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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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| 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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| Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb |
#Sayhername #Blackwomenslivesmatter: State Violence in Policing the Black Female Body |
67 Mercer Law Review 651 (Winter 2016) |
On June 30, 1974, Alberta Williams King was shot and killed in the sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia as she played the organ for Sunday morning service. Mrs. King, seventy years old, was the mother of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. News of her death was overshadowed by four Black men: her son, killed six years...; Search Snippet: ...Sayhername [Fn1] #Blackwomenslivesmatter: [Fn2] State Violence in Policing the Black Female Body Teri A. Mcmurtry-chubb [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2016 Walter... |
2016 |
African/Black American |
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| Andrea J. Ritchie |
#Sayhername: Racial Profiling and Police Violence Against Black Women |
41 Harbinger 187 (8/11/2016) |
As the nation wrestles with the relentless reality of police violence against Black, Brown and Indigenous bodies and the enduring impacts of mass incarceration on individuals, families and communities of color, we also continue to grapple with invisibility and erasure of women's experiences of state violence. In November of 2015, I had the distinct...; Search Snippet: ...11, 2016 #Sayhername: Racial Profiling and Police Violence Against Black Women Andrea J. Ritchie [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by the Harbinger; Andrea... |
2016 |
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| Terry Morehead Dworkin , Aarti Ramaswami , Cindy A. Schipani |
A Half-century Post-title Vii: Still Seeking Pathways for Women to Organizational Leadership |
23 UCLA Women's Law Journal 29 (Summer, 2016) |
Perhaps the most important of the many 50th anniversaries marked in 2014 was the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII). Title VII greatly broadened the ability of individuals to gain and keep employment by barring discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. The anniversary is a good time to...; Search Snippet: ...A Half-century Post-title Vii: Still Seeking Pathways for Women to Organizational Leadership [Fnf1] Terry Morehead Dworkin [Fna1] Aarti Ramaswami... |
2016 |
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| Meaghan Fitzpatrick, Leslye E. Orloff |
Abused, Abandoned, or Neglected: Legal Options for Recent Immigrant Women and Girls |
4 Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs 614 (August, 2016) |
million immigrants lived in the U.S. with women (51%) and children under the age of 18 (25%) representing a substantial proportion of the U.S. immigrant population. Of that population, 2.1 million children are foreign-born and 17.5 million...; Search Snippet: ...Article Abused, Abandoned, or Neglected: Legal Options for Recent Immigrant Women and Girls Meaghan Fitzpatrick Leslye E. Orloff Copyright © 2016 Penn State Journal... |
2016 |
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| Tracy Carbasho |
Allen, First African-american Woman to Serve on Superior Court, Retires |
18 No. 2 Lawyers Journal J. 5 (1/22/2016) |
Judge Cheryl Allen has the distinction of being the first African-American woman to serve on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, but her efforts to help children and families have brought her the most recognition. Allen, whose term on the appellate court was set to expire at the end of 2017, decided to retire early in September 2015. A spokeswoman...; Search Snippet: ...1405593 Lawyers Journal Lawyers Journal January 22, 2016 Allen, First African- American Woman to Serve on Superior Court, Retires Tracy Carbasho Copyright © 2016... |
2016 |
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| Shirley Lin |
And Ain't I a Woman?: Feminism, Immigrant Caregivers, and New Frontiers for Equality |
39 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 67 (Winter 2016) |
Introduction. 67 I. Feminist Legal Theory at the Crossroads: Immigrant Women Caregivers and the Carceral Matrix. 71 A. Feminism, Economic Insecurity, and Social Reproduction: Gender Equity in Context. 74 B. Immigrants and the Deepening Paradox of Wrongs Without Remedies. 81 1. From Contradiction to Lawful Retaliation: IRCA and Hoffman Plastics...; Search Snippet: ...Of Law & Gender Winter 2016 Article and Ain't I a Woman?: Feminism, Immigrant Caregivers, and New Frontiers for Equality Shirley Lin... |
2016 |
