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| Ann D. Gordon (Emerita), Rutgers University, doi:10.1093/ajlh/njw025, Advance Access Publication Date: 20 January 2017 |
Laura E. Free, Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era (Ithaca, N.y.: Cornell University Press, 2015). Pp. 235. $39.95 (Hardcover). Isbn 978-0-8014-5086-0 |
57 American Journal of Legal History 119 (March, 2017) |
When Ohio ratified the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 2003, opposition came from proponents of criminal penalties for abortion, who introduced modern matters of sex and gender into the debate. But no one engaged with the language in Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment: when the right to vote . is denied to any of the male...; Search Snippet: ...History March, 2017 Book Review Laura E. Free, Suffrage Reconstructed: Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the Civil War Era (Ithaca... |
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| Michael J. Higer |
Leaders of the Judiciary: Recognizing Women Serving as Florida's Chief Judges |
91-NOV Florida Bar Journal 4 (November, 2017) |
As president of The Florida Bar, it is my pleasure to highlight the recent accomplishments of our sitting judges who have achieved leadership positions. Judges are often the unsung heroes of our Bar. They work in relative obscurity not only performing the functions of their job, but in administrative leadership positions, which require additional...; Search Snippet: ...November, 2017 Column President's Page Leaders of the Judiciary: Recognizing Women Serving as Florida's Chief Judges Michael J. Higer Copyright © 2017... |
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| Emma Mclean-Riggs |
Locked Together / in this Small Hated Space: Recognizing and Addressing Intimate Partner Violence Between Incarcerated Women |
105 California Law Review 1879 (December, 2017) |
Intimate partner violence between incarcerated women has been largely invisible in legal scholarship and advocacy work. This Note attempts to assess the incidence and quality of intimate partner violence between incarcerated women from the incomplete and occasionally biased available data and then examines potential methods for reducing such...; Search Snippet: ...Hated Space: Recognizing and Addressing Intimate Partner Violence Between Incarcerated Women Emma Mclean-riggs [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 by California Law Review... |
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| Susan L. Harper, Ferve Ozturk, the Committee on Women in the Law |
Making Strides: How Women Are Gaining under the Law and in Service to it |
89-MAY New York State Bar Journal 8 (May, 2017) |
We are delighted to welcome you to the first NYSBA Journal devoted to issues impacting women. The Committee on Women in the Law (CWIL) conceived, launched and coordinated this special Journal edition with the outstanding support of the NYSBA's editors and leaders in honor of our 30th anniversary, our steadfast work advancing women's rights and...; Search Snippet: ...New York State Bar Journal May, 2017 Making Strides: How Women Are Gaining under the Law and in Service to It... |
2017 |
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| Abigail Perdue |
Man up or Go Home: Exploring Perceptions of Women in Leadership |
100 Marquette Law Review 1233 (Summer, 2017) |
If you are aggressive, you are a bitch. If you are emotional you are PMSing. If you are soft, you are too feminine. Whatever way someone finds you . it is because you are female. -Yunha Kim, What I Learned in My First Year as a Female Startup CEO I. Introduction. 1234 II. Background. 1235 A. History of VMI. 1235 B. U.S. v. Virginia. 1241 III....; Search Snippet: ...2017 Article Man up or Go Home: Exploring Perceptions of Women in Leadership Abigail Perdue [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 by the Marquette... |
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| Suzanne A. Kim |
Mapping Gender and Social Norms in Same-sex and Different-sex Marriage |
38 Women's Rights Law Reporter 355 (Spring/Summer, 2017) |
The recent decision in Obergefell v. Hodges marks an historic change in the legal treatment of same-sex couples. Whether this change in the constitutional law of marriage translates into comprehensive, and robust non-discrimination legal regimes more generally for sexual minorities and gender nonconforming individuals and into widespread support of...; Search Snippet: ...Reporter Women's Rights Law Reporter Spring/summer, 2017 Article Mapping Gender and Social Norms in Same-sex and Different-sex Marriage... |
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| Lori Kersey |
Meshea L. Poore |
2017-SUM West Virginia Lawyer 26 (Summer, 2017) |
