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Accepting The Court's Invitation, Martha M. Ertman Jun 2013

Accepting The Court's Invitation, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Contract Sports, Martha M. Ertman Jun 2013

Contract Sports, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


The Elasticity Of Contract, Martha M. Ertman Jun 2013

The Elasticity Of Contract, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Legal Tenderness, Martha M. Ertman Jun 2013

Book Review: Legal Tenderness, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


What's Wrong With A Parenthood Market? A New And Improved Theory Of Commodification, Martha M. Ertman Jun 2013

What's Wrong With A Parenthood Market? A New And Improved Theory Of Commodification, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


The Business Of Intimacy: Bridging The Private-Private Distinction, Martha M. Ertman Jun 2013

The Business Of Intimacy: Bridging The Private-Private Distinction, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Love And Work: A Response To Vicki Schultz's Life's Work, Martha M. Ertman Jun 2013

Love And Work: A Response To Vicki Schultz's Life's Work, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


The Ali Principles' Approach To Domestic Partnership, Martha M. Ertman Aug 2010

The Ali Principles' Approach To Domestic Partnership, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Marriage As A Trade: Bridging The Private/Private Distinction, Martha M. Ertman Aug 2010

Marriage As A Trade: Bridging The Private/Private Distinction, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


The Productive Tension Between Official And Unofficial Stories Of Fault In Contract Law, Martha M. Ertman Jan 2010

The Productive Tension Between Official And Unofficial Stories Of Fault In Contract Law, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

Officially Contract law ignores fault. However, an unofficial story complements the official one, and explains why fault occasionally slips into contract law through doctrines such as willful breach. This chapter of FAULT IN AMERICAN CONTRACT LAW (Omri Ben-Shahar & Ariel Porot, eds, Cambridge U. Press, forthcoming 2010) argues that the official and unofficial stories operate in productive tension to both facilitate ex ante planning and, when necessary, look backward at reasons for breach to reach a just result. The occasional presence of fault in contract law, in this view, represents merely one more instance of the common doctrinal pattern of …


The Upside Of Baby Markets, Martha Ertman Dec 2009

The Upside Of Baby Markets, Martha Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

Few think there is an upside to baby markets. This chapter challenges conventional wisdom by suggesting that marketizing parenthood through the sale of gametes and other reproductive technologies facilitates family formation by single and gay people. After briefly reviewing literature, it defends commercialization of human eggs and sperm and applies those defenses to embryo markets.


For Both Love And Money: Viviana Zelizer's "The Purchase Of Intimacy", Martha M. Ertman Dec 2009

For Both Love And Money: Viviana Zelizer's "The Purchase Of Intimacy", Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

Viviana Zelizer’s recent book, The Purchase of Intimacy (2005) presents an innovative theory of how social and legal actors negotiate rights and obligations when money changes hands in intimate relationships--a perspective that could change how we understand many things, from valuations of homemaking labor to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. This essay describes Zelizer’s critique of the reductionist “Hostile Worlds” and “Nothing But” approaches to economic exchange in intimate relationships, then explains her more three-dimensional approach, “Connected Lives.” While Zelizer focuses on family law, the essay goes beyond that context, extending Zelizer’s approach to transfers of genetic material, and concluding …


For Both Love And Money: Viviana Zelizer's "The Purchase Of Intimacy", Martha M. Ertman Jun 2009

For Both Love And Money: Viviana Zelizer's "The Purchase Of Intimacy", Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

Viviana Zelizer’s recent book, The Purchase of Intimacy (2005) presents an innovative theory of how social and legal actors negotiate rights and obligations when money changes hands in intimate relationships--a perspective that could change how we understand many things, from valuations of homemaking labor to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. This essay describes Zelizer’s critique of the reductionist “Hostile Worlds” and “Nothing But” approaches to economic exchange in intimate relationships, then explains her more three-dimensional approach, “Connected Lives.” While Zelizer focuses on family law, the essay goes beyond that context, extending Zelizer’s approach to transfers of genetic material, and concluding …


Oscar Wilde: Paradoxical Poster Child For Both Identify And Post-Identify, Martha M. Ertman Nov 2008

Oscar Wilde: Paradoxical Poster Child For Both Identify And Post-Identify, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Contractual Purgatory For Sexual Marginorities: Not Heaven, But Not Hell Either, Martha M. Ertman Sep 2008

Contractual Purgatory For Sexual Marginorities: Not Heaven, But Not Hell Either, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Race Treason: The Untold Story Of America's Ban On Polygamy, Martha M. Ertman Sep 2008

Race Treason: The Untold Story Of America's Ban On Polygamy, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

Legal doctrines banning polygamy grew out of nineteenth century Americans’ view that Mormons betrayed the nation by engaging in conduct associated with people of color. This article reveals the racial underpinnings of polygamy law by examining cartoons and other antipolygamy rhetoric of the time to demonstrate Sir Henry Maine’s famous observation that the move in progressive societies is “from status to contract.” It frames antipolygamists’ contentions as a visceral defense of racial and sexual status in the face of encroaching contractual thinking. Polygamy, they reasoned, was “natural” for people of color but so “unnatural” for whites as to produce a …


Changing The Meaning Of Motherhood, Martha M. Ertman Sep 2008

Changing The Meaning Of Motherhood, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Vive No Différence, Martha M. Ertman Sep 2008

Vive No Différence, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.


Commercializing Marriage: A Proposal For Valuing Women's Work Through Premarital Security Agreements, Martha M. Ertman Sep 2008

Commercializing Marriage: A Proposal For Valuing Women's Work Through Premarital Security Agreements, Martha M. Ertman

Martha M. Ertman

No abstract provided.