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| Stacie L. Sanders |
Constitutional Law: Eliminating Gender-based Peremptory Strikes: the End of the Peremptory Challenge? [J.e.b. V. Alabama Ex. Rel. T.b., 114 S.ct. 1419 (1994)] |
34 Washburn Law Journal 193 (Fall, 1994) |
In J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B., the United States Supreme Court addresses whether the United States Constitution's Equal Protection Clause precludes the State from using peremptory challenges to intentionally discriminate on the basis of gender. In a six-three decision, the United States Supreme Court holds a state actor's intentional gender...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Washburn Law Journal Fall, 1994 Comment Constitutional Law: Eliminating Gender-based Peremptory Strikes: the End of the Peremptory Challenge? [J.e.b... |
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| Susan Bisom-Rapp |
Contextualizing the Debate: How Feminist and Critical Race Scholarship Can Inform the Teaching of Employment Discrimination Law |
44 Journal of Legal Education 366 (September, 1994) |
The past ten years have seen the creation of a rich body of literature--both critical and prescriptive--addressing how feminist and critical race theory can inform law school curriculum and pedagogy. Critiques of traditional first-year casebooks have been developed. Articles suggesting ways of presenting substantive material have been written....; Search Snippet: ...Legal Education September, 1994 General Article Contextualizing the Debate: How Feminist and Critical Race Scholarship Can Inform the Teaching of Employment... |
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| Scott Gregory Baker |
Deaf Justice?: Battered Women Unjustly Imprisoned Prior to the Enactment of Evidence Code Section 1107 |
24 Golden Gate University Law Review 99 (Spring 1994) |
Geneva Love's husband was in the military; they lived in a military town. Her husband beat her. Geneva Love was pregnant with their second child. When she tried to leave the abusive relationship her husband confronted her with more violence; she was forced to kill him. The importance of evidence concerning Battered Women's Syndrome was not...; Search Snippet: ...Golden Gate University Law Review Spring 1994 Deaf Justice?: Battered Women Unjustly Imprisoned Prior to the Enactment of Evidence Code Section... |
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| Joan W. Howarth |
Deciding to Kill: Revealing the Gender in the Task Handed to Capital Jurors |
1994 Wisconsin Law Review 1345 (1994) |
I. Introduction. 1346 II. Death Qualification: Too Much Caring, or Not Enough?. 1354 A. Care or Justice. 1355 B. Death Qualification: Triumph of Justice. 1357 C. Death Qualification: Victory for Caring. 1361 D. Care, Justice, and Gender in Death Qualification. 1362 III. The Decision. 1363 A. Rules vs. Discretion. 1364 1. The Chaos of Discretion as...; Search Snippet: ...Review Wisconsin Law Review 1994 Deciding to Kill: Revealing the Gender in the Task Handed to Capital Jurors Joan W. Howarth... |
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| Linda L. Ammons |
Discretionary Justice: a Legal and Policy Analysis of a Governor's Use of the Clemency Power in the Cases of Incarcerated Battered Women |
3 Journal of Law & Policy 1 (1994) |
Introduction. 2 I. The American Epidemic of Domestic Violence. 5 II. The Plight of Battered Women Who Defended Themselves In Ohio: A Case Study. 10 A. Legislative and Gubernatorial Initiatives. 17 III. Clemency 23 A. Courts and the Clemency Power. 27 B. The Need for Clemency. 30 C. The Role of Governor. 33 D. Executive Discretion. 37 E. The Role of...; Search Snippet: ...Of the Clemency Power in the Cases of Incarcerated Battered Women Linda L. Ammons [Fna] Copyright (C) 1994 Journal of Law... |
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| Kathryn Frueh Patterson |
Discrimination in the Workplace: Are Men and Women Not Entitled to the Same Parental Leave Benefits under Title Vii? |
47 SMU Law Review 425 (January/February, 1994) |
American society has changed significantly in the last decade. Traditional families comprised of a working father and a homemaker mother are no longer commonplace. Increasing numbers of men desire, or are forced, to assume a more active role in the rearing of their children. Consequently, employers and legislatures are beginning to debate and...; Search Snippet: ...February, 1994 Comment Discrimination in the Workplace: Are Men and Women Not Entitled to the Same Parental Leave Benefits under Title... |
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| Leslie G. Espinoza |
