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| Lori Kersey |
Meshea L. Poore |
2017-SUM West Virginia Lawyer 26 (Summer, 2017) |
Meshea L. Poore was the first person in her family to go to college and the first to become a lawyer. When she was appointed and then elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates, she was the first minority to represent her district. Poore achieved another significant first on April 2, when she became the first African American woman to be...; Search Snippet: ...Summer, 2017 Cover Story Meshea L. Poore as the First Female African American President of the West Virginia State Bar, Meshea L. Poore... |
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| Katilyn Hollowell |
Mind the Gap: Bridging Gender Wage Inequality in Louisiana |
77 Louisiana Law Review 833 (Spring, 2017) |
The public policy of Louisiana is that a woman who performs public service for the state is entitled to be paid the same compensation for her services as is paid to a man who performs the same kind, grade, and quality of service, and a distinction in compensation may not be made because of sex. Strikingly, Louisiana women who are not in public...; Search Snippet: ...Louisiana Law Review Spring, 2017 Comment Mind the Gap: Bridging Gender Wage Inequality in Louisiana Katilyn Hollowell [Fna1] Copyright © 2017 By... |
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| Chris Chambers Goodman |
Nevertheless She Persisted: from Mrs. Bradwell to Annalise Keating, Gender Bias in the Courtroom |
24 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 167 (Fall, 2017) |
Introduction I. Background A. Bias, Stereotypes, and Schemas B. Stereotypes About Women Applied in the Law C. How the Media Evidences, Influences, and Exacerbates Gender Bias II. The Impacts of Gender Stereotypes and Bias in the Law A. Stereotypical Female Speech B. Do Looks Matter? C. The Role and Toll of Emotions III. Reducing the Impacts of...; Search Snippet: ...Protest Nevertheless She Persisted: from Mrs. Bradwell to Annalise Keating, Gender Bias in the Courtroom Chris Chambers Goodman [Fna1] Copyright © 2017... |
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| Emily Chertoff |
Prosecuting Gender-based Persecution: the Islamic State at the Icc |
126 Yale Law Journal 1050 (February, 2017) |
Reports suggest that Islamic State, the terrorist caliphate, has enslaved and brutalized thousands of women from the Yazidi ethnic minority of Syria and Northern Iraq. International criminal law has a name for what Islamic State has done to these women: gender-based persecution. This crime, which appears in the Rome Statute of the International...; Search Snippet: ...Yale Law Journal Yale Law Journal February, 2017 Note Prosecuting Gender-based Persecution: the Islamic State at the Icc Emily Chertoff... |
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| Zsea Bowmani |
Queer Refuge: the Impacts of Homoantagonism and Racism in U.s. Asylum Law |
18 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law L. 1 (Spring, 2017) |
Introduction. 2 I. Institutionalized Discrimination in Immigration and Asylum Law. 4 A. Sexual and Racial Exclusions in U.S. Immigration Law. 5 1. Discrimination Against LGBTQ Immigrants. 7 2. Racial Exclusions. 11 B. U.S. and International Asylum Law: Ill-Fit for LGBTQ People. 14 1. The Quintessential Refugee is Not Queer. 15 2. The Process of...; Search Snippet: ...Homosexual or Perceived to Be (Because of the Conflation of Gender Identity with Sexual Orientation), Which Is Lost in the More... |
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| Margaret F. Brinig |
Racial and Gender Justice in the Child Welfare and Child Support Systems |
35 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 199 (Summer, 2017) |
Academics have studied married and divorcing couples for many years. It is relatively easy to do so, because marriage and divorce records are, for the most part, public and because many separating married couples consult mental health and legal professionals. Intact or separating unmarried couples, a growing segment of the U.S. (and world)...; Search Snippet: ...Coercion, Class, and Paternal Participation | Nov. 17, 2016 Racial and Gender Justice in the Child Welfare and Child Support Systems Margaret... |
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| Brooke D. Coleman , Elizabeth G. Porter |
Reinvigorating Commonality: Gender and Class Actions |
92 New York University Law Review 895 (October, 2017) |
Introduction. 895 I. The Waves of Feminism & Class Actions. 899 A. Waves of Feminism. 899 B. Parallels in Class Action Doctrine. 905 Conclusion. 915; Search Snippet: ...New York University Law Review October, 2017 Conference Reinvigorating Commonality: Gender and Class Actions Brooke D. Coleman [Fnd1] Elizabeth G. Porter... |
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| Celesta A. Albonetti |
Sentencing of Federal Cocaine Trafficking/manufacturing Defendants: Assessing Direct and Conditioning Effects of Defendant's Race/ethnicity and Gender on Length of Imprisonment |
