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| Jamie R. Abrams |
The Feminist Case for Acknowledging Women's Acts of Violence |
27 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 287 (2016) |
This Article makes a feminist case for acknowledging women's acts of violence as consistent with--not threatening to--the goals of the domestic violence movement and the feminist movement. It concludes that broadly understanding women's use of strength, power, coercion, control, and violence, even illegitimate uses, can be framed...; Search Snippet: ...And Feminism Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 2016 Articles the Feminist Case for Acknowledging Women's Acts of Violence Jamie R. Abrams [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 2016... |
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| Nnennaya Amuchie |
The Forgotten Victims How Racialized Gender Stereotypes Lead to Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls: Incorporating an Analysis of Police Violence into Feminist Jurisprudence and Community Activism |
14 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 617 (Spring, 2016) |
For all the Black girls and women who never had a chance to live in a world free from violence. --Nnennaya Amuchie Last year, thousands of young people gathered around the world in solidarity with Ferguson, Missouri, after police officers killed Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old Black teenager. Following Michael Brown's death, police officers...; Search Snippet: ...Seattle Journal for Social Justice the Forgotten Victims How Racialized Gender Stereotypes Lead to Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls: Incorporating an Analysis of Police Violence into Feminist Jurisprudence and Community Activism Nnennaya Amuchie Copyright © 2016 by Seattle... |
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| Lea VanderVelde |
The Last Legally Beaten Servant in America: from Compulsion to Coercion in the American Workplace |
39 Seattle University Law Review 727 (Spring, 2016) |
A master may by law correct his apprentice or servant .. --Blackstone's Commentaries The relation of master and slave begins in violence; it must be sustained by violence--the systematic violence of general laws, or the irregular violence of individual caprice. --Theodore Parker, 1830 L1-2Contents Introduction. 728 I. Private Relationships and...; Search Snippet: ...Gendered Origins of the Lumley Doctrine: Binding Men's Consciences and Women's Fidelity , 101 Yale L.j. 775 (1992) [Hereinafter Vandervelde, Gendered Origins... |
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| Tracy A. Thomas |
The Origins of Constitutional Gender Equality in the Nineteenth-century Work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
7 ConLawNOW 1 (2016) |
The fall colloquium of the Center for Constitutional Law at Akron highlighted the significant constitutional work of pioneering feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton for equality in the political, domestic, and religious spheres. It also celebrated the conclusion of my ten-year intellectual odyssey of Stanton's instrumental work for the development of...; Search Snippet: ...Symposium on Elizabeth Cady Stanton Article the Origins of Constitutional Gender Equality in the Nineteenth-century Work of Elizabeth Cady Stanton... |
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| Katherine Lemons, McGill University |
The Politics of Livability: Tutoring "Kinwork" in a New Delhi Women's Arbitration Center |
39 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 244 (November, 2016) |
This article provides an analysis of dispute adjudication in a women's arbitration center, or mahila panchayat, in New Delhi, India. In analyzing two exemplary cases from my fieldwork, I argue that mahila panchayat adjudication tends to tutor kinwork as a means of producing livable lives within a context of material and ideological constraint....; Search Snippet: ...The Politics of Livability: Tutoring Kinwork in a New Delhi Women's Arbitration Center Katherine Lemons Mcgill University Copyright © 2016 by The... |
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| Vincent J. Samar |
The Right to Privacy and the Right to Use the Bathroom Consistent with One's Gender Identity |
24 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 33 (Fall, 2016) |
Recently, North Carolina, Kentucky, Florida, and Texas have either adopted, are considering adopting, or have failed to adopt statutes requiring all persons within the state to only use the public bathroom or locker room associated with their biological sex at birth. These efforts have given rise to cries of discrimination and persecution by...; Search Snippet: ...And the Right to Use the Bathroom Consistent with One's Gender Identity Vincent J. Samar [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by Vincent J... |