Dissecting Women, Dissecting Law: the Court-ordering of Caesarean Section Operations and the Failure of Informed Consent to Protect Women of Color |
13 National Black Law Journal 211 (Fall, 1994) |
Caesarean section deliveries increased markedly in the last twenty years. In 1970, the percentage of all deliveries by Caesarean section was 5.5 percent. By 1991, the percentage of Caesarean section operations had increased to 23.5 percent of all deliveries. Caesarean operations are now the most commonly performed major surgery in the United...; Search Snippet: ...Black Law Journal National Black Law Journal Fall, 1994 Dissecting Women, Dissecting Law: the Court-ordering of Caesarean Section Operations and the Failure of Informed Consent to Protect Women of Color Leslie G. Espinoza [Fna] Copyright (C) 1994 National... |
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African/Black American |
| Carolyn C. Jones |
Dollars and Selves: Women's Tax Criticism and Resistance in the 1870s |
1994 University of Illinois Law Review 265 (1994) |
Professor Jones examines nineteenth century feminists' use of taxation as a metaphor. Tax protesters and resisters urging woman suffrage attempted to draw a connection to the no taxation without representation slogan of the American Revolution. Writers in a woman suffrage journal also used taxation to describe the larger cultural subordination of...; Search Snippet: ...Review University of Illinois Law Review 1994 Dollars and Selves: Women's Tax Criticism and Resistance in the 1870s Carolyn C. Jones... |
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| Jenny Rivera |
Domestic Violence Against Latinas by Latino Males: an Analysis of Race, National Origin, and Gender Differentials |
14 Boston College Third World Law Journal 231 (Summer, 1994) |
After about two months he started . hitting me again. This time I was going to do something, so I told Yolanda, my best friend. She said, and I'll never forget it, So what, you think my boyfriend doesn't hit me? That's how men are. It was like I was wrong or weak because I wanted to do something about it. Last time he got mad he threatened me...; Search Snippet: ...College Third World Law Journal Summer, 1994 Domestic Violence Against Latinas by Latino Males: an Analysis of Race, National Origin, and Gender Differentials Jenny Rivera [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1994 by the Boston... |
1994 |
Hispanic/Latinx American |
| Joellen Lind |
Dominance and Democracy: the Legacy of Woman Suffrage for the Voting Right |
5 UCLA Women's Law Journal 103 (Fall, 1994) |
L1-2Introduction 104 I. Voting and the Complex of Dominance . 110 A. The Nineteenth Century Gender System . 111 B. The Vote and the Complex of Dominance . 113 C. Political Theories About the Vote . 116 1. Two Understandings of Political Participation . 120 2. Our Federalism . 123 II. A Suffrage History Primer . 126 A. From Invisibility to...; Search Snippet: ...Possibilities for the Future Dominance and Democracy: the Legacy of Woman Suffrage for the Voting Right Joellen Lind [Fna] Copyright ©... |
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| Theresa A. Martinez |
Embracing the Outlaws: Deviance at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender |
1994 Utah Law Review 193 (1994) |
I grew up the youngest of twelve children in a Chicano family living in the slums of Albuquerque, New Mexico. My father was an abusive alcoholic. My mother raised the kids by herself both before and after my older brothers kicked my father out of the house. I have memories of when I was a very little girl walking with my mother to the Salvation...; Search Snippet: ...The Outlaws: Deviance at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender Theresa A. Martinez [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1994 by the Utah... |
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| Vicki C. Jackson |
Empiricism, Gender, and Legal Pedagogy: an Experiment in a Federal Courts Seminar at Georgetown University Law Center |
83 Georgetown Law Journal 461 (December, 1994) |
Over the last decade, the organized bench and bar have drawn on the insights of feminist legal theory and sociolegal research techniques to create a fascinating movement. The growing strength of this movement--to inquire into and report on the effects of gender on court systems (and, increasingly, to collaborate in similar inquiries on the effects...; Search Snippet: ...1994 Symposium: Gender, Empiricism, and the Federal Courts Essay Empiricism, Gender, and Legal Pedagogy: an Experiment in a Federal Courts Seminar... |
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| Peter V. Lee , Sheri Porath , Joan E. Schaffner |