Meshea L. Poore was the first person in her family to go to college and the first to become a lawyer. When she was appointed and then elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates, she was the first minority to represent her district. Poore achieved another significant first on April 2, when she became the first African American woman to be...; Search Snippet: ...Summer, 2017 Cover Story Meshea L. Poore as the First Female African American President of the West Virginia State Bar, Meshea L. Poore... |
2017 |
African/Black American |
| Katherine E. Leung |
Microaggressions and Sexual Harassment: How the Severe or Pervasive Standard Fails Women of Color |
23 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 79 (Fall, 2017) |
Introduction. 80 Defining Sexual Harassment. 81 The Historical Sexualization of Women of Color. 84 A. Stereotyping of Women of Color as Sexual Objects. 85 B. Pornography and Its Perpetuation of Stereotypes Historically Applied to Women of Color. 88 IV. Intersectionality and the Sexual Harassment of Women of Color. 91 A. Comparing Standards for...; Search Snippet: ...And Sexual Harassment: How the Severe or Pervasive Standard Fails Women of Color Katherine E. Leung [Fna1] Copyright © 2018 by Texas... |
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| Katilyn Hollowell |
Mind the Gap: Bridging Gender Wage Inequality in Louisiana |
77 Louisiana Law Review 833 (Spring, 2017) |
The public policy of Louisiana is that a woman who performs public service for the state is entitled to be paid the same compensation for her services as is paid to a man who performs the same kind, grade, and quality of service, and a distinction in compensation may not be made because of sex. Strikingly, Louisiana women who are not in public...; Search Snippet: ...Louisiana Law Review Spring, 2017 Comment Mind the Gap: Bridging Gender Wage Inequality in Louisiana Katilyn Hollowell [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 By... |
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| Chris Chambers Goodman |
Nevertheless She Persisted: from Mrs. Bradwell to Annalise Keating, Gender Bias in the Courtroom |
24 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 167 (Fall, 2017) |
Introduction I. Background A. Bias, Stereotypes, and Schemas B. Stereotypes About Women Applied in the Law C. How the Media Evidences, Influences, and Exacerbates Gender Bias II. The Impacts of Gender Stereotypes and Bias in the Law A. Stereotypical Female Speech B. Do Looks Matter? C. The Role and Toll of Emotions III. Reducing the Impacts of...; Search Snippet: ...Protest Nevertheless She Persisted: from Mrs. Bradwell to Annalise Keating, Gender Bias in the Courtroom Chris Chambers Goodman [Fna1] Copyright © 2017... |
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| Christina Ho, Moderator, Julie Rikelman, Esq., Kimberly Mutcherson, Lisa Ikemoto, Sabrina Safrin, Rubab Qureshi |
Panel Five: Women's Reproductive Rights and Health: Beijing+20 |
38 Women's Rights Law Reporter 304 (Spring/Summer, 2017) |
So I want to welcome you to our last panel of the day, and this is on reproductive rights and health, and our moderator is my colleague, Professor Christina Ho. Well thank you everyone for joining us today, and I'm so thrilled about the panel we have here. We have an embarrassment of riches as far as sharing of a broad spectrum of perspectives, and...; Search Snippet: ...Reporter Women's Rights Law Reporter Spring/summer, 2017 Panel Five: Women's Reproductive Rights and Health: Beijing+20 Professor Christina Ho Moderator... |
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| Elise Boddie, Moderator, Chancellor Phoebe Haddon, Mary Beth Hogan, Esq., Commissioner Charlotte Burrows, Dina Bakst, Esq., Emily Martin, Esq. |
Panel Four: Women and the Economy: Beijing+20 |
38 Women's Rights Law Reporter 280 (Spring/Summer, 2017) |
I am pleased to introduce my colleague, Elise Boddie, who will be the moderator of this panel. Hello everyone, good afternoon, I know this is the middle of the afternoon and you probably need to do that seventh inning stretch or something but we have been instructed that we need to move things along. I am delighted to be here and to moderate this...; Search Snippet: ...Reporter Women's Rights Law Reporter Spring/summer, 2017 Panel Four: Women and the Economy: Beijing+20 Professor Elise Boddie Moderator Chancellor... |
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| Ann Freedman, moderator, Ruby White Starr, Fraidy Reiss, Lisalyn R. Jacobs, Esq. |
Panel Two: Violence Against Women: Beijing+20 |
38 Women's Rights Law Reporter 236 (Spring/Summer, 2017) |
