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| Zandy Dudiak |
Litman, First Female Acba President, Remembered as Pioneering Litigator |
18 No. 22 Lawyers Journal J. 1 (10/28/2016) |
In her lifetime, Roslyn M. Litman opened many doors for women - for future trial attorneys, ACBA members and those who wanted to walk through the Duquesne Club's front entrance. The private downtown Pittsburgh social club didn't admit Jewish members until 1968, women until 1980 and African Americans until 1983. Although the wives and widows of...; Search Snippet: ...6524557 Lawyers Journal Lawyers Journal October 28, 2016 Litman, First Female Acba President, Remembered as Pioneering Litigator Zandy Dudiak Copyright © 2016... |
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| Becky L. Jacobs |
Mandatory Adr Notice Requirements: Gender Themes and Intentionality in Policy Discourse |
22 Harvard Negotiation Law Review Rev. 1 (Fall, 2016) |
A number of regulatory bodies impose a mandatory duty on lawyers to notify their clients of alternative forms of dispute resolution in connection with any engagement involving a conflict, potential lawsuit, or lawsuit. The propriety of such a requirement is subject to an on-going, and increasingly predictable, debate focused upon the scope of the...; Search Snippet: ...Negotiation Law Review Fall, 2016 Article Mandatory Adr Notice Requirements: Gender Themes and Intentionality in Policy Discourse Becky L. Jacobs [Fna1... |
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| Jasmine Sankofa |
Mapping the Blank: Centering Black Women's Vulnerability to Police Sexual Violence to Upend Mainstream Police Reform |
59 Howard Law Journal 651 (Spring 2016) |
652 INTRODUCTION. 652 I. RACE AND POLICING. 658 II. RACE AND STRUCTURAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE. 666 A. Police Sexual Violence. 666 B. A Brief History of Sexualized Racial Terror Against Black Women. 673 III. ADVANCING JUSTICE: BROADENING THE SCOPE OF PROPOSED INTERVENTIONS. 683 A. Divesting From Law Enforcement. 683 B. Building Survivor Support....; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Spring 2016 Article Mapping the Blank: Centering Black Women's Vulnerability to Police Sexual Violence to Upend Mainstream Police Reform... |
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| Phyllis Goldfarb |
Matters of Strata: Race, Gender, and Class Structures in Capital Cases |
73 Washington and Lee Law Review 1395 (Summer, 2016) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 1395 II. The Role of Race. 1399 A. History of Race Ideologies. 1401 B. Understanding Race in the Giarratano Case. 1408 1. Departure and Return of the Death Penalty. 1410 2. Executive Clemency. 1411 3. Juries. 1414 4. Judges. 1418 5. Race of Victims. 1422 III. Other Ideologies at Work. 1423 A. Gender...; Search Snippet: ...Lee Law Review Summer, 2016 Article Matters of Strata: Race, Gender, and Class Structures in Capital Cases Phyllis Goldfarb [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Mary Anne Franks |
Men, Women, and Optimal Violence |
2016 University of Illinois Law Review 929 (2016) |
While both men and women can, and do, use violence against each other, men's violence against women is far more common, less justified, and more destructive than women's violence against men. One of the reasons for this asymmetry is that men do not fear retaliation for violence against women, whereas women do fear retaliation for their use of...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review University of Illinois Law Review 2016 Article Men, Women, and Optimal Violence Mary Anne Franks [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2016... |
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| Danielle Thompson |
Midwives and Pregnant Women of Color: Why We Need to Understand Intersectional Changes in Midwifery to Reclaim Home Birth |
6 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 27 (2016) |
The vast majority of births occur in hospitals attended by physicians. However, this has not always been the case. Prior to the turn of the twentieth century, home births held the majority and were primarily attended by midwives, the majority of whom were women of color and immigrant women. The move toward hospital birth is rarely discussed today...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Race and Law 2016 Note Midwives and Pregnant Women of Color: Why We Need to Understand Intersectional Changes In... |
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| Linda Sheryl Greene |
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall--gender, Olympic Competition and Persistence of the Feminine Ideal |
31 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 57 (Fall, 2016) |
