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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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| 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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| Kelsey R. Chapple |
Sports for Boys, Wedding Cakes for Girls: the Inevitability of Stereotyping in Schools Segregated by Sex |
94 Texas Law Review 537 (February, 2016) |
This Note argues that in light of psychological research demonstrating that stereotypes flourish when groups are segregated on the basis of visible characteristics such as sex, all schools that are segregated on the basis of sex violate the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee against sex discrimination. Though the Supreme Court in United States v....; Search Snippet: ...Review February, 2016 Notes Sports for Boys, Wedding Cakes for Girls: the Inevitability of Stereotyping in Schools Segregated by Sex [Fna1... |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Deborah L. Rhode |
Appearance as a Feminist Issue |
69 SMU Law Review 697 (Fall, 2016) |
IN 1929, in A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf maintained that every woman needed to consider what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world of gloves and shoes .. Since then, that world has grown ever more complicated. In today's universe of escalating opportunities for cosmetic enhancement, the issues surrounding beauty have...; Search Snippet: ...Review Smu Law Review Fall, 2016 Essay Appearance as a Feminist Issue [Fn1] Deborah L. Rhode Copyright © 2016 by Southern Methodist... |
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| Julia C. Maddera |
Batson in Transition: Prohibiting Peremptory Challenges on the Basis of Gender Identity or Expression |
116 Columbia Law Review 195 (January, 2016) |
While peremptory challenges upon the basis of race, ethnicity, and gender have been held unconstitutional, and peremptory strikes upon the basis of sexual orientation have been regarded as increasingly suspect after United States v. Windsor, attorneys remain free to use peremptory challenges to remove potential jurors from the venire upon the basis...; Search Snippet: ...Batson in Transition: Prohibiting Peremptory Challenges on the Basis of Gender Identity or Expression Julia C. Maddera [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 By... |
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| Danielle Matricardi |
Binary Imprisonment: Transgender Inmates Ensnared Within the System and Confined to Assigned Gender |
67 Mercer Law Review 707 (Winter 2016) |
It is June 26, 2015. The sun is shining, and the grass is wet with morning dew. Those unaware sip their coffee on the way to work, perplexed why so many rainbow flags clutter their morning commute. Celebrations are breaking out across the Nation. The United States Supreme Court has legalized same-sex marriage. Finally, the day has come when people...; Search Snippet: ...Transgender Inmates Ensnared Within the System and Confined to Assigned Gender [Fnd1] Danielle Matricardi Copyright (C) 2016 Walter F. George School... |
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| Tom I. Romero, II |
Bridging the Confluence of Water and Immigration Law |
48 Texas Tech Law Review 779 (Summer, 2016) |
I. Introduction. 780 II. The Irrigation Era and the Need for a Docile Labor Supply. 782 III. The Metropolitan Revolution and the Rise of the Illegal Gardner. 798 IV. The Great Local Thirst for Proper Documentation. 807 V. Conclusion. 815 Appendix: A Timeline of Important Moments in Water and Immigration Law and Policy. 817; Search Snippet: ...Towns: Anti-immigrant Ordinances and Equality of Educational Opportunity for Latina/os, 12 J. Gender, Race & Just., No. 1, 2008. Any Analysis Provided Herein Originally... |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Cynthia Grant Bowman |
Recovering Socialism for Feminist Legal Theory in the 21st Century |
49 Connecticut Law Review 117 (November, 2016) |
This Article argues that a significant strand of feminist theory in the 1970s and 1980s--socialist feminism--has largely been ignored by feminist jurisprudence in the United States and explores potential contributions to legal theory of recapturing the insights of socialist feminism. It describes both the context out of which that theory grew, in...; Search Snippet: ...Review Connecticut Law Review November, 2016 Article Recovering Socialism for Feminist Legal Theory in the 21st Century Cynthia Grant Bowman [Fna1... |
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| Caroline Fredrickson |
Remembering the Founding of the Journal of Gender and Law |
33 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 2 (2016) |
In my first year of law school, I felt baffled by the experience of legal education. I had spent three years working in politics--in campaigns and on Capitol Hill--and had entered law school to find a way to add intellectual depth to my instinctive progressive beliefs. But what I found, I perceived to be arid and counterfactual, with caselaw...; Search Snippet: ...And Law 2016 Remembering the Founding of the Journal of Gender and Law Caroline Fredrickson [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by the Columbia... |
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| Abbe Smith |
Representing Rapists: the Cruelty of Cross Examination and Other Challenges for a Feminist Criminal Defense Lawyer |
53 American Criminal Law Review 255 (Spring, 2016) |
Somehow, Atticus had hit her hard in a way that was not clear to me, but it gave him no pleasure to do so. He sat with his head down, and I never saw anybody glare at anyone with the hatred Mayella showed when she left the stand and walked by Atticus's table. --Scout Finch describing her father's cross-examination of rape complainant Mayella Ewell...; Search Snippet: ...The Cruelty of Cross Examination and Other Challenges for a Feminist Criminal Defense Lawyer Abbe Smith [Fna1] Copyright © 2016 by Abbe... |
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| Pamela Bass |
Second Generation Gender Bias in College Coaching: Can the Law Reach That Far? |
26 Marquette Sports Law Review 671 (Spring 2016) |
On November 24, 2014, Patsy Mink, the Mother of Title IX, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously. Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 states, No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational...; Search Snippet: ...Review Marquette Sports Law Review Spring 2016 Article Second Generation Gender Bias in College Coaching: Can the Law Reach That Far... |
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| Kristymarie Shipley, née Flores Collazo |
Should I Be "Shipley" or "Flores Collazo" Today? The Racialization of the Law Student and Legal Workplace Candidate |
31 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 183 (Summer, 2016) |
I. Introducing the Candidate's Struggle. 184 II. What Colors the Discussion. 186 A. One Hundred Percent Puerto Rican . . . or Latina . . . or Hispanic . . . or Whatever: The Social Constructions of Race. 186 B. Puertorriqueña. Latina. 188 C. Don't Be the Firm's Latina. . 189 III. Raise Your Hand: A Burden and a Duty. 190 A. Class Participation as...; Search Snippet: ...Of Law School and Legal Employment. As a Puerto Rican Female Student Married to an African- American Man, it Was Difficult for Me to Find Anyone, Student... |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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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