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Conflict Of Laws: Foreign Law As Datum, Herma Hill Kay
Conflict Of Laws: Foreign Law As Datum, Herma Hill Kay
Herma Hill Kay
Examines the contributions of California Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Traynor to the field of conflict of laws. Review of the case of the 'Estate of Perkins'; Case of 'Bernkrant v. Fowler'; View that Traynor's approach to a conflicts problem cannot be equalled by other judges.
Legal Planning For The Mentally Retarded: The California Experience, Herma Hill Kay, Louise J. Farnham, Beth Davis Karren, Jeanne Knakal
Legal Planning For The Mentally Retarded: The California Experience, Herma Hill Kay, Louise J. Farnham, Beth Davis Karren, Jeanne Knakal
Herma Hill Kay
Focuses on the development of legal planning for the mentally retarded in California from 1960 to 1971. Role of two pioneering organizations on the study of mental health services and retardation; Theoretical basis for requiring court commitment as part of hospital admission process; Effect of legal implications of commitment on the retarded; Impact of legal aspects on parents' motivation for the retarded's care facilities; Creation of legal tool for coordinating services on a personal basis.
Remembering Mary Dunlap As A Student, Herma Hill Kay
Remembering Mary Dunlap As A Student, Herma Hill Kay
Herma Hill Kay
Recounts the experience of having Mary C. Dunlap as a student at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California in Berkeley. Introduction by Dunlap and fellow students, Nancy Davis and Wendy Webster Williams of a course on Women and the Law into the Boalt Hall curriculum; Establishment of the Davis, Dunlap and Williams women' rights law firm, which was later reorganized as the public interest women's rights firm of Equal Rights Advocates, Inc.; Admittance of Dunlap of being involved in a lesbian relationship; Reason given by Dunlap for studying law.