| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Ethnicity in Title or Summary | Gender in Title or Summary |
| 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... |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| Renee Nicole Allen |
FROM ACADEMIC FREEDOM TO CANCEL CULTURE: SILENCING BLACK WOMEN IN THE LEGAL ACADEMY |
68 UCLA Law Review 364 (August, 2021) |
In 1988, Black women law professors formed the Northeast Corridor Collective of Black Women Law Professors, a network of Black women in the legal academy. They supported one another's scholarship, shared personal experiences of systemic gendered racism, and helped one another navigate the law school white space. A few years later, their stories... |
2021 |
African/Black American |
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| Megan Armstrong |
FROM LYNCHING TO CENTRAL PARK KAREN: HOW WHITE WOMEN WEAPONIZE WHITE WOMANHOOD |
32 Hastings Women's Law Journal 27 (Winter, 2021) |
In recent years, we have seen an influx of Karens and otherwise nicknamed white women gain infamy on the internet. Though sometimes the behavior of these women is innocuous and merely entitled, the pejorative nickname Karen has also become a term for white women engaging in racist behavior. A typical scenario involves a white woman calling the... |
2021 |
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| Bennett Capers |
FUTURE SEX |
76 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 293 (2021) |
Reports of the death of utopia have been greatly exaggerated. --Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Sex in Imagined Spaces After decades of intense scrutiny and repeated attempts at ambitious reforms, our laws against rape and sexual harassment still fail to protect women from sexual overreaching and abuse. What went wrong? Thus opens Stephen Schulhofer's... |
2021 |
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| Amber Joy Powell , Michelle S. Phelps |
GENDERED RACIAL VULNERABILITY: HOW WOMEN CONFRONT CRIME AND CRIMINALIZATION |
55 Law and Society Review 429 (September, 2021) |
Prior research illustrates how race-class subjugated communities are over-policed and under-protected, producing high rates of victimization by other community members and the police. Yet few studies explore how gender and race structure dual frustration, despite a long line of Black feminist scholarship on the interpersonal, gender-based, and... |
2021 |
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| Ed Finkel |
GLACIAL CHANGE: WOMEN IN LAW FIRM & CORPORATE LEADERSHIP |
94-SEP Wisconsin Lawyer 20 (September, 2021) |
Why don't we see more women in law firm leadership? Why are women of color facing an even less encouraging picture? How can law firms create more supportive cultures? We talked to several law firm, corporate, and industry leaders who have a pulse on what's happening in Wisconsin and nationwide. Here's what they said in response to these and other... |
2021 |
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| Zandy Dudiak |
HOMER S. BROWN DIVISION OFFERS THREE VIRTUAL CLE PROGRAMS THIS SPRING |
23 Lawyers Journal 1 (April 23, 2021) |
In light of last year's Black Lives Matter movement, the ACBA's Homer S. Brown Division is offering three virtual CLE programs this spring that focus on current issues: challenges faced by Black women lawyers, natural hair discrimination and developing the skills to be an ally to minority groups. We want to keep the conversations going after all... |
2021 |
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| Julia T. Crawford |
IMPOSTER SYNDROME FOR WOMEN IN MALE DOMINATED CAREERS |
32 Hastings Women's Law Journal 26 (Summer, 2021) |
There isn't a country on earth where women have achieved true equality, and the barriers they face look different in different places. But no matter where you are in the world, understanding these barriers is the first step in dismantling them-and that requires making a concerted effort to gather data about women and their lives. --Melinda Gates... |
2021 |
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| Tomiko Brown-Nagin |
IN MEMORIAM: JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG, THE LAST CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER ON THE SUPREME COURT |
56 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 15 (Winter, 2021) |
There are many ways to describe Justice Ginsburg's historic achievements. This essay considers one enduring descriptor. When President Bill Clinton nominated her to the Supreme Court, he noted that some called Ginsburg the Thurgood Marshall of the women's movement. Through this essay, I engage with and complicate that comparison. I do so to... |