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| Dalton Windham |
The White Ribbon Army: Politics and Race Relations of the Georgia Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1880 to 1907 |
24 Journal of Southern Legal History 151 (2016) |
At the end of the nineteenth century, the Temperance Movement was flourishing across the United States. While the crowning achievement of the Temperance Movement, nationwide prohibition, took place in 1920, the work of temperance organizations between the mid-1870s and early 1900s is also worthy of attention. These early organizations are...; Search Snippet: ...White Ribbon Army: Politics and Race Relations of the Georgia Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1880 to 1907 Dalton Windham [Fna1... |
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The Whole Woman's Health V. Hellerstedt Oral Argument: a Roundtable Discussion with Members of Nyu Law Students for Reproductive Justice |
41 Harbinger 155 (6/29/2016) |
On June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court decided Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, a case referred to as the most significant abortion case to come before the court since 1992. The case centered on the constitutionality of two provisions of Texas law HB2: first, an admitting-privileges requirement which compels doctors who perform abortions to...; Search Snippet: ...2016 Wl 9665210 Harbinger Harbinger June 29, 2016 the Whole Woman's Health V. Hellerstedt Oral Argument: a Roundtable Discussion with Members... |
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| Frank R. Baumgartner , Emma Johnson , Colin Wilson , Clarke Whitehead |
These Lives Matter, Those Ones Don't: Comparing Execution Rates by the Race and Gender of the Victim in the U.s. and in the Top Death Penalty States |
79 Albany Law Review 797 (2015-2016) |
In a recent article, Baumgartner and colleagues demonstrated based on national statistics that the odds of execution differ dramatically based on the race and gender of the victim. They compared national statistics on homicide victimization, which clearly show that black males are the most likely victims of homicide, with data associated with the...; Search Snippet: ...Those Ones Don't: Comparing Execution Rates by the Race and Gender of the Victim in the U.s. and in the Top... |
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| Loretta A. Moore , Deidre L. Wheaton , Angela Mae Kupenda , Michelle D. Deardorff , Evelyn J. Leggette |
Transforming Climates for the Woman of Color: Strategic Engagement with Families and Social Networks of the Married/partnered Academic Woman of Color |
42 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 17 (Fall, 2016) |
This article examines how familial and social structures influence career advancement, work-life balance, and ultimately institutional transformation for the academic woman of color in male dominated disciplines, and especially in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and Social and Behavioral Science (SBS) disciplines at...; Search Snippet: ...Thurgood Marshall Law Review Fall, 2016 Transforming Climates for the Woman of Color: Strategic Engagement with Families and Social Networks of the Married/partnered Academic Woman of Color Loretta A. Moore [Fna1] Deidre L. Wheaton [Fnp1... |
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| Thomas A. Mayes |
Understanding Intersectionality Between the Law, Gender, Sexuality and Children |
36 Children's Legal Rights Journal 90 (2016) |
Children who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning (hereinafter LGBTQ) are at a greater risk of negative life outcomes than their straight counterparts, including substance abuse, perpetration of violence, victimization, school failure, suicide attempts, and suicide. LGBTQ children are overrepresented in the foster care system,...; Search Snippet: ...Legal Rights Journal 2016 Article Understanding Intersectionality Between the Law, Gender, Sexuality and Children Thomas A. Mayes [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 By... |
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| Chai Feldblum |
University of Baltimore School of Law Center on Applied Feminism's 8th Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference on Applied Feminism and Work: Keynote Speaker Chai Feldblum, Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
45 University of Baltimore Law Review 197 (Spring 2016) |
Below is a transcript of the keynote speech from the University of Baltimore School of Law Center on Applied Feminism 8 Annual Feminist Legal Conference: Applied Feminism and Work. Chai Feldblum, Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), gave the keynote speech on Friday, March 6, 2015. CHAI FELDBLUM : I'm thrilled to be...; Search Snippet: ...Baltimore School of Law Center on Applied Feminism's 8th Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference on Applied Feminism and Work: Keynote Speaker... |