Introduction--Citius, Altius, Fortius, Masculus, Feminine. 58 I. From Stereotype to Science--Limiting Female Competition in the 20 and 21 Century. 59 A. From Exclusion to Suspicion--Science in the Service of the Feminine Ideal. 59 B. Caster Semenya--Brundage Redux. 64 i. Caster Semenya--A Witch Hunt?. 64 ii. Who is the Fairest of Them...; Search Snippet: ...Gender & Society Fall, 2016 Article Mirror, Mirror on the Wall-- Gender, Olympic Competition and Persistence of the Feminine Ideal [Fna1] Linda Sheryl Greene [Fnaa1] Copyright © 2016 by Wisconsin... |
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| April G. Dawson |
Missing in Action: the Absence of Potential African American Female Supreme Court Justice Nominees--why this Is and What Can Be Done about it |
60 Howard Law Journal 177 (Fall, 2016) |
INTRODUCTION. 178 5 I. PRESIDENTIAL SELECTION OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICE NOMINEES. 182 A. The Stakes of Inclusiveness. 183 B. Evolution of Presidential Selection Criteria. 184 1. Ivy League Law School. 186 2. Federal Judicial Experience. 189 3. Age. 192 4. Federal Government Experience. 193 5. Judicial Clerkships. 195 II. THE EFFECT OF CURRENT...; Search Snippet: ...Article and Essay Missing in Action: the Absence of Potential African American Female Supreme Court Justice Nominees--why this Is and What Can... |
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African/Black American |
| Zach Sommers |
Missing White Woman Syndrome: an Empirical Analysis of Race and Gender Disparities in Online News Coverage of Missing Persons |
106 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 275 (Spring, 2016) |
At any given time, there are tens of thousands of Americans categorized as missing by law enforcement. However, only a fraction of those individuals receive news coverage, leading some commentators to hypothesize that missing persons with certain characteristics are more likely to garner media attention than others: namely, white women and girls....; Search Snippet: ...Of Criminal Law and Criminology Spring, 2016 Criminology Missing White Woman Syndrome: an Empirical Analysis of Race and Gender Disparities in Online News Coverage of Missing Persons Zach Sommers... |
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| Madeline M. Gomez |
More than Mileage: the Preconditions of Travel and the Real Burdens of H.b. 2 |
33 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 49 (2016) |
During the winter break of my second year in law school, I drove from my childhood home in Fort Worth, Texas to New Orleans, Louisiana to watch oral arguments at the Fifth Circuit in the case Planned Parenthood v. Abbott. That case was the first legal challenge to the constitutionality of Texas House Bill 2 (H.B. 2), the omnibus anti-abortion...; Search Snippet: ...Amicus Brief We Submitted to the Supreme Court in Whole Woman's Health, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (Nlirh) Deployed Such a Frame. We... |
2016 |
Hispanic/Latinx American |
| Nancy Zambrana |
Mothers in Crisis: Redefining and Expanding the Disaster Law Framework to Address Pregnant Women's Health Care Needs |
1 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs 121 (July, 2016) |
I. Introduction. 123 II. The Impact of Emergencies and Disasters on Maternal Health Care. 125 A. Hurricane Katrina. 125 i. Hurricane Katrina and Maternal Health Care. 125 ii. Federal Response to Maternal Health Issues in Hurricane Katrina. 127 iii. NGO Response to Maternal Health Issues in Hurricane Katrina. 127 B. The Flint Water Crisis. 128 I....; Search Snippet: ...Redefining and Expanding the Disaster Law Framework to Address Pregnant Women's Health Care Needs Nancy Zambrana [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by The... |
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| Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander , Linda F. Harrison |
My Hair Is Not like Yours: Workplace Hair Grooming Policies for African American Women as Racial Stereotyping in Violation of Title Vii |
22 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 437 (Spring, 2016) |
This article argues that workplace discrimination based on hair grooming policies disproportionately impacts African American women. The article seeks to establish that natural hair is an immutable characteristic, as is all hair, made mutable by social policies that impose an acceptable standard of beauty that was never meant to include or...; Search Snippet: ...Hair Is Not like Yours: Workplace Hair Grooming Policies for African American Women as Racial Stereotyping in Violation of Title Vii Dawn D... |
2016 |
African/Black American |
| Sandra Alcaide , Lynne Marie Kohm |
Obergefell: a Game-changer for Women |
14 Ave Maria Law Review 99 (Fall, 2016) |