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| Deborah L. Rhode |
Appearance as a Feminist Issue |
69 SMU Law Review 697 (Fall, 2016) |
IN 1929, in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf maintained that every woman needed to consider what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world of gloves and shoes .. Since then, that world has grown ever more complicated. In today's universe of escalating opportunities for cosmetic enhancement, the issues surrounding beauty have...; Search Snippet: ...Review Smu Law Review Fall, 2016 Essay Appearance as a Feminist Issue [Fn1] Deborah L. Rhode Copyright © 2016 by Southern Methodist... |
2016 |
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| Hannah Brenner , Kathleen Darcy , Gina Fedock , Sheryl Kubiak |
Bars to Justice: the Impact of Rape Myths on Women in Prison |
17 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 521 (Spring, 2016) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3522 I. Ideal Victim Discourse. 529 A. History, Relevance, and Impact of Rape Myths. 529 B. Is There an Ideal Rape Victim?. 533 II. How Rape Myths Interact With Prison Culture and Preclude Ideal Victimhood. 536 A. Sexual Violence in Prison: Definitions and Background. 537 B. Ideal Victims and Prison...; Search Snippet: ...Article Bars to Justice: the Impact of Rape Myths on Women in Prison Hannah Brenner [Fna1] Kathleen Darcy [Fnaa1] Gina Fedock... |
2016 |
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| Julia C. Maddera |
Batson in Transition: Prohibiting Peremptory Challenges on the Basis of Gender Identity or Expression |
116 Columbia Law Review 195 (January, 2016) |
While peremptory challenges upon the basis of race, ethnicity, and gender have been held unconstitutional, and peremptory strikes upon the basis of sexual orientation have been regarded as increasingly suspect after United States v. Windsor, attorneys remain free to use peremptory challenges to remove potential jurors from the venire upon the basis...; Search Snippet: ...Batson in Transition: Prohibiting Peremptory Challenges on the Basis of Gender Identity or Expression Julia C. Maddera [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 By... |
2016 |
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| Danielle Matricardi |
Binary Imprisonment: Transgender Inmates Ensnared Within the System and Confined to Assigned Gender |
67 Mercer Law Review 707 (Winter 2016) |
It is June 26, 2015. The sun is shining, and the grass is wet with morning dew. Those unaware sip their coffee on the way to work, perplexed why so many rainbow flags clutter their morning commute. Celebrations are breaking out across the Nation. The United States Supreme Court has legalized same-sex marriage. Finally, the day has come when people...; Search Snippet: ...Transgender Inmates Ensnared Within the System and Confined to Assigned Gender [Fnd1] Danielle Matricardi Copyright (C) 2016 Walter F. George School... |
2016 |
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| Tom I. Romero, II |
Bridging the Confluence of Water and Immigration Law |
48 Texas Tech Law Review 779 (Summer, 2016) |
I. Introduction. 780 II. The Irrigation Era and the Need for a Docile Labor Supply. 782 III. The Metropolitan Revolution and the Rise of the Illegal Gardner. 798 IV. The Great Local Thirst for Proper Documentation. 807 V. Conclusion. 815 Appendix: A Timeline of Important Moments in Water and Immigration Law and Policy. 817; Search Snippet: ...Towns: Anti-immigrant Ordinances and Equality of Educational Opportunity for Latina/os, 12 J. Gender, Race & Just., No. 1, 2008. Any Analysis Provided Herein Originally... |
2016 |
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| Anietie Maureen-Ann Akpan |
Case Comment: Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl, 133 S. Ct. 2552 (2013) |
6 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 1 (2016) |
This Comment discusses the 2013 United States Supreme Court case of Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, which involved an unwed Cherokee father's (Petitioner) journey to regaining custody of his child, after erroneously granting consent of the child's adoption to a non-Indian couple. This Comment further discusses the issues that arise within transracial...; Search Snippet: ...And Law 2016 Sidebar Case Comment: Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl, 133 S. Ct. 2552 (2013) Anietie Maureen-ann Akpan [Fna1... |
2016 |
American Indian/Alaskan Native |
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| Rose McKinley |
Celluloid and Silicon Ceilings: Underinvestment in Women Directors and Entrepreneurs |
24 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 89 (Fall, 2016) |
