004 Books Received Feminist Legal Theory: an Anti-essentialist Reader, Edited by Nancy E... |
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| Rosemary C. Salomone |
Feminist Voices in the Debate over Single-sex Schooling: Finding Common Ground |
11 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 63 (2004) |
Introduction. 63 I. Deconstructing the Debate. 66 A. A Confluence of Forces. 68 B. Competing Arguments. 70 C. Historical Exclusion. 73 D. Sex, Race, and Academic Performance. 74 E. The Sameness-Difference Dilemma. 77 II. Diverse Voices Within Feminism. 79 A. Liberal Feminism. 79 B. Difference Feminism. 81 C. Dominance Theory. 84 D....; Search Snippet: ...Gender and Law Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 2004 Article Feminist Voices in the Debate over Single-sex Schooling: Finding Common... |
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| E. Lynn Grayson |
Five Things Every Lawyer Should Know about the Alliance for Women |
18-JAN CBA Record 39 (January, 2004) |
The Chicago Bar Association Alliance for Women (AFW) recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Dedicated to advancing women in the law and ensuring their professional and personal success, the AFW continues as an important source of professional development, educational and social programs and events for women lawyers. This year's AFW Co-Chairs...; Search Snippet: ...Five Things Every Lawyer Should Know about the Alliance for Women E. Lynn Grayson [Fna1] Copyright © 2004 by Chicago Bar Association... |
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| Robert C. Downs, Brooke Grant, Elizabeth Sterling |
From Petticoats to Briefs: a History of Women at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law |
72 UMKC Law Review 1011 (Summer, 2004) |
The peculiar qualities of womanhood, its gentle graces, its quick sensibility, its tender susceptibility, its purity, its delicacy, its emotional impulses, its subordination of hard reason to sympathetic feeling, are surely not qualifications for forensic strife. Nature has tempered woman as little for the juridical conflicts of the courtroom, as...; Search Snippet: ...Summer, 2004 Article from Petticoats to Briefs: a History of Women at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law... |
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| Sarah Westergren |
Gender Effects in the Courts of Appeals Revisited: the Date since 1994 |
92 Georgetown Law Journal 689 (March, 2004) |
When the realist school of legal theory emerged in the 1930s, scholars for the first time began to examine the influence of judges' personal identities on their decisionmaking. The realist school challenged the predominant view that legal principles were universal and rational, contending instead that judicial decisions were essentially political,...; Search Snippet: ...2341855 Georgetown Law Journal Georgetown Law Journal March, 2004 Note Gender Effects in the Courts of Appeals Revisited: the Date Since... |
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| Ramit Mizrahi |
Hostility to the Presence of Women: Why Women Undermine Each Other in the Workplace and the Consequences for Title Vii |
113 Yale Law Journal 1579 (May, 2004) |
When a woman harasses a female coworker out of competitiveness or jealousy, can such harassment be sex-based? Can it give rise to a sexual harassment hostile work environment claim? This Note argues that the answer to both questions is yes because, in many instances of female-on-female harassment, women in the workplace are undermining each other...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal May, 2004 Notes Hostility to the Presence of Women : Why Women Undermine Each Other in the Workplace and the Consequences For... |
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| Rachel F. Moran |
How Second-wave Feminism Forgot the Single Woman |
33 Hofstra Law Review 223 (Fall 2004) |
I cannot imagine a feminist evolution leading to radical change in the private/political realm of gender that is not rooted in the conviction that all women's lives are important; that the lives of men cannot be understood by burying the lives of women; and that to make visible the full meaning of women's experience, to reinterpret knowledge in...; Search Snippet: ...Fall 2004 Article How Second-wave Feminism Forgot the Single Woman Rachel F. Moran [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2004 Hofstra Law Review... |
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| Haegyung Cho |
Incarcerated Women and Abuse: the Crime Connection and the Lack of Treatment in Correctional Facilities |
14 Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 137 (Fall, 2004) |
Ms. Ellen Richardson is incarcerated at Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, California. There are no domestic violence support groups in the prison to help her cope with her abusive past and [she is] basically left to deal with [her] pain as part of [her] sentence. As she articulates, none of the women leaving this prison would be...; Search Snippet: ...Review of Law and Women's Studies Fall, 2004 Note Incarcerated Women and Abuse: [Fn1] the Crime Connection and the Lack Of... |
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| Bethany R. Berger |
Indian Policy and the Imagined Indian Woman |