On June 26, 2015, the ancient institution of marriage in the United States was permanently changed from an institution centered on biological truths and the protection of women and children to one centered on individual autonomy, consent, and desire. In the majority opinion of Obergefell v. Hodges, written by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy,...; Search Snippet: ...Faith and the Future Article Obergefell: a Game-changer for Women Sandra Alcaide [Fnd1] Lynne Marie Kohm [Fndd1] Copyright © 2017 By... |
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| Bennett Capers |
On "Violence Against Women" |
13 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 347 (Spring, 2016) |
We all know the statistics. One in three women has experienced domestic violence. Nearly one in five women has been raped. Quite simply, it is not safe being a woman. Or a girl for that matter. It is definitely not safe being a co-ed on campus. Or a woman in prison. Or a female gamer in the virtual world of gaming. And there is danger on public...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Criminal Law Spring, 2016 Symposium on Violence Against Women Bennett Capers [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2016 Ohio State Journal Of... |
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| Joyce S. Sterling , Nancy Reichman |
Overlooked and Undervalued: Women in Private Law Practice |
12 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 373 (2016) |
lawyers, promotions, gender inequality, compensation, pay equity, implicit bias This article examines the durability of gender inequality in private law practice since Kay & Gorman published their comprehensive review in the Annual Review of Law and Social Science in 2008. We begin with some of the changes in legal practice that intensified during...; Search Snippet: ...Review of Law and Social Science 2016 Overlooked and Undervalued: Women in Private Law Practice Joyce S. Sterling [Fn1] Nancy Reichman... |
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| Rose Corrigan, Corey S. Shdaimah |
People with Secrets: Contesting, Constructing, and Resisting Women's Claims about Sexualized Victimization |
65 Catholic University Law Review 429 (Spring, 2016) |
I. How Criminal Justice Personnel Recognize Victims. 436 A. Ideal Victim Theory and Case Outcomes. 437 1. The Power of Ideal Victim Theory. 437 2. The Limitations of Ideal Victim Theory. 437 B. Applying Ideal Victim Theory to Women Affected by Sexual Offenses. 440 1. Prostitute Women and Ideal Victim Theory. 440 2. Sexual Assault Victims and Ideal...; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 2016 Article People with Secrets: Contesting, Constructing, and Resisting Women's Claims about Sexualized Victimization Rose Corrigan Corey S. Shdaimah [Fnf1... |
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| Cara E. Trombadore |
Police Officer Sexual Misconduct: an Urgent Call to Action in a Context Disproportionately Threatening Women of Color |
32 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice 153 (Spring, 2016) |
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution. --Albert Einstein Who are they going to call? It's the police who are abusing them. --Penny Harrington, former police chief On June 17, 2014, Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw questioned a young black teenager and learned that she had an outstanding arrest warrant...; Search Snippet: ...An Urgent Call to Action in a Context Disproportionately Threatening Women of Color Cara E. Trombadore [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by The... |
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African/Black American |
| Catharine A. MacKinnon |
Rape Redefined |
10 Harvard Law & Policy Review 431 (Summer, 2016) |
Rape is redefined in gender equality terms by eliminating consent, an intrinsically unequal concept, and reconceiving force to include inequalities. International developments recognizing sexual assault as gender crime reveal domestic law's failures and illuminate a path forward. A statutory proposal is offered. Rape is a crime of gender...; Search Snippet: ...Sweden at Nordiskt Forum, June 13, 2014. The Thousands of Women in That Stadium, in Which You Could Have Heard A... |
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| Matthew Hector |
Rare African-american Female Firm in National Spotlight |
104 Illinois Bar Journal 15 (October, 2016) |
Chicago-based Knight, Morris & Reddick uses technology and an entrepreneurial spirit to carve out niches in real estate, estate planning, and other practice areas. THE ATLANTIC RECENTLY PUBLISHED AN article highlighting one of Chicago's newer law firms. Founded in 2012, Knight, Morris & Reddick Law Group (http://kmrlawgroup.com) is one of the few...; Search Snippet: ...Illinois Bar Journal Illinois Bar Journal October, 2016 Lawpulse Rare African- American Female Firm in National Spotlight Matthew Hector [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 By... |
2016 |
African/Black American |
| Camille Gear Rich |