Engendering Social Security Disability Determinations: the Path of a Woman Claimant |
68 Tulane Law Review 1477 (June, 1994) |
I. Introduction II. Social Security Disability Programs: A Brief Overview A. The Programs B. The Disability Determination Process III. Gender and Disability Determinations: The Path of a Woman Claimant A. Initial Disability Determination 1. Step One: Substantial Gainful Activity 2. Step Two: Severity of Impairments 3. Step Three: Meet or Equal...; Search Snippet: ...1994 Engendering Social Security Disability Determinations: the Path of a Woman Claimant Peter V. Lee [Fna1] Sheri Porath [Fnaa1] Joan E... |
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| Caroline Forell |
Essentialism, Empathy, and the Reasonable Woman |
1994 University of Illinois Law Review 769 (1994) |
The reasonable woman standard of care has been the source of considerable debate among both scholars and judges since it was first suggested as the appropriate standard for hostile environment sexual harassment claims. In this article, Professor Caroline Forell argues for a reasonable woman standard in a limited category of cases: civil cases in...; Search Snippet: ...Of Illinois Law Review 1994 Essentialism, Empathy, and the Reasonable Woman Caroline Forell [Fna] Copyright (C) 1995 Board of Trustees Of... |
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| Anne M. Coughlin |
Excusing Women |
82 California Law Review 1 (January, 1994) |
In rare instances, the criminal law allows defendants to offer claims of excuse in order to avoid criminal responsibility. Over the past two decades, women offenders have begun to offer the battered woman syndrome defense as an excuse to a variety of crimes, ranging from homicide to fraud. While many feminist scholars have concluded that courts...; Search Snippet: ...135745 California Law Review California Law Review January, 1994 Excusing Women Anne M. Coughlin [Fnd] Copyright (C) 1994 by the California... |
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| Melissa M. Beck |
Fairness on the Field: Amending Title Vii to Foster Greater Female Participationin Professional Sports |
12 Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal 241 (1994) |
Professional sports are as much a part of American culture as apple pie, mom, and the Fourth of July. At an early age, participation in sports provides a framework in which children learn important lessons about communication, teamwork, and competition that they will carry throughout their lives. In adulthood, professional sports provide...; Search Snippet: ...Fairness on the Field: Amending Title Vii to Foster Greater Female Participationin Professional Sports [Fna1] Melissa M. Beck Copyright (C) 1993... |
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| Nels Jacobson |
Faith, Hope & Parody: Campbell V. Acuff-rose, 'Oh, Pretty Woman,' and Parodists' Rights |
31 Houston Law Review 955 (Fall 1994) |
I. Introduction. 956 II. Background: It's Like a Jungle Sometimes. 960 A. Parody. 960 B. Rap Music and African-American Culture. 965 III. Facts of the Case: Be Mine Tonight. 973 A. Roy Orbison. 973 B. Acuff-Rose. 975 C. Luther Campbell. 977 D. Oh, Pretty Woman. 979 IV. The Sixth Circuit Holding: Girl You Know You Ain't Right. 982 A. District Court....; Search Snippet: ...Note Faith, Hope & Parody: Campbell V. Acuff-rose, Oh, Pretty Woman, and Parodists' Rights [Fna1] Nels Jacobson Copyright (C) 1994 Houston... |
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| Toni Driver |
Federal Law-civil Rights-individuals Obstructing Ingress and Egress to Abortion Facilities Do Not Violate a Woman's Federal Rights Within 42 U.s.c. § 1985 (3) |
25 Saint Mary's Law Journal 753 (1994) |
Abortion clinics, joined with groups supporting legalized abortion, sued to enjoin Operation Rescue from demonstrating at facilities in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Abortion rights advocates premised their cause of action on state-law claims of trespass and 42 U.S.C. § 1985(3). In reviewing assertions that Operation Rescue infringed on...; Search Snippet: ...Ingress and Egress to Abortion Facilities Do Not Violate a Woman's Federal Rights Within 42 U.s.c. § 1985 (3) Toni Driver... |
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| Jeanne-Marie Bates |
Feminist Methodology: Influencing Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Claims |
15 Women's Rights Law Reporter 143 (Winter/Spring, 1993-1994) |