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| Nina Martinelli |
What Would You Do? |
18 No. 11 Lawyers Journal J. 5 (5/27/2016) |
Imagine you're an aspiring law student of diverse ethnic or racial background who identifies as LGBTQ. How are you going to navigate our very traditional legal profession? In March, a seminar posed that question by asking participants to consider scenarios in which issues regarding race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender intersected with the...; Search Snippet: ...What Would You Do? Seminar Poses Workplace Scenarios on Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation Nina Martinelli [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by Allegheny County... |
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| Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Associate Director, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and Director, Project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law, Brandeis University |
What's the Harm in Polygamy? Multicultural Toleration and Women's Experience of Plural Marriage |
31 Journal of Law and Religion 336 (November, 2016) |
The Western Case for Monogamy over Polygamy. By John Witte, Jr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. 550. $51.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-1107499171. Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy and the Future of Marriage. By Stephen Macedo. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. 320. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0691166483. Polygyny: What...; Search Snippet: ...Field Essay What's the Harm in Polygamy? Multicultural Toleration and Women's Experience of Plural Marriage Lisa Fishbayn Joffe Associate Director, Hadassah... |
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| Steven D. Schwinn, The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL |
Whole Women's Health |
43 No. 5 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 194 (2/22/2016) |
Texas H.B. 2 requires abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. It also requires abortion clinics to meet the stringent standards of ambulatory surgical centers. The requirements, if upheld, could force 75 percent of the abortion clinics in Texas to close, leaving just nine clinics in metropolitan areas, and creating an...; Search Snippet: ...Requirements for Abortion Providers That Are Purportedly Designed to Protect Women's Safety, but That, If Upheld, Will Force the Closure Of... |
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Wilig Luncheon: 25 Years Later: a Discussion of "Feminist Approaches to International Law" |
110 American Society of International Law Proceedings 231 (March 30-April 2, 2016) |
This panel was convened at 1:00 p.m., on Friday, Apri1, 2016, with an introduction by Lori Fisler Damrosch, President of the American Society of International Law. WILIG co-chairs Christie Edwards, Director of International Humanitarian Law at the American Red Cross, and Tracy Roosevelt, Associate at Foley Hoag, introduced the moderator and...; Search Snippet: ...2, 2016 Wilig Luncheon: 25 Years Later: a Discussion of Feminist Approaches to International Law Copyright © 2017 by the American Society... |
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| Marlene Coir |
Women in the Law--a History of Endurance |
95-DEC Michigan Bar Journal 40 (December, 2016) |
Women continue to break glass ceilings, having often been inspired by those who came before. Let us become familiar with some historical firsts for women in the legal profession in this nation and the state of Michigan. Margaret Brent was an astute land owner in colonial America. She was also the first woman to practice law in this land not only on...; Search Snippet: ...Michigan Bar Journal December, 2016 Department Libraries and Legal Research Women in the Law--a History of Endurance Marlene Coir [Fna1... |
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| Hila Keren |
Women in the Shark Tank: Entrepreneurship and Feminism in a Neoliberal Age |
34 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 75 (2016) |
C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. 75 I. Defeating Gender Inequality. 79 A. Post-Feminism. 81 B. Neoliberal Feminism. 86 II. Perpetuating Gender Inequality. 92 A. Underrepresentation and Underinvestment. 92 B. Sexism. 94 C. Second Class (Again). 97 III. Legal Feminism in Entrepreneurial Times. 103 A. Harm to Female Entrepreneurs. 104 B. Harm to...; Search Snippet: ...Gender and Law Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 2016 Women in the Shark Tank: Entrepreneurship and Feminism in a Neoliberal... |
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| Alexandra S. Grande , Caitlin Kling , Brenda Bauges |
