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The Progress Of Passion, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2019

The Progress Of Passion, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

Like an abandoned fortress, the dichotomy between reason and the passions casts a long shadow over the domain of legal thought. Beset by forces from legal realism to feminist epistemology, this dichotomy no longer holds sovereign sway. Yet its structure helps to articulate the boundaries of the legal field; efforts to move in and around it infuse present thinking with the echoes of a conceptually distinct past. Early critics of the dichotomy may unwittingly have prolonged its influence through the frontal character of their attacks. By challenging a strong distinction between emotion and reason, critics kept it, paradoxically, before legal …


Songs Of Innocence And Experience: Dominance Feminism In The University, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2019

Songs Of Innocence And Experience: Dominance Feminism In The University, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Who's Afraid Of Law And The Emotions?, Kathryn Abrams, Hila Keren Aug 2019

Who's Afraid Of Law And The Emotions?, Kathryn Abrams, Hila Keren

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


On Reading And Using The Tenth Amendment, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2019

On Reading And Using The Tenth Amendment, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Cross-Dressing In The Master's Clothes, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2019

Cross-Dressing In The Master's Clothes, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Law's Republicanism, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2019

Law's Republicanism, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Social Construction, Roving Biologism, And Reasonable Women: A Response To Professor Epstein, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Social Construction, Roving Biologism, And Reasonable Women: A Response To Professor Epstein, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


How To Have A Culture War, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

How To Have A Culture War, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Seeking Emotional Ends With Legal Means, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Seeking Emotional Ends With Legal Means, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

In response to Dean Martha Minow’s 2014 Brennan Center Jorde Symposium Lecture, Forgiveness, Law, and Justice, 103 Calif. L. Rev. 1615 (2015), available here. Can we use legal institutions to cultivate forgiveness after mass violence, genocide, or pervasive group-based injustice? This is the question Dean Martha Minow asks in her provocative and pathbreaking Jorde Lecture. Yet she also poses a question that is simpler and broader in its reach: Should we attempt to use law in a purposive way to shape or foster human feeling? Both questions, as Minow acknowledges, evoke skepticism from those who see law as a field …


Redefining Women's Agency: A Response To Professor Williams, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Redefining Women's Agency: A Response To Professor Williams, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Songs Of Innocence And Experience: Dominance Feminism In The University - Book Review (The Morning After: Sex, Fear, And Feminism On Campus; By Katie Rophie), Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Songs Of Innocence And Experience: Dominance Feminism In The University - Book Review (The Morning After: Sex, Fear, And Feminism On Campus; By Katie Rophie), Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Postscript Spring 1998: A Response To Professors Bernstein And Franke , Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Postscript Spring 1998: A Response To Professors Bernstein And Franke , Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Who's Afraid Of Law And The Emotions, Kathryn Abrams, Hila Keren Aug 2016

Who's Afraid Of Law And The Emotions, Kathryn Abrams, Hila Keren

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


The Second Coming Of Care: Commentary, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

The Second Coming Of Care: Commentary, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Redefining Women's Agency: A Response To Professor Williams, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Redefining Women's Agency: A Response To Professor Williams, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Women And Antiwar Protest: Rearticulating Gender And Citizenship, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


The Second Coming Of Care: Commentary, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

The Second Coming Of Care: Commentary, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Social Construction, Roving Biologism, And Reasonable Women: A Response To Professor Epstein, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Social Construction, Roving Biologism, And Reasonable Women: A Response To Professor Epstein, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Seeking Emotional Ends With Legal Means, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Seeking Emotional Ends With Legal Means, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

In response to Dean Martha Minow’s 2014 Brennan Center Jorde Symposium Lecture, Forgiveness, Law, and Justice, 103 Calif. L. Rev. 1615 (2015), available here. Can we use legal institutions to cultivate forgiveness after mass violence, genocide, or pervasive group-based injustice? This is the question Dean Martha Minow asks in her provocative and pathbreaking Jorde Lecture. Yet she also poses a question that is simpler and broader in its reach: Should we attempt to use law in a purposive way to shape or foster human feeling? Both questions, as Minow acknowledges, evoke skepticism from those who see law as a field …


Songs Of Innocence And Experience: Dominance Feminism In The University - Book Review (The Morning After: Sex, Fear, And Feminism On Campus; By Katie Rophie), Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Songs Of Innocence And Experience: Dominance Feminism In The University - Book Review (The Morning After: Sex, Fear, And Feminism On Campus; By Katie Rophie), Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Roundtable Discussion: Is Subversion Subversive?, Zipporah Wiseman, Kathryn Abrams, Katherine Franke, David Kennedy Aug 2016

Roundtable Discussion: Is Subversion Subversive?, Zipporah Wiseman, Kathryn Abrams, Katherine Franke, David Kennedy

Kathryn Abrams

Presents a roundtable discussion on the subversive nature of legal archaeology in women's studies. Structural tension or contradictions in women's studies; Need to fully theorize the connection of legal archaeology to the term feminist; Role of subversion in teaching humility; Evolution of feminist theory as a discipline; Role of feminism in promoting democracy.


Postscript Spring 1998: A Response To Professors Bernstein And Franke , Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Postscript Spring 1998: A Response To Professors Bernstein And Franke , Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


How To Have A Culture War, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

How To Have A Culture War, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Respecting Women's Lives And Investigating Women's Consciousness: A Comment On Obiora, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Respecting Women's Lives And Investigating Women's Consciousness: A Comment On Obiora, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Hearing The Call Of Stories, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Hearing The Call Of Stories, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

In this Article, Professor Abrams examines the emergence of feminist narrative scholarship as a distinctive form of critical legal discourse. Arguing that the failure to debate publicly the conventions and merits of this form has perpetuated misunderstandings about its claims and disadvantaged its practitioners, she begins by examining several of the critiques that have been offered, in nonpublic settings, of feminist narratives. To provide background and context for examining these critiques, she then analyzes four recent examples of feminist narrative legal scholarship. In the final section of the Article, Professor Abrams returns to the opening critiques. She argues that their …


The Legal Subject In Exile, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

The Legal Subject In Exile, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

An essay on the misuse of constitution is presented. It explores the characterizations of the legal subject in a particular set of contexts, and focuses on the extent to which the government may intervene to improve inequalities between participants in particular social or economic transactions. The author discusses various due processes and equal protection cases taken from the second half of the twentieth century and examines its similarities to the subject of Constitution in Exile.


How To Have A Culture War (Reviewing Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault On Truth In American Law By Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry), Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

How To Have A Culture War (Reviewing Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault On Truth In American Law By Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry), Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.


Gender In The Military: Androcentrism And Institutional Reform, Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

Gender In The Military: Androcentrism And Institutional Reform, Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

Discusses androcentrism and institutional reform in the military. Need to expose androcentism as a strategy for change; Courts' deference toward military policy.


The Passions Of Law (Book Review) (Undetermined), Kathryn Abrams Aug 2016

The Passions Of Law (Book Review) (Undetermined), Kathryn Abrams

Kathryn Abrams

No abstract provided.