AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearEthnicity in Title or SummaryGender in Title or Summary
Mary Coombs Comment: Between Women/between Men: the Significance for Lesbianism of Historical Understandings of Same-(Male)sex Sexual Activities 8 Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 241 (Winter 1996) The two primary articles in this Symposium each contribute significantly to the project of providing a history for same-sex sexual activities and desires. That project is politically and intellectually valuable, both in its own right and as a means toward understanding contemporary homosexuality. It also has potential legal implications. The term...; Search Snippet: ...Symposium Intersections: Sexuality, Cultural Tradition, and the Law Comment: Between Women/between Men: the Significance for Lesbianism of Historical Understandings Of... 1996   Yes
Bastiaan K. Coebergh Constitutional Law 31 Land and Water Law Review 195 (1996) On October 21, 1991, jury selection began in the civil paternity action against J.E.B. The State of Alabama had filed a complaint for paternity and child support on behalf of T.B., alleging that J.E.B. was the father of T.B.'s minor child. The Circuit Court of Jackson County, Alabama assembled a panel of thirty-six potential jurors, twelve males...; Search Snippet: ...Division Casenote Constitutional Law the United States Supreme Court on Gender-based Peremptory Jury Challenges - Constitutionally Correct but out of Touch... 1996    
Melynda G. Broomfield Controlling the Reproductive Rights of Impoverished Women: Is this the Way to "Reform" Welfare? 16 Boston College Third World Law Journal 217 (Spring, 1996) It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Three generations of...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Spring, 1996 Note Controlling the Reproductive Rights of Impoverished Women: Is this the Way to Reform Welfare? Melynda G. Broomfield... 1996   Yes
Marina Angel Criminal Law and Women: Giving the Abused Woman Who Kills a Jury of Her Peers Who Appreciate Trifles 33 American Criminal Law Review 229 (Winter, 1996) I. Introduction. 230 II. Stories. 232 A. The StoryFiction. 235 B. The StoryFact. 241 C. A Jury of Her Peers as a Pedagogic Device. 246 III. The Law: History and Politics. 252 A. Jurisprudential Debates Affecting Women. 252 B. The History of Legalized Woman Abuse: Roman, English, and Early American Law. 254 C. The Right to Vote: A Black/White...; Search Snippet: ...Review American Criminal Law Review Winter, 1996 Criminal Law and Women: Giving the Abused Woman Who Kills a Jury of Her Peers Who Appreciate Trifles... 1996 African/Black American Yes
Elene G. Mountis Cultural Relativity and Universalism: Reevaluating Gender Rights in a Multicultural Context 15 Dickinson Journal of International Law 113 (Fall 1996) Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in, and to throw off, by the force of their own minds, the prejudices which the maturing reasons on the world will in time disavow, must learn to brave censure. We ought not to be too anxious respecting the opinion of others. Mary Wollstonecraft, (1797) A tension between two analytical...; Search Snippet: ...Of International Law Fall 1996 Cultural Relativity and Universalism: Reevaluating Gender Rights in a Multicultural Context Elene G. Mountis [Fna] Copyright... 1996    
Phyllis Goldfarb Describing Without Circumscribing: Questioning the Construction of Gender in the Discourse of Intimate Violence 64 George Washington Law Review 582 (March, 1996) In this Article, Professor Goldfarb examines the construction of gender roles in the discourse on intimate violence. The Article argues that this discourse assumes that male violence against female intimates represents the problem of battering in its entirety. In doing so, the discourse renders invisible the battering that occurs outside this...; Search Snippet: ...Review March, 1996 Describing Without Circumscribing: Questioning the Construction of Gender in the Discourse of Intimate Violence Phyllis Goldfarb [Fna] Copyright... 1996    
Sarah Gill Dismantling Gender and Race Stereotypes: Using Education to Prevent Date Rape 7 UCLA Women's Law Journal 27 (Fall-Winter 1996) The date rape problem persists, despite rape law reforms. One contributing factor to the law's failure to decrease the incidence of, and increase the reporting and prosecution of date rape, is that gender and race stereotypes are embedded in our societal consciousness. These gender and race stereotypes lead to miscommunication, which is a major...; Search Snippet: ...Women's Law Journal Fall-winter 1996 December, 1996 Essay Dismantling Gender and Race Stereotypes: Using Education to Prevent Date Rape Sarah... 1996    
