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Legalized Lynch Mobs In The 21st Century: Racial Improprieties In The Death Penalty, Betsy A. Daniller

Betsy A Daniller

No abstract provided.

Social Capital: Friend Or Foe In The Lives Of Two Prominent Incarcerated Individuals, Froswa Booker-Drew

Froswa Booker-Drew

No abstract provided.

Savagery In The Subways: The First Amendment, Anti-Muslim Ads And The Efficacy Of Counterspeech, Engy Abdelkader

Engy Abdelkader

From San Francisco to Washington, D.C. to Detroit to Chicago to New York, anti-Muslim hate placards have recently appeared on government-owned transit systems in cities around the country. Anti-Muslim hate groups designed, funded and placed the inflammatory advertisements, representing a well-orchestrated campaign to demean and attack the minority Muslim community. The ads have culminated in hate crime charges in the subway pushing death of an immigrant of South Asian descent, diverse manifestations of counter official and private speech and First Amendment litigation in at least three jurisdictions where well-meaning transit officials attempted to prevent the ads’ placement. Interdisciplinary in its …

Reasonable Men, Ann Mcginley

Ann McGinley

Abstract

REASONABLE MEN

Ann C. McGinley

After the Supreme Court recognized sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination under Title VII in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, lower courts used the reasonable person standard to measure whether the behavior was sufficiently severe or pervasive to constitute a hostile working environment. Cultural and radical feminists objected to the reasonable person measure, and many supported a reasonable woman standard, which the Ninth Circuit adopted in Ellison v. Brady. Because of its tendency to essentialize how women would react, many feminists soon abandoned their support for the standard. A number of circuits, …

Reasonable Men, Ann Mcginley

Ann McGinley

Abstract

REASONABLE MEN

Ann C. McGinley

After the Supreme Court recognized sexual harassment as a form of sex discrimination under Title VII in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, lower courts used the reasonable person standard to measure whether the behavior was sufficiently severe or pervasive to constitute a hostile working environment. Cultural and radical feminists objected to the reasonable person measure, and many supported a reasonable woman standard, which the Ninth Circuit adopted in Ellison v. Brady. Because of its tendency to essentialize how women would react, many feminists soon abandoned their support for the standard. A number of circuits, …