In the absence of water, people drink sand. And that is sad. There's such an interest in things being equal and such a weary acceptance that it's not. - Shonda Rhimes, October 2015 California is the American mecca for creativity and invention. As the home of Jackie Robinson, Chief Justice Earl Warren, and the Free Speech Movement, the Golden...; Search Snippet: ...Policy Fall, 2016 Note Celluloid and Silicon Ceilings: Underinvestment in Women Directors and Entrepreneurs Rose Mckinley [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by Rose... |
2016 |
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| Julie Goldscheid |
Considering the Role of the State: Comment on "Criminalizing Sexual Violence Against Women in Intimate Relationships" |
109 AJIL Unbound 202 (July, 2015-May, 2016) |
International human rights frameworks offer powerful support for a range of reforms to address marital rape. Melanie Randall and Vasanthi Venkatesh's valuable commentary, Criminalizing Sexual Violence against Women in Intimate Relationships, correctly shines a spotlight on the extent to which marital rape is still accepted in too many countries...; Search Snippet: ...Role of the State: Comment on Criminalizing Sexual Violence Against Women in Intimate Relationships Julie Goldscheid [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by The... |
2016 |
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| Jeannine Bell , Mona Lynch |
Cross-sectional Challenges: Gender, Race, and Six-person Juries |
46 Seton Hall Law Review 419 (2016) |
After two grand juries failed to indict the police officers that killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner in 2014, our nation has engaged in polarizing discussions about how juries reach their decision. The very legitimacy of our justice system has come into question. Increasingly, deep concerns have been raised regarding the role of race and gender in...; Search Snippet: ...Review Seton Hall Law Review 2016 Article Cross-sectional Challenges: Gender, Race, and Six-person Juries Jeannine Bell [Fna1] Mona Lynch... |
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| Nicole Taykhman |
Defying Silence: Immigrant Women Workers, Wage Theft, and Anti-retaliation Policy in the States |
32 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 96 (2016) |
A recent New York Times exposé highlighted the inner workings of the nail salon industry in New York City, and revealed to the public how rampant wage theft props up an industry that relies on low-wage, undocumented women workers. New York's response provides a starting point to consider how governments should respond to wage theft as it affects...; Search Snippet: ...Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 2016 Defying Silence: Immigrant Women Workers, Wage Theft, and Anti-retaliation Policy in the States... |
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| Elise Meyer |
Designing Women: the Definition of "Woman" in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women |
16 Chicago Journal of International Law 553 (Winter 2016) |
This Comment begins by noting the indeterminacy of the term woman in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), arguing that the term, as it is used in CEDAW, is inclusive of trans* individuals, thus extending CEDAW's protections to this historically marginalized group. The Comment dissects the term ...; Search Snippet: ...Law Chicago Journal of International Law Winter 2016 Comment Designing Women: the Definition of Woman in the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Elise Meyer [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2016 Chicago Journal of International... |
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| Tina Zedginidze |
Domestic Abuse and Gang Violence Against Women: Expanding the Particular Social Group Finding in Matter of A-r-c-g- to Grant Asylum to Women Persecuted by Gangs |
34 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 221 (Winter, 2016) |
A young woman from El Salvador, Ms. Rivera-Barrientos, refused to join a violent street gang known as the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) because she did not believe in what [they did]. As a result, the gang members kidnapped her at knifepoint, hit her in the face with a beer bottle, and brutally gang raped her. The MS-13 members continued to follow...; Search Snippet: ...Practice Winter, 2016 Article Domestic Abuse and Gang Violence Against Women: Expanding the Particular Social Group Finding in Matter of A-r-c-g- to Grant Asylum to Women Persecuted by Gangs Tina Zedginidze [Fnd1] Copyright © 2016 by Law... |
2016 |
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| Nicholas Scurich, John Monahan, University of California-Irvine, University of Virginia |
Evidence-based Sentencing: Public Openness and Opposition to Using Gender, Age, and Race as Risk Factors for Recidivism |