Christine A. Littleton Double and Nothing: Lesbian as Category 7 UCLA Women's Law Journal 1 (Fall-Winter 1996) In this Article, Littleton argues that the social and legal construction of sexual orientation and of gender uphold the dominance of cultural masculinity. Because of this construction, members of the set lesbians disappear into subsets based on sexual orientation (women are seen only as straight women) or gender (gays are seen only as...; Search Snippet: ...Doctrine Organized Around the Categories of Race and Sex. [Fn28] African- American Women Are Ignored When Race Discrimination Analysis Focuses on the Experience of African- American Men, and Likewise Ignored When Sex Discrimination Analysis Focuses on the Experience of White Women. [Fn29] Belonging to a Specific Group Within Each 1996 African/Black American  
Lori Ann Larson Female Genital Mutilation in the United States: Child Abuse or Constitutional Freedom? 17 Women's Rights Law Reporter 237 (Spring 1996) The world of humanity consists of two parts: male and female. Each is the complement of the other. Therefore, if one is defective, the other will necessarily be incomplete, and perfection cannot be attained. Just as the physical accomplishment is complete with two halves, so man and woman, the two parts of the social body must be perfect. It is not...; Search Snippet: ...Rights Law Reporter Women's Rights Law Reporter Spring 1996 Note Female Genital Mutilation in the United States: Child Abuse or Constitutional... 1996   Yes
Susan L. Waysdorf Fighting for Their Lives: Women, Poverty, and the Historical Role of United States Law in Shaping Access to Women's Health Care 84 Kentucky Law Journal 745 (1995-1996) Perhaps in no other context of American life is the relationship between poverty, racial discrimination, and gender discrimination more stark and historically consistent than in the area of health care delivery and medicine. Today, women's daily relationship to securing and maintaining health care for themselves and their children remains a major...; Search Snippet: ...Legal, Economic, Political, and Social Equality Fighting for Their Lives: Women, Poverty, and the Historical Role of United States Law in Shaping Access to Women's Health Care Susan L. Waysdorf [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996 University... 1996   Yes
Cheryl I. Harris Finding Sojourner's Truth: Race, Gender, and the Institution of Property 18 Cardozo Law Review 309 (November, 1996) I want to say a few words about this matter. I am for a woman's rights. I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I have heard much about the sexes being equal; I can carry as much as any man, and can eat as much too, if I can...; Search Snippet: ...Law and United States Slave Regimes Finding Sojourner's Truth: Race, Gender, and the Institution of Property Cheryl I. Harris [Fna1] Copyright... 1996    
Patricia G. Barnes From Outsider to Insider 82-NOV ABA Journal 24 (November, 1996) I was once asked what experience in life best prepared me to be managing partner, says Karen Randall, who moved from that job to become senior vice president and general counsel of MCA Inc. It is being a mother. Dealing with her two children prepared her for handling difficult personalities with competing demands, she says. That female...; Search Snippet: ...1996 News from Outsider to Insider More Firms Are Appointing Women Managing Partners Patricia G. Barnes Copyright (C) 1996 by The... 1996    
Rebecca L. Berkeley Gender Based Affirmative Action: a Journey That Has Only Just Begun 50 Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 353 (Fall 1996) When the Court handed down Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, it made a bold statement by applying the strict scrutiny standard to federal affirmative action programs that use racial or ethnic selections criteria. However, the Court did not discuss the constitutional standard of review for gender-based affirmative action. Presently, lower courts...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law Fall 1996 Recent Development Gender Based Affirmative Action: a Journey That Has Only Just Begun... 1996    