Okay folks, if you could have a seat. We are going to start our next panel. Our next panel is about violence. I'm pleased to introduce my colleague, Professor Ann Freedman, who will be moderating this panel. Hi folks. As with the other panels, I'm going to direct you to the biographies in the program to learn about our speakers. I also have the sad...; Search Snippet: ...Rights Law Reporter Spring/summer, 2017 Panel Two: Violence Against Women: Beijing+20 Professor Ann Freedman Moderator Ruby White Starr Fraidy... |
2017 |
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| Susan Ayres |
Paternity Un(certainty): How the Law Surrounding Paternity Challenges Negatively Impacts Family Relationships and Women's Sexuality |
20 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 237 (Spring, 2017) |
It is popularly believed that false paternity rates are 10-30%, and that thousands of unsuspecting men are supporting children who are not theirs. These reported rates of false paternity have become urban legend, demonizing women as over-sexualized partners who shouldn't be trusted. This in turn has influenced laws regarding paternity, which have...; Search Snippet: ...The Law Surrounding Paternity Challenges Negatively Impacts Family Relationships and Women's Sexuality Susan Ayres [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 by Journal of Gender... |
2017 |
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| Jessica Watters |
Pink Hats and Black Fists: the Role of Women in the Black Lives Matter Movement |
24 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 199 (Fall, 2017) |
I. Origins and Critiques of the Women's March II. True Intersectional Feminism Must Be Continuously Demonstrated by Allies III. The Collective Power of (White) Women Conclusion On January 21, 2017, nearly five hundred thousand people, many adorned in pink, cat-eared pussyhats, descended on Washington, D.C.--the flagship location for the official...; Search Snippet: ...2017 Comment Pink Hats and Black Fists: the Role of Women in the Black Lives Matter Movement Jessica Watters [Fna1] Copyright... |
2017 |
African/Black American |
| Felice Batlan |
Politics and Mythology in the Early Women's Rights Movement |
52 Tulsa Law Review 405 (Spring, 2017) |
Lisa Tetrault, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and The Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898 (University of North Carolina Press 2014) Pp. 296. Hardcover $34.95. Paperback $27.95. I know now the personal heartbreak and pain of losing an election. I first drafted this review while the 2016 Democratic Convention played in the background. My first...; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 2017 Book Review Politics and Mythology in the Early Women's Rights Movement Felice Batlan [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 by the University... |
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| Taunya Lovell Banks |
President Obama and the Supremes: Obama's Legacy--the Rise of Women's Voices on the Court |
65 Drake Law Review 911 (Fourth Quarter 2017) |
For approximately 200 years, all of the United States Supreme Court Justices were male. Now there are three women on the Court, two appointed during the Administration of President Barack Obama. With the appointment of Justices Sotomayor and Kagan to the Court, women's voices literally are more prominent, especially during oral argument. This...; Search Snippet: ...President Obama and the Supremes: Obama's Legacy--the Rise of Women's Voices on the Court Taunya Lovell Banks [Fna1] Copyright © 2017... |
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| Jen Manion |
Prisons Prior to Mass Incarceration: the Ideological Foundations of Women's Dependency |
39 Western New England Law Review 371 (2017) |
This article examines punishment from a long time ago--over 200 years. Some of it might sound strange to our contemporary sensibilities, but much of it will sound very familiar, perhaps eerily so. Knowledge of this history is crucial for those dedicated to structural transformation of today's criminal injustice system. Mass incarceration--which...; Search Snippet: ...Article Prisons Prior to Mass Incarceration: the Ideological Foundations of Women's Dependency Jen Manion [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 by Western New England... |
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| Emily Chertoff |
Prosecuting Gender-based Persecution: the Islamic State at the Icc |
126 Yale Law Journal 1050 (February, 2017) |
Reports suggest that Islamic State, the terrorist caliphate, has enslaved and brutalized thousands of women from the Yazidi ethnic minority of Syria and Northern Iraq. International criminal law has a name for what Islamic State has done to these women: gender-based persecution. This crime, which appears in the Rome Statute of the International...; Search Snippet: ...Yale Law Journal Yale Law Journal February, 2017 Note Prosecuting Gender-based Persecution: the Islamic State at the Icc Emily Chertoff... |