Reclaiming the Welfare Queen: Feminist and Critical Race Theory Alternatives to Existing Anti-poverty Discourse |
25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 257 (Spring 2016) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 258 II. REFRAMING AND RECLAIMING THE WELFARE QUEEN. 264 A. Historical Relic or Current Reality? Understanding the Role of the Welfare Queen. 264 B. Charting A Way Forward: Reclaiming the Welfare Queen. 270 III. UNDERSTANDING THE WELFARE QUEEN: CONFERENCE PANELS AND DISCUSSIONS. 276 A. The Disciplinary Power of the Welfare Queen....; Search Snippet: ...Interdisciplinary Law Journal Spring 2016 Article Reclaiming the Welfare Queen: Feminist and Critical Race Theory Alternatives to Existing Anti-poverty Discourse... |
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| Kimani Paul-Emile |
Reconsidering Criminal Background Checks: Race, Gender, and Redemption |
25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 395 (Spring 2016) |
The year 2015 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the influential and highly controversial Moynihan Report, which described poor African Americans as caught in a culture of poverty and helped substantiate the myth of the welfare queen: a woman who rejects paid employment and marriage as a prerequisite for childbearing, preferring instead to...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Spring 2016 Article Reconsidering Criminal Background Checks: Race, Gender, and Redemption Kimani Paul-emile [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2016 Gould... |
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African/Black American |
| Cynthia Grant Bowman |
Recovering Socialism for Feminist Legal Theory in the 21st Century |
49 Connecticut Law Review 117 (November, 2016) |
This Article argues that a significant strand of feminist theory in the 1970s and 1980s--socialist feminism--has largely been ignored by feminist jurisprudence in the United States and explores potential contributions to legal theory of recapturing the insights of socialist feminism. It describes both the context out of which that theory grew, in...; Search Snippet: ...Review Connecticut Law Review November, 2016 Article Recovering Socialism for Feminist Legal Theory in the 21st Century Cynthia Grant Bowman [Fna1... |
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| Caroline Fredrickson |
Remembering the Founding of the Journal of Gender and Law |
33 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 2 (2016) |
In my first year of law school, I felt baffled by the experience of legal education. I had spent three years working in politics--in campaigns and on Capitol Hill--and had entered law school to find a way to add intellectual depth to my instinctive progressive beliefs. But what I found, I perceived to be arid and counterfactual, with caselaw...; Search Snippet: ...And Law 2016 Remembering the Founding of the Journal of Gender and Law Caroline Fredrickson [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by the Columbia... |
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| Abbe Smith |
Representing Rapists: the Cruelty of Cross Examination and Other Challenges for a Feminist Criminal Defense Lawyer |
53 American Criminal Law Review 255 (Spring, 2016) |
Somehow, Atticus had hit her hard in a way that was not clear to me, but it gave him no pleasure to do so. He sat with his head down, and I never saw anybody glare at anyone with the hatred Mayella showed when she left the stand and walked by Atticus's table. --Scout Finch describing her father's cross-examination of rape complainant Mayella Ewell...; Search Snippet: ...The Cruelty of Cross Examination and Other Challenges for a Feminist Criminal Defense Lawyer Abbe Smith [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by Abbe... |
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| Pamela Bass |
Second Generation Gender Bias in College Coaching: Can the Law Reach That Far? |
26 Marquette Sports Law Review 671 (Spring 2016) |
On November 24, 2014, Patsy Mink, the Mother of Title IX, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 states, No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational...; Search Snippet: ...Review Marquette Sports Law Review Spring 2016 Article Second Generation Gender Bias in College Coaching: Can the Law Reach That Far... |
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| Kristymarie Shipley, née Flores Collazo |
Should I Be "Shipley" or "Flores Collazo" Today? The Racialization of the Law Student and Legal Workplace Candidate |
31 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 183 (Summer, 2016) |