14-FALL Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 103 (Fall, 2004) |
Twenty-six years after the United States Supreme Court decided Santa Clara Pueblo v. Martinez, the case continues to generate cries that the federal government has abandoned Indian women in the name of Indian culture. This outrage is in part generated by the sense that, as Judith Resnik puts it, that the case was an easy one for the Supreme...; Search Snippet: ...Public Policy Fall, 2004 Indian Policy and the Imagined Indian Woman Bethany R. Berger [Fna1] Copyright © 2004 by Kansas Journal Of... |
2004 |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
| Johanna E. Bond |
Intersecting Identities and Human Rights: the Example of Romani Women's Reproductive Rights |
5 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 897 (Fall, 2004) |
Historically, feminists have focused on galvanizing broad support for the women's human rights movement by appealing to women's common experiences of violence and discrimination across the globe. Although the broad parameters of gender discrimination may apply universally, many women around the world, particularly in the global South, have begun to...; Search Snippet: ...Symposium Intersecting Identities and Human Rights: the Example of Romani Women's Reproductive Rights Johanna E. Bond Copyright © 2005 by the Georgetown... |
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| Francisco Valdes |
Keynote Address: Recalling Race, Gender and Sexuality: Outcrit Reflections on Legal Education, Social Identities and the "Rule of Law"-a Call Toward Collective Insurrections |
5 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 881 (Fall, 2004) |
Gretchen Rohr: Welcome back. Next we are moving into the exciting event of our keynote address for the Sixth Annual Symposium on Gender and Sexuality in the Law. We welcome Francisco Valdes who has come all the way up here from Miami. But we also have joining us this afternoon Professor Darren Hutchinson, who has agreed to introduce Professor...; Search Snippet: ...Gender, Sexuality and the Law Symposium Keynote Address: Recalling Race, Gender and Sexuality: Outcrit Reflections on Legal Education, Social Identities And... |
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| Leigh Goodmark |
Law Is the Answer? Do We Know That for Sure?: Questioning the Efficacy of Legal Interventions for Battered Women |
23 Saint Louis University Public Law Review Rev. 7 (2004) |
The law can curtail wife abuse, and it must. Oh, no, I'm never calling the police. I've called them before and that was a big mistake. No, they won't help me. But back then my lawyer says it wasn't worth having an ex parte, that it wouldn't do me any good anyway. It wasn't going to be bulletproof, he said, so why bother. And by this time, I...; Search Snippet: ...For Sure?: Questioning the Efficacy of Legal Interventions for Battered Women Leigh Goodmark [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2004 St. Louis University School... |
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| Nancy E. Shurtz |
Lighting the Lantern: Visions of a Virtual All-women's Law School |
16 Hastings Women's Law Journal 63 (Winter 2004) |
Now, what peculiarly signalizes the situation of woman is that she--a free and autonomous being like all human creatures--nevertheless finds herself living in a world where men compel her to assume the status of the Other. - Simone de Beauvoir [I know from my experience both as a law student and as a teacher in a public university law school that...; Search Snippet: ...2004 Article Lighting the Lantern: Visions of a Virtual All- Women's Law School Nancy E. Shurtz [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2004 Uc... |
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| Miranda Massie |
Litigators and Communities Working Together: Grutter V. Bollinger and the New Civil Rights Movement |
15 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 109 (Spring 2004) |
Hi everyone. My name is Miranda Massie and I'm here from Detroit, Michigan. I was the lead counsel for the student defendants in the University of Michigan Law School affirmative action case, Grutter v. Bollinger. Students here at Boalt Hall were involved in organizing around Grutter, as were students, civil rights groups, and labor groups around...; Search Snippet: ...An Affirmative Action Case to Specifically Present Separate Testimony on Latinos and Affirmative Action, on Asian Pacific Americans and Affirmative Action, and on Women of All Races and Affirmative Action. [Fn5] We Wanted To... |
2004 |
Multiple Groups |
| Elaine Jones |
Luck Was Not a Factor: the Importance of a Strategic Approach to Civil Rights Litigation |
15 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 81 (Spring 2004) |
Looking at the topic of the symposium, Rekindling the Spirit of Brown v. Board of Education, I think about the meaning of that title. Rekindling means that something has died, the flame has ebbed, or something needs a fire or match to light it. I hope that is not the case. I hope that is not the case considering the tremendous victory in the...; Search Snippet: ...Experiences Tell Me this Is True. I Was the First African- American Female Student to Attend the University of Virginia Law School, An... |
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African/Black American |
| M. Christina Luera |
