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| Felicia E. Franco |
Unconditional Safety for Conditional Immigrant Women |
11 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 99 (1996) |
Domestic violence in the United States continues at epidemic levels. Frightening statistics leap from the morning newspaper and the nightly television newscast. Four million women are battered in the United States every year. A woman is beaten in the United States every eighteen minutes. Thirty percent of all female murder victims are killed by...; Search Snippet: ...Berkeley Women's Law Journal 1996 Unconditional Safety for Conditional Immigrant Women Felicia E. Franco [Fnd] Copyright (C) 1996 Berkeley Women's Law... |
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| Elizabeth L. Larson |
United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development, and Peace (Beijing, China: September 1995) |
10 Emory International Law Review 695 (Winter 1996) |
The United Nations recently held one of the largest conferences in its history, the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing Conference) which convened in Beijing, China, from 4 through 15 September 1995. During the plenary sessions, conference delegates heard governments from around the world announce their commitments to women's rights. During...; Search Snippet: ...1996 December 1996 Comment United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development, and Peace (Beijing, China: September 1995... |
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| Lucille M. Ponte |
United States V. Virginia: Reinforcing Archaic Stereotypes about Women in the Military under the Flawed Guise of Educational Diversity |
7 Hastings Women's Law Journal 1 (Winter, 1996) |
[T]here is no deformity of human character from which we turn with deeper loathing than from a woman forgetful of her nature, and clamorous for the vocation and rights of men. This spring, the Supreme Court will be considering whether the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) may continue to admit only males and require women to attend a separate...; Search Snippet: ...Winter, 1996 United States V. Virginia: Reinforcing Archaic Stereotypes about Women in the Military under the Flawed Guise of Educational Diversity... |
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| Jean Montoya |
What's So Magic[al] about Black Women? Peremptory Challenges at the Intersection of Race and Gender |
3 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 369 (1996) |
This Article addresses the evolving constitutional restraints on the exercise of peremptory challenges in jury selection. Approximately ten years ago, in the landmark case of Batson v. Kentucky, the United States Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection Clause forbids prosecutors to exercise race-based peremptory challenges, at least when the...; Search Snippet: ...Of Gender & Law 1996 What's So Magic[al] about Black Women? [Fnd1] Peremptory Challenges at the Intersection of Race and Gender Jean Montoya [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1996 by the University Of... |
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| Melissa Hooper |
When Domestic Violence Diversion Is No Longer an Option: What to Do with the Female Offender |
11 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 168 (1996) |
The legal status of traditionally disadvantaged women is in constant flux. We hope this Recent Developments section will provide news and updates on current events affecting the legal rights of underrepresented women. We also hope to inspire more in-depth scholarly analysis of these topics. Since 1979, many domestic violence offenders have been...; Search Snippet: ...Is No Longer an Option: What to Do with the Female Offender Melissa Hooper [Fnd] Copyright (C) 1996 Berkeley Women's Law... |
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| Sheila Lloyd |
When Race Is Not Enough: a Review of Judy Scales-trent's Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community |
4 Circles: Buffalo Women's Journal of Law and Social Policy 37 (1996) |
In writing of her liminality as a black woman who looks white, Judy Scales-Trent in Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community refers to her recurrent phantom pain--presumedly arising from her missing color or from her destabilized racial identity. This trope suggests that race and color serve as limbs that give us support and a...; Search Snippet: ...Review of Judy Scales-trent's Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community Sheila Lloyd [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996 By... |
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| Juliet J. McKenna |
Where Ignorance Is Not Bliss: a Proposal for Mandatory Hiv Testing of Pregnant Women |
7 Stanford Law and Policy Review 133 (Summer, 1996) |
We are dealing with the solution of a problem where ignorance is not bliss but is misfortune, and where, therefore, it is folly not to be wise. -- Dr. Egbert Crandin On November 3, 1994, the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a federal study which indicated that zidovudine (AZT) treatment during pregnancy could reduce by...; Search Snippet: ...Not Bliss: a Proposal for Mandatory Hiv Testing of Pregnant Women Juliet J. Mckenna Copyright (C) 1996 by the Board Of... |
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| Victoria F. Nourse |
Where Violence, Relationship, and Equality Meet: the Violence Against Women Act's Civil Rights Remedy |
11 Wisconsin Women's Law Journal L.J. 1 (Summer, 1996) |