2021 |
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| Roxana Akbari , Stefan Vogler |
INTERSECTIONAL INVISIBILITY: RACE, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND THE ERASURE OF SEXUAL MINORITY WOMEN IN US ASYLUM LAW |
46 Law and Social Inquiry 1062 (November, 2021) |
Advocates have long observed that sexual minority women are treated less favorably than sexual minority men under US asylum law. However, there has been little empirical examination of these claims in a US context. We offer the first systematic comparative empirical analysis of 199 asylum decisions for cisgender sexual minorities. Using... |
2021 |
Multipe Groups |
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| David A. Grenardo |
IT'S WORTH A SHOT: CAN SPORTS COMBAT RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES? |
12 Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law 237 (Spring, 2021) |
Racism has stained this country throughout its history, and racism persists today in the United States, including in sports. Sports represent a reflection of society and its ills, but they can also provide a powerful means to combat racism. This article examines the state of racism in society and sports both historically and today. It also provides... |
2021 |
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| Jessica Brown |
LEADERSHIP IN A YEAR OF CRISIS AND GROWTH |
50-JUN Colorado Lawyer 4 (June, 2021) |
This is it: My final President's Message. What a year this has been. It seems like a lifetime ago that my leadership mentor Patricia Jarzobski encouraged me to apply for this role. Patty had preceded me as president of the Colorado Women's Bar Association (CWBA) and went on to serve as CBA president in 2016-17. Notably, she was the first female... |
2021 |
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| Ana Condes |
MAN CAMPS AND BAD MEN: LITIGATING VIOLENCE AGAINST AMERICAN INDIAN WOMEN |
116 Northwestern University Law Review 515 (2021) |
The crisis of sexual violence plaguing Indian Country is made drastically worse by oil-pipeline construction, which often occurs near reservations. The man camps constructed to house pipeline workers are hotbeds of rape, domestic violence, and sex trafficking, and American Indian women are frequently targeted due to a perception that... |
2021 |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
Yes |
| Jamillah Bowman Williams |
MAXIMIZING #METOO: INTERSECTIONALITY & THE MOVEMENT |
62 Boston College Law Review 1797 (June, 2021) |
Introduction. 1798 I. The Law Continues to Fail Women of Color Thirty Years After Kimberlé Crenshaw's Intersectionality Insights. 1809 A. Intersectionality Theory. 1811 B. Federal Protection Disproportionately Excludes Women of Color. 1814 C. Mandatory Arbitration Silences Women of Color. 1818 D. Women of Color Are Marginalized Due to False... |
2021 |
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| Dan Subotnik |
MAYBE LAW SCHOOLS DO NOT OPPRESS MINORITY FACULTY WOMEN: A CRITIQUE OF MEERA E. DEO'S "UNEQUAL PROFESSION: RACE AND GENDER IN LEGAL ACADEMIA" (STANFORD UP 2019) |
37 Touro Law Review 739 (2021) |
By the fall, 14% of law schools will have Black women in the dean's suite. There is a very complex dynamic going on in the black community where we are encouraged to have a certain sense of cultural fellowship, we are encouraged to not forget the people who we left behind. All of this is perfectly understandable. But unfortunately, a byproduct of... |
2021 |
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| Colleen Campbell |
MEDICAL VIOLENCE, OBSTETRIC RACISM, AND THE LIMITS OF INFORMED CONSENT FOR BLACK WOMEN |
26 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 47 (Winter, 2021) |
This Essay critically examines how medicine actively engages in the reproductive subordination of Black women. In obstetrics, particularly, Black women must contend with both gender and race subordination. Early American gynecology treated Black women as expendable clinical material for its institutional needs. This medical violence was animated by... |
2021 |
African/Black American |
Yes |
| Christopher J. Ryan, Jr., Meghan Dawe |
MIND THE GAP: GENDER PAY DISPARITIES IN THE LEGAL ACADEMY |
34 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 567 (Summer, 2021) |
Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's attention in recent years. However, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender--or any other ascriptive class--in the learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few studies have spoken directly on the gender pay disparities... |
2021 |
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| Jonathan Riedel |