I. Introducing the Candidate's Struggle. 184 II. What Colors the Discussion. 186 A. One Hundred Percent Puerto Rican . . . or Latina . . . or Hispanic . . . or Whatever: The Social Constructions of Race. 186 B. Puertorriqueña. Latina. 188 C. Don't Be the Firm's Latina. . 189 III. Raise Your Hand: A Burden and a Duty. 190 A. Class Participation as...; Search Snippet: ...Of Law School and Legal Employment. As a Puerto Rican Female Student Married to an African- American Man, it Was Difficult for Me to Find Anyone, Student... |
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| Kelsey R. Chapple |
Sports for Boys, Wedding Cakes for Girls: the Inevitability of Stereotyping in Schools Segregated by Sex |
94 Texas Law Review 537 (February, 2016) |
This Note argues that in light of psychological research demonstrating that stereotypes flourish when groups are segregated on the basis of visible characteristics such as sex, all schools that are segregated on the basis of sex violate the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee against sex discrimination. Though the Supreme Court in United States v....; Search Snippet: ...Review February, 2016 Notes Sports for Boys, Wedding Cakes for Girls: the Inevitability of Stereotyping in Schools Segregated by Sex [Fna1... |
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| Brenda V. Smith |
Stories of Teaching Race, Gender, and Class: a Narrative |
51 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 11 (2016) |
This Essay arises out of the keynote speech that I gave at the New England Clinical Conference at Harvard Law School in November 2015. The conference theme was, Teaching Race, Gender and Class: Learning from Our Students, Communities and Each Other. The primary planners and hosts for the conference were clinical teachers and programs in the...; Search Snippet: ...Policy, Clinical Education, and Dispute Resolution Stories of Teaching Race, Gender, and Class: a Narrative Brenda V. Smith [Fna1] Copyright © 2016... |
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| Jamie R. Abrams |
The Feminist Case for Acknowledging Women's Acts of Violence |
27 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 287 (2016) |
This Article makes a feminist case for acknowledging women's acts of violence as consistent with--not threatening to--the goals of the domestic violence movement and the feminist movement. It concludes that broadly understanding women's use of strength, power, coercion, control, and violence, even illegitimate uses, can be framed...; Search Snippet: ...And Feminism Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 2016 Articles the Feminist Case for Acknowledging Women's Acts of Violence Jamie R. Abrams [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 2016... |
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| Nnennaya Amuchie |
The Forgotten Victims How Racialized Gender Stereotypes Lead to Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls: Incorporating an Analysis of Police Violence into Feminist Jurisprudence and Community Activism |
14 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 617 (Spring, 2016) |
For all the Black girls and women who never had a chance to live in a world free from violence. --Nnennaya Amuchie Last year, thousands of young people gathered around the world in solidarity with Ferguson, Missouri, after police officers killed Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old Black teenager. Following Michael Brown's death, police officers...; Search Snippet: ...Seattle Journal for Social Justice the Forgotten Victims How Racialized Gender Stereotypes Lead to Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls: Incorporating an Analysis of Police Violence into Feminist Jurisprudence and Community Activism Nnennaya Amuchie Copyright © 2016 by Seattle... |
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| Lea VanderVelde |
The Last Legally Beaten Servant in America: from Compulsion to Coercion in the American Workplace |
39 Seattle University Law Review 727 (Spring, 2016) |
A master may by law correct his apprentice or servant .. --Blackstone's Commentaries The relation of master and slave begins in violence; it must be sustained by violence--the systematic violence of general laws, or the irregular violence of individual caprice. --Theodore Parker, 1830 L1-2Contents Introduction. 728 I. Private Relationships and...; Search Snippet: ...Gendered Origins of the Lumley Doctrine: Binding Men's Consciences and Women's Fidelity , 101 Yale L.j. 775 (1992) [Hereinafter Vandervelde, Gendered Origins... |
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| Tracy A. Thomas |
The Origins of Constitutional Gender Equality in the Nineteenth-century Work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
7 ConLawNOW 1 (2016) |
The fall colloquium of the Center for Constitutional Law at Akron highlighted the significant constitutional work of pioneering feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton for equality in the political, domestic, and religious spheres. It also celebrated the conclusion of my ten-year intellectual odyssey of Stanton's instrumental work for the development of...; Search Snippet: ...Symposium on Elizabeth Cady Stanton Article the Origins of Constitutional Gender Equality in the Nineteenth-century Work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton... |