By creating causes of action for injuries that have been made invisible, they credit subjective experiences that women themselves may have come to doubt. They also allow women to sue on their own behalf, enabling them to view themselves . . . as the subjects of their own lives rather than the objects of others' constructions . . . hostile...; Search Snippet: ...Law Reporter Women's Rights Law Reporter Winter/spring, 1993-94 Feminist Methodology: Influencing Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Claims Jeanne-marie Bates... |
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| Harlan Hahn |
Feminist Perspectives, Disability, Sexuality and Law: New Issues and Agendas |
4 Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 97 (Fall 1994) |
In recent years, the mounting progress of feminist research and growing interest in disability have created major opportunities for an increased convergence between these areas of study. Several investigations have explored significant issues affecting disabled women, and attempts have even been made to develop a feminist theory of disability. In...; Search Snippet: ...Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies Fall 1994 Feminist Perspectives, Disability, Sexuality and Law: New Issues and Agendas [Fna... |
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| Kimberle Williams Crenshaw |
Foreword: Toward a Race-conscious Pedagogy in Legal Education |
4 Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 33 (Fall 1994) |
It is both an honor and a pleasure to write the Foreword for this issue of the National Black Law Journal . This project represents the culmination of a joint effort involving the NBLJ, Dean Susan Westerberg Prager and me. The project grew out of discussions that began in the Spring of 1987 in which we explored various ways that the law school...; Search Snippet: ...Small Seminar), its Make-up (All-minority), and My Identity ( African- American Female) Constituted Such a Significant Departure from the Standard Fare That... |
1994 |
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| Martha S. West |
Gender Bias in Academic Robes: the Law's Failure to Protect Women Faculty |
67 Temple Law Review 67 (Spring 1994) |
Introduction . 68 I. The Current Status of Women Faculty . 71 A. Women Among PhD Recipients . 74 B. Women in Ladder Faculty Ranks . 79 C. Hiring Women Faculty . 86 D. Women's Salaries . 92 II. The Failure of Federal Employment Law to Prevent Discrimination Against Faculty Women . 93 A. The Destruction of Title VII as an Effective Remedy for Gender...; Search Snippet: ...Wl 496216 Temple Law Review Temple Law Review Spring 1994 Gender Bias in Academic Robes: the Law's Failure to Protect Women Faculty [Fnd] Martha S. West [Fna] Copyright (C) 1994 Temple... |
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| Donna Hess |
Gender-based Peremptory Challenges: a Bad Remnant of the Historical Discrimination Against Women? |
28 Suffolk University Law Review 63 (Spring 1994) |
Gender bias in the courtroom remains a serious problem. Reflected in outmoded attitudes toward women, gender bias is based on stereotypes rather than on a consideration of each individual's experience and abilities. During the 1993 Fall Term, the Supreme Court of the United States had an opportunity to eliminate one type of gender bias in the...; Search Snippet: ...University Law Review Suffolk University Law Review Spring 1994 Note Gender-based Peremptory Challenges: a Bad Remnant of the Historical Discrimination Against Women? Donna Hess Copyright (C) 1994 Suffolk University; Donna Hess Gender... |
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| Elvia R. Arriola |
Gendered Inequality: Lesbians, Gays, and Feminist Legal Theory |
9 Berkeley Women's Law Journal 103 (1994) |
This article explores, from a feminist perspective, the questions of difference, equality, and sexual identity raised in discrimination claims by lesbians and gay men. Following the Supreme Court's decision in Bowers v. Hardwick, which rejected the argument that the enforcement of sodomy statutes violates an individual's right to privacy,...; Search Snippet: ...Berkeley Women's Law Journal 1994 Gendered Inequality: Lesbians, Gays, and Feminist Legal Theory Elvia R. Arriola [Fnd] Copyright (C) 1994 Berkeley... |
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| Edith L. Pacillo |
Getting a Feminist Foot in the Courtroom Door: Media Liability for Personal Injury Caused by Pornography |
28 Suffolk University Law Review 123 (Spring 1994) |
On July 17, 1981, David Herberg forced a 14-year-old girl into his car, tied her hands with his belt, and pushed her to the floor. With his knife, he cut her clothes off, then inserted the knife into her vagina, cutting her. After driving a short distance, he forced the girl to remove his clothing, stick a safety pin in the nipple of her own...; Search Snippet: ...Review Suffolk University Law Review Spring 1994 Note Getting a Feminist Foot in the Courtroom Door: Media Liability for Personal Injury... |