Rosemary C. Hunter Gender in Evidence: Masculine Norms Vs. Feminist Reforms 19 Harvard Women's Law Journal 127 (Spring, 1996) One of the primary concerns of feminist legal scholarship has been to explore the gender effects of legal rules and practices in order to discover whether, and why, certain areas of law operate systematically to the advantage of men and to the disadvantage of women. This Article explores the gender effects of the rules of evidence and the conduct...; Search Snippet: ...Harvard Womens Law Journal Harvard Women's Law Journal Spring, 1996 Gender in Evidence: Masculine Norms Vs. Feminist Reforms Rosemary C. Hunter [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1996 by The... 1996    
Andrew T. Fede Gender in the Law of Slavery in the Antebellum United States 18 Cardozo Law Review 411 (November, 1996) In her thought-provoking paper Finding Sojourner's Truth: Race, Gender, and the Institution of Property, Cheryl I. Harris explores the connections between slavery, race, and gender in the law of the antebellum United States. Harris acknowledges that slaves alone were defined as property at law, and, therefore, the legal status of slaves differed...; Search Snippet: ...Part Ii Contribution Private Law and United States Slave Regimes Gender in the Law of Slavery in the Antebellum United States... 1996    
B. Tobias Isbell Gender Inequality and Wage Differentials Between the Sexes: Is it Inevitable or Is There an Answer? 50 Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 369 (Fall 1996) Labor compensation for many individuals in the United States is still determined by gender, despite over thirty years of civil rights legislation. Specifically, women in the United States labor under an emploment system in which they earn comparatively less than men. In the early 1960s, women earned about 59 for every dollar earned by men. In 1992,...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law Fall 1996 Recent Development Gender Inequality and Wage Differentials Between the Sexes: Is it Inevitable... 1996    
Karen H. Rothenberg Gender Matters: Implications for Clinical Research and Women's Health Care 32 Houston Law Review 1201 (1996) I. Introduction. 1202 II. Gender Bias: Realities and Reasons. 1205 A. Gender Gaps in Clinical Research. 1208 B. Gender Disparities in Clinical Decisionmaking. 1210 C. The Role of Gender in the Physician-Patient Relationship. 1211 III. The Evolution of Regulation: Protectionism, Pitfalls, and Progress. 1218 A. The History of Regulating Human...; Search Snippet: ...Houston Law Review 1996 Symposium: Nonfinancial Barriers to Health Care Gender Matters: Implications for Clinical Research and Women's Health Care Karen H. Rothenberg [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996 Houston... 1996   Yes
Celina Romany Gender, Race/ethnicity and Language 9 La Raza Law Journal 49 (Spring, 1996) Buenos días. Welcome to the island. Last night, with co-panelist and friend Professor Angel Oquendo, I was discussing the different perspective of Critical Race Theory acquired after having spent a year back in Puerto Rico. This is a homecoming of sorts since many of us, through the alchemy of a three hour plane ride, maintain our professional...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal La Raza Law Journal Spring, 1996 Colloquium Proceeding Gender, Race/ethnicity and Language Celina Romany [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 1996... 1996    
Mary B. Mahowald Genetic Technologies and Their Implications for Women 3 University of Chicago Law School Roundtable 439 (1996) Gender neutral language has been religiously observed by many people in recent years. I use it myself, and usually insist on it in my editorial work, to insure that the reader or listener does not interpret what is intended to apply to both genders as only applicable to one. This preference for gender neutral language embraces the avoidance of...; Search Snippet: ...Technology and Biomedical Ethics Genetic Technologies and Their Implications for Women Mary B. Mahowald [Fnd] Copyright (C) 1996 University of Chicago... 1996   Yes