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| Brittany Raia |
Protecting Vulnerable Children in Indian Country: Why and How the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 Should Be Extended to Cover Child Abuse Committed on Indian Reservations |
54 American Criminal Law Review 303 (Winter, 2017) |
When Lenny Hayes thinks about his childhood on the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Reservation in South Dakota he does not remember bike rides, bedtime stories, or a safe and loving home. Instead, Hayes remembers the physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse that he experienced almost daily. Hayes was just six years old when the abuse started. He...; Search Snippet: ...Children in Indian Country: Why and How the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 Should Be Extended to Cover Child... |
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American Indian/Alaskan Native |
| Michael P. Fix , Gbemende E. Johnson |
Public Perceptions of Gender Bias in the Decisions of Female State Court Judges |
70 Vanderbilt Law Review 1845 (November, 2017) |
How are women on the bench, and their decisions, perceived by the public? Many scholars find that gender influences the voting behavior of judges and the assessment of judges by state judicial systems and the American Bar Association. However, few scholars have examined how judge gender affects the way in which the public responds to judicial...; Search Snippet: ...Demands and Challenges of the State Judiciary Public Perceptions of Gender Bias in the Decisions of Female State Court Judges Michael P. Fix [Fna1] Gbemende E. Johnson... |
2017 |
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| Zsea Bowmani |
Queer Refuge: the Impacts of Homoantagonism and Racism in U.s. Asylum Law |
18 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law L. 1 (Spring, 2017) |
Introduction. 2 I. Institutionalized Discrimination in Immigration and Asylum Law. 4 A. Sexual and Racial Exclusions in U.S. Immigration Law. 5 1. Discrimination Against LGBTQ Immigrants. 7 2. Racial Exclusions. 11 B. U.S. and International Asylum Law: Ill-Fit for LGBTQ People. 14 1. The Quintessential Refugee is Not Queer. 15 2. The Process of...; Search Snippet: ...Homosexual or Perceived to Be (Because of the Conflation of Gender Identity with Sexual Orientation), Which Is Lost in the More... |
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| Margaret F. Brinig |
Racial and Gender Justice in the Child Welfare and Child Support Systems |
35 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 199 (Summer, 2017) |
Academics have studied married and divorcing couples for many years. It is relatively easy to do so, because marriage and divorce records are, for the most part, public and because many separating married couples consult mental health and legal professionals. Intact or separating unmarried couples, a growing segment of the U.S. (and world)...; Search Snippet: ...Coercion, Class, and Paternal Participation | Nov. 17, 2016 Racial and Gender Justice in the Child Welfare and Child Support Systems Margaret... |
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| Shauna Marshall |
Rebellious Deaning: One African American Woman's Vision of a Progressive Law School |
24 Clinical Law Review 135 (Fall, 2017) |
For eight years, I served as the Academic Dean for UC Hastings College of the Law, where I tried to lead the institution rebelliously. When we think of rebellious lawyering we envision working with marginalized, under-resourced communities seeking changes in the political, social and economic systems that pervade clients' daily lives. Yet I found...; Search Snippet: ...Review Clinical Law Review Fall, 2017 Article Rebellious Deaning: One African American Woman's Vision of a Progressive Law School Shauna Marshall [Fna1] Copyright... |
2017 |
African/Black American |
| Mathilde Cohen |
Regulating Milk: Women and Cows in France and the United States |
65 American Journal of Comparative Law 469 (Fall, 2017) |
Animal milk, most commonly cow's milk, is one of the most heavily regulated commodities in both France and the United States. With the increasing popularity of breastfeeding and the possibility of pumping, freezing, and storing breast milk, a cottage industry has emerged for people wishing to buy, sell, or donate milk produced by humans. Yet the...; Search Snippet: ...American Journal of Comparative Law Fall, 2017 Article Regulating Milk: Women and Cows in France and the United States [Fnd1] Mathilde... |
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| Brooke D. Coleman , Elizabeth G. Porter |
Reinvigorating Commonality: Gender and Class Actions |
92 New York University Law Review 895 (October, 2017) |