MIRRORED HARMS: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES IN THE GRANT OF TRIBAL COURT JURISDICTION OVER NON-INDIAN ABUSERS |
45 American Indian Law Review 211 (2021) |
Rates of domestic violence are astonishingly high in Indian Country. More than half of Indian women have experienced physical violence in their lifetimes. They are twice as likely to experience rape as white women and to experience more violent rape when it occurs. Their plight is also deeply intertwined with race: 90% of women reported that the... |
2021 |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
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| Jill Wieber Lens |
MISCARRIAGE, STILLBIRTH, & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE |
98 Washington University Law Review 1059 (2021) |
Each year in the United States, millions of women's pregnancies end not with the birth of a living child, but in miscarriage or with the birth of a dead, stillborn child. Marginalized women face a higher risk of these undesired endings. Compared to white women, Black women are twice as likely to suffer a late miscarriage and to give birth to a... |
2021 |
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| Daniel E. Alemayehu |
MULTIPLE LEGAL ORDERS IN ETHIOPIA: AN IMPEDIMENT ON THE ENFORCEMENT OF WOMEN RIGHTS |
19 Northwestern Journal of Human Rights 38 (January 22, 2021) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 39 II. Multiple Legal Orders Under Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Constitution. 41 A. Recognition of Customary and Religious Laws. 41 B. Subject Matter, and Personal Jurisdiction of Customary and Religious Laws. 42 III. Multiple Legal Orders and Challenges on the Enforcement of Women's Rights. 43 C.... |
2021 |
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| Karmen Fox, Web Content Editor, ACC |
NASCAR'S LEGAL DREAM TEAM: THE FAST LANE TO PROGRESS |
3/8/2021 ACC Docket 2 (March 8, 2021) |
While the NASCAR fanbase is predominately male and white, the auto-racing company boasts a diverse staff, one with a women-led legal department. These six female in-house counsel share how the sport has supported them as women and people of color. NASCAR's mission to strive for inclusion has rallied dedicated employees and fans alike, regardless of... |
2021 |
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| André B. Rosay , Professor of Justice & Associate Dean, College of Health, University of Alaska Anchorage |
NATIONAL SURVEY ESTIMATES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE PEOPLE |
69 Department of Justice Journal of Federal Law and Practice 91 (January, 2021) |
When one in three Native American women will be raped in their lifetimes, that is an assault on our national conscience; it is an affront to our shared humanity; it is something that we cannot allow to continue. Advocates, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers are increasingly working together to raise awareness on the level of violence... |
2021 |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
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| Amanda M. Fisher |
NEW BEGINNINGS: A FEMINIST EVALUATION OF GENDERED STIGMA IN THE MODERN LEGAL PROFESSION |
19 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 161 (Fall, 2021) |
The modern woman lawyer faces many of the same challenges that women in law faced during their earliest entry into the profession. While circumstances have certainly improved for women in law, gendered stigma is still prevalent in the profession. In this article, gendered stigma refers to circumstances resulting from one's gender as a salient... |
2021 |
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| Jessica Tueller |
NOT HERS ALONE: VICTIM STANDING BEFORE THE CEDAW COMMITTEE AFTER M.W. v. DENMARK |
131 Yale Law Journal 256 (October, 2021) |
M.W. v. Denmark constitutes the first case in which the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW Committee) granted victim standing to an individual who did not identify as a woman to allege a violation of their rights under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).... |
2021 |
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| Chinyere Ezie |
NOT YOUR MULE? DISRUPTING THE POLITICAL POWERLESSNESS OF BLACK WOMEN VOTERS |
92 University of Colorado Law Review 659 (Summer, 2021) |
On the one hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, this Article reflects on the legacy of Black women voters. The Article hypothesizes that even though suffrage was hard fought, it has not been a vehicle for Black women to meaningfully advance their political concerns. Instead, an inverse relationship exists between Black women's... |