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| Katherine Lemons, McGill University |
The Politics of Livability: Tutoring "Kinwork" in a New Delhi Women's Arbitration Center |
39 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 244 (November, 2016) |
This article provides an analysis of dispute adjudication in a women's arbitration center, or mahila panchayat, in New Delhi, India. In analyzing two exemplary cases from my fieldwork, I argue that mahila panchayat adjudication tends to tutor kinwork as a means of producing livable lives within a context of material and ideological constraint....; Search Snippet: ...The Politics of Livability: Tutoring Kinwork in a New Delhi Women's Arbitration Center Katherine Lemons Mcgill University Copyright © 2016 by The... |
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| Vincent J. Samar |
The Right to Privacy and the Right to Use the Bathroom Consistent with One's Gender Identity |
24 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 33 (Fall, 2016) |
Recently, North Carolina, Kentucky, Florida, and Texas have either adopted, are considering adopting, or have failed to adopt statutes requiring all persons within the state to only use the public bathroom or locker room associated with their biological sex at birth. These efforts have given rise to cries of discrimination and persecution by...; Search Snippet: ...And the Right to Use the Bathroom Consistent with One's Gender Identity Vincent J. Samar [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by Vincent J... |
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| Dalton Windham |
The White Ribbon Army: Politics and Race Relations of the Georgia Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1880 to 1907 |
24 Journal of Southern Legal History 151 (2016) |
At the end of the nineteenth century, the Temperance Movement was flourishing across the United States. While the crowning achievement of the Temperance Movement, nationwide prohibition, took place in 1920, the work of temperance organizations between the mid-1870s and early 1900s is also worthy of attention. These early organizations are...; Search Snippet: ...White Ribbon Army: Politics and Race Relations of the Georgia Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1880 to 1907 Dalton Windham [Fna1... |
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The Whole Woman's Health V. Hellerstedt Oral Argument: a Roundtable Discussion with Members of Nyu Law Students for Reproductive Justice |
41 Harbinger 155 (6/29/2016) |
On June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court decided Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, a case referred to as the most significant abortion case to come before the court since 1992. The case centered on the constitutionality of two provisions of Texas law HB2: first, an admitting-privileges requirement which compels doctors who perform abortions to...; Search Snippet: ...2016 Wl 9665210 Harbinger Harbinger June 29, 2016 the Whole Woman's Health V. Hellerstedt Oral Argument: a Roundtable Discussion with Members... |
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| Frank R. Baumgartner , Emma Johnson , Colin Wilson , Clarke Whitehead |
These Lives Matter, Those Ones Don't: Comparing Execution Rates by the Race and Gender of the Victim in the U.s. and in the Top Death Penalty States |
79 Albany Law Review 797 (2015-2016) |
In a recent article, Baumgartner and colleagues demonstrated based on national statistics that the odds of execution differ dramatically based on the race and gender of the victim. They compared national statistics on homicide victimization, which clearly show that black males are the most likely victims of homicide, with data associated with the...; Search Snippet: ...Those Ones Don't: Comparing Execution Rates by the Race and Gender of the Victim in the U.s. and in the Top... |
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| Loretta A. Moore , Deidre L. Wheaton , Angela Mae Kupenda , Michelle D. Deardorff , Evelyn J. Leggette |
Transforming Climates for the Woman of Color: Strategic Engagement with Families and Social Networks of the Married/partnered Academic Woman of Color |
42 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 17 (Fall, 2016) |
This article examines how familial and social structures influence career advancement, work-life balance, and ultimately institutional transformation for the academic woman of color in male dominated disciplines, and especially in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and Social and Behavioral Science (SBS) disciplines at...; Search Snippet: ...Thurgood Marshall Law Review Fall, 2016 Transforming Climates for the Woman of Color: Strategic Engagement with Families and Social Networks of the Married/partnered Academic Woman of Color Loretta A. Moore [Fna1] Deidre L. Wheaton [Fnp1... |
