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The Parent Trap: Equality, Sex, And Partnership In The Modern Law Firm, Miranda Mcgowan
The Parent Trap: Equality, Sex, And Partnership In The Modern Law Firm, Miranda Mcgowan
Marquette Law Review
The fight for women’s equality in law has achieved a lot. Women have
made up nearly half of law students and law firm associates for the last two
decades. Despite this progress, the partnership ranks of law firms are
profoundly and intolerably sex segregated and will remain so for the
foreseeable future. Our profession, which has fought for and helped to achieve
legal equality on behalf of so many, is itself dogged by intractable inequality.
A standard set of solutions, which address structural barriers within law firms
and the effects of cognitive biases, have been urged for decades and yet …
Trapped In Tragedies: Childhood Trauma, Spatial Inequality, And Law, David Dante Troutt
Trapped In Tragedies: Childhood Trauma, Spatial Inequality, And Law, David Dante Troutt
Marquette Law Review
Each year, psychological trauma arising from community and domestic violence, abuse, and neglect brings profound psychological, physiological, and academic harm to millions of American children, disproportionately poor children of color. This Article represents the first comprehensive legal analysis of the causes of and remedies for a crisis that can have lifelong and epigenetic consequences. Using civil rights and local government law, this Article argues that children’s reactions to complex trauma represent the natural symptomatology of severe structural inequality—legally sanctioned environments of isolated, segregated poverty. The sources of psychological trauma may be largely environmental, but the traumatic environments themselves are caused …