Introduction. 895 I. The Waves of Feminism & Class Actions. 899 A. Waves of Feminism. 899 B. Parallels in Class Action Doctrine. 905 Conclusion. 915; Search Snippet: ...New York University Law Review October, 2017 Conference Reinvigorating Commonality: Gender and Class Actions Brooke D. Coleman [Fnd1] Elizabeth G. Porter... |
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| Ann M. Eisenberg |
Removal of Women and African Americans in Jury Selection in South Carolina Capital Cases, 1997-2012 |
9 Northeastern University Law Review 299 (Summer, 2017) |
The Supreme Court's May 2016 decision in Foster v. Chatman involved smoking-gun evidence that the state of Georgia discriminated against prospective black jurors during jury selection in Foster's 1987 capital trial. Foster was decided on the thirtieth anniversary of Batson v. Kentucky, the first in the line of cases to prohibit striking prospective...; Search Snippet: ...Review Northeastern University Law Review Summer, 2017 Article Removal of Women and African Americans in Jury Selection in South Carolina Capital Cases, 1997-2012... |
2017 |
African/Black American |
| Kathleen Finn, Erica Gajda, Thomas Perin, Carla Fredericks, American Indian Law Clinic University of Colorado Law School |
Responsible Resource Development and Prevention of Sex Trafficking: Safeguarding Native Women and Children on the Fort Berthold Reservation |
40 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 1 (Winter, 2017) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 2 II. Sex Trafficking, Native Women, and the Bakken Oil Boom. 4 A. The Intersection of Sex Trafficking and the Extractive Industries on the Fort Berthold Reservation. 7 III. Obstacles to Criminal Enforcement in Indian Country. 10 A. Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country. 10 1. The Indian Country Crimes Act....; Search Snippet: ...Responsible Resource Development and Prevention of Sex Trafficking: Safeguarding Native Women and Children on the Fort Berthold Reservation Kathleen Finn Erica... |
2017 |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
| Hannah Haksgaard |
Rural Women and Developments in the Undue Burden Analysis: the Effect of Whole Woman's Health V. Hellerstedt |
65 Drake Law Review 663 (Third Quarter 2017) |
Rural women face unique challenges in accessing abortions. The undue burden analysis announced in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey is a fact-intensive inquiry into the impact any particular restriction has on women's access to abortion. Twenty-four years after the undue burden test was announced in Casey, the Supreme Court...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Drake Law Review Third Quarter 2017 Article Rural Women and Developments in the Undue Burden Analysis: the Effect of Whole Woman's Health V. Hellerstedt Hannah Haksgaard [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 by Drake... |
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| Celesta A. Albonetti |
Sentencing of Federal Cocaine Trafficking/manufacturing Defendants: Assessing Direct and Conditioning Effects of Defendant's Race/ethnicity and Gender on Length of Imprisonment |
21 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice Just. 1 (Winter 2017) |
I. Introduction. 1 II. Federal Sentencing Guidelines--Legal and Policy Issues. 3 III. Empirical Research on Federal Sentencing Outcomes. 9 IV. Theoretical Perspectives and Federal Sentencing. 12 V. Data and Analytical Procedures. 15 VI. Findings. 24 A. Univariate Descriptive Analyses. 24 B. Multivariate Analyses. 26 C. Race/Ethnicity Interactions....; Search Snippet: ...Assessing Direct and Conditioning Effects of Defendant's Race/ethnicity and Gender on Length of Imprisonment Celesta A. Albonetti [Fna1] Copyright © 2017... |
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| Sheryl P. Kubiak, Hannah J. Brenner, Deborah Bybee, Rebecca Campbell, Cristy E. Cummings, Kathleen M. Darcy, Gina Fedock, Rachael Goodman-Williams, Michigan State University, California Western School of Law, Michigan State University, University of Chica |
Sexual Misconduct in Prison: What Factors Affect Whether Incarcerated Women Will Report Abuses Committed by Prison Staff? |
41 Law and Human Behavior 361 (August, 2017) |
More than 80,000 prisoners each year are sexually victimized during incarceration, but only about 8% report victimization to correctional authorities. Complicating reporting is the fact that half of the perpetrators are staff members. Given the restrictive and highly regulated prison environment, studies that examine reporting behaviors are...; Search Snippet: ...2017 Sexual Misconduct in Prison: What Factors Affect Whether Incarcerated Women Will Report Abuses Committed by Prison Staff? [Fna1] Sheryl P... |
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| Lee Rawles |