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| Thomas A. Mayes |
Understanding Intersectionality Between the Law, Gender, Sexuality and Children |
36 Children's Legal Rights Journal 90 (2016) |
Children who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (hereinafter LGBTQ) are at a greater risk of negative life outcomes than their straight counterparts, including substance abuse, perpetration of violence, victimization, school failure, suicide attempts, and suicide. LGBTQ children are overrepresented in the foster care system,...; Search Snippet: ...Legal Rights Journal 2016 Article Understanding Intersectionality Between the Law, Gender, Sexuality and Children Thomas A. Mayes [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 By... |
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| Chai Feldblum |
University of Baltimore School of Law Center on Applied Feminism's 8th Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference on Applied Feminism and Work: Keynote Speaker Chai Feldblum, Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
45 University of Baltimore Law Review 197 (Spring 2016) |
Below is a transcript of the keynote speech from the University of Baltimore School of Law Center on Applied Feminism 8 Annual Feminist Legal Conference: Applied Feminism and Work. Chai Feldblum, Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), gave the keynote speech on Friday, March 6, 2015. CHAI FELDBLUM : I'm thrilled to be...; Search Snippet: ...Baltimore School of Law Center on Applied Feminism's 8th Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference on Applied Feminism and Work: Keynote Speaker... |
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| Nina Martinelli |
What Would You Do? |
18 No. 11 Lawyers Journal J. 5 (5/27/2016) |
Imagine you're an aspiring law student of diverse ethnic or racial background who identifies as LGBTQ. How are you going to navigate our very traditional legal profession? In March, a seminar posed that question by asking participants to consider scenarios in which issues regarding race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender intersected with the...; Search Snippet: ...What Would You Do? Seminar Poses Workplace Scenarios on Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation Nina Martinelli [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by Allegheny County... |
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| Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Associate Director, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and Director, Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law, Brandeis University |
What's the Harm in Polygamy? Multicultural Toleration and Women's Experience of Plural Marriage |
31 Journal of Law and Religion 336 (November, 2016) |
The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy. By John Witte, Jr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 550. $51.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-1107499171. Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy and the Future of Marriage. By Stephen Macedo. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. 320. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0691166483. Polygyny: What...; Search Snippet: ...Field Essay What's the Harm in Polygamy? Multicultural Toleration and Women's Experience of Plural Marriage Lisa Fishbayn Joffe Associate Director, Hadassah... |
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| Steven D. Schwinn, The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL |
Whole Women's Health |
43 No. 5 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 194 (2/22/2016) |
Texas H.B. 2 requires abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. It also requires abortion clinics to meet the stringent standards of ambulatory surgical centers. The requirements, if upheld, could force 75 percent of the abortion clinics in Texas to close, leaving just nine clinics in metropolitan areas, and creating an...; Search Snippet: ...Requirements for Abortion Providers That Are Purportedly Designed to Protect Women's Safety, but That, If Upheld, Will Force the Closure Of... |
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Wilig Luncheon: 25 Years Later: a Discussion of "Feminist Approaches to International Law" |
110 American Society of International Law Proceedings 231 (March 30-April 2, 2016) |