21 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice Just. 1 (Winter 2017) |
I. Introduction. 1 II. Federal Sentencing Guidelines--Legal and Policy Issues. 3 III. Empirical Research on Federal Sentencing Outcomes. 9 IV. Theoretical Perspectives and Federal Sentencing. 12 V. Data and Analytical Procedures. 15 VI. Findings. 24 A. Univariate Descriptive Analyses. 24 B. Multivariate Analyses. 26 C. Race/Ethnicity Interactions....; Search Snippet: ...Assessing Direct and Conditioning Effects of Defendant's Race/ethnicity and Gender on Length of Imprisonment Celesta A. Albonetti [Fna1] Copyright © 2017... |
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| Lee Rawles |
Sisters in Indomitable Spirit |
103-AUG ABA Journal 66 (August, 2017) |
Margaret Brent was an unusual woman for her time. In 17th-century America, she was unmarried, a businessperson, a Catholic and a prominent figure in the Maryland settlement, which she emigrated to from England with two brothers and a sister in 1638. She owned land, grew tobacco and made loans to settlers. Brent appeared in court to argue for...; Search Snippet: ...Spirit Aba Honors Trailblazers with Award Named for the First Female Lawyer in America Lee Rawles Copyright © 2017 by the American... |
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| Laura Marini Davis , Victoria Geyfman |
The Business of Title Ix--using the Law to Improve Gender Equity in Undergraduate Colleges of Business |
46 Journal of Law and Education 163 (Spring, 2017) |
This article discusses the applicability of Title IX of the Higher Education Act (Title IX) to undergraduate business programs. In recent years, much attention has been given to the dearth of women in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) educational programs and jobs, and the applicability of Title IX, the landmark...; Search Snippet: ...The Business of Title Ix--using the Law to Improve Gender Equity in Undergraduate Colleges of Business Laura Marini Davis [Fna1... |
2017 |
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| Moya Bailey |
The Flexner Report: Standardizing Medical Students Through Region-, Gender-, and Race-based Hierarchies |
43 American Journal of Law & Medicine 209 (2017) |
In 1910, Abraham Flexner, a leading U.S. educational scholar, took on a task issued by the Carnegie Foundation to assess the curricular components of medical schools in the United States and Canada. His groundbreaking report transformed the practice of educating doctors, making institutions more standardized and uniform in their aim to educate the...; Search Snippet: ...2017 Article the Flexner Report: Standardizing Medical Students Through Region-, Gender-, and Race-based Hierarchies Moya Bailey [Fnd1] Copyright © 2017 By... |
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| Lena Ghamrawi |
The Law Has Perpetuated Gender Inequality in the Technology Field |
21 University of San Francisco Intellectual Property and Technology Law Journal 109 (Spring, 2017) |
Women have historically been excluded from almost all aspects of public life. The separate spheres ideology that dominated the public view of women's roles was reinforced when the Supreme Court issued Bradwell v. Illinois in 1873. The Supreme Court ultimately expressed that women could not enter the legal profession because their primary duty was...; Search Snippet: ...Technology Law Journal Spring, 2017 Article the Law Has Perpetuated Gender Inequality in the Technology Field Lena Ghamrawi [Fna1] Copyright © 2017... |
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| Sally J. Kenney |
Toward a Feminist Political Theory of Judging: Neither the Nightmare Nor the Noble Dream |
17 Nevada Law Journal 549 (Summer, 2017) |
I am honored to offer some thoughts about feminist judging on the occasion of the publication of The Feminist Judgments Project. It is also an honor to be in the great state of Florence Allen whom, as I have written, but for her intimate partner choice of another woman, might have been our first woman Supreme Court justice. I write as a political...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Summer, 2017 Symposium: U.s. Feminist Judgments Toward a Feminist Political Theory of Judging: Neither the Nightmare Nor the Noble... |
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| Paula A. Monopoli |
Tracy A. Thomas, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law, New York, Ny: New York University Press, 2016, Pp. 328, $55, Cloth |
66 Journal of Legal Education 979 (Summer, 2017) |
Tracy Thomas's new book, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law, provides extensive support for the claim that Stanton was the intellectual giant of the [women's rights] movement. In this eminently readable yet deeply substantive work, Professor Thomas argues that Stanton was a foundational theorist for modern feminism....; Search Snippet: ...Book Review Tracy A. Thomas, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law, New York, Ny: New York University... |
2017 |
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| Nancy Gertner |