No More Waiting for Revolution: Japan Should Take Positive Action to Implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women |
13 Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 611 (June, 2004) |
In 1985, Japan ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), which requires the eradication of all legal, political, social and cultural structures that prevent women from enjoying full equality with men. Under CEDAW, Japan is legally obligated to strive for actual, not...; Search Snippet: ...Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women M. Christina Luera [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 2004 Pacific Rim Law... |
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| Rachel Roth |
No New Babies? Gender Inequality and Reproductive Control in the Criminal Justice and Prison Systems |
12 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 391 (2004) |
Introduction. 392 I. Rights Retained in the Criminal Justice System. 394 II. Gender Equality and the Right to Procreate from Prison. 397 III. Constraining Sex and Reproduction on the Outside. 404 IV. Prohibiting Procreation: A Closely Contested Decision. 409 V. A Misfortune or a Crime? Court Orders Prohibiting Procreation. 413 Conclusion: State...; Search Snippet: ...Social Policy and the Law 2004 Article No New Babies? Gender Inequality and Reproductive Control in the Criminal Justice and Prison... |
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| Mary L. Clark |
One Man's Token Is Another Woman's Breakthrough? The Appointment of the First Women Federal Judges |
49 Villanova Law Review 487 (2004) |
NO women served as Article III judges in the first one hundred and fifty years of the American republic. It was not until Franklin Delano Roosevelt named Florence Ellinwood Allen to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1934 that women were included within the ranks of the federal judiciary. This Article examines the appointment of the first women federal...; Search Snippet: ...Villanova Law Review 2004 Article One Man's Token Is Another Woman's Breakthrough? The Appointment of the First Women Federal Judges Mary L. Clark [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2004 Villanova... |
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| Julissa Reynoso |
Perspectives on Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Other Grounds: Latinas at the Margins |
7 Harvard Latino Law Review 63 (Spring, 2004) |
A review of United States law reveals that the most common approach to discrimination claims is one that focuses on a single ground for discrimination, such as race, gender, disability, or national origin. This Article proposes an alternative approach to discrimination claims--an analysis that takes into account the lived realities of individuals...; Search Snippet: ...Review Spring, 2004 Article Perspectives on Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Other Grounds: Latinas at the Margins Julissa Reynoso [Fna1] Copyright © 2004 by The... |
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Hispanic/Latinx American |
| Michelle S. Jacobs |
Piercing the Prison Uniform of Invisibility for Black Female Inmates |
94 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 795 (Spring 2004) |
Paula C. Johnson, Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison (New York and London: New York University Press, 2003). 339 pp. For professionals working with the issues of women and criminality, the lean years of working without the support of solid empirical data are coming to an end. In the past, professionals working on women and...; Search Snippet: ...Book Review Piercing the Prison Uniform of Invisibility for Black Female Inmates Michelle S. Jacobs [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2004 Northwestern University... |
2004 |
African/Black American |
| Stephanie M. Wildman |
Privilege, Gender, and the Fourteenth Amendment: Reclaiming Equal Protection of the Laws |
13 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 707 (Spring 2004) |
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states: No state shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. In the wake of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, cases some have touted as the most important civil rights decisions of the last several decades, it is time to reexamine...; Search Snippet: ...The History, Evolution, and Future of the Fourteenth Amendment Privilege, Gender, and the Fourteenth Amendment: Reclaiming Equal Protection of the Laws... |
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| Laura Fortney |
Public Single-sex Elementary Schools: "Separate but Equal" in Gender Fifty Years Following Brown V. Board of Education |
35 University of Toledo Law Review 857 (Summer 2004) |
ABRAHAM Lincoln once said that education is the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. The Founders saw education as essential for preserving of the Union. Without a population that could read and understand the principles behind the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, liberty and the nation, as a result, would...; Search Snippet: ...Comments Public Single-sex Elementary Schools: Separate but Equal in Gender Fifty Years Following Brown V. Board of Education Laura Fortney... |
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