The 1994 signing of the Violence Against Women Act represented the culmination of a four-year struggle of politics, law, and understanding. Many stories could be written about this legislative effort: stories about political fortunes, personal perseverance, and daring backroom maneuvering. But the legal story, one now being played out in the...; Search Snippet: ...1996 Where Violence, Relationship, and Equality Meet: the Violence Against Women Act's Civil Rights Remedy Victoria F. Nourse [Fna] Copyright ©... |
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| Elizabeth B. Cooper |
Why Mandatory Hiv Testing of Pregnant Women and Newborns must Fail: a Legal, Historical, and Public Policy Analysis |
3 Cardozo Women's Law Journal 13 (1996) |
The debate surrounding mandatory HIV testing of newborns and pregnant women requires an understanding of the historical context of women in the epidemic. Although the epidemic first was recognized in gay men in 1981, anecdotal reports reveal that women already were dying from what seems to have been HIV-related symptomatology. Indeed, in Gena...; Search Snippet: ...Women's Law Journal 1996 Why Mandatory Hiv Testing of Pregnant Women and Newborns must Fail: a Legal, Historical, and Public Policy... |
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Women and Diversity in Adr: a Roundtable |
51-SEP Dispute Resolution Journal 65 (April/September, 1996) |
Mr. Slate: Good morning. I'm Bill Slate, president and C.E.O. of the American Arbitration Association. I must say that as I walked into the Penn Club this morning I thought about how appropriate it is that an institution associated with my alma mater is where we are holding this meeting. Penn was one of the more enlightened schools among the Ivies...; Search Snippet: ...Dispute Resolution Journal Dispute Resolution Journal April/september, 1996 Feature Women and Diversity in Adr: a Roundtable Copyright (C) 1996 By... |
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| Pauline C. Reich |
Women and the Law: an Annotated Internet-based Bibliography for U.s. and International Legal Research |
6 Texas Journal of Women and the Law 143 (Fall 1996) |
While teaching a course entitled, Women and the Law at one of Japan's leading universities, it suddenly occurred to me that there was a need to provide students with more current materials in English. Although the various Japanese libraries have excellent collections in English and in Japanese, it seemed that what was appearing on the Internet in...; Search Snippet: ...Law Texas Journal of Women and the Law Fall 1996 Women and the Law: an Annotated Internet-based Bibliography for U.s... |
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| Kelly Lucas |
Women in the Law: Coming of Age |
40-AUG Res Gestae 30 (August, 1996) |
Describing her role as the female member of a legendary dance duo, Ginger Rogers once said she had to do everything Fred Astaire did, just backwards and in high heels! Much like Rogers, women practicing law say that obstacles which require them to work a little harder than their male counterparts just to be considered equally competent continue to...; Search Snippet: ...1996 Wl 538841 Res Gestae Res Gestae August, 1996 Feature Women in the Law: Coming of Age Kelly Lucas Copyright ©... |
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| Joel F. Handler |
Women, Families, Work, and Poverty: a Cloudy Future |
6 UCLA Women's Law Journal 375 (Spring 1996) |
The dramatic entry of women into the paid labor force is both good news and bad news. Clearly, it is a great sign of progress that women are striving towards economic and social independence. Although impressive gains have been made, there is still a long way to go -- in both the Third World and the more industrialized nations as well. But in part,...; Search Snippet: ...Spring 1996 Symposium Institutional Barriers to Women in the Workplace Women, Families, Work, and Poverty: a Cloudy Future Joel F. Handler... |
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| Walter Berns |
Women: an Uncertain Fit for the Multicultural Movement? |
19 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 733 (Spring, 1996) |
Initially, consider the meaning of the word culture. That word derives from two Latin wordscultura, meaning cultivation, and cultus, meaning worship. People often speak of cultivation of the soil or animals, and even of microscopic organisms. Sometimes, however, people refer to cultivation of the mind, taste, and manners. The word is employed in...; Search Snippet: ...Society Lawyers Convention Panal Iii: Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Law Women: an Uncertain Fit for the Multicultural Movement? Walter Berns [Fna1... |
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Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography |
3 Cardozo Women's Law Journal 135 (1996) |
Abortion. 135 AIDS. 141 Battered Women. 145 Biotechnology. 148 Child Abuse. 153 Discrimination. 157 Employment. 169 Family. 171 Gay Rights. 182 Health. 190 Juvenile Rights. 193 Miscellaneous. 197 Pornography. 216 Rape. 217 Women. 219; Search Snippet: ...754074 Cardozo Womens Law Journal Cardozo Women's Law Journal 1996 Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography Copyright (C) 1996 by the Yeshiva University... |
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| Berta Esperanza HernÁndez-Truyol |
Women's Rights as Human Rights--rules, Realities and the Role of Culture: a Formula for Reform |
21 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 605 (1996) |
From the first dawn of life unto the grave, Poor womankind's in every state a slave. We will our rights in learning's world maintain; Wilt's empire now shall know a female reign. Beijing, China. Tuesday, September 5, 1995. Beijing International Conference Center (BICC). The afternoon plenary of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women:...; Search Snippet: ...Articles Dedicated to Women in the International Human Rights Arena Women's Rights as Human Rights--rules, Realities and the Role Of... |
