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| Samira Paydar |
Boys Club Behind the Scenes: Using Title Vii to Remedy Gender Discrimination in Hollywood |
47 Seton Hall Law Review 1077 (2017) |
Director George Miller opens his Oscar winning film Mad Max: Fury Road in post-apocalyptic Australia. Humanity is broken, and those who remain survive in an unforgiving wasteland of perpetual drought where the soil can no longer sustain life. A tyrant, Immortan Joe, distributes water at his whim to those thirsting. Joe's five enslaved wives, led by...; Search Snippet: ...Boys Club Behind the Scenes: Using Title Vii to Remedy Gender Discrimination in Hollywood Samira Paydar [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by Seton... |
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| Patricia M. Jarzobski |
Celebrating Women's History Month |
46-MAR Colorado Lawyer Law. 5 (March, 2017) |
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. --Suzy Kassem Women's History Month celebrates the struggles and achievements of American women who have fought throughout our history to gain rights for themselves, and more important, for many other underrepresented and disenfranchised groups in America. In 1981, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Rep....; Search Snippet: ...Lawyer March, 2017 Around the Bar Cba President's Message Celebrating Women's History Month Patricia M. Jarzobski Copyright © 2017 by the Colorado... |
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| Liane Jackson |
Changing Times |
103-JAN ABA Journal 66 (January, 2017) |
On a late October day in New York City, partners, law firm associates and in-house counsel gathered at the offices of Mayer Brown to confront issues of gender inequity in BigLaw and brainstorm ways to move the needle. The discussion happened at a time when the state of diversity in the legal profession is sobering at best and dismal at worst,...; Search Snippet: ...Panelists Look for Ways to Remove Barriers to Advancement for Women at Large Law Firms Liane Jackson Copyright © 2017 by The... |
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| Adam Crepelle |
Concealed Carry to Reduce Sexual Violence Against American Indian Women |
26-SPG Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 236 (Spring, 2017) |
Although crime rates in the United States have fallen since the 1990s, Indian reservation crime rates have increased over the same time period. The violent victimization rate for Indians is twice that of any other race, and the crime rate on some reservations is 20 times the national average. Indian crime victimization statistics are outrageous in...; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 2017 Featuring Concealed Carry to Reduce Sexual Violence Against American Indian Women Adam Crepelle [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 by the Kansas Journal Of... |
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| Kris Gilliland, Bette Bradley, Ellie Campbell |
Dared to Enter a 'Man's World': Mississippi Women Lawyers, 1914-1964 |
85 Mississippi Law Journal 1479 (2017) |
I. Researching Early Women Lawyers in Mississippi. 1482 II. Mississippi Women in the Public Sphere. 1486 A. Higher Education. 1487 B. The Suffrage Movement. 1491 C. The Legal Profession. 1493 1. Bar Admission. 1493 2. Law School. 1499 D. Professional Identity and Opportunity. 1502 1. Lady Lawyers. 1502 2. Family Matters. 1504 3. Career Paths....; Search Snippet: ...School of Law Dared to Enter a Man's World: Mississippi Women Lawyers, 1914-1964 Kris Gilliland Bette Bradley Ellie Campbell [Fna1... |
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| Janet Dolgin |
Discriminating Gender: Legal, Medical, and Social Presumptions about Transgender and Intersex People |
47 Southwestern Law Review 61 (2017) |
Medicine and law have long assumed and re-enforced a binary view of gender in proposing care for and defining the rights of transgender and intersex people. This Article considers that history and its consequences for the people most directly affected by it. Further, it considers recent challenges to the binary gender presumption and to the medical...; Search Snippet: ...7550700 Southwestern Law Review Southwestern Law Review 2017 Article Discriminating Gender: Legal, Medical, and Social Presumptions about Transgender and Intersex People... |
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| Maya Sen |
Diversity, Qualifications, and Ideology: How Female and Minority Judges Have Changed, or Not Changed, over Time |
2017 Wisconsin Law Review 367 (2017) |
Ever since the Carter Administration began appointing female and minority judges in large numbers, scholars have sought to measure their impact. In this Article, I focus on a different, but equally important question: what is the background and ideology of female and minority judges and how has this changed over time? I address this issue...; Search Snippet: ...Wisconsin Law Review 2017 Article Diversity, Qualifications, and Ideology: How Female and Minority Judges Have Changed, or Not Changed, over Time... |
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| Charles B. Craver |
Do Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures Disadvantage Women and Minorities? |
70 SMU Law Review 891 (Fall, 2017) |
When different legal controversies arise, parties frequently employ alternative dispute resolution procedures to resolve them. Yet some members of ethnic minority groups and women may seek judicial proceedings out of a concern that their ethnicity or gender may undermine their ability to achieve beneficial bargaining outcomes through ADR. This...; Search Snippet: ...Review Fall, 2017 Article Do Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures Disadvantage Women and Minorities? Charles B. Craver [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 by Southern... |
