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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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| 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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| 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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| 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... |
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| 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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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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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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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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