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Mechele Dickerson PROTECTING THE PANDEMIC ESSENTIAL WORKER 85 Law and Contemporary Problems 177 (2022) In March 2020, states and cities tried to slow the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) by issuing shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders. Once the economic consequences of a total shutdown of the economy became clear, however, the federal government and states declared that certain business sectors or industries were critical. These critical... 2022    
Christopher Kleps , Department of Public and Environmental Affairs, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA RACE, GENDER, AND PLACE: HOW JUDICIAL IDENTITY AND LOCAL CONTEXT SHAPE ANTI-DISCRIMINATION DECISIONS 56 Law and Society Review 188 (June, 2022) While federal anti-employment discrimination laws have helped diminish inequality at work, discrimination persists, in part perhaps due to unequal handling of equal employment lawsuits. Prior research demonstrates that the definition of discrimination can vary based on local normative ideas, while another line shows that a judge's race or gender... 2022    
Rose Cuison-Villazor REJECTING CITIZENSHIP 120 Michigan Law Review 1033 (April, 2022) Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era. By Ming Hsu Chen. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2020. Pp. xi, 215. $28. Citizenship for undocumented immigrants is once again on the horizon. Just a few weeks after President Donald Trump left the White House, and several years since the last time Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration... 2022    
Martha M. Ertman REPARATIONS FOR RACIAL WEALTH DISPARITIES AS REMEDY FOR SOCIAL CONTRACT BREACH 85 Law and Contemporary Problems 231 (2022) Acute crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2008 financial meltdown exposed and exacerbated chronic racial wealth disparities. Those disparities accumulated over time as government and private actions--often involving contracts--systemically benefitted White Americans and institutions at the expense of African-Americans. This Article focuses... 2022    
Megan S. Wright RESUSCITATING CONSENT 63 Boston College Law Review 887 (March, 2022) Introduction. 890 I. Informed Consent Law, Ethics, and Practice. 894 A. Law and Ethics of Informed Consent. 895 1. Overview of Informed Consent Law. 895 2. Informed Consent Exceptions and Scope Conditions. 896 3. Informed Consent, Medical Ethics, and Shared Decision Making. 899 B. Empirical Research on Informed Consent. 900 1. Healthcare... 2022    
  RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL 51 Georgetown Law Journal Annual Review of Criminal Procedure 656 (2022) Under the Sixth Amendment, criminal defendants have a right to trial by an impartial jury drawn from the state and district where the crime allegedly occurred. The right to a jury trial exists only in prosecutions for serious crimes, as distinguished from petty offenses. In determining whether a crime is serious under the Sixth Amendment, courts... 2022    
James G. Dwyer SMITH'S LAST STAND? FREE EXERCISE AND FOSTER CARE EXCEPTIONALISM 24 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 856 (June, 2022) Fulton v. City of Philadelphia postpones the apparent inevitable-- the demise of Employment Division v. Smith --with its deflationary view of the Free Exercise Clause and return to application of heightened judicial scrutiny even to laws neutral as to religion and of general applicability. In Fulton, the Court held unanimously in favor of a... 2022    
Deborah M. Weissman SOCIAL JUSTICE AS DESISTANCE: RETHINKING APPROACHES TO GENDER VIOLENCE 72 American University Law Review 215 (October, 2022) C1-2Table of Contents Table of Contents. 215 Introduction. 216 I. Domestic Violence Intervention Programs: Overview, Critique, and Constraints. 221 A. DVIPs: A Brief Overview. 222 B. DVIPs: Critique. 225 1. Eliding systems and structures. 225 2. DVIPs and the criminal legal system. 231 3. Culture and constraints. 233 4. Law and constraints. 238 II.... 2022    
Katrina Lee SOLVING FOR LAW FIRM INCLUSION: THE NECESSITY OF LAWYER WELL-BEING 24 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 323 (Winter, 2022) Chances are, in a room of one hundred law firm partners in the United States, at most, one Black woman would be present. Statistically, if there were a Black, Latinx, or Asian woman in that room, she would be the only one. Women of color make up only 3.79 percent of all partners, counting equity and nonequity partners. The percentage of Black women... 2022 Multiple Groups  