40 Law and Human Behavior 36 (February, 2016) |
The incarceration of criminal offenders in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. One way to scale back the prison population is by using empirical risk assessment methods to apportion prison sentences based on the likelihood of the offender recidivating, so-called evidence-based sentencing. This practice has been denounced by some...; Search Snippet: ...2016 Evidence-based Sentencing: Public Openness and Opposition to Using Gender, Age, and Race as Risk Factors for Recidivism [Fna1] Nicholas... |
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| Blythe Leszkay |
Feminism on the Front Lines |
27 Hastings Women's Law Journal 261 (Summer 2016) |
The billions of visible stars are the only way to distinguish where the sky ends and where the treeline begins. It is very dark and very cold. Every night this week has been cold. One long week of shivering, sleepless nights. But now I have my foxhole. My own self-dug grave. It's quite an improvement actually. The past six nights have been spent...; Search Snippet: ...Would Be Fully Integrated into the Armed Forces. [Fn61] White Women Were Never Explicitly Excluded from Citizenship, [Fn62] as Were African Americans, [Fn63] but Were Viewed and Treated as Second-class Citizens, [Fn64] or Women as Citizen. [Fn65] this Status Included Something less than The... |
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| Connie Lee |
Gender Bias in the Courtroom: Combating Implicit Bias Against Women Trial Attorneys and Litigators |
22 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 229 (Winter, 2016) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 230 I. The History of Gender Bias in the Legal Profession. 231 II. Empirical Data Demonstrate the Impact of Gender Bias in the Courtroom. 235 A. Scientists Use the Implicit Association Test to Measure Gender Biases in the Legal Profession. 236 B. The Challenge of the Double Bind: Studies of Juries Reveal...; Search Snippet: ...And Gender Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender Winter, 2016 Article Gender Bias in the Courtroom: Combating Implicit Bias Against Women Trial Attorneys and Litigators Connie Lee [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 By... |
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| Devon Vincent |
Gender Diversity in the Nfl: the Importance of Female Leadership in a Historically Male-dominated Organization |
13 Willamette Sports Law Journal 60 (Spring, 2016) |
Introduction. 61 I. History of Domestic Violence in NFL. 62 II. Player Conduct Policy. 66 III. NFL Gender Employment Practices. 71 Conclusion. 76; Search Snippet: ...Willamette Sports Law Journal Willamette Sports Law Journal Spring, 2016 Gender Diversity in the Nfl: the Importance of Female Leadership in a Historically Male-dominated Organization Devon Vincent [Fn1... |
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| Melina Constantine Bell |
Gender Essentialism and American Law: Why and How to Sever the Connection |
23 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 163 (Spring 2016) |
American law presumes that all persons are born either female or male, and rests a surprising number of legal entitlements on this presumption. Persons' legal rights to express their identity at work, to use public accommodations, and to retain legal parenthood status with respect to their children may all depend on whether they are female or male....; Search Snippet: ...Policy Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy Spring 2016 Article Gender Essentialism and American Law: Why and How to Sever The... |
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| Noelle Jolin |
Gender-based Violence in Colombia: New Legislation Targets Femicides and Acid Attacks |
91 Tulane Law Review 371 (December, 2016) |
I. Introduction. 372 II. A Brief History of Colombia With Respect to Gender-Based Violence. 375 III. Femicide. 382 A. What Does Femicide Mean?. 382 B. The Importance of Using the Term Femicide. 383 C. Recent Latin American Trend to Classify Femicide as a Distinct Crime. 384 IV. Recent Developments in Colombia Regarding Femicide. 385 A. The...; Search Snippet: ...7422631 Tulane Law Review Tulane Law Review December, 2016 Comment Gender-based Violence in Colombia: New Legislation Targets Femicides and Acid... |
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| M. Christian Green, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Religion |
Graceful Pillars: Law, Religion, and the Ethics of the "Daughter Track" |
31 Journal of Law and Religion 130 (July, 2016) |