Joyce Antila Phipps Immigration and the Latin Community 17 Women's Rights Law Reporter 279 (Summer, 1996) Prior to discussing the issues of race, class, and gender in immigration policy, I would first like to provide a bit of context for my remarks. Approximately 12.5% to 13% of the population of New Jersey is foreign born. This means that out of a population of about seven million, a little over one million persons were born in other countries. About...; Search Snippet: ...Addition to Legal Representation, El Centro Provides Social Services for Hispanic Women. Rather than Discussing These Issues from an Only Theoretical Perspective... 1996 Hispanic/Latinx American  
Robert R.M. Verchick In a Greener Voice: Feminist Theory and Environmental Justice 19 Harvard Women's Law Journal 23 (Spring, 1996) The sequence of women's moral judgment proceeds from an initial concern with survival to a focus on goodness and finally to a reflective understanding of care as the most adequate guide to the resolution of conflicts in human relationships. Carol Gilligan Now you have touched the women, you have struck a rock. Song by women organizers protesting...; Search Snippet: ...Harvard Women's Law Journal Spring, 1996 in a Greener Voice: Feminist Theory and Environmental Justice Robert R.m. Verchick [Fna1] Copyright ©... 1996    
Okianer Christian Dark Incorporating Issues of Race, Gender, Class, Sexual Orientation, and Disability into Law School Teaching 32 Willamette Law Review 541 (Summer 1996) I think the lessons I have learned are greater than blackletter law principles. As far as those go, I am not sure that I learned anything new. What I learned has more to do with people and the different values we all have. Since the beginning of my law teaching career, I have raised issues of race, gender, class, sexual orientation, and disability...; Search Snippet: ...Review Willamette Law Review Summer 1996 Incorporating Issues of Race, Gender, Class, Sexual Orientation, and Disability into Law School Teaching Okianer... 1996 African/Black American  
Shauna I. Marshall Insightfully Depicting the "Trees" but Blurring the "Forest": a Review of Jill Duerr Berrick's Faces of Poverty: Portraits of Women and Children on Welfare 7 Hastings Women's Law Journal 369 (Summer, 1996) As I read Jill Duerr Berrick's book, Faces of Poverty: Portraits of Women and Children On Welfare, I was reminded of my first law-related job. I worked as a legal intern for the Welfare Law Unit of the St. Louis Legal Aid Society. My job was to represent people who, for one reason or another, had been denied public assistance. Most of the people I...; Search Snippet: ...Review of Jill Duerr Berrick's Faces of Poverty: Portraits of Women and Children on Welfare Shauna I. Marshall [Fna1] Copyright ©... 1996   Yes
Ellen J. Morrison Insurance Discrimination Against Battered Women: Proposed Legislative Protections 72 Indiana Law Journal 259 (Winter, 1996) In the past thirty years, society has increasingly recognized the presence of domestic violence in the United States, due largely to the efforts of victims' advocates. Although advocacy efforts have led to some legal reform, all too often officers of the court and law refuse to enforce protective legislation due to paternalistic notions of the...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Winter, 1996 December, 1996 Note Insurance Discrimination Against Battered Women: Proposed Legislative Protections Ellen J. Morrison [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1996... 1996   Yes
Barbara Stark International Human Rights Law, Feminist Jurisprudence, and Nietzsche's "Eternal Return": Turning the Wheel 19 Harvard Women's Law Journal 169 (Spring, 1996) Much of the important feminist scholarship on international human rights law has been deconstructive; that is, feminists have taken apart international human rights law to show how it neglects and marginalizes women, how it does not do enough for them, and how it may even perpetuate their subordination. Less has been written about its potential...; Search Snippet: ...Harvard Women's Law Journal Spring, 1996 International Human Rights Law, Feminist Jurisprudence, and Nietzsche's Eternal Return: Turning the Wheel Barbara Stark... 1996    
Julie Novkov Liberty, Protection, and Women's Work: Investigating the Boundaries Between Public and Private 21 Law and Social Inquiry 857 (Fall, 1996) During the Progressive Era, the U.S. state and federal courts considered constitutional challenges to protective labor legislation. While courts often struck down generalized protective legislation, they frequently upheld such legislation for women. I explore the reasoning in the cases decided between 1897 and 1923, showing that the courts...; Search Snippet: ...Inquiry Law and Social Inquiry Fall, 1996 Liberty, Protection, and Women's Work: Investigating the Boundaries Between Public and Private Julie Novkov... 1996   Yes