Jordana R. Goodman SY-STEM-IC BIAS: AN EXPLORATION OF GENDER AND RACE REPRESENTATION ON UNIVERSITY PATENTS 87 Brooklyn Law Review 853 (Spring, 2022) Women and people of color have been systemically excluded from participation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields in the United States for centuries. This inability to participate, coupled with disparate abilities to own and control property, created STEM access gaps still evident in the United States today. In the... 2022    
Luz Estella Nagle , Juan Manuel Zarama TAKING RESPONSIBILITY UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND COLOMBIA'S VENEZUELAN MIGRATION CRISIS 53 University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 1 (Spring, 2022) For more than six million Venezuelans, crossing international borders has become imperative to ensuring security and a livelihood that their country has failed to assure. These migrants and refugees, particularly young women and children, are vulnerable to many depredations, criminal acts, and the risk of becoming trafficking victims for forced... 2022    
Laura M. Padilla THE BLACK--WHITE PARADIGM'S CONTINUING ERASURE OF LATINAS: SEE WOMEN LAW DEANS OF COLOR 99 Denver Law Review 683 (Summer, 2022) The Black-white paradigm persists with unintended consequences. For example, there have been only six Latina law deans to date with only four presently serving. This Article provides data about women law deans of color, the dearth of Latina law deans, and explanations for the data. It focuses on the enduring Black-white paradigm, as well as other... 2022 Multiple Groups Yes
Shannon Malone Gonzalez , Samantha J. Simon , Katie Kaufman Rogers THE DIVERSITY OFFICER: POLICE OFFICERS' AND BLACK WOMEN CIVILIANS' EPISTEMOLOGIES OF RACE AND RACISM IN POLICING 56 Law and Society Review 477 (September, 2022) Diversifying police forces has been suggested to improve police-minority relations amidst national uprisings against police violence. Yet, little research investigates how police and black civilians--two groups invoked in discourse on police-minority relations--understand the function of diversity interventions. We draw on 100 in-depth... 2022 African/Black American Yes
Rabia Belt THE FAT PRISONERS' DILEMMA: SLOW VIOLENCE, INTERSECTIONALITY, AND A DISABILITY RIGHTS FRAMEWORK FOR THE FUTURE 110 Georgetown Law Journal 785 (April, 2022) America is having a reckoning on mass incarceration. Events such as George Floyd's killing, COVID behind bars, and Black Lives Matter have punctured our collective consciousness. Advocates and scholars alike are pushing U.S. society to examine the costs--financial, psychic, social--of putting millions of people behind bars. Despite this... 2022 African/Black American  
Kayla Bokzam THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND DIGITAL ABUSE: ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM THROUGH A NATIONAL ACTION PLAN 30 University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 185 (Fall, 2022) This Article discusses the impact of COVID-19 on domestic violence and digital abuse around the world, with a focus on the United States. Violence against women has increased since the start of the pandemic largely due to lockdown restrictions and other measures taken by governments to slow the spread of the virus. Further, with an increase in the... 2022    
Miranda Mammen THE LIVE-IN WAGE 46 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 175 (2022) The minimum wage was a signature achievement of the New Deal and remains an important safeguard for fair labor today. But for some workers, minimum does not mean minimum. As scholars and advocates have documented, the Fair Labor Standards Act creates legal subminimum wages for workers with disabilities and tipped workes. This Article uncovers... 2022    
Hon. Sandra Farragut-Hemphill , Ebony McCain THE RISE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN JUDGES DURING THE PAST CENTURY 67 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 127 (2022) Ascension to the bench for African American women has historically been slow. At the formation of the Mound City Bar Association in 1922, there were few African American women lawyers in the United States. Nearly a century later in 2020, a rapidly increasing number of African American women have joined state and federal courts in Missouri and... 2022 African/Black American Yes