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| Stephanie McCurry |
Enemy Women and the Laws of War in the American Civil War |
35 Law and History Review 667 (August, 2017) |
We do not make war on women and children Illinois Private, 1862 One of the most important legacies of the American Civil War, not just in the re-united States of America but also in the nineteenth and twentieth century world, were the new laws of war that the conflict introduced. Lieber's Code, named after the man who authored it for the...; Search Snippet: ...History Review Law and History Review August, 2017 Article Enemy Women and the Laws of War in the American Civil War... |
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| Krishna de la Cruz |
Exploring the Conflicts Within Carceral Feminism: a Call to Revocalize the Women Who Continue to Suffer |
19 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 79 (2017) |
The pedestal upon which women have been placed has . upon closer inspection, been revealed as a cage. --The Honorable Raymond J. Peters I. Introduction. 80 II. Carceral Feminism and Prostitution. 82 A. Carceral Feminism Criminalizes Prostitution but Disregards Historically Discriminatory Prostitution Policy. 83 B. Understanding the Difference...; Search Snippet: ...The Conflicts Within Carceral Feminism: a Call to Revocalize the Women Who Continue to Suffer Krishna De La Cruz [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Shaleen Morales Saldarriaga |
Flaming Fifties and Beyond: an International Comparison of Age Discrimination Laws and How the United States Could Improve the Laws for Elderly Women |
25 Elder Law Journal 101 (2017) |
Age discrimination in employment continues to be a major issue in developed countries. Older employees are more disadvantaged to retain or regain employment than their younger counterparts. The Age Discrimination Employment Act (the ADEA) was implemented to protect older workers from adverse employment decisions based on age. There has been an...; Search Snippet: ...How the United States Could Improve the Laws for Elderly Women Shaleen Morales Saldarriaga [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 by the Board Of... |
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| George Waas |
Florida's Minority Trailblazers: the Men and Women Who Changed the Face of Florida Government by Susan A. Macmanus |
91-MAY Florida Bar Journal 44 (May, 2017) |
Florida's rich history of explosive growth following World War II is told through the lives of minority trailblazers who helped the Sunshine State rise from being one of the poorest, most isolated states, with the smallest population in the South, to the most dynamic state on the east coast and, with California, the most diverse in the nation. In...; Search Snippet: ...May, 2017 Column Book Florida's Minority Trailblazers: the Men and Women Who Changed the Face of Florida Government by Susan A... |
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| Loren D. Goodman |
For What It's Worth: the Role of Race- and Gender-based Data in Civil Damages Awards |
70 Vanderbilt Law Review 1353 (May, 2017) |
Introduction. 1354 I. Statistical Reliance on Race and Gender. 1358 A. Historically Permissible Stereotyping. 1358 1. An Introduction to Actuarial Science and the Problem of Redlining. 1358 2. Life Tables, Forensic Economists, and Lost Earnings Calculations. 1360 B. Recent Rejections of Raced-Based and Gendered Evidence at Trial: Selected...; Search Snippet: ...Note for What It's Worth: the Role of Race- and Gender-based Data in Civil Damages Awards Loren D. Goodman [Fna1... |
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| Terry A. Kupers |
Gender and Domination in Prison |
39 Western New England Law Review 427 (2017) |
Gender theory has evolved in recent years. The feminist and gay liberation struggles of the 1960s and 1970s were about equal rights, the rights of women in the workplace, and the rights of gays to safety and an equal place at the table. More recently, the entire notion of binary gender identity and binary sexual preference has come into question....; Search Snippet: ...England Law Review Western New England Law Review 2017 Article Gender and Domination in Prison [Fna1] Terry A. Kupers [Fnaa1] Copyright... |
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| Adam R. Chang, Stephanie M. Wildman |
Gender In/sight: Examining Culture and Constructions of Gender |
18 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 43 (Spring, 2017) |
Introduction. 44 I. The Role of Gender in U.S. Society. 45 II. What is Gender?. 54 A. Biological Sex. 57 B. Gender Identity. 59 C. Gender Expression. 61 III. Expanding Understandings of Gender in a Society That Has Not Yet Recognized Deeper Gender Issues. 63 A. The Inclusion of Male Feminists and the Unintended Exclusion of Non-Binary People. 64 B....; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 2017 General Issue of Gender and the Law Article Gender In/sight: Examining Culture and Constructions of Gender Adam R. Chang Stephanie M. Wildman [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 By... |
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| Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol |
Glocalizing Women's Health and Safety: Migration, Work and Labor |
15 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 48 (2/2/2017) |