2021 |
African/Black American |
Yes |
| Zsea Bowmani |
NOW IS THE TIME FOR BLACK QUEER FEMINIST ECOLOGY |
30 Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality 123 (2021) |
In 1982, the late Black lesbian womanist and civil rights activist Audre Lorde aptly explained that [t]here is no such thing as a single-issue struggle, because we do not lead single-issue lives. Yet, the law and the legal academy continue to compartmentalize the diversity of life into single-issue subject areas. Criminal Law. Labor Law.... |
2021 |
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| H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr. |
OF PROTEST AND PROPERTY: AN ESSAY IN PURSUIT OF JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR |
116 Northwestern University Law Review Online 23 (May 13, 2021) |
In March 2020, Louisville police officers fatally shot Breonna Taylor in her apartment while executing a no-knock warrant. There was great outrage over the killing of the innocent woman, and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron led an investigation of the officer-involved shooting. Activists protested in Louisville after Taylor's... |
2021 |
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| Renee Nicole Allen |
OUR COLLECTIVE WORK, OUR COLLECTIVE STRENGTH |
73 Rutgers University Law Review 881 (Spring, 2021) |
This essay considers the collective strength of women of color in two contexts: when we are well represented on law school faculties and when we contribute to accomplishing stated institutional diversity goals. Critical mass is broadly defined as a sufficient number of people of color. Though the concept has been socially appropriated, its origins... |
2021 |
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| Jordan Buckwald |
OUTRUNNING BIAS: UNMASKING THE JUSTIFICATIONS FOR EXCLUDING NON-BINARY ATHLETES IN ELITE SPORT |
44 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 1 (Winter, 2021) |
The inclusion of intersex and transgender athletes in sport has long been the subject of vigorous debate. Elite sport governing bodies like the International Association of Athletics Federations have attempted to articulate policies limiting the extent to which such athletes can compete in the female category. The most common reasons given to... |
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| Cindy A. Schipani , Terry Morehead Dworkin , Devin Abney |
OVERCOMING GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN BUSINESS: RECONSIDERING MENTORING IN THE POST #ME-TOO AND COVID-19 ERAS |
23 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law 1072 (2021) |
I. Origins of Female Mentorship: How Female Mentorship Countered Historical Systems Of Patriarchal Inequality in the United States. 1074 II. The Perception of Women in the Workplace. 1081 III. The Post-#MeToo Era Divide. 1086 IV. The Benefits of Women Mentoring Men. 1090 V. The COVID-19 Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities. 1098 VI. Conclusion.... |
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| Lario Albarrán |
OWNING FRIDA KAHLO |
35 Emory International Law Review 627 (2021) |
--Hayden Herrera Frida Kahlo is undoubtedly one of the most recognizable names in art history. Her work epitomizes Mexican national and indigenous traditions and is regarded as an uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. But her fame go |
2021 |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
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| Khiara M. Bridges |
PREGNANCY AND THE CARCERAL STATE |
119 Michigan Law Review 1187 (April, 2021) |
Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. By Michele Goodwin. Cambridge University Press. 2020. Pp. xiv, 323. $29.99. In December 2018, Marshae Jones was five months pregnant when she got into an altercation with another woman, Ebony Jemison, in the parking lot of a Dollar General store in Pleasant Grove, Alabama.... |
2021 |
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| Jennifer Bennett Shinall |
PROTECTING PREGNANCY |
106 Cornell Law Review 987 (May, 2021) |
Laws to assist pregnant women in the workplace are gaining legislative momentum, both at the state and federal levels. Last year alone, four such laws went into effect at the state level, and federal legislation advanced farther than ever before in the House of Representatives. Four types of legislative protections for pregnant workers currently... |
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| Stewart Chang , Frank Rudy Cooper , Addie C. Rolnick |
RACE AND GENDER AND POLICING |