Sisters in Indomitable Spirit |
103-AUG ABA Journal 66 (August, 2017) |
Margaret Brent was an unusual woman for her time. In 17th-century America, she was unmarried, a businessperson, a Catholic and a prominent figure in the Maryland settlement, which she emigrated to from England with two brothers and a sister in 1638. She owned land, grew tobacco and made loans to settlers. Brent appeared in court to argue for...; Search Snippet: ...Spirit Aba Honors Trailblazers with Award Named for the First Female Lawyer in America Lee Rawles Copyright © 2017 by the American... |
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| Karen Knop, Annelise Riles |
Space, Time, and Historical Injustice: a Feminist Conflict-of-laws Approach to the "Comfort Women" Agreement |
102 Cornell Law Review 853 (May, 2017) |
After more than twenty years of worldwide feminist activism, transnational litigation, and diplomatic stalemate, on December 28, 2015, Japan and South Korea announced a historic agreement intended to provide closure to the so-called Comfort Women issue--the issue of what Japan must do to atone for the sexual enslavement of up to 200,000 women...; Search Snippet: ...Review May, 2017 Article Space, Time, and Historical Injustice: a Feminist Conflict-of-laws Approach to the Comfort Women Agreement Karen Knop Annelise Riles [Fnd1] Copyright © 2017 by Cornell... |
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| D. Wendy Greene |
Splitting Hairs: the Eleventh Circuit's Take on Workplace Bans Against Black Women's Natural Hair in Eeoc V. Catastrophe Management Solutions |
71 University of Miami Law Review 987 (Summer, 2017) |
What does hair have to do with African descendant women's employment opportunities in the 21 century? In this Article, Professor Greene demonstrates that Black women's natural hair, though irrelevant to their ability to perform their jobs, constitutes a real and significant barrier to Black women's acquisition and maintenance of employment as well...; Search Snippet: ...Hairs: the Eleventh Circuit's Take on Workplace Bans Against Black Women's Natural Hair in Eeoc V. Catastrophe Management Solutions D. Wendy... |
2017 |
African/Black American |
| Cristin Wilson |
Study: 'Adultification' Has Black Girls Facing Harsher Punishments |
103-NOV ABA Journal J. 9 (November, 2017) |
A new study from the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown University Law Center describes adultification of African-American girls that negatively impacts how they're treated by school administrators, law enforcement and the justice system, beginning in childhood. Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls' Childhood provides data...; Search Snippet: ...Edited by Liane Jackson / Liane.jackson@americanbar.org Study: Adultification Has Black Girls Facing Harsher Punishments Cristin Wilson Copyright © 2017 by the American... |
2017 |
African/Black American |
| Laura Marini Davis , Victoria Geyfman |
The Business of Title Ix--using the Law to Improve Gender Equity in Undergraduate Colleges of Business |
46 Journal of Law and Education 163 (Spring, 2017) |
This article discusses the applicability of Title IX of the Higher Education Act (Title IX) to undergraduate business programs. In recent years, much attention has been given to the dearth of women in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) educational programs and jobs, and the applicability of Title IX, the landmark...; Search Snippet: ...The Business of Title Ix--using the Law to Improve Gender Equity in Undergraduate Colleges of Business Laura Marini Davis [Fna1... |
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| Brittany A. Campbell |
The Crisis Inside Crisis Pregnancy Centers: How to Stop These Facilities from Depriving Women of Their Reproductive Freedom |
37 Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 73 (2017) |
Since the late 1960s, pro-life activists have been flooding the United States with crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), facilities disguised as legitimate reproductive health clinics but, in reality, are mostly unlicensed centers that do not provide contraception or abortion services. These facilities deprive women of their reproductive...; Search Snippet: ...Crisis Pregnancy Centers: How to Stop These Facilities from Depriving Women of Their Reproductive Freedom Brittany A. Campbell [Fna1] Copyright © 2017... |
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| Elizabeth N. Brandt |
The Crowdfund Act's Impact on Women-owned Businesses' Access to Capital |
2017 Columbia Business Law Review 807 (2017) |