Women on State Boards and Commissions: Is Idaho Where it Wants to Be? |
59-APR Advocate 29 (March/April, 2016) |
Documenting diversity statistics has become relatively commonplace in various levels of government. If a person wants to know how many women are currently serving in the United States Senate, a quick internet search can provide the answer. The same is true of statistics regarding the composition of the Idaho State Senate. These kinds of statistics...; Search Snippet: ...2016 Wl 1109406 Advocate Advocate March/april, 2016 Section Article Women on State Boards and Commissions: Is Idaho Where it Wants... |
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| Cheryl Nelson Butler |
A Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution & Sex Trafficking in America |
27 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 95 (2015) |
This Article is one of the first to apply critical race feminism (CRF) to explore prostitution and sex trafficking in the United States. Several scholars have applied critical race feminism to explore several forms of sexual exploitation, including sexual harassment, domestic violence, and rape, but have yet to extend this discourse into...; Search Snippet: ...Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 2015 Article a Critical Race Feminist Perspective on Prostitution & Sex Trafficking in America Cheryl Nelson Butler... |
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| Karen Oehme , Nat Stern , Annelise Mennicke |
A Deficiency in Addressing Campus Sexual Assault: the Lack of Women Law Enforcement Officers |
38 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 337 (Summer 2015) |
The federal government has taken a range of measures to combat the scourge of sexual assault afflicting college campuses across the nation. Whatever the efficacy of these policies, however, they fail to address a major obstacle to curbing sexual violence on campus: the chronically low rate of reporting of this crime to police. Research on crime...; Search Snippet: ...A Deficiency in Addressing Campus Sexual Assault: the Lack of Women Law Enforcement Officers Karen Oehme [Fna1] Nat Stern [Fnaa1] Annelise... |
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| Gabrielle Davis |
A Systematic Approach to Domestic Abuse-informed Child Custody Decision Making in Family Law Cases |
53 Family Court Review 565 (October, 2015) |
This article introduces an approach to domestic violence-informed decision making developed under the auspices of the National Child Custody Differentiation Project, a cooperative undertaking among the Battered Women's Justice Project, the Association of Family & Conciliation Courts, the National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges, Praxis...; Search Snippet: ...2009-ta-ax-k025 from the Office of Violence Against Women, U.s. Department of Justice. The Opinions, Findings, Conclusions, and Recommendations... |
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| Rasheedah Phillips |
Addressing Barriers to Housing for Women Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault |
24 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 323 (Spring 2015) |
The effects and consequences of domestic violence and sexual assault go beyond physical, mental, and emotional abuse. In the United States, domestic violence -- including intimate partner violence, sexual assault, and stalking -- is a major cause of homelessness, specifically for women and children. There are an estimated 1.3 million female victims...; Search Snippet: ...Do We Go from Here? Addressing Barriers to Housing for Women Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Rasheedah Phillips [Fna1... |
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| Rosie Hidalgo |
Advancing a Human Rights Framework to Reimagine the Movement to End Gender Violence |
5 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 559 (Summer, 2015) |
I. Development of Legislation in the United States within Global Context of Human Rights Advocacy. 560 II. Opportunities for Improvement with the Reauthorization of Gender Violence Legislation. 565 III. Expanding Advocacy Beyond Legislation Focused on Gender Violence to Address Human Rights Abuses. 572 IV. Conclusion. 578; Search Snippet: ...A Human Rights Framework to Reimagine the Movement to End Gender Violence Rosie Hidalgo [Fna1] Copyright © 2015 by the University Of... |
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| Tracy A. Thomas |
An Introduction to the Women in Law Symposium |
47 Akron Law 891 (2015) |
People commonly say that women's equality has been achieved. Indeed, they tire of continuing refrains and complaints to the contrary. On the surface, many formal barriers to women's equality have been eliminated, including laws of voting, marital property, employment, and education. Yet these laws are not fully and adequately enforced, thus the...; Search Snippet: ...Review 2015 Symposium: Women in Law an Introduction to the Women in Law Symposium Tracy A. Thomas [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2015... |