Gillian R. Chadwick TIME'S UP FOR ATTORNEY-CLIENT SEXUAL VIOLENCE 22 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 76 (Spring, 2022) Lawyers have positioned themselves at the helm of litigation and policy reform catalyzed by #MeToo. However, lawyers have catastrophically failed to self-regulate with respect to sexual violence. When confronted with fellow lawyers who have sexually abused and harassed their own clients, the attorney discipline system has fallen short of its... 2022    
Caroline Lewis Bruckner , Jonathan Barry Forman WOMEN, RETIREMENT, AND THE GROWING GIG ECONOMY WORKFORCE 38 Georgia State University Law Review 259 (Winter, 2022) Gig work--the selling or renting of labor, effort, skills, and time outside of traditional employment--is a long-standing feature of the U.S. economy. Today, millions of online gig workers sell goods and services, or rent rooms, houses, vehicles, and other assets using apponline and app-based platforms (for example, Uber, Lyft, Rover, DoorDash,... 2022   Yes
Bridget J. Crawford , Emily Gold Waldman , Naomi R. Cahn WORKING THROUGH MENOPAUSE 99 Washington University Law Review 1531 (2022) There are over thirty million people ages forty-four to fifty-five in the civilian labor force in the United States, but the law and legal scholarship are largely silent about a health condition that approximately half of those workers will inevitably experience. Both in the United States and elsewhere, menopause remains mostly a taboo topic... 2022    
Roopa Bala Singh YOGA AS PROPERTY: A CENTURY OF UNITED STATES YOGA COPYRIGHTS, 1937-2021 99 Denver Law Review 725 (Summer, 2022) Public debate on yoga as property fixates on whether yoga should be owned, asking if yoga can be Indian property. Framed as such, the public discourse obscures a century-long, ravenous arc of yoga ownership in the United States, accumulated by whiteness, beginning in the early twentieth century. What do the stories of yoga in American law tell us... 2022 American Indian/Alaskan Native  
Melanie McMullen "EQUAL OUTCOMES": A CONSTITUTIONAL COMPARISON OF GENDER EQUALITY GUARANTEES IN THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTH AFRICA 86 Missouri Law Review 359 (Winter, 2021) The evolution of women's rights throughout history has had significant effects on the cultural and legal climate of the world. Each country has its own approach to gender equality, and each country has an impact on the global mindset on women's roles in society. South Africa, for example, is a new and growing democracy that provides more equality... 2021    
Rangita de Silva de Alwis , Ambassador Melanne Verveer "TIME IS A-WASTING": MAKING THE CASE FOR CEDAW RATIFICATION BY THE UNITED STATES 60 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 1 (2021) Since President Carter signed the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (the CEDAW or the Convention) on July 17, 1980, the United States has failed to ratify the Convention time and again. As one of only a handful of countries that has not ratified the CEDAW, the United States is in the same company as... 2021    
Xuan-Thao Nguyen #METOO INNOVATORS: DISRUPTING THE RACE AND GENDER CODE BY ASIAN AMERICANS IN THE TECH INDUSTRY 28 Asian American Law Journal 17 (2021) This Article focuses on how Asian American women innovators of the #MeToo generation are disrupting the code of conduct in the tech industry. The code is hard-wired into the tech bro culture of mirrortocracy, resulting in hiring practices that perpetuate existing company demographics and statistics that show that Asian American women face 2.91... 2021 Asian American  
Nia A.D. Langley #SEEHERNAME: USING INTERSECTIONALITY AND STORYTELLING TO BRING VISIBILITY TO BLACK WOMEN IN EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION AND POLICE BRUTALITY 14 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 1 (Summer, 2021) C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 2 II. Intersectionality. 4 III. Intersectional Challenges In 2021. 4 A. Employment Discrimination. 5 1. Intersectionality's Legal Status. 6 2. Hair Discrimination. 7 B. Police Brutality. 12 1. Black Women and Black Men Experience Police Brutality Similarly. 13 2. Black Women and Black Men Experience Police... 2021 African/Black American Yes
The Honorable Ashleigh Parker Dunston A CALL TO ACTION: FIGHTING RACIAL INEQUALITY BEHIND THE BENCH 43 Campbell Law Review 109 (Winter, 2021) When I was asked to write this essay for the Campbell Law Review's issue on The State Court Judges' Perspectives, I was asked to specifically share my experiences with racism in practice and now on the bench. Quite frankly, I'm a thirty-three-year-old, black woman and have been practicing law for only the last eight years and serving on the bench... 2021    