This panel was convened at 1:00 p.m., on Friday, Apri1, 2016, with an introduction by Lori Fisler Damrosch, President of the American Society of International Law. WILIG co-chairs Christie Edwards, Director of International Humanitarian Law at the American Red Cross, and Tracy Roosevelt, Associate at Foley Hoag, introduced the moderator and...; Search Snippet: ...2, 2016 Wilig Luncheon: 25 Years Later: a Discussion of Feminist Approaches to International Law Copyright © 2017 by the American Society... |
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| Marlene Coir |
Women in the Law--a History of Endurance |
95-DEC Michigan Bar Journal 40 (December, 2016) |
Women continue to break glass ceilings, having often been inspired by those who came before. Let us become familiar with some historical firsts for women in the legal profession in this nation and the state of Michigan. Margaret Brent was an astute land owner in colonial America. She was also the first woman to practice law in this land not only on...; Search Snippet: ...Michigan Bar Journal December, 2016 Department Libraries and Legal Research Women in the Law--a History of Endurance Marlene Coir [Fna1... |
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| Hila Keren |
Women in the Shark Tank: Entrepreneurship and Feminism in a Neoliberal Age |
34 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 75 (2016) |
C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. 75 I. Defeating Gender Inequality. 79 A. Post-Feminism. 81 B. Neoliberal Feminism. 86 II. Perpetuating Gender Inequality. 92 A. Underrepresentation and Underinvestment. 92 B. Sexism. 94 C. Second Class (Again). 97 III. Legal Feminism in Entrepreneurial Times. 103 A. Harm to Female Entrepreneurs. 104 B. Harm to...; Search Snippet: ...Gender and Law Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 2016 Women in the Shark Tank: Entrepreneurship and Feminism in a Neoliberal... |
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| Alexandra S. Grande , Caitlin Kling , Brenda Bauges |
Women on State Boards and Commissions: Is Idaho Where it Wants to Be? |
59-APR Advocate 29 (March/April, 2016) |
Documenting diversity statistics has become relatively commonplace in various levels of government. If a person wants to know how many women are currently serving in the United States Senate, a quick internet search can provide the answer. The same is true of statistics regarding the composition of the Idaho State Senate. These kinds of statistics...; Search Snippet: ...2016 Wl 1109406 Advocate Advocate March/april, 2016 Section Article Women on State Boards and Commissions: Is Idaho Where it Wants... |
2016 |
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| Cheryl Nelson Butler |
A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution & Sex Trafficking in America |
27 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 95 (2015) |
This Article is one of the first to apply critical race feminism (CRF) to explore prostitution and sex trafficking in the United States. Several scholars have applied critical race feminism to explore several forms of sexual exploitation, including sexual harassment, domestic violence, and rape, but have yet to extend this discourse into...; Search Snippet: ...Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 2015 Article a Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution & Sex Trafficking in America Cheryl Nelson Butler... |
2015 |
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| Karen Oehme , Nat Stern , Annelise Mennicke |
A Deficiency in Addressing Campus Sexual Assault: the Lack of Women Law Enforcement Officers |
38 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 337 (Summer 2015) |
The federal government has taken a range of measures to combat the scourge of sexual assault afflicting college campuses across the nation. Whatever the efficacy of these policies, however, they fail to address a major obstacle to curbing sexual violence on campus: the chronically low rate of reporting of this crime to police. Research on crime...; Search Snippet: ...A Deficiency in Addressing Campus Sexual Assault: the Lack of Women Law Enforcement Officers Karen Oehme [Fna1] Nat Stern [Fnaa1] Annelise... |
2015 |
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| Gabrielle Davis |
A Systematic Approach to Domestic Abuse-informed Child Custody Decision Making in Family Law Cases |
53 Family Court Review 565 (October, 2015) |
This article introduces an approach to domestic violence-informed decision making developed under the auspices of the National Child Custody Differentiation Project, a cooperative undertaking among the Battered Women's Justice Project, the Association of Family & Conciliation Courts, the National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges, Praxis...; Search Snippet: ...2009-ta-ax-k025 from the Office of Violence Against Women, U.s. Department of Justice. The Opinions, Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations... |
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