In this essay, analyzing the daughter track of daughter-provided elder care, through feminist philosopher Lisa Tessman's burdened virtues framework, I examine the ethical questions surrounding gender, sacrifice, and elder care on the daughter track, particularly concerning contexts of virtue and necessity. Second, I examine how Tessman's...; Search Snippet: ...Care Graceful Pillars: Law, Religion, and the Ethics of the Daughter Track M. Christian Green Senior Fellow, Center for the Study... |
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| Verna L. Williams |
Guns, Sex, and Race: the Second Amendment Through a Feminist Lens |
83 Tennessee Law Review 983 (Summer, 2016) |
Introduction. 983 I. Why A Feminist Lens?. 988 II. The Ratification Period: Defining Nation. 991 A. A Well-Regulated Militia: Structural Protection against Tyranny. 992 B. The Right of the People: Constructing Nation and Citizen. 994 III. Reconstruction Era: The Struggle for Redefinition. 999 A. Post-Civil War: Seismic Change to the Social...; Search Snippet: ...Article Guns, Sex, and Race: the Second Amendment Through a Feminist Lens Verna L. Williams [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 by Tennessee Law... |
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| April Shaw |
How Race-selective and Sex-selective Bans on Abortion Expose the Color-coded Dimensions of the Right to Abortion and Deficiencies in Constitutional Protections for Women of Color |
40 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 545 (2016) |
The Supreme Court's analysis of the fundamental right to abortion as articulated in Planned Parenthood v. Casey fails to take into account how race operates to restrict women of color's ability to exercise their right to an abortion. This article argues that Casey's undue burden test imposes a conceptual blind spot on the connection between race...; Search Snippet: ...The Right to Abortion and Deficiencies in Constitutional Protections for Women of Color April Shaw [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2016 New York... |
2016 |
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| Naomi A. Himmelhoch |
In the Padded Closet: Thoughts on a Secret Life |
27 Hastings Women's Law Journal 191 (Summer 2016) |
The author maintains that all people, places, and events in this book are real and he has depicted them accurately to the best of his ability. Before drawing conclusions, however, the reader is cautioned to bear in mind the fact that the author has spent considerable time mentally unbalanced. Mark Vonnegut, The Eden Express I have been in the...; Search Snippet: ...Seriously Ill in Order to Receive Treatment than a Poor African American Woman. This Has Certainly Mirrored My Own Experience. While at Harvard... |
2016 |
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| Rachel J. Anderson |
Inattentional Blindness: Psychological Barriers Between Legal Mandates and Progress Toward Workplace Gender Equality |
14 Santa Clara Journal of International Law 333 (2016) |
Inattentional blindness allows the perpetuation of workplace gender inequality. Gender inequality is contributing to the international workforce crisis causing widespread economic and other harm around the world. Currently, there is an under explained, sluggish, and in some cases imperceptible pace of change toward gender equality in the workplace...; Search Snippet: ...Blindness: Psychological Barriers Between Legal Mandates and Progress Toward Workplace Gender Equality Rachel J. Anderson [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2016 Santa Clara... |
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| Lisa Kelly , Nicole Tuszynski |
Introduction: Banishing Women: the Law and Politics of Abortion Travel |
33 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 25 (2016) |
In her Introduction to the inaugural issue of the Columbia Journal of and Law (JGL), Ruth Bader Ginsburg traced the gendered history of Columbia Law School from 1928, when the first female student was admitted, to 1990, when women composed nearly half the student body. Reflecting on this change, she asked, Does women's participation affect the way...; Search Snippet: ...Law Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 2016 Introduction: Banishing Women: the Law and Politics of Abortion Travel Lisa Kelly [Fna1... |
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| Liane Jackson |
Invisible Then Gone |
102-MAR ABA Journal 36 (March, 2016) |
Occasionally when Jenny Jones walks down the hall of her white-shoe law firm, a chairman emeritus will stop and ask how she's doing and about her work. These moments are a highlight because outside of this intermittent interaction, Jones feels largely ignored by the powers that be. Idling in her career, unable to hit the billable-hour requirements,...; Search Snippet: ...Journal Aba Journal March, 2016 Feature Invisible Then Gone Minority Women Are Disappearing from Biglaw--and Here's Why Liane Jackson [Fna1... |