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| Alfred L. Brophy |
Antislavery Women and the Origins of American Jurisprudence: Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture. By Sarah N. Roth. New York, Ny: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 320 Pages. $99.00 |
94 Texas Law Review 115 (November, 2015) |
Antislavery Women and the Origins of American Jurisprudence is a Review of Sarah Roth's Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2014). It assesses Roth's account of the dialogue between antislavery and proslavery writers. Roth finds that the antislavery and proslavery writers were joined in their depiction of...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Texas Law Review November, 2015 Book Review Antislavery Women and the Origins of American Jurisprudence: Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture. By Sarah N. Roth... |
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| Seham Elmalak |
Babies Behind Bars: an Evaluation of Prison Nurseries in American Female Prisons and Their Potential Constitutional Challenges |
35 Pace Law Review 1080 (Spring 2015) |
The focus of the legal profession, perhaps even the obsessive focus, has been on the process for determining guilt or innocence. When someone has been judged guilty . . . the legal profession seems to lose all interest. When the prisoner is taken way, our attention turns to the next case. When the door is locked against the prisoner, we do not...; Search Snippet: ...Babies Behind Bars: an Evaluation of Prison Nurseries in American Female Prisons and Their Potential Constitutional Challenges Seham Elmalak [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Patricia Leary |
Bad Machines and Back Seats: Stories of Women and Work |
36 Whittier Law Review 401 (Spring 2015) |
Good morning. Thank you to the Whittier Law Review and our wonderful students for organizing this very important symposium and for the honor of appearing on this panel. I know this panel is about the rights of low-wage women workers. I do not intend, however, to talk about rights. I do intend to talk about women and about the structural...; Search Snippet: ...Gap Symposium Articles Bad Machines and Back Seats: Stories of Women and Work Patricia Leary [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2015 Whittier Law... |
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| Gila Stopler |
Biopolitics and Reproductive Justice: Fertility Policies Between Women's Rights and State and Community Interests |
18 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 169 (2015) |
In this Article, I argue that the liberal assumption that governments must not engage in biopolitics by setting fertility policies is flawed in both theory and practice. It is flawed in theory because government must take reproduction into account in order to ensure individual women's rights to liberty and equality and to guarantee reproductive...; Search Snippet: ...Change 2015 Article Biopolitics and Reproductive Justice: Fertility Policies Between Women's Rights and State and Community Interests Gila Stopler [Fn1] Copyright... |
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| Jasmine Phillips |
Black Girls and the (Im)possibilities of a Victim Trope: the Intersectional Failures of Legal and Advocacy Interventions in the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Minors in the United States |
62 UCLA Law Review 1642 (August, 2015) |
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) considers all youth less than eighteen years of age trafficking victims without a showing of force, fraud, or coercion. The presumption is that minors cannot legally consent to sex and thus are always victims. Being characterized as a victim helps youth access support services and avoid prosecution in...; Search Snippet: ...Examining the Roots of Human Trafficking and Exploitation Comment Black Girls and the (Im)possibilities of a Victim Trope: the Intersectional Failures... |
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| Burton F. Peebles |
Blurred Lines: Sexual Orientation and Gender Nonconformity in Title Vii |
64 Emory Law Journal 911 (2015) |
Title VII's prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex is read broadly to include gender nonconformity. Although social scientists have documented the historic link between the homosocial performance of sexual orientation and the achievement of hegemonic masculinity within the modern workplace, courts continue to struggle with the task of...; Search Snippet: ...Emory Law Journal 2015 Comment Blurred Lines: Sexual Orientation and Gender Nonconformity in Title Vii Burton F. Peebles [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Soniya Munshi, Bhavana Nancherla, Tiloma Jayasinghe |