Women-owned businesses make up a significant portion of businesses in the United States and provide one of the most important growth opportunities for the United States' economy today. However, female entrepreneurs face on-going challenges in gaining access to capital through traditional capital-raising mechanisms such as venture capital or bank...; Search Snippet: ...Activists and Corporate Governance Note the Crowdfund Act's Impact on Women-owned Businesses' Access to Capital Elizabeth N. Brandt [Fna1] Copyright... |
2017 |
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| Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol |
The Culture of Gender/the Gender of Culture: Cuban Women, Culture, and Change--the Island and the Diaspora |
29 Florida Journal of International Law 179 (2017) |
I. Introduction. 179 II. The Role of Women in Society. 180 III. A Brief History of Cuba. 184 A. General. 184 B. Cuban Women. 186 IV. Cuban Women After 1959. 188 A. On the Island. 188 B. In the Diaspora. 190 V. Conclusion. 193; Search Snippet: ...International Law 2017 University of Florida Contributor the Culture of Gender/the Gender of Culture: Cuban Women, Culture, and Change--the Island and the Diaspora [Fna1] Berta... |
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| Margaret Quartararo |
The Devaluation of Women's Labor and the Internal Revenue Code |
16 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 527 (Fall, 2017) |
In 2015, the labor force participation rate for women with children under age 18 was 69.9 percent. This means that almost 30 percent of women choose an alternative lifestyle, which may likely involve raising children and caring for their homes. Focusing on the development and growth of that component of their lives is a challenging and noble task...; Search Snippet: ...For Social Justice Fall, 2017 Student Scholarship the Devaluation of Women's Labor and the Internal Revenue Code Margaret Quartararo Copyright © 2016... |
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| Fred L. Borch, Regimental Historian and Archivist |
The First Female Instructor in International Law and a Pioneer in Judge Advocate Recruiting: Michelle Brown Fladeboe (1948-2016) |
2017-JAN Army Lawyer Law. 1 (January, 2017) |
Michelle B. Fladeboe (neé Brown) was the first female instructor in the International Law Division at The Judge Advocate General's School, U.S. Army (TJAGSA). She was also the face of the Corps in early efforts to recruit more women to be Army lawyers. This is her story. Born Michelle Bright Brown in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on March 10, 1948, she...; Search Snippet: ...27-50-17-01 Lore of the Corps the First Female Instructor in International Law and a Pioneer in Judge Advocate... |
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| Moya Bailey |
The Flexner Report: Standardizing Medical Students Through Region-, Gender-, and Race-based Hierarchies |
43 American Journal of Law & Medicine 209 (2017) |
In 1910, Abraham Flexner, a leading U.S. educational scholar, took on a task issued by the Carnegie Foundation to assess the curricular components of medical schools in the United States and Canada. His groundbreaking report transformed the practice of educating doctors, making institutions more standardized and uniform in their aim to educate the...; Search Snippet: ...2017 Article the Flexner Report: Standardizing Medical Students Through Region-, Gender-, and Race-based Hierarchies Moya Bailey [Fnd1] Copyright © 2017 By... |
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| Ariane Hegewisch , Emma Williams-Baron |
The Gender Wage Gap and Work-family Supports: Women's Choices or Policy Choices? |
36 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 5 (2017) |
In the United States, the median wage of women working full-time, year-round is only 80% of men's. Though in past decades the gender gap has closed, since the beginning of the 2000s further progress has stalled. The gender earnings gap is a popular topic of discussion in the media, politics, and academic scholarship. While some focus on...; Search Snippet: ...Review Saint Louis University Public Law Review 2017 Article the Gender Wage Gap and Work-family Supports: Women's Choices or Policy Choices? Ariane Hegewisch [Fna1] Emma Williams-baron... |
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| Lena Ghamrawi |
The Law Has Perpetuated Gender Inequality in the Technology Field |
21 University of San Francisco Intellectual Property and Technology Law Journal 109 (Spring, 2017) |
Women have historically been excluded from almost all aspects of public life. The separate spheres ideology that dominated the public view of women's roles was reinforced when the Supreme Court issued Bradwell v. Illinois in 1873. The Supreme Court ultimately expressed that women could not enter the legal profession because their primary duty was...; Search Snippet: ...Technology Law Journal Spring, 2017 Article the Law Has Perpetuated Gender Inequality in the Technology Field Lena Ghamrawi [Fna1] Copyright © 2017... |
