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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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| 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... |
2017 |
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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... |
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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 |
| 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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| 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 |
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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 |
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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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| 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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| 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 |
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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 |
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African/Black American |
| 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... |
2017 |
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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... |
2017 |
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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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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 |
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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... |
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| Leonore F. Carpenter, R. Barrett Marshall |
Walking While Trans: Profiling of Transgender Women by Law Enforcement, and the Problem of Proof |
24 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 5 (Fall, 2017) |
Introduction I. Why Is Police Profiling of Transgender Women a Serious Problem? A. Transgender Women and Violence B. Police Profiling of Transgender Women--The Anecdotal Evidence II. Proving that Walking While Trans Is a Pervasive Phenomenon III. Why Is Lack of Data a Problem? IV. Potential Solutions to the No-Data Problem Conclusion It is...; Search Snippet: ...Of Police and Protest Walking While Trans: Profiling of Transgender Women by Law Enforcement, and the Problem of Proof Leonore F... |
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| Yxta Maya Murray |
We Just Looked at Them as Ordinary People like We Were: the Legal Gaze and Women's Bodies |
32 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 252 (2017) |
This Article analyzes the struggles of two female musicians who became caught up in the criminal justice system because they revealed their bodies. Using archival research and personal interviews, I tell the story of punk rocker Wendy O. Williams' 1981-1984 obscenity and police brutality court battles. I also relay the life of Lorien Bourne, a...; Search Snippet: ...As Ordinary People like We Were: the Legal Gaze and Women's Bodies [Fnd1] Yxta Maya Murray [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 by Murray... |
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| Heidi Cerneka |
We Will Not Be Invisible Women and Solitary Confinement in the U.s. |
32 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 107 (Fall, 2017) |
Although segregation is practiced similarly in men's and women's prisons (deprivations and humiliation are often generalized practices), women will have a unique sense of their confinement in segregation because this sense is intertwined with the gendering project of the prison regime and their own disadvantaged position in society. Thus,...; Search Snippet: ...Gender & Society Fall, 2017 Article We Will Not Be Invisible Women and Solitary Confinement in the U.s. Heidi Cerneka [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Brittany L. Walter |
Women in Special Operations: a Battle for Effectiveness Amidst the Pursuit of Equality |
51 University of San Francisco Law Review Forum 1 (5/9/2017) |
[The] Court has repeatedly recognized that neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with the equal protection principle when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature--equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents...; Search Snippet: ...University of San Francisco Law Review Forum May 9, 2017 Women in Special Operations: a Battle for Effectiveness Amidst the Pursuit... |
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| Claire P. Gutekunst |
Women in the Law: Reflection, Celebration and Work to Be Done |
89-MAY New York State Bar Journal 7 (May, 2017) |
It is my distinct honor to serve as President of this great association and to introduce this special issue of the New York State Bar Association Journal, which addresses issues of great importance to women and society and celebrates the 30th anniversary of our Committee on Women in the Law (CWIL). This Committee occupies a very special place in my...; Search Snippet: ...State Bar Journal New York State Bar Journal May, 2017 Women in the Law: Reflection, Celebration and Work to Be Done... |
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| Brit Merrill , Adrienne Nash |
Women in the Law: Refreshing Our Collective Memory |
30-DEC Utah Bar Journal 38 (November/December, 2017) |
Legend has it that in 1977 Pat Christensen, newly admitted to the bar, stood up in Chief Judge Willis Ritter's court in Federal District Court for the District of Utah to put her appearance on the record. Judge Ritter commanded, Young lady, women don't practice in my court! and instructed the marshals to throw Christensen in the court's holding...; Search Snippet: ...Utah Bar Journal Utah Bar Journal November/december, 2017 Article Women in the Law: Refreshing Our Collective Memory Brit Merrill [Fna1... |
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| Kate Hartung O'Neal |
Women Unite |
2017-MAR West Virginia Lawyer 48 (January-March, 2017) |
For the first time, the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has a female majority, making us only the eleventh state in history to break that barrier. Additionally, Meshea L. Poore has been elected the first African American female president of the West Virginia State Bar. Do you hear that? That's the sound of shattering glass echoing through...; Search Snippet: ...West Virginia Lawyer West Virginia Lawyer January-march, 2017 Spotlight Women Unite West Virginia Women Attorneys Is a Growing Organization That Is Working to Promote Women in and Beyond the Bar Kate Hartung O'neal [Fna1] Copyright... |
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African/Black American |
| Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Human Rights and Atrocity Prevention Clinic, Faculty Director, Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights (CLIHHR), Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY U.S.A., |
Women's Human Rights and Migration: Sex-selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India. By Sital Kalantry. Philadelphia, Pa: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. Pp. Xii, 272. Isbn: 9780812249330. Us$ 69.95 |
45 International Journal of Legal Information 257 (Winter 2017) |
In her recent book, Women's Human Rights and Migration: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States and India, Professor Sital Kalantry examines some of today's most difficult and divisive issues involving women's human rights in transnational contexts. Recognizing the limits of traditional feminist legal theories to address these contested...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Legal Information Winter 2017 December 2017 Book Review Women's Human Rights and Migration: Sex-selective Abortion Laws in The... |
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| Carolyn L. Wheeler |
Women's Work Is Never Done |
36 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 59 (2017) |
All remedial legislation is a product of the interaction between individuals outside government who agitate for reform, and individuals inside government who draft and vote on legislation. Once enacted, statutes are often altered by the interpretations of enforcement agencies and courts, developed in response to the arguments of litigants. These...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Saint Louis University Public Law Review 2017 Article Women's Work Is Never Done [Fnd1] Carolyn L. Wheeler [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Hensleigh Crowell |
A Home of One's Own: the Fight Against Illegal Housing Discrimination Based on Criminal Convictions, and Those Who Are Still Left Behind |
95 Texas Law Review 1103 (April, 2017) |
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. --Maya Angelou Housing discrimination against men and women with criminal records is ubiquitous in American society. Considering America imprisons more of its population than any country in the world, the effects of this discrimination are...; Search Snippet: ...That this Ban Has a Disparate Impact on Black and Latino Men and Women, Who Make up 95% of Those Served by Fortune. [Fn117... |
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| Max Waltman |
Appraising the Impact of Toward a Feminist Theory of the State: Consciousness-raising, Hierarchy Theory, and Substantive Equality Laws |
35 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 353 (Summer, 2017) |
As an undergraduate in the early 2000s, reading Toward a Feminist Theory of the State for the first time, its visionary analysis and blueprint for changing the status quo made a profound impression. The approach was problem-driven, presenting empirically grounded theories that could actually be put into practice in policy and law, in contrast to...; Search Snippet: ...Forward | Nov. 18, 2016 Appraising the Impact of Toward a Feminist Theory of the State: Consciousness-raising, Hierarchy Theory, and Substantive... |
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| Kristin N. Johnson |
Banking on Diversity: Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Firms' Risk Oversight? |
70 SMU Law Review 327 (Spring, 2017) |
C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION. 328 II. SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND BOARDS OF DIRECTORS. 332 III. WHY BUILD DIVERSE BOARDS?. 337 A. Enhanced Financial Performance. 338 1. Studies Finding a Positive Relationship Between Gender Diversity and Firm Performance. 339 2. Studies Finding a Negative or Inconclusive Relationship Between Gender Diversity and...; Search Snippet: ...Smu Law Review Spring, 2017 Article Banking on Diversity: Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Firms' Risk Oversight? Kristin N. Johnson [Fna1... |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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