Building Towards Transformative Justice at Sakhi for South Asian Women |
5 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 421 (Summer, 2015) |
I. Contextualizing Sakhi's Approach to Anti-Violence Interventions. 421 II. Finding Opportunities in Conflicts to Develop A Process. 424 III. Engaging Contradictions through Political Education. 428 IV. Taking Some First Steps Towards Alternatives. 433 V. Conclusion. 434; Search Snippet: ...Violence Building Towards Transformative Justice at Sakhi for South Asian Women Soniya Munshi Bhavana Nancherla Tiloma Jayasinghe [Fna1] Copyright © 2015 By... |
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| Nareissa L. Smith |
Built for Boyhood?: a Proposal for Reducing the Amount of Gender Bias in the Advertising of Children's Toys on Television |
17 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 991 (Summer, 2015) |
While the last half-century has seen a dramatic increase in the number of US women in the workforce, women remain underrepresented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. For years, researchers and social commentators have tried to explain the persistence of this gender gap. Some have even argued that genetic differences...; Search Snippet: ...Built for Boyhood?: a Proposal for Reducing the Amount of Gender Bias in the Advertising of Children's Toys on Television Nareissa... |
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| Anastasia M. Boles |
Centering the Teenage "Siren": Adolescent Workers, Sexual Harassment, and the Legal Construction of Race and Gender |
22 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law L. 1 (2015) |
Recent scholarship and media attention has focused on the prevalence of sexually harassing behavior directed at working teenagers, and the emergence of sexual harassment lawsuits by these minors against their employers. Although many of the legal issues concerning workplace sexual harassment and adult workers (and the various state and federal...; Search Snippet: ...Workers, Sexual Harassment, and the Legal Construction of Race and Gender Anastasia M. Boles [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2015 the University Of... |
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| Sahar F. Aziz |
Coercing Assimilation: the Case of Muslim Women of Color |
24 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 341 (Fall 2015) |
Thank you to Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems and the Journal of Gender, Race & Justice for inviting me, and a special thanks to Professor Wing for hosting us today. You all are very fortunate to have Professor Wing as an advisor and mentor here at the University of Iowa College of Law. Today, I have been asked to address the domestic...; Search Snippet: ...The Arab Spring Article Coercing Assimilation: the Case of Muslim Women of Color [Fnd1] Sahar F. Aziz [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2015... |
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| Marc Tran |
Combatting Gender Privilege and Recognizing a Woman's Right to Privacy in Public Spaces: Arguments to Criminalize Catcalling and Creepshots |
26 Hastings Women's Law Journal 185 (Summer 2015) |
This comment explores two permutations of entitlement to women's attention and bodies in public: street harassment (catcalling) and upskirt and down-blouse photography (collectively, creepshots). Part I is devoted to discussing street harassment--its harms (on an individual and societal scale), legal solutions, and the limits of the law. Part...; Search Snippet: ...Womens Law Journal Hastings Women's Law Journal Summer 2015 Combatting Gender Privilege and Recognizing a Woman's Right to Privacy in Public Spaces: Arguments to Criminalize Catcalling... |
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| Carol Jacobsen, Lynn D'Orio |
Defending Survivors: Case Studies of the Michigan Women's Justice & Clemency Project |
18 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change Change 1 (2015) |
In the United States, the pursuit of clemency in cases involving battered women who defended themselves against abusers and prisoners on death row has raised crucial legal questions about the flaws and failures of our criminal legal system and the critical role that clemency needs to play in an unjust, oppressive system. Amid the politicized,...; Search Snippet: ...Change 2015 Article Defending Survivors: Case Studies of the Michigan Women's Justice & Clemency Project Carol Jacobsen Lynn D'orio [Fna1] Copyright ©... |
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| Melissa Ballengee Alexander |
Denying the Dyad: How Criminalizing Pregnant Drug Use Harms the Baby, Taxpayers and Vulnerable Women |
82 Tennessee Law Review 745 (Summer, 2015) |