Michele Goodwin A DIFFERENT TYPE OF PROPERTY: WHITE WOMEN AND THE HUMAN PROPERTY THEY KEPT 119 Michigan Law Review 1081 (April, 2021) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. By Harriet A. Jacobs. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge. 1861. (L. Maria Child & Jean Fagan Yellin eds., Harvard Univ. Press 1987). Pp. xxxiii, 306. $22.50. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2019. Pp. xx, 296. $30.... 2021   Yes
Cochav Elkayam-Levy A PATH TO TRANSFORMATION: ASKING "THE WOMAN QUESTION" IN INTERNATIONAL LAW 42 Michigan Journal of International Law 429 (Summer, 2021) As feminists articulate their methods, they can become more aware of the nature of what they do, and thus do it better. Method concerns the way one thinks, not what one thinks about, although they can be related. Methods matter, and the discussion over feminist methods in international law is an important one. As Kathrine Bartlett famously... 2021   Yes
Brittany L. Raposa ADDING A LAYER OF INJUSTICE: AMPLIFIED RACIAL DISPARITIES IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE IN THE WAKE OF COVID-19 98 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 351 (Spring, 2021) Imagine a woman with pre-existing health conditions getting pregnant in the middle of 2020. The woman lives in a large rural area, and her obstetrician is approximately 40 miles away. Due to the pandemic, the woman is laid off from work, and she and her partner are on a tight financial budget, as they already always struggled financially. She feels... 2021    
Rangita de Silva de Alwis ADDRESSING ALLYSHIP IN A TIME OF A "THOUSAND PAPERCUTS" 19 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 63 (Winter 2021) In 2020, a team of students in the class on Women, Law and Leadership students interviewed 100 male law students on their philosophy on leadership and conducted several surveys on allyship and subtle bias. Complementing the allyship interviews, the class developed several survey instruments to examine emerging bias protocols and stereotype threats... 2021    
Laura P. Moyer , John Szmer , Susan Haire , Robert K. Christensen , University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Email: laura.moyer @louisville.edu, Funding information, National Science Foundation, Grant/Award Numbers: 1654614, 1654559, 1654697, 'ALL EYES ARE ON YOU': GENDER, RACE, AND OPINION WRITING ON THE US COURTS OF APPEALS 55 Law and Society Review 452 (September, 2021) Because stereotyping affects individual assessments of ability and because of socializing experiences in the law, we argue that women and judges of color, while well-credentialed, feel pressure to work harder than their white male peers to demonstrate their competence. Using an original dataset of published appellate court opinions from 2008-2016,... 2021    
Delight E. Satter , Laura M. Mercer Kollar , Public Health Writing Group on Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons, Debra O'Gara ‘Djik Sook’ , Senior Health Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Scientist, Centers for Disease C AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE KNOWLEDGE AND PUBLIC HEALTH FOR THE PRIMARY PREVENTION OF MISSING OR MURDERED INDIGENOUS PERSONS 69 Department of Justice Journal of Federal Law and Practice 149 (March, 2021) Violence against American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) women, children, two-spirit individuals, men, and elders is a serious public health issue. Violence may result in death (homicide), and exposure to violence has lasting effects on the physical and mental health of individuals, including depression and anxiety, substance abuse, chronic and... 2021 American Indian/Alaskan Native  
Rachel Sieder ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL LEGAL APPROACHES TO VIOLENCE AGAINST INDIGENOUS WOMEN 115 AJIL Unbound 272 (2021) Since the early 1990s, the law and development paradigm of violence against women (VAW) has framed gender-based violence against girls and women, especially intimate partner violence, as a grave violation of women's fundamental human rights and a major public health problem demanding concerted state action. Although women of all ages, social... 2021 American Indian/Alaskan Native Yes