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| Marguerite Angelari |
Hate Crime Statutes: a Promising Tool for Fighting Violence Against Women |
2 American University Journal of Gender & the Law 63 (Spring, 1994) |
Many feminist theorists and advocates argue that numerous types of violent crime against women should be characterized as hate crime; that is, crime motivated by a hatred of women and a desire to control and terrorize women. As early as 1975, Susan Brownmiller argued that rape is not a crime of sex, but rather a crime of violence that preserves...; Search Snippet: ...Hate Crime Statutes: a Promising Tool for Fighting Violence Against Women Marguerite Angelari [Fna1] Copyright (C) 1994 by the American University... |
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| Reva B. Siegel |
Home as Work: the First Woman's Rights Claims Concerning Wives' Household Labor, 1850-1880 |
103 Yale Law Journal 1073 (March, 1994) |
Introduction I. Genesis of a Rights Discourse A. The Law of Marital Property in the Antebellum Era B. Women's Household Labor in the Antebellum Era C. Ideological Sources of Joint Property Advocacy 1. Utopian Communitarianism 2. Abolitionism and Political Antislavery 3. The Roots of Woman's Rights in Separate Spheres Ideology II. Joint Property...; Search Snippet: ...Yale Law Journal March, 1994 Home as Work: the First Woman's Rights Claims Concerning Wives' Household Labor, 1850-1880 Reva B... |
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| Jessica Collins |
Iii. Constitutional Law |
53 Maryland Law Review 683 (1994) |
In Tyler v. State, the Court of Appeals held that a prosecutor could not use peremptory challenges to exclude a person from jury service because of that person's gender. In so holding, the court relied on state constitutional law to justify extending the Supreme Court's holding in Batson v. Kentucky, which prohibits racially motivated peremptory...; Search Snippet: ...Maryland Law, 1992-93 Iii. Constitutional Law B. Prohibition of Gender-based Peremptory Challenges Jessica Collins Copyright (C) 1994 Maryland Law... |
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| Sally S. Simpson , Lori Elis |
Is Gender Subordinate to Class? An Empirical Assessment of Colvin and Pauly's Structural Marxist Theory of Delinquency |
85 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 453 (Fall, 1994) |
For Karl Marx, the problem of crime in capitalist societies was linked to the material forces of capitalism and class domination. Although Marx did not extensively discuss the problem, he did remark that criminality seemed to be concentrated in the dangerous classes. The lumenproletariat, or parasitic class of criminals, consisted of...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology Fall, 1994 Criminology Is Gender Subordinate to Class? An Empirical Assessment of Colvin and Pauly's... |
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| Lynn K. Rhinehart |
Is There Gender Bias in the Judicial Law Clerk Selection Process? |
83 Georgetown Law Journal 575 (December, 1994) |
Judicial clerkships open the door to a world of opportunities for recent law school graduates. Clerkships provide the opportunity to learn about legal practice, particularly litigation, from those individuals responsible for determining the fate of cases brought in the courts. Clerkships also allow young lawyers to develop mentoring relationships...; Search Snippet: ...Symposium: Gender, Empiricism, and the Federal Courts Note Is There Gender Bias in the Judicial Law Clerk Selection Process? Lynn K... |
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Katten Muchin's Karen Randall Talks about Challenges Faced by Women Minority Managers |
13 No. 8 Of Counsel Counsel 9 (4/18/1994) |
In September 1993, Karen Randall was named co-managing partner of the Los Angeles office of Katten Muchin Zavis & Weitzman. She is the first African-American woman to be named to a managing partner position with a major law firm. Randall, 40, also heads the firm's West Coast litigation department and is a member of the firm's national board of...; Search Snippet: ...1994 Katten Muchin's Karen Randall Talks about Challenges Faced by Women Minority Managers Copyright 1994 by Prentice Hall Law and Business... |
1994 |
African/Black American |
| Tracy Anbinder Baron |
Keeping Women out of the Executive Suite: the Courts' Failure to Apply Title Vii Scrutiny to Upper-level Jobs |
143 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 267 (November, 1994) |