Introduction. 746 I. Background and History. 751 A. Defining the Problem: Rising Drug Use and NAS. 751 B. Intertwined Histories: Fetal Rights and Assault Liability. 755 II. Law Expressly Authorizes Prosecuting Pregnant Drug Users for Assault. 759 A. Personhood, Abortion, and Criminal Liability for Assault Imposed On a Pregnant Woman at Any Stage...; Search Snippet: ...Criminalizing Pregnant Drug Use Harms the Baby, Taxpayers and Vulnerable Women Melissa Ballengee Alexander [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2015 Tennessee Law Review... |
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| Carrie Griffin Basas, Lisa Peters |
Deprivation and "Deviance": the Disability and Health Experiences of Women in North Carolina's Prisons |
93 North Carolina Law Review 1223 (June, 2015) |
L1-2introduction . L31224 I. Overview of the Study. 1228 II. Survey Results. 1232 A. Demographics of Women Inmates in North Carolina's Correctional System. 1232 B. Increased Rates of Disability and Health Concerns Among Inmates. 1238 C. Missed Opportunities. 1242 III. Finding Working Definitions for Disability and Health. 1243 IV. Disability in the...; Search Snippet: ...System Deprivation and Deviance: the Disability and Health Experiences of Women in North Carolina's Prisons [Fna1] Carrie Griffin Basas Lisa Peters... |
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| Sarah Zwach |
Disproportionate Use of Deadly Force on Unarmed Minority Males: How Gender and Racial Perceptions Can Be Remedied |
30 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 185 (Fall 2015) |
Introduction. 186 I. Background. 188 A. Recent Police Killings of Unarmed Minority Males. 188 i. The Case of Michael Brown. 188 ii. A National Concern. 191 B. The Problem Is in the Numbers. 193 i. FBI Uniform Crime Reports. 193 ii. Alternative Measures. 194 C. Police Corruption: Legislative and Judicial Intervention. 197 i. History of Police in...; Search Snippet: ...Disproportionate Use of Deadly Force on Unarmed Minority Males: How Gender and Racial Perceptions Can Be Remedied Sarah Zwach [Fna1] Copyright... |
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| Julie Goldscheid, Debra J. Liebowitz |
Due Diligence and Gender Violence: Parsing its Power and its Perils |
48 Cornell International Law Journal 301 (Spring 2015) |
Human rights advocates increasingly invoke the due diligence standard to hold States responsible for their actions and omissions with respect to gender violence. This Article traces the development of the due diligence obligation and analyzes how the United Nations, European, and Inter-American human rights systems interpret the due diligence...; Search Snippet: ...Cornell International Law Journal Spring 2015 Articles Due Diligence and Gender Violence: Parsing its Power and its Perils Julie Goldscheid Debra... |
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| L. Patricia Mock |
Effective Outreach to Underserved Communities of Color: an Arduous Sojourn to Cultivate and Attain Trust |
17 Thomas M. Cooley Journal of Practical and Clinical Law 51 (2015) |
This article examines parallel outreach initiatives employed by a law school clinic to reach two underserved communities of color. It describes the experiences and the lessons learned about structuring outreach to such communities. The article suggests steps a similar office might take to successfully achieve a reputation of offering an inclusive...; Search Snippet: ...Experiences as the Underserved Group-in this Case, Having an African- American Woman at the Helm-should Not Be Understated. [Fn28] Yet, This... |
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| Sandra S. Park |
Equal Protection for Survivors of Gender-based Violence: from Criminalization to Law Enforcement Accountability |
5 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 401 (Summer, 2015) |
I. Criminalization Without Law Enforcement Accountability. 403 II. The Importance of Law Enforcement Accountability Advocacy as a Check on Misconduct and Impunity. 406 A. Connecting State-Perpetrated, State-Created, and State-Condoned Violence. 409 B. Preserving Criminal Justice Responses for Survivors Who Seek Them. 410 C. Building Power of...; Search Snippet: ...Reimagining Responses to Gender Violence Equal Protection for Survivors of Gender-based Violence: from Criminalization to Law Enforcement Accountability Sandra S... |
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| Llezlie Green Coleman |
Exploited at the Intersection: a Critical Race Feminist Analysis of Undocumented Latina Workers and the Role of the Private Attorney General |
22 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 397 (Fall 2015) |
Introduction. 398 I. The Feminization of Immigration and Immigrant Women in the Workplace. 400 II. Wage Theft Among Immigrant Women Workers. 402 III. Critical Race Feminism. 405 A. The Deference Narrative. 409 B. Exalting Self-Abnegation. 411 C. The Family Comes First (Familismo). 412 D. Learning from the Narratives. 414 IV. The Private Attorney...; Search Snippet: ...Fall 2015 Article Exploited at the Intersection: a Critical Race Feminist Analysis of Undocumented Latina Workers and the Role of the Private Attorney General Llezlie... |