21 Nevada Law Journal 885 (Spring, 2021) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 885 I. Unrest and the Question of Looting. 891 II. The Black Perspective on Looting. 898 III. Policing, Property, and White Patriarchy. 904 A. Christian Cooper: White Caller Crime. 905 B. Jannie Ligons: The Sexual Non-Privilege of Black Women. 910 C. Sandra Bland and Elijah Taylor: Suspicion, Policing, and the... |
2021 |
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| Tracy Thomas |
RECLAIMING THE LONG HISTORY OF THE "IRRELEVANT" NINETEENTH AMENDMENT FOR GENDER EQUALITY |
105 Minnesota Law Review 2623 (June, 2021) |
The Nineteenth Amendment has been called an irrelevant amendment. The women's suffrage amendment has been deemed irrelevant as a constitutional authority and reduced to a historical footnote. As Supreme Court Justice John Harlan noted, The Nineteenth Amendment merely gives the vote to women. With that simple task accomplished, the amendment has... |
2021 |
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| Judith Resnik |
REPRESENTING WHAT? GENDER, RACE, CLASS, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE IDENTITY AND THE LEGITIMACY OF COURTS |
15 Law & Ethics of Human Rights 1 (May, 2021) |
https://doi.org/10.1515/lehr-2021-2022 In 1935, when the U.S. Supreme Court's new building opened and displayed the phrase Equal Justice Under Law, racial segregation was commonplace, as were barriers limiting opportunities for men and women of all colors to participate in economic and political life. The justices on the Court and the... |
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| Arianne Shahvisi, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, a.shahvisi@bsms.ac.uk |
RESISTING WRONGFUL EXPLANATIONS |
19 Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 168 (February, 2021) |
In the 2017 series of the UK reality television show The Apprentice, a group of women discussed a sales strategy for maximizing the revenue of their burger stand in London's financial sector. Celebrity businessperson Karren Brady eavesdropped on their conversation. One contestant remarked that since the financial sector is male dominated, they... |
2021 |
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| Megan Mallonee |
SELECTIVE JUSTICE: A CRISIS OF MISSING AND MURDERED ALASKA NATIVE WOMEN |
38 Alaska Law Review 93 (June, 2021) |
Across the country, Indigenous women are murdered more than any other population and go missing at disproportionate rates. This crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women is amplified in Alaska, where the vast landscape, a confusing jurisdictional scheme, and a history of systemic racism all create significant barriers to justice for Alaska... |
2021 |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
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| Todd A. DeMitchell, Ed.D, Christine Rienstra Kiracofe, Ed.D., Richard Fossey, J.D., Ed.D., Nathan E. Fellman, M.Ed., Ed.S. (ABD, Ph.D.) |
SKIRTS, YES, PANTS, NO: GENDER SPECIFIC DRESS CODES, AND "ANCIENT AND ABSURD CUSTOMS"? PELTIER v. CHARTER DAY SCHOOL, INC. |
393 West's Education Law Reporter 471 (November 11, 2021) |
No, this is not 1821 or 1921. It's 2021. Women serve in combat units of our armed forces. Women walk in space and contribute their talents at the International Space Station. Women serve on our country's Supreme Court, in Congress, and, today, a woman is Vice President of the United States. Clothing once considered taboo is now permitted as more... |
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| Michelle S. Jacobs |
SOMETIMES THEY DON'T DIE: CAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM MEASURES HELP HALT POLICE SEXUAL ASSAULT ON BLACK WOMEN? |
44 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 251 (Spring, 2021) |
In the eighteen months between March 2019 and August 2020, at least eight Black women were murdered by the police. Breonna Taylor was one of them. Officer Brett Hankison, one of the three officers who murdered Breonna Taylor, was eventually discharged from the Louisville Police Department. In the memo discharging him, the police chief cited... |
2021 |
African/Black American |
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| Kimberly Mutcherson |
TAKING OUR SPACE: WOMEN OF COLOR AND ANTIRACISM IN LEGAL ACADEMIA |
73 Rutgers University Law Review 869 (Spring, 2021) |
[I]f I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive. Space--physical and metaphorical--is at the center of the collection of essays by women of color law professors and deans in this volume. The authors wrote their essays in contemplation of a roundtable discussion held virtually at... |
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