Despite women's recent gains in fields that have been historically dominated by men, the upper reaches of most professions remain disproportionately male. Thus, although the percentage of female lawyers, professors, and middle managers has risen steadily, the percentage of female law partners, tenured professors, and senior executives is still much...; Search Snippet: ...Review University of Pennsylvania Law Review November, 1994 Comment Keeping Women out of the Executive Suite: the Courts' Failure to Apply... |
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| Scott L. Grenoble |
Kpakiwa V. Magee Women's Hospital: Hrc No. E-27277 (June 8, 1993) |
3 Widener Journal of Public Law 1259 (1994) |
In Kpakiwa v. Magee Women's Hospital, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission (HRC) adopted guidelines for establishing a prima facie case of employer discrimination. The new framework provides a burden-shifting mechanism by which claims of employer discrimination will be adjudicated in the future. Kai Y. Kpakiwa (Claimant), an African-American...; Search Snippet: ...Legislative Digest Selected Agency Decision Human Relations Kpakiwa V. Magee Women's Hospital: Hrc No. E-27277 (June 8, 1993) Scott L... |
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African/Black American |
| Eddy Meng |
Mail-order Brides: Gilded Prostitution and the Legal Response |
28 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 197 (Fall, 1994) |
This Note explores the international mail-order bride industry where women from Asia and other developing countries are trafficked to men in Western industrialized countries. The author discusses the commonalities between the mail-order bride traffic and other forms of sexual exploitation, as well as the cultural and historical forces and the...; Search Snippet: ...William T. Stead in Reference to Transatlantic Marriages Between American Women and British Aristocrats after the American Civil War. See Maureen... |
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| Pauline N. King, University of Hawaii |
Mari J. Matsuda, Ed., Called from Within: Early Women Lawyers of Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Pres, 1992. Xi, 344 Pp. $45.00 (Cloth). $26.95 (Paper). |
38 American Journal of Legal History 385 (July, 1994) |
The interest in women's history and group biography has prompted the present work on women attorneys in Hawaii. To the historian of state and local history, this text is an important one in the sense that it provides valuable source material on a neglected subject. The biographies are written about seventeen women professional attorneys in Hawaii...; Search Snippet: ...Book Review Mari J. Matsuda, Ed., Called from Within: Early Women Lawyers of Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Pres, 1992... |
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Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander |
| Joan C. Williams |
Married Women and Property |
1 Virginia Journal of Social Policy & The Law 383 (Spring, 1994) |
[W]omen have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. The linkage of poverty and gender is not new, but it is dramatic. Sixty percent of all people in poverty and two-thirds of the elderly poor are women. Female-headed households are five times more likely to be poor and up to ten times more likely to stay...; Search Snippet: ...Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law Spring, 1994 Married Women [Fna1] and Property Joan C. Williams [Fnaa1] Copyright (C) 1994... |
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| Margaret E. Montoya |
Mascaras, Trenzas, Y Grednas: Un/masking the Self While Un/braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse |
15 Chicano-Latino Law Review Rev. 1 (Spring 1994) |
Using personal narrative, this Article examines the various masks (mascaras) used to control how people respond to us and the important role such masks play in the subordination of Outsiders. The first part of the Article tells stories; the second part of the Article unbraids the stories to reveal an imbedded message: that Outsider storytelling...; Search Snippet: ...Holistic Experience: I Do Not Have Separate Masks for My Female-ness and Latina-ness. The Construction of My Public Persona Involves All That... |
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Hispanic/Latinx American |
| Donald Dripps , Linda Fairstein , Robin West , Deborah W. Denno , Panelists, Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law, Panelists, Chief, Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit and Deputy Chief, N.Y. County District Attorney's Office, Panelists, Profes |
Men, Women and Rape |
63 Fordham Law Review 125 (October, 1994) |