Beth L. Goldstein Little Brown Spots on the Notebook Paper: Women as Law School Students 84 Kentucky Law Journal 983 (1995-1996) Since the 1980s, law schools have acknowledged their responsi- bility to provide underrepresented groups access to legal education and the legal profession by increasing recruitment and academic support programs for students not traditionally enrolled in law school. Who constitute these underrepresented people varies across the country, often...; Search Snippet: ...And Social Equality Little Brown Spots on the Notebook Paper: Women as Law School Students by Beth L. Goldstein [Fna] Copyright... 1996   Yes
Barbara Holden-Smith Lynching, Federalism, and the Intersection of Race and Gender in the Progressive Era 8 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 31 (1996) In 1904, a lynch mob of more than 1000 white people burned Luther Holbert, a black Mississippi sharecropper, and his wife to death. A Vicksburg, Mississippi newspaper gave the following eye-witness account of the lynching: [T]he two Negroes were tied to trees and while the funeral pyres were being prepared, they were forced to hold out their...; Search Snippet: ...Feminism 1996 Lynching, Federalism, and the Intersection of Race and Gender in the Progressive Era Barbara Holden-smith [Fnd1] Copyright ©... 1996 African/Black American  
Catherine E. Lhamon Mother as Trope in Feminist Legal Theory 105 Yale Law Journal 1421 (March, 1996) Until Martha Fineman and Isabel Karpin published their collection of essays, feminist scholars in law had largely ignored motherhood as a topic for discussion. To be sure, feminist scholars in other disciplines had embraced motherhood as a rich theoretical construct. By contrast, however, to the extent that feminist legal scholars had confronted...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal March, 1996 Book Note Mother as Trope in Feminist Legal Theory Mothers in Law: Feminist Theory and the Legal Regulation of Motherhood. Edited by Martha... 1996    
Nancy S. Ehrenreich O.j. Simpson & the Myth of Gender/race Conflict 67 University of Colorado Law Review 931 (Fall 1996) As an observer of the O.J. Simpson trial, what struck me more than anything about this social drama was how it played out, in the media and in the public consciousness, so similarly to other previous events in which an African American man has been charged with aggression against a woman. Whether their names are O.J. Simpson or Mike Tyson, Nicole...; Search Snippet: ...And Decision Making Gender Perspective O.j. Simpson & the Myth of Gender/race Conflict Nancy S. Ehrenreich [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996 University... 1996 African/Black American  
Keth A. Ditthavong Paving the Way for Women on the Information Superhighway: Curbing Sexism Not Freedoms 4 American University Journal of Gender & the Law 455 (Spring 1996) I. Introduction. 456 II. Emergence of a New Medium. 461 A. The Information Superhighway. 461 B. Feminists on the Superhighway. 465 1. The Gender Gap. 466 2. The Feminist Pornography Debate. 468 III. Current Media Regulation. 477 A. The Printing Press. 480 B. Broadcast Systems -- Radio and Television. 482 C. Telephony. 484 D. Cable Television. 485...; Search Snippet: ...Of Gender & the Law Spring 1996 Paving the Way for Women on the Information Superhighway: Curbing Sexism Not Freedoms Keth A... 1996   Yes
Mary K. O'Melveny Playing the "Gender" Card: Affirmative Action and Working Women 84 Kentucky Law Journal 863 (1995-1996) Only seventy-five years have passed since women were allowed to vote, and there are still those who would question the need for gender-conscious actions to ensure that women can play an equal role in our nation's political, social, and economic affairs. A mere thirty years after discrimination in employment was formally outlawed by federal...; Search Snippet: ...Quest for Legal, Economic, Political, and Social Equality Playing the Gender Card: Affirmative Action and Working Women [Fna] by Mary K. O'melveny [Fnaa] Copyright (C) 1996 University... 1996   Yes