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Federal Supervised Release and Actuarial Data (Including Age, Race, and Gender): the Camel's Nose and the Use of Actuarial Data at Sentencing |
2015 Federal Sentencing Reporter 1911728 (4/1/2015) |
If the camel once gets his nose in the tent, his body will soon follow. The camel's nose is a metaphor for a small act leading to a larger, undesirable action. Mixing metaphors, I intend to turn the tables on the anti-camel slur. I want to welcome our humped friend, particularly since the ruminant is already halfway into our tent. And, guess...; Search Snippet: ...Federal Supervised Release and Actuarial Data (Including Age, Race, and Gender): the Camel's Nose and the Use of Actuarial Data At... |
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| Danielle Weatherby |
From Jack to Jill: Gender Expression as Protected Speech in the Modern Schoolhouse |
39 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 89 (2015) |
In recent years, transgender adults in the entertainment world have capitalized on their public platform to advocate for and increase awareness about issues affecting the transgender community. Yet even with the emerging cultural understanding of this community, there is a noticeable absence of a voice for transgender youth, a particularly...; Search Snippet: ...Law and Social Change 2015 Article from Jack to Jill: Gender Expression as Protected Speech in the Modern Schoolhouse Danielle Weatherby... |
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| M. Dru Levasseur, Esq. |
Gender Identity Defines Sex: Updating the Law to Reflect Modern Medical Science Is Key to Transgender Rights |
39 Vermont Law Review 943 (Summer, 2015) |
Introduction. 944 I. Understanding Transgender. 948 A. An Overview of Transgender People's Lived Experience. 948 B. Gender Transition. 951 C. Recognition of Identity Through Legal-Name and Gender-Marker Changes. 959 II. Legal Horrors: Transgender People as Non-Human in the Eyes of the Law. 963 A. Courts Have Used Dehumanizing and Inconsistent...; Search Snippet: ...Review 14th Annual Symposium Vermont Law School--october 3, 2014 Gender Identity Defines Sex: Updating the Law to Reflect Modern Medical... |
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| Julie Goldscheid |
Gender Neutrality and the "Violence Against Women" Frame |
5 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 307 (Summer, 2015) |
I. Limits to the frame. 310 A. Empirical. 311 B. Theoretical. 314 1. Queer and Gender Theory. 314 2. Anti-essentialism and Intersectionality. 315 3. Anti-stereotyping. 316 C. Backlash Politics and Legal Challenges. 317 D. Practical. 318 II. Parsing the Frame. 319 A. Frame Theory. 319 III. Contextualized Gender-Neutrality. 321 IV. Conclusion. 324; Search Snippet: ...End Gender Violence Symposium Issue Part I: Reimagining Gender Violence Gender Neutrality and the Violence Against Women Frame Julie Goldscheid [Fna1] Copyright © 2015 by the University Of... |
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| Emily A. Leskinen, Verónica Caridad Rabelo, Lilia M. Cortina, Carthage College, University of Michigan |
Gender Stereotyping and Harassment: a "Catch-22" for Women in the Workplace |
21 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 192 (May, 2015) |
United States law recognizes the illegality of sex/gender stereotyping when it drives formal discrimination in employment, as in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1989). In the present study, we investigated whether such stereotyping--and attendant intolerance for counterstereotypicality--also breeds discrimination in the form of gender harassment. That...; Search Snippet: ...Policy and Law Psychology, Public Policy, and Law May, 2015 Gender Stereotyping and Harassment: a Catch-22 for Women in the Workplace [Fna1] Emily A. Leskinen Carthage College Verónica... |
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| Elizabeth Webster , Jody Miller |
Gendering and Racing Wrongful Conviction: Intersectionality, "Normal Crimes," and Women's Experiences of Miscarriage of Justice |
78 Albany Law Review 973 (2014-2015) |
On the afternoon of Saturday, May 14, 2005, four-year-old Jaquari Dancy died of asphyxiation from an elastic band that had come loose from a fitted bed sheet. According to the State's case at trial, the boy's mother, twenty-three-year-old Nicole Harris, angered by Jaquari's crying, choked him to death with the elastic band. The evidence...; Search Snippet: ...Article Gendering and Racing Wrongful Conviction: Intersectionality, Normal Crimes, and Women's Experiences of Miscarriage of Justice Elizabeth Webster [Fna1] Jody Miller... |
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