Short of homicide, rape is the ultimate violation of self. Yet, comprehending the stigma and controversy of rape in this country requires an understanding of why rape differs from other crimes on so many dimensions. This introduction to Fordham Law School's panel, Men, Women and Rape, summarizes briefly some of the unique historical,...; Search Snippet: ...Special Issue on Women and the Law Panel Discussion Men, Women and Rape [Fna] Donald Dripps [Fnaa] Panelists, Professor of Law... |
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| Frances Olsen |
Nationalism and Feminism: a Conference on Women in Central and Eastern Europe |
5 UCLA Women's Law Journal 1 (Fall, 1994) |
The passage of Proposition 187 in California and the copy-cat laws now being proposed throughout the country illustrate the role of nationalism in the domestic policies of the United States. Americans tend to think of themselves as patriotic, not nationalistic, and to think of the difficulties caused by nationalism as foreign problems, primarily of...; Search Snippet: ...Possibilities for the Future Nationalism and Feminism: a Conference on Women in Central and Eastern Europe [Fna] Frances Olsen [Fnaa] Copyright... |
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| Kevin J. Curnin |
Newborn Hiv Screening and New York Assembly Bill No. 6747-b: Privacy and Equal Protection of Pregnant Women |
21 Fordham Urban Law Journal 857 (Spring 1994) |
Since its earliest reported cases, already thirteen years ago, the onslaught of the terminal condition known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has been relentless. Its worldwide cost cannot be understood through statistics alone; neither the thousands of human lives it has ended nor the millions it has made hopeless fully measure its...; Search Snippet: ...Bill No. 6747-b: Privacy and Equal Protection of Pregnant Women Kevin J. Curnin Copyright (C) 1994 Fordham University School Of... |
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| Donald D. Stull |
Of Meat and (Wo)men: Meatpacking's Consequences for Communities |
3-SPG Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 112 (Spring, 1994) |
The Packers are Leaving the City . On November 9, 1993, BeefAmerica, the nation's fifth-largest beefpacker, closed three plants in Omaha. It consolidated operations in Norfolk, Nebraska, a town of 21,500, some 100 miles to the northwest, where 1,700 employees now slaughter and process up to 4,200 cattle per day. Headquartered in Omaha, BeefAmerica...; Search Snippet: ...Of Law & Public Policy Spring, 1994 Feature of Meat and ( Wo)men: Meatpacking's Consequences for Communities [Fna1] Donald D. Stull [Fna2] Copyright... |
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| Lucie E. White |
On the "Consensus" to End Welfare: Where Are the Women's Voices? |
26 Connecticut Law Review 843 (Spring 1994) |
In her essay, Professor Minow interrogates the supposed consensus around welfare reform. She has chosen a timely subject to examine. In his campaign, President Clinton promised to end welfare as we know it. Soon after taking office, he appointed a working group to draft legislation to implement this campaign pledge. On the basis of this group's...; Search Snippet: ...Children on the Consensus to End Welfare: Where Are the Women's Voices? Lucie E. White [Fna] Copyright (C) 1994 Connecticut Law... |
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| Steven Bennett Weisburd , Brian Levin |
On the Basis of Sex: Recognizing Gender-based Bias Crimes |
5 Stanford Law and Policy Review 21 (Spring, 1994) |
Well, maybe the Wisconsin legislature thought that there weren't any misogynists in Wisconsin. --Chief Justice William Rehnquist (question at oral argument in Wisconsin v. Mitchell regarding counsel's argument that Wisconsin's bias crime law was under-inclusive because it failed to include gender). Until women as a class have the same protection...; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 1994 Gender Symposium on the Basis of Sex: Recognizing Gender-based Bias Crimes Steven Bennett Weisburd [Fna] Brian Levin [Fnb... |
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Opposing All-male Admission Policy at Virginia Military Institute: Amicus Curiae Brief of Professor Carol Gilligan and the Program on Gender, Science, and Law |
16 Women's Rights Law Reporter Rep. 1 (Fall, 1994) |
In the highest court ruling on the issue thus far, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit determined that this exclusion of women violated the equal protection clause, but that the violation could be cured in various ways, including the creation of a parallel program for women. In response, Virginia created the Virginia Women's...; Search Snippet: ...Curiae Brief of Professor Carol Gilligan and the Program on Gender, Science, and Law Copyright (C) 1994 Women's Rights Law Reporter... |