Tracy M. Clements Prostitution and the American Health Care System: Denying Access to a Group of Women in Need 11 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 49 (1996) I. Introduction. 50 A. Demographics of Prostitution. 52 B. Ideological Approaches to Prostitution. 53 1. The Conventional Morality View. 54 2. The Feminist Debate: Diverging Views. 55 a. The Radical Feminist Approach. 56 b. The Liberal Feminist Approach. 57 II. Occupational Hazards: Prostitutes' Special Health Care Needs. 57 A. Violence, Emotional...; Search Snippet: ...American Health Care System: Denying Access to a Group of Women in Need Tracy M. Clements [Fnd] Copyright (C) 1996 Berkeley... 1996   Yes
Ann R. Tickamyer Public Policy and Private Lives: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Women's Poverty and Welfare Policy in the United States 84 Kentucky Law Journal 721 (1995-1996) Seventy-five years after gaining suffrage and almost one hundred fifty years since the Declaration of Sentiments, adopted by the First Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York, proclaimed women's human rights and rights as citizens of the United States, women's ability to realize these rights remains circumscribed, ambiguous, and in...; Search Snippet: ...Public Policy and Private Lives: Social and Spatial Dimensions of Women's Poverty and Welfare Policy in the United States [Fna1] Ann... 1996   Yes
Willy E. Rice Race, Gender, "Redlining," and the Discriminatory Access to Loans, Credit, and Insurance: an Historical and Empirical Analysis of Consumers Who Sued Lenders and Insurers in Federal and State Courts, 1950-1995 33 San Diego Law Review 583 (May-June, 1996) A careful review of either privately or publicly assembled economic data discloses two economic truths: (1) Persistent unemployment is likely to develop among members of any racial or socioeconomic group when members of that group are regularly and systematically denied access to capital and credit; and, (2) small businesses--the primary creators...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review San Diego Law Review May-june, 1996 Race, Gender, Redlining, and the Discriminatory Access to Loans, Credit, and Insurance... 1996    
Adrienne K. Wheatley Race, Gender, and Power in America: the Legacy of the Hillthomas Hearings. Edited by Anita Faye Hill and Emma Coleman Jordan. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1995. Pp. Xxxii, 302. $25.00. 19 Harvard Women's Law Journal 328 (Spring, 1996) Race, Gender, and Power in America: The Legacy of the Hill-Thomas Hearings offers a series of explanations as to the social, cultural, and historical reasons why the Senate Judiciary Committee's reaction to Anita Hill's accusations of sexual harassment--and its concomitant receptivity to Clarence Thomas--was not only possible, but predictable. The...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Harvard Women's Law Journal Spring, 1996 Book Review Race, Gender, and Power in America: the Legacy of the Hillthomas Hearings... 1996    
Robert D. Goldstein Reading Casey: Structuring the Woman's Decisionmaking Process 4 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 787 (Summer 1996) In this Article, Professor Goldstein argues that the primary concerns of Planned Parenthood v. Casey's joint opinion were expressive, not regulatory, in nature: to allow the state more leeway to structure the woman's decisionmaking process and to engage in its own speech regarding her exercise of her procreative choice. To this end, he identifies...; Search Snippet: ...Bill of Rights Journal Summer 1996 Reading Casey: Structuring the Woman's Decisionmaking Process Robert D. Goldstein [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996 Publications... 1996   Yes
Susan J. Scollay ; and Carolyn S. Bratt Reflections on the Limitations of Rational Discourse, Empirical Data, and Legal Mandates as Tools for the Achievement of Gender Equity in American Higher Education 84 Kentucky Law Journal 903 (1995-1996) Introduction. 904 I. The First Hundred Years. 905 II. First Wave: Initial Investigations of Gender in the Academy. 909 III. Legal Efforts to Secure Gender Equity on Campus. 911 IV. Second Wave: A Contemporary Case Study of Gender in One University. 913 V. Second Wave: A Comparative Analysis of Nine Institutional Investigations of Gender. 921...; Search Snippet: ...Data, and Legal Mandates as Tools for the Achievement of Gender Equity in American Higher Education Susan J. Scollay [Fna] ; And... 1996    