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| Angela Onwuachi-Willig |
The Promise of Lutie A. Lytle: an Introduction to the Tenth Annual Commemorative Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Workshop Iowa Law Review Issue |
102 Iowa Law Review 1843 (July, 2017) |
It is with great pleasure and pride that I offer this introduction and welcome to this special Iowa Law Review issue in celebration of the Tenth Annual Commemorative Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Workshop. Named after Lutie A. Lytle, an African American woman who became the first female law professor in the nation (and, likely, in the...; Search Snippet: ...Introduction to the Tenth Annual Commemorative Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Workshop Iowa Law Review Issue Angela Onwuachi-willig... |
2017 |
African/Black American |
| Sarah Deer, Mary Kathryn Nagle |
The Rapidly Increasing Extraction of Oil, and Native Women, in North Dakota |
64-APR Federal Lawyer 34 (April, 2017) |
During the past year, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and allies made national news as they gathered in prayerful ceremony at the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball Rivers to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline project in North Dakota. The pipeline threatens the tribe's drinking water, sacred sites, and burial grounds, and, as...; Search Snippet: ...Indian Law the Rapidly Increasing Extraction of Oil, and Native Women, in North Dakota Sarah Deer Mary Kathryn Nagle Copyright © 2017... |
2017 |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
| DeShayla M. Strachan |
The Triple Threat: the Black, Female Attorney |
11 Southern Journal of Policy and Justice 112 (Fall, 2017) |
In a world defined by gender and race, women and blacks constantly struggle with their identity. Although they may seem like vestiges of the past, these gender and racial issues still live on. To be heard, to be treated equally, and to be seen as more than a stereotype are still major challenges for women and blacks. For the black woman in...; Search Snippet: ...Policy and Justice Fall, 2017 the Triple Threat: the Black, Female Attorney Deshayla M. Strachan [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 by the National... |
2017 |
African/Black American |
| Mary K. Mullen |
The Violence Against Women Act: a Double-edged Sword for Native Americans, Their Rights, and Their Hopes of Regaining Cultural Independence |
61 Saint Louis University Law Journal 811 (Summer, 2017) |
Diane Millich could not escape. Millich, a Native American and member of the Southern Ute tribe of Colorado, had found herself married to a physically and emotionally abusive husband. One day, her husband even appeared at her work carrying a gun, promising to kill her. Living on the Southern Ute reservation, Millich reached out to tribal law...; Search Snippet: ...Louis University Law Journal Summer, 2017 Comment the Violence Against Women Act: a Double-edged Sword for Native Americans, Their Rights, and Their Hopes of Regaining Cultural Independence Mary... |
2017 |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
| Michelle S. Jacobs |
The Violent State: Black Women's Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence |
24 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 39 (Fall, 2017) |
Introduction I. The Historical View A. Stereotypes About Black Women 1. Black Women as Governed by Libido and Loose Morals 2. Black Women as Liars 3. Black Women as Man-Like and Aggressive II. Black Women Are Murdered and Assaulted by the Police A. Invisible Homicides Committed by the Police 1. Black Women with Mental Health Issues Are...; Search Snippet: ...The Age of Police and Protest the Violent State: Black Women's Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence Michelle S. Jacobs [Fna1] Copyright... |
2017 |
African/Black American |
| Michael L. Perlin , Heather Ellis Cucolo |
Tolling for the Aching Ones Whose Wounds Cannot Be Nursed: the Marginalization of Racial Minorities and Women in Institutional Mental Disability Law |
20 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 431 (Summer, 2017) |
I. Introduction. 431 II. Race, Gender, and Civil Commitment. 435 III. A Consideration of Institutional Issues. 446 IV. Four Factors. 451 A. Sanism. 451 B. Pretextuality. 452 C. Heuristics. 452 D. False Ordinary Common Sense. 453 E. The Keys to Future Progress. 453 V. Therapeutic Jurisprudence. 454 I. Conclusion. 457; Search Snippet: ...Wounds Cannot Be Nursed: the Marginalization of Racial Minorities and Women in Institutional Mental Disability Law Michael L. Perlin [Fna1] Heather... |
2017 |
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