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| Arthur L. Burnett, Sr. |
Permeation of Race, National Origin and Gender Issues from Initial Law Enforcement Contact Through Sentencing: the Need for Sensitivity, Equalitarianism and Vigilance in the Criminal Justice System |
31 American Criminal Law Review 1153 (Summer, 1994) |
This article takes a close look at the actual operation of the entire criminal justice system with reference to issues of racism, national origin and gender bias, from the initial police or law enforcement contact with the individual through the final process of sentencing the guilty offender. What is the remedy when, in the exercise of police...; Search Snippet: ...Review Summer, 1994 Symposium Permeation of Race, National Origin and Gender Issues from Initial Law Enforcement Contact Through Sentencing: the Need... |
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| Carrie Menkel-Meadow |
Portia Redux: Another Look at Gender, Feminism, and Legal Ethics |
2 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 75 (Fall, 1994) |
In 1985, I wrote an article entitled, Portia In A Different Voice: Speculations on a Women's Lawyering Process. In that article I attempted to explore how gender differences might affect the ways in which lawyers performed their tasks, structured their work, made ethical decisions, and interpreted and enforced the law. The article was a...; Search Snippet: ...And Possibilities Within Contemporary Feminism Portia Redux: Another Look at Gender, Feminism, and Legal Ethics Carrie Menkel-meadow [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Martha Chamallas |
Questioning the Use of Race-specific and Gender-specific Economic Data in Tort Litigation: a Constitutional Argument |
63 Fordham Law Review 73 (October, 1994) |
TORT law, like virtually every other legal subject, has increasingly come under scrutiny by scholars seeking to uncover hidden biases based on race, gender and other important dimensions of personal identity. In law reviews and in final reports of gender and race bias task forces, questions have been raised about the basic equity of legal standards...; Search Snippet: ...And the Law Questioning the Use of Race-specific and Gender-specific Economic Data in Tort Litigation: a Constitutional Argument Martha... |
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| Sandra L. Rierson |
Race and Gender Discrimination: a Historical Case for Equal Treatment under the Fourteenth Amendment |
1 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 89 (1994) |
It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens, but we, the whole people, who formed this Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people--women as well as men. --Susan B. Anthony Under the...; Search Snippet: ...Policy Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 1994 Race and Gender Discrimination: a Historical Case for Equal Treatment under the Fourteenth... |
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| Catharine A. MacKinnon |
Rape, Genocide, and Women's Human Rights |
17 Harvard Women's Law Journal L.J. 5 (Spring, 1994) |
Human rights have not been women's rights-not in theory or in reality, not legally or socially, not domestically or internationally. Rights that human beings have by virtue of being human have not been rights to which women have had access, nor have violations of women as such been part of the definition of the violation of the human as such on...; Search Snippet: ...Harvard Women's Law Journal Spring, 1994 Essay Rape, Genocide, and Women's Human Rights [Fna] Catharine A. Mackinnon [Fnaa] Copyright (C) 1994... |
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| Charity Scott |
Resisting the Temptation to Turn Medical Recommendations into Judical Orders: a Reconsideration of Court-ordered Surgery for Pregnant Women |
10 Georgia State University Law Review 615 (May, 1994) |
Introduction 616 I. Judicial Precedent 621 A. Reproductive Rights and the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment. 621 B. Cases Authorizing Judicial Intervention in a Woman's Pregnancy. 624 C. Cases Not Authorizing Judicial Intervention in a Woman's Pregnancy. 627 II. Legal Considerations 631 A. Support for Judicial Intervention. 631 1. State's Interest...; Search Snippet: ...Judical Orders: a Reconsideration of Court-ordered Surgery for Pregnant Women Charity Scott [Fnd] Copyright (C) 1994 by the Georgia State... |
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