  Report of the Special Committee on Gender to the D.c. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias 84 Georgetown Law Journal 1657 (May, 1996) Professor Vicki C. Jackson Professor Susan Deller Ross Georgetown University Law Center Georgetown University Law Center Loretta Collins Argrett Asst. Attorney Genl, Tax Div. U.S. Department of Justice Robert E. Kopp Director, Appellate Staff, Civil Div. U.S. Department of Justice Brenda V. Smith, Esq. National Women's Law Center Anita Barondes,...; Search Snippet: ...May, 1996 Special Section Report of the Special Committee on Gender to the D.c. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race and Ethnic Bias Copyright (C) 1996 by the Georgetown... 1996    
  Report of the Special Committee on Race and Ethnicity to the D.c. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race, and Ethnic Bias 64 George Washington Law Review 189 (January, 1996) James E. Coleman, Jr., Esquire Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Professor Todd D. Peterson George Washington University National Law Center The Honorable Vanessa Ruiz District of Columbia Court of Appeals Joseph M. Sellers, Esquire Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs Avis E. Buchanan, Esquire Washington Lawyers' Committee for...; Search Snippet: ...Race and Ethnicity to the D.c. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race, and Ethnic Bias Special Committee on Race and Ethnicity... 1996    
Catherine H. McCabe Ryan White Care Amendments: Mandatory Hiv Testing of Newborns and a Woman's Right to Privacy 1 DePaul Journal of Health Care Law 373 (Winter 1996) Women of reproductive age comprise the fastest growing group infected with HIV in the United States today. Not surprisingly the incidence of AIDS has increased among infants who contract the virus perinatally. Currently 93 percent of all pediatric AIDS cases arise from vertical transmission of HIV, in which the HIV-infected mother passes the virus...; Search Snippet: ...White Care Amendments: Mandatory Hiv Testing of Newborns and a Woman's Right to Privacy Catherine H. Mccabe [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996... 1996   Yes
Cullen P. Cowley Same-gender Harassment and Homosexuality in Title Vii Sexual Harassment Litigation 50 Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 443 (Fall 1996) Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) forbids sexual harassment involving victims and harassers of opposite genders. A growing number of Title VII plaintiffs, however, are now alleging same-gender sexual harassment--harassment by supervisors of the same gender as the plaintiff employee. Whether Title VII protects employees from...; Search Snippet: ...Of Urban and Contemporary Law Fall 1996 Recent Development Same- Gender Harassment and Homosexuality in Title Vii Sexual Harassment Litigation Cullen... 1996    
Beverly Horsburgh Schrdegreesodinger's Cat, Eugenics, and the Compulsory Sterilization of Welfare Mothers: Deconstructing an Old/new Rhetoric and Constructing the Reproductive Right to Natality for Low-income Women of Color 17 Cardozo Law Review 531 (January, 1996) According to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory, objects in the microscopic universe exist in potentia. An observer compels an electron to become real and to be located in space by introducing an apparatus that detects its presence. The relationship between the microscopic world and the measuring device is measured, not the underlying...; Search Snippet: ...And Constructing the Reproductive Right to Natality for Low-income Women of Color Beverly Horsburgh [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996 Yeshiva University... 1996   Yes
Susan Bisom-Rapp Scripting Reality in the Legal Workplace: Women Lawyers, Litigation Prevention Measures, and the Limits of Anti-discrimination Law 6 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 323 (1996) During my third year of legal practice, a single spoken sentence led me to consider at length the position of women attorneys in Wall Street law firms. Commenting on my recent announcement that I was pregnant, a male partner assured me, In this department you will be treated as an attorney, not as a pregnant woman. I puzzled over this dichotomy,...; Search Snippet: ...Gender and Law 1996 Scripting Reality in the Legal Workplace: Women Lawyers, Litigation Prevention Measures, and the Limits of Anti-discrimination... 1996   Yes