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| Jacquelyn H. Slotkin |
You Really Have Come a Long Way: an Analysis and Comparison of Role Conflict Experienced by Women Attorneys Today and by Educated Women Twenty Years Ago |
18 Women's Rights Law Reporter 17 (Fall 1996) |
During the 1960's and 1970's, a steadily growing number of women were raising and discussing crucial issues about the role and place of women in the United States. Women of my generation were feeling dissatisfied. Women wanted to be more than housewives and mothers. Women wanted equal status in the workplace. They were setting new goals, returning...; Search Snippet: ...Way: an Analysis and Comparison of Role Conflict Experienced by Women Attorneys Today and by Educated Women Twenty Years Ago Jacquelyn H. Slotkin [Fna] Copyright (C) 1996... |
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| CYNTHIA GRANT BOWMAN |
A Feminist Proposal to Bring Back Common Law Marriage |
75 Oregon Law Review 709 (Fall 1996) |
SOME time ago, a woman in her mid- to late thirties--let's call her Audrey-- came in to interview with my students and me at the Northwestern University Legal Clinic. Infectiously tense and speaking rapidly, Audrey told us that she was a victim of domestic abuse and wanted to know what her legal rights would be if she were to leave. What could she...; Search Snippet: ...888664 Oregon Law Review Oregon Law Review Fall 1996 a Feminist Proposal to Bring Back Common Law Marriage Cynthia Grant Bowman... |
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| Anita Bernstein |
A Feminist Revisit to the First-year Curriculum |
46 Journal of Legal Education 217 (June, 1996) |
This article describes a seminar that I devised and have been teaching at Chicago-Kent. Fifteen students, having got through their first year of law school, gather with me to revisit the six subjects of that year: Civil Procedure, Contracts, Criminal Law, Justice and the Legal System, Property, and Torts. This time we pay primary attention to...; Search Snippet: ...Of Legal Education Journal of Legal Education June, 1996 a Feminist Revisit to the First-year Curriculum Anita Bernstein [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Joan C. Callahan , And Dorothy E. Roberts |
A Feminist Social Justice Approach to Reproduction-assisting Technologies: a Case Study on the Limits of Liberal Theory |
84 Kentucky Law Journal 1197 (1995-1996) |
In recent years, child welfare agencies in the United States have seized thousands of infants who have been exposed prenatally to various illicit drugs. A number of these seizures have resulted in the prosecution of women for drug use during pregnancy as a form of child abuse. Despite the fact that drug use during pregnancy seems to be equally...; Search Snippet: ...Unfinished Quest for Legal, Economic, Political, and Social Equality a Feminist Social Justice Approach to Reproduction-assisting Technologies: a Case Study... |
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| Susan H. Williams , David C. Williams |
A Feminist Theory of Malebashing |
4 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 35 (1996) |
Section Two: Proposed Definitions of Malebashing 51 A. Ending the Blame Game 52 B. Beasts and Conspirators 58 Section Three: Feminism, Dialogue, and Malebashing 64 A. General Feminist Values 65 1. The Universal Male Conspiracy...; Search Snippet: ...Gender and Law Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 1996 a Feminist Theory of Malebashing Susan H. Williams [Fna] David C. Williams...; Search Snippet: Providing Such a Legal Education for Women as Will Enable Them to Practice the Legal Profession--article of |
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| John C. Weistart |
Can Gender Equity Find a Place in Commercialized College Sports? |
3 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 191 (Spring 1996) |
The premise of Title IX should be uncontroversial: no person may be excluded from the benefits of an educational program on the basis of gender. There is a sense in which Title IX, at the time of its adoption more than twenty years ago, simply captured what was an independent societal norm of considerable force. Women were participating in higher...; Search Snippet: ...1996 Gender & Sports: Setting a Course for College Athletics Can Gender Equity Find a Place in Commercialized College Sports? John C... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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 |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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 ©... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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 ©... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| Gary LaFree, Christine Rack |
The Effects of Participants' Ethnicity and Gender on Monetary Outcomes in Mediated and Adjudicated Civil Cases |
30 Law and Society Review 767 (1996) |
Researchers and policymakers have long been concerned about the extent to which such sociocultural factors as ethnicity and gender determine access to organizational rewards and constraints within legal systems. Scholars have also wondered whether less formal processes, such as those found in alternative dispute resolution, are especially...; Search Snippet: ...Society Review 1996 Article the Effects of Participants' Ethnicity and Gender on Monetary Outcomes in Mediated and Adjudicated Civil Cases Gary... |
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