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| Courtney Hodge |
Is the Indian Child Welfare Act Losing Steam?: Narrowing Non-custodial Parental Rights after Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl |
7 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 191 (2016) |
In 2013, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, a decision that will have long-term effects on the use of the Indian Child Welfare Act by non-custodial Native parents. Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978 in response to the high volume of Native children that had been removed from...; Search Snippet: ...Narrowing Non-custodial Parental Rights after Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl Courtney Hodge [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 Columbia Journal of Race And... |
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American Indian/Alaskan Native |
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| William N. Eskridge, Jr. |
Latter-day Constitutionalism: Sexuality, Gender, and Mormons |
2016 University of Illinois Law Review 1227 (2016) |
The extensive involvement of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the campaign that in 2008 overrode gay marriage in California brought sharp scrutiny to the interaction of Mormon theology and public constitutionalism. This Article explores Latter-day constitutionalism as an important normative phenomenon that illustrates the deep...; Search Snippet: ...A Tribute to Professor Harry Krause Latter-day Constitutionalism: Sexuality, Gender, and Mormons William N. Eskridge, Jr. [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 By... |
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| Yxta Maya Murray |
Leaked Memo to West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen from Major Consuelo Antoinette Martinez Regarding the "Raised Black Female Fist" Old Corps Photograph Incident |
23 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 149 (Fall, 2016) |
This satire responds to the recent United States Military Academy (USMA or West Point) Investigation sixteen African American female cadets who took a photograph of themselves holding up their fists. This work of legal analysis and of the imagination takes the form of an investigatory memo written by a fictional Latina West Point official to...; Search Snippet: ...Caslen from Major Consuelo Antoinette Martinez Regarding the Raised Black Female Fist Old Corps Photograph Incident Yxta Maya Murray [Fna1] Copyright... |
2016 |
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| Rachel Sieder |
Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Women's Rights in Mexico: the Ambiguities of Recognition |
48 New York University Journal of International Law & Politics 1125 (Summer 2016) |
I. Introduction. 1125 II. Legal Pluralism in Latin America. 1127 III. Recognition of Legal Pluralism in Mexico. 1132 IV. Indigenous Women in the 2001 Constitutional Reform Debates. 1134 V. Subnational Reforms. 1136 VI. Case Studies. 1138 A. Rights to Political Participation: The Case of Eufrasina Cruz Mendoza. 1138 B. Rights to Physical Security:...; Search Snippet: ...Access to Justice in Pluralist Societies Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Women's Rights in Mexico: the Ambiguities of Recognition Rachel Sieder [Fna1... |
2016 |
Hispanic/Latinx American |
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| Lisa Hogan, Pennsylvania State University |
Lisa Tetrault, the Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, Chapel Hill, Nc: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Pp. 296. $34.95 Cloth (Isbn 978-1-4696-1427-4). Doi:10.1017/s0738248016000250 |
34 Law and History Review 823 (August, 2016) |
In The Myth of Seneca Falls, historian Lisa Tetrault analyzes how Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony created an enduring origins myth for the women's rights movement. Celebrating the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 as the birth of the movement, Stanton and Anthony ensured their own place in the history of the cause by emphasizing their...; Search Snippet: ...Lisa Tetrault, the Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, Chapel Hill, Nc: University of North... |
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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... |
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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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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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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