Cameron McGowan Currie, Aleta M. Pillick Sex Discrimination in the Selection and Participation of Female Jurors: a Post-j.e.b. Analysis 35 No. 1 Judges' Journal J. 2 (Winter, 1996) Folklore and stereotypes often shape jury selection tactics. Strategies are driven by a belief that male and female jurors reach different results. These attitudes persist at a time when the United States Supreme Court has been promoting the cross-sectional jury ideal, prohibiting the use of peremptory strikes in discriminatory fashion, and...; Search Snippet: ...Winter, 1996 Sex Discrimination in the Selection and Participation of Female Jurors: a Post-j.e.b. Analysis Cameron Mcgowan Currie Aleta M... 1996   Yes
Darlene C. Goring Silent Beneficiaries: Affirmative Action and Gender in Law School Academic Support Programs 84 Kentucky Law Journal 941 (1995-1996) This Article was developed from a qualitative investigation of racial and gender issues that arise in law school academic support programs. The qualitative investigation initially focused on the pervasiveness of racial and gender discrimination against students and faculty members involved with academic support programs. Sixteen female law students...; Search Snippet: ...Economic, Political, and Social Equality Silent Beneficiaries: Affirmative Action and Gender in Law School Academic Support Programs [Fna] by Darlene C... 1996    
Penny M. Miller Staking Their Claim: the Impact of Kentucky Women in the Political Process 84 Kentucky Law Journal 1163 (1995-1996) For the past 200 years, women have faced tremendous obstacles in staking their claim to influence the politics of traditionalistic Kentucky. Their intermittent forceful impact has been felt throughout the Commonwealth in their various roles as voters, elected and appointed officeholders, policymakers, party activists, interest group participants,...; Search Snippet: ...And Social Equality Staking Their Claim: the Impact of Kentucky Women in the Political Process by Penny M. Miller [Fna] Copyright... 1996   Yes
Leti Volpp Talking "Culture": Gender, Race, Nation, and the Politics of Multiculturalism 96 Columbia Law Review 1573 (October, 1996) The risks of talking culture are immense. The recent publication of an article by Doriane Lambelet Coleman, Individualizing Justice Through Multiculturalism: The Liberals' Dilemma, in the Columbia Law Review, raises significant questions concerning legal scholarship on the subjects of culture, gender, race, and multiculturalism. Legal academia...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Columbia Law Review October, 1996 Essay Talking Culture: Gender, Race, Nation, and the Politics of Multiculturalism Leti Volpp [Fna... 1996    
Jenny Rivera The Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: Legislative History, Policy Implications & Litigation Strategy, a Panel Discussion Sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, September 14, 1995 4 Journal of Law & Policy 409 (1996) Good evening. First let me thank the Association of the Bar for inviting me tonight. I have been asked to address the strategic role of the Violence Against Women Act [VAWA] as part of a legal reform struggle. Although ten minutes is not much time to talk about decades of work, I would like to put this in a broader context. I recently returned...; Search Snippet: ...Be Fulfilled the Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: Legislative History, Policy Implications & Litigation Strategy, a Panel Discussion... 1996   Yes
Julie Goldscheid The Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: Legislative History, Policy Implications & Litigation Strategy, a Panel Discussion Sponsored by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, September 14, 1995 4 Journal of Law & Policy 383 (1996) I would like formally to welcome you to our panel discussion on the 1994 Violence Against Women Act [VAWA] Civil Rights Remedy Panel discussing VAWA's legislative history, and policy implications, as well as addressing strategies for litigating under this new civil rights provision. I do not know how many of you know this, but yesterday was the...; Search Snippet: ...Be Fulfilled the Civil Rights Remedy of the Violence Against Women Act: Legislative History, Policy Implications & Litigation Strategy, a Panel Discussion... 1996   Yes
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