Maya C. Jackson ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ALGORITHMIC BIAS: THE ISSUES WITH TECHNOLOGY REFLECTING HISTORY & HUMANS 16 Journal of Business & Technology Law 299 (2021) The use of technology has expanded tremendously in recent decades. Included in this expansion is the use of algorithms across today's internet. Although algorithms have become popular, their intended purpose is not always executed with accuracy. Algorithms have been shown to exclude people of color and women from a wide-range of activities... 2021    
W. Keith Robinson ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ACCESS TO THE PATENT SYSTEM 21 Nevada Law Journal 729 (Spring, 2021) How likely is it that the average American will become an inventor? With a novel idea and hard work, it should be a possibility for all Americans. However, the data suggests otherwise. Most patents are obtained by inventors that work for large corporations. Small businesses, solo inventors, women, and minorities lag behind their counterparts in... 2021    
Addie C. Rolnick ASSIMILATION, REMOVAL, DISCIPLINE, AND CONFINEMENT: NATIVE GIRLS AND GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION 11 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 811 (July, 2021) A full understanding of the roots of child separation must begin with Native children. This Article demonstrates how modern child welfare, delinquency, and education systems are rooted in the social control of indigenous children. It examines the experiences of Native girls in federal and state systems from the late 1800s to the mid-1900s to show... 2021 American Indian/Alaskan Native Yes
Elizabeth Kukura BETTER BIRTH 93 Temple Law Review 243 (Winter, 2021) Although the recent focus on maternal mortality has highlighted the problem of poor health outcomes for childbearing women and their babies, especially in communities of color, adverse outcomes are only one of many indications that mainstream maternity care often fails pregnant people and their families. Other signs that maternity care reform is... 2021    
Doriane S. Nguenang Tchenga BLACK WOMEN'S HAIR AND NATURAL HAIRSTYLES IN THE WORKPLACE: EXPANDING THE DEFINITION OF RACE UNDER TITLE VII 107 Virginia Law Review Online 272 (November, 2021) Despite the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) interpretation of Title VII as including cultural characteristics often associated with race or ethnicity, Black women have not successfully litigated the freedom to wear their hair in natural hairstyles in the workplace. Courts have held that racial discrimination in the workplace must... 2021 African/Black American Yes
Jordan Martin BREONNA TAYLOR: TRANSFORMING A HASHTAG INTO DEFUNDING THE POLICE 111 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 995 (Fall, 2021) How can modern policing be reformed to address police violence against Black women when it can occur at no fault of their own and end with a shower of bullets in the middle of the night while within the sanctity of their own home? What is accomplished when her name is said but justice is never achieved? What good does it do when her story is... 2021    
Mary A. Lynch BUILDING AN ANTI-RACIST PROSECUTORIAL SYSTEM: OBSERVATIONS FROM TEACHING A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROSECUTION CLINIC 73 Rutgers University Law Review 1515 (Summer, 2021) Introduction and Background. 1516 II. Local Prosecutors, Intimate Crimes, and Traditionally Marginalized Survivors. 1525 A. Local Prosecutors, Reform, and Anti-Racism. 1525 B. Intimate Crimes and Women of Color. 1533 C. Listening to the Wisdom of Survivors of Color. 1543 III. Observations and Suggestions for Anti-Racism Work and Prosecution of... 2021    
Katherine Sharpless CALIFORNIA'S S.B. 826: WILL THE SUPREME COURT GET ON BOARD? 42 Women's Rights Law Reporter 172 (Spring/Summer, 2021) This Article is the first article to discuss California's 2019 law, S.B. 826, which mandates that all publicly held corporations have at least one female on their boards of directors by 2020. This Article analyzes S.B. 826's constitutionality under the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution as a gender based affirmative action... 2021    
Kenya Glover CAN YOU HEAR ME?: HOW IMPLICIT BIAS CREATES A DISPARATE IMPACT IN MATERNAL HEALTHCARE FOR BLACK WOMEN 43 Campbell Law Review 243 (2021) Black women die from childbirth at a disproportionately higher rate than white women. Despite knowing about this issue for years, medical professionals cannot attribute this disparity to a physical condition. Multiple studies show physicians' implicit biases lead to poor patient care. Overall, Black women consistently report feeling silenced by... 2021 African/Black American Yes
