Female Entrepreneurs And Equity Crowdfunding In The Us: Receiving Less When Asking For More, Seth C. Oranburg, Mark Geiger
Oct 2018
Female Entrepreneurs And Equity Crowdfunding In The Us: Receiving Less When Asking For More, Seth C. Oranburg, Mark Geiger
Seth Oranburg
In this paper, we explore the relationship between gender and funding raised through equity crowdfunding. Using data collected from the population of US equity crowdfunding campaigns, we find that campaigns receive significantly less funding when the primary signatory is female. Furthermore, we explore interactions between gender and a campaign's funding target. The results suggest that campaigns raise significantly less funding, as the target amount increases, when the primary signatory is female. These results are the first to suggest a relationship between gender and funding among the population of US equity crowdfunding campaigns. Implications and future directions are discussed.
Plastic Injuries, Anne Bloom
May 2018
Plastic Injuries, Anne Bloom
Anne Bloom
Perceptions of injuries are culturally mediated, mutable, plastic. In tort litigation, however, the cultural plasticity with which we perceive and experience injuries is often ignored. This Article explores the cultural plasticity with which we perceive injuries through the lens of plastic surgery litigation. It argues that determinations of injury in plastic surgery litigation turn on the culturally biased — and highly mutable — perceptions of medical professionals. More broadly, the Article argues that culture shapes perceptions of injuries in tort litigation as a whole. To make these points, the Article examines a prototypical plastic surgery case and surveys a range …
Book Review Of The Measure Of Injury: Race, Gender, And Tort Law, By Martha Chamallas And Jennifer B. Wriggins, Anne Bloom, Julie Davies
May 2018
Book Review Of The Measure Of Injury: Race, Gender, And Tort Law, By Martha Chamallas And Jennifer B. Wriggins, Anne Bloom, Julie Davies
Anne Bloom
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Using Intellectual Property Law To Promote Human Flourishing For “Market Women” | Section Of Intellectual Property Law.Pdf, J. Janewa Osei Tutu
Mar 2018
Using Intellectual Property Law To Promote Human Flourishing For “Market Women” | Section Of Intellectual Property Law.Pdf, J. Janewa Osei Tutu
J. Janewa Osei-Tutu
IP laws can be used as a tool for promoting human flourishing and human development if entrepreneurial women in developing countries, such as Ghana, can better use IP rights to advance and promote their enterprises. For example, while driving from Accra to Cape Coast, I observed several small stalls on the side of the road with names on them. Clearly small enterprises, the stalls had no obvious branding aside from the handwritten names of the women who appeared to be the proprietors. These women wrote their names on their stalls —Abena, Akua, and Charity—in an attempt to distinguish their enterprises …
The Women Feminism Forgot: Rural And Working-Class White Women In The Era Of Trump, Lisa R. Pruitt
Dec 2017
The Women Feminism Forgot: Rural And Working-Class White Women In The Era Of Trump, Lisa R. Pruitt
Lisa R Pruitt
The Women Feminism Forgot: Rural and Working-Class White Women in the Era of Trump
© Lisa R. Pruitt 2018
Abstract
This article, based on a keynote address delivered at the University of Toledo Law Review Symposium on “Gender Equality: Progress and Possibilities,” takes up the task of theorizing gendered aspects of the current chasm between progressive elites on one hand and rural and working-class whites on the other. Pruitt offers observations that aim to cultivate empathy and ultimately temper elite derision toward these populations. The article also lays the groundwork for a robust consideration of how feminist …
Tort Law's Devaluation Of Stillbirth, Jill W. Lens
Dec 2017
Tort Law's Devaluation Of Stillbirth, Jill W. Lens
Jill Wieber Lens
In the United States, more than sixty-five babies die daily due to stillbirth—death of an unborn baby after twenty weeks of pregnancy but before birth. New medical research suggests that at least one fourth of those deaths are preventable with proper medical care. Stated differently, one fourth of stillbirths are due to medical malpractice. In almost all states, tort law provides recourse for mothers after the death of their children due to stillbirth.
This Article uses feminist legal theory and empirical research of parents after stillbirth to demonstrate that tort law devalues stillbirth. That devaluation is due to the cognitive …