Worldwide, women's equality remains elusive in the social, political, civil, economic and cultural spheres. Such reality presents a challenge in the movement of persons across state borders because, globally, the world is experiencing a feminization of migration. In turn, the feminization of migration effects threats to the health and safety of...; Search Snippet: ...Clara Journal of International Law February 2, 2017 Article Glocalizing Women's Health and Safety: Migration, Work and Labor Berta Esperanza Hernández... |
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| Mary Anne Case |
Heterosexuality as a Factor in the Long History of Women's Sports |
80 Law and Contemporary Problems 25 (2017) |
Too many accounts of the development of women's sports tend to posit their origin in the late nineteenth or even the twentieth century, as a belated, slowly developing, and sometimes vehemently resisted addendum to the development of sports for men. To begin a history of women's sports at such a late date has several important distorting effects....; Search Snippet: ...Editor Heterosexuality as a Factor in the Long History of Women's Sports Mary Anne Case [Fna1] Copyright © 2018 by Mary Anne... |
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| Kevin R. Johnson |
How Political Ideology Undermines Racial and Gender Diversity in Federal Judicial Selection: the Prospects for Judicial Diversity in the Trump Years |
2017 Wisconsin Law Review 345 (2017) |
This Essay considers the relationship between efforts to increase the racial and gender diversity of the federal judiciary and the contemporary contentiousness of the Senate judicial confirmation process. Part I briefly evaluates the benefits of a diverse federal judiciary and summarizes the relatively successful efforts of President Obama--the...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 2017 Article How Political Ideology Undermines Racial and Gender Diversity in Federal Judicial Selection: the Prospects for Judicial Diversity... |
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| Ann M. Eisenberg , Amelia Courtney Hritz , Caisa Elizabeth Royer , John H. Blume |
If it Walks like Systematic Exclusion and Quacks like Systematic Exclusion: Follow-up on Removal of Women and African-americans in Jury Selection in South Carolina Capital Cases, 1997-2014 |
68 South Carolina Law Review 373 (Spring, 2017) |
I. Introduction. 373 II. Background. 375 III. Methodology. 380 IV. Results. 382 V. Conclusion. 388; Search Snippet: ...And Quacks like Systematic Exclusion: Follow-up on Removal of Women and African- Americans in Jury Selection in South Carolina Capital Cases, 1997-2014... |
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| Cyra Akila Choudhury |
In the Shadow of Gaslight: Reflections on Identity, Diversity, and the Distribution of Power in the Academy |
20 CUNY Law Review 467 (Spring, 2017) |
I. Multicultural Tolerance, Identity Politics, and the Contingency of Progress. 471 II. Coopting Identity and Representation in the Service of the Institutional Status Quo. 476 III. Lessons from the Past: What are We Struggling For and Against?. 478; Search Snippet: ...Fn25] If You Wanted to Learn about the Contributions of African Americans to Science or Math or Women's History, You Could Now Choose a Course in Black or Women's Studies. [Fn26] this Strategy Was Sometimes Adopted Instead of Demanding... |
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| Taylor Stoneman |
International Economic Law, Gender Equality, and Paternity Leave: Can the Wto Be Utilized to Balance the Division of Care Labor Worldwide? |
32 Emory International Law Review 51 (2017) |
Which public policies most effectively promote gender equality and how can they be realized internationally to support women on a global scale? I first argue that longer periods of paid paternity leave must be embraced to challenge the historical conception of women as the primary caregiver in a male-female partnership and to bring men into the...; Search Snippet: ...Review Emory International Law Review 2017 Article International Economic Law, Gender Equality, and Paternity Leave: Can the Wto Be Utilized To... |
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| Kersti Myles |
Jezebels and Jungle Bunnies: How the Stereotypes of Black Women Shape Legislation, the Legal Profession and Feminist Jurisprudence |
10 Modern American Am. 3 (Spring, 2017) |
Black women are taught at an early age that they are societal defects. It is impressed upon us that because of our deficiency of the Y-chromosome and the overproduction of melanin, we are doomed to a life of continual handicap and hardship. These notions of subordination are interwoven in the moral compass and fabric of our nation, and although...; Search Snippet: ...Article Jezebels and Jungle Bunnies: How the Stereotypes of Black Women Shape Legislation, the Legal Profession and Feminist Jurisprudence Kersti Myles Copyright © 2017 by the Modern American; Kersti... |
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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... |
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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... |
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| 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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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| 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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| 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... |
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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... |
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African/Black American |
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| 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 |
Yes |
| 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 |
Yes |