Kemi Mildred Hughes CLIMATE AND GENDER JUSTICE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: EMERGING TRENDS POST-PARIS 2015 38 Wisconsin International Law Journal 197 (Spring, 2021) For many years, gender has been a hot topic in international environmental negotiations. Gender and climate activists have advocated for gender considerations to be accounted for in climate change adaptation and mitigation actions due to the heightened negative impacts of climate change on vulnerable groups, particularly women. The Paris Agreement,... 2021 African/Black American  
Felicia Isaac CLIMATE CHANGE IS HURTING EXPECTANT BLACK MOTHERS 35-WTR Natural Resources & Environment 57 (Winter, 2021) Over the past year, our nation has grappled with many of the disproportionate obstacles faced by Black communities. One obstacle that is rarely featured in the headlines and news reports that has become all too familiar is the disproportionate effect of climate change on the maternal health of Black women. That impact and the obstacles it creates... 2021 African/Black American  
Robyn M. Powell CONFRONTING EUGENICS MEANS FINALLY CONFRONTING ITS ABLEIST ROOTS 27 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 607 (Spring, 2021) In September 2020, a whistleblower complaint was filed alleging that hysterectomies are being performed on women at an immigration detention center in alarmingly high rates. Regrettably, forced sterilizations are part of the nation's long-standing history of weaponizing reproduction to subjugate socially marginalized communities. While public... 2021    
Judge Pamila J. Brown DISPARATE IMPACT CONSIDERATIONS IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING CASES 60 Judges' Journal 8 (Spring, 2021) It is important when discussing human trafficking that we are aware of and understand an often-hidden but more-common-than-imagined reality: sex trafficking and its disparate impact on Black women and girls. The federal government defines sex trafficking as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, obtaining, patronizing, or soliciting... 2021    
Elpida Velmahos FERTILE GROUND FOR CHANGE: INFERTILITY, EMPLOYEE-BASED HEALTH INSURANCE, AND AN UNPROTECTED FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT 17 Journal of Health & Biomedical Law 267 (2021) Once upon a time, conception was only possible between a female and a male. Science has brought us a long way from that once upon a time. Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) first came into the medical field in the late 1970s. These technological advancements allowed people to successfully reproduce without traditional sexual intercourse.... 2021    
Holly J. McCammon , Cathryn Beeson-Lynch FIGHTING WORDS: PRO-CHOICE CAUSE LAWYERING, LEGAL-FRAMING INNOVATIONS, AND HOSTILE POLITICAL-LEGAL CONTEXTS 46 Law and Social Inquiry 599 (August, 2021) Drawing on social-movement and sociolegal theorizing, we investigate legal-framing innovations in the briefs of reproductive-rights cause lawyers in prominent US Supreme Court abortion cases. Our results show that pro-choice activist attorneys engage in innovative women's-rights framing when the political-legal context is more resistant to abortion... 2021    
Kaley Gordon FINDING FAVOR: A CALL FOR COMPASSIONATE DISCRETION IN CASES OF BATTERED MOTHERS WHO FAIL TO PROTECT 13 Drexel Law Review 747 (2021) Domestic violence is a complex issue facing millions of families in the United States. The structure of the law (as well as the mechanics of the criminal justice system) frequently penalizes women who are also victims of domestic violence by subjecting them to criminal culpability, along with their abuser, when an abusive partner harms their... 2021    
Rona Kaufman FOREWORD: A CENTURY SINCE SUFFRAGE: HOW DID WE GET HERE? WHERE WILL WE GO? HOW WILL WE GET THERE? 59 Duquesne Law Review 1 (Winter, 2021) One hundred years have passed since (white) women attained the right to vote. In the century since the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, American women have transitioned from an existence as mere objects of history to becoming active subjects of history. In 2019 and 2020, many programs and conferences were organized to celebrate the achievements... 2021    
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