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Intersectionality And Title Vii: A Brief (Pre-)History, Serena Mayeri

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Title VII was twenty-five years old when Kimberlé Crenshaw published her path-breaking article introducing “intersectionality” to critical legal scholarship. By the time the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reached its thirtieth birthday, the intersectionality critique had come of age, generating a sophisticated subfield and producing many articles that remain classics in the field of anti-discrimination law and beyond. Employment discrimination law was not the only target of intersectionality critics, but Title VII’s failure to capture and ameliorate the particular experiences of women of color loomed large in this early legal literature. Courts proved especially reluctant to recognize multi-dimensional discrimination against …

Pauli Murray And The Twentieth-Century Quest For Legal And Social Equality, Serena Mayeri

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First Amendment Privacy And The Battle For Progressively Liberal Social Change, Anita L. Allen

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''Step On A Crack, Break Your Mother's Back'': Poor Moms, Myths Of Authority, And Drug-Related Evictions From Public Housing, Regina Austin

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Interview With Regina Austin, Randy Lee, Regina Austin, Legal Oral History Project, University Of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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Regina Austin (L '73), William A. Schnader Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, pursues her interest in the overlapping burdens of race, gender, and class oppression in traditional legal scholarship, as well as in her work on documentary films. She is the director of the Penn Program on Documentaries & the Law, which holds an annual Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable for public interest lawyers, hosts screenings of law-genre documentary films throughout the year, and maintains a national repository of dozens of clemency videos as …

Genetic Testing, Nature, And Trust, Anita L. Allen

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Racism And Patriarchy In The Meaning Of Motherhood, Dorothy E. Roberts

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The Jurisprudence Of Jane Eyre, Anita L. Allen

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Black Women, Sisterhood, And The Difference/Deviance Divide, Regina Austin

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On Being A Role Model, Anita L. Allen

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Surrogacy, Slavery, And The Ownership Of Life, Anita L. Allen

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The Insurance Classification Controversy, Regina Austin

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