University of Baltimore School of Law Center on Applied Feminism's 9 Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference on Applied Feminism Today: Keynote Speaker Judge Nancy Gertner, Former United States Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the Di |
46 University of Baltimore Law Review 191 (Spring, 2017) |
Below is a transcription of the keynote speech from the University of Baltimore School of Law Center on Applied Feminism's 9 Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference: Applied Feminism Today. Judge Nancy Gertner, former United States Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, gave the keynote speech on March...; Search Snippet: ...Baltimore School of Law Center on Applied Feminism's 9 Th Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference on Applied Feminism Today: Keynote Speaker Judge... |
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| Linda L. Berger, Bridget J. Crawford, Kathryn M. Stanchi |
Using Feminist Theory to Advance Equal Justice under Law |
17 Nevada Law Journal 539 (Summer, 2017) |
Progress toward gender justice faces multiple and growing challenges, not only in the United States Supreme Court but at every level of political and cultural debate and decision making. Within this context, feminist theory and methods are more necessary than ever. It is therefore timely and fitting that more than 200 hundred lawyers, judges,...; Search Snippet: ...Nevada Law Journal Summer, 2017 Symposium: U.s. Feminist Judgments Using Feminist Theory to Advance Equal Justice under Law Linda L. Berger... |
2017 |
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| Liane Jackson |
Who's the Best? |
103-OCT ABA Journal 36 (October, 2017) |
BY ALL ACCOUNTS, the chief characteristics of a law firm in which women can thrive are simple: Combine gender parity at the outset with substantive work-life balance policies, mix in management opportunities, and add a clear path to equity partnership. In a field premised on protecting the rights of others, law firm equality should be a de facto...; Search Snippet: ...Feature Who's the Best? Program Helps Firms See Progress in Gender Diversity--but Is it Enough? Liane Jackson Copyright © 2017 By... |
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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 |
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African/Black American |
| 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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African/Black American |
| 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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African/Black American |
| 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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| 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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| 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 |
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American Indian/Alaskan Native |
| 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... |
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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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| 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... |
2016 |
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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... |
2016 |
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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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| 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... |
2016 |
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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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| 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... |
2016 |
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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... |
2016 |
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American Indian/Alaskan Native |
| 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 |
Yes |
Multipe Groups |
| 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 |
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Hispanic/Latinx American |
| 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... |
2016 |
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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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African/Black American |
| 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... |
2016 |
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African/Black American |
| 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... |
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... |
2016 |
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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... |
2016 |
Yes |
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... |
2016 |
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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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