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Sext Me L8ter: The Legal Conundrum Of Sexting In Schools And A Plan For Schools To Stop It, Bethany L. Arliss

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

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Actionable Acts: "Severe" Conduct In Hostile Work Environment Sexual Harassment Cases, James Concannon

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

This paper examines the significant weight that courts accord proof of especially "severe" conduct in hostile work environment sexual harassment cases. Such conduct is often found by courts to satisfy the "severe or pervasive" test established by the Supreme Court in Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., even if the plaintiff does not present proof that the harassing conduct occurred with great frequency.' Part I provides an introduction to the Supreme Court's hostile work environment jurisprudence and the origins of the severe or pervasive test. Part II begins the exploration into the disjunctive nature of the severe or pervasive test. …

Sugar Dating: A New Take On An Old Issue, Alex Miller

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

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Prisoner-On-Prisoner Sexual Harassment: The Prevalence, Severity, And Lack Of Legal Recourse, Jayla Burton

Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy

No abstract provided.

"Catch-22": The Role Of Development Institutions In Promoting Gender Equality In Land Law – Lessons Learned In Post-Conflict Pluralist Africa, Amrita Kapur

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

This article explores the contours of development policies as they have been applied to pluralistic legal systems, with a specific focus on their effects on women in post-conflict African countries. Drawing on research that firmly establishes the importance of women's social, economic and political participation in post-conflict development, it identifies the flaws in gender-neutral land titling initiatives introduced and encouraged by development institutions. It then describes the gender-sensitive laws enacted as a response to continuing gender discriminatory practices in Rwanda, Mozambique and Uganda. While taking into account the existence of customary law, these laws explicitly affirm women's rights with respect …

Holding My Breath: The Experience Of Being Sikh After 9/11, Muninder Kaur Ahluwalia

Department of Counseling Scholarship and Creative Works

This article is based on the author’s experiences after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City and the impact of the attacks on her life as a New Yorker, an academic, and a member of a Sikh family and community. To position the author’s narrative, her reflection integrates race-based traumatic stress (Carter, 2007), a model suggesting that individuals who are targets of racism experience harm or injury. The author outlines lessons learned that affect her both personally and professionally, including (a) Paralysis can happen but advocacy and allies are healing, (b) Trauma changes the work, and (c) …

Cuando La Muerte Se Explica Por El Género: Problematizando La Tipificación Del Feminicidio/Femicidio, Beatriz Ramirez

Beatriz Ramirez

Mothering As A Life Course Transition: Do Women Go Straight For Their Children?, Venezia Michalsen

Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

In this study, qualitative, in-depth interviews were conducted with 100 formerly incarcerated mothers to explore the relationship between attachment to children and desistance from criminal behavior. Exploratory data analysis revealed that mothers do believe that children play important roles in their desistance, consistent with the tenets of life course theory. However, children were also described as sources of great stress, which may in turn promote criminal behavior. Women also related desistance to reliance on self and a higher power, and to a desire to avoid future involvement with the criminal justice system. The article concludes with a call for more …

Loving Before And After The Law, Loving Before And After The Law, Angela P. Harris

Angela P Harris

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Jurisprudencia Sobre El Derecho A La Educación En Los Sistemas Internacionales De Protección De Los Derechos Humanos, Beatriz Ramirez, Brenda Alvarez

Beatriz Ramirez

Este trabajo comprende una introducción que analiza brevemente "la Educación como Derecho Humano" y dos Capítulos que reflejan, el primero, la Jurisprudencia relevante sobre derecho a la educación en el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, tanto en lo que respecta a justiciabilidad directa como indirecta y también respecto de las medidas de reparación y, el segundo, lo propio con la Jurisprudencia del Sistema Universal de Derechos Humanos, culminado con un conclusión respecto de ambas.

Band-Aid Solutions: New York’S Piecemeal Attempt To Address Legal Issues Created By Doma In Conjunction With Advances In Surrogacy, James Healy

Pace Law Review

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A Short History Of Sex And Citizenship: The Historians' Amicus Brief In Flores-Villar V. United States, Kristin Collins

Faculty Scholarship

The historians’ amicus brief that accompanies this essay was submitted to the Supreme Court in Flores-Villar v. United States, an equal protection challenge to federal statutes that regulate the citizenship status of foreign-born children of American parents. When the parents of such children are unmarried, federal law encumbers the ability of American fathers to secure citizenship for their children, while providing American mothers with a nearly unfettered ability to do the same. The general question before the Court in Flores-Villar – and a question that the Court has addressed in sum and substance on two other occasions during the last …

How House Bill 2063 And The Expansion Of Access To Protective Orders Could Have Saved Yeardley Love's Life, Amy Weiss

Law Student Publications

This paper will examine Virginia protective order law before the enactment of House Bill 2063, how Yeardley Love’s death was a catalyst for reform of the law, how the law will change under House Bill 2063, and possible future developments in legislative reform that could further help victims of intimate partner violence.

The Strong Arm Of The Law Is Weak: How The Tvpa Is Failing Victims Of The Sex Trafficking Trade, Cheryl George Professor

Cheryl Page

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Demagogia E Inacción Estatal. Derechos Fundamentales Y La Carga De La Prueba En Los Procesos De Declaración Judicial De Paternidad Extramatrimonial., Beatriz Ramirez

Beatriz Ramirez

Building On Best Practices–Call For Ideas And Authors, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez

Faculty Scholarship

The Clinical Legal Association Best Practices Implementation Committee is planning a follow-up publication to Best Practices for Legal Education by Roy Stuckey and others. The vision of the book is to build on ideas for implementing best practices, and to develop new theories and ideas on Best Practices for Legal Education.

Second Annual Golden Gate University School Of Law Chief Justice Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture: Women Chief Justices

Golden Gate University Law Review

This is a transcript of the lecture held on October 12, 2010. Please see also the Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture Series.

From Protection To Punishment: Post-Conviction Barriers To Justice For Domestic Violence Survivor-Defendants In New York State, Tamar Kraft-Stolar, Elizabeth Brundige, Sital Kalantry, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Avon Global Center For Women And Justice At Cornell Law School, Women In Prison Project (Correctional Association Of New York)

Avon Global Center for Women and Justice and Dorothea S. Clarke Program in Feminist Jurisprudence

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Who Am I And Who Do You Want Me To Be? Effectively Defining A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Social Group In Asylum Applications, Keith Southam

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Asylum law provides an area within immigration law that is unexpectedly friendly to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender persons. Persons who suffer persecution on account of "membership in a particular social group" are eligible to live and work in the United States. This encompasses lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender persons who suffer persecution. However, United States law does not clearly define applicable standards in this area. As a result, different adjudicators in the asylum process focus on different methodological approaches and sometimes inject bias into the process. In addition, because the terms "lesbian," "gay," "bisexual," and "transgender" are …

The Iaaf Hyperandrogenism Regulations And Discrimination, Shawn Crincoli

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Legal Experiences Of Women Survivors Of Domestic Violence: A Need For Policies That Address The Justice Gap, Kimberly Ann Puhala

Graduate Doctoral Dissertations

The problems associated with the civil legal system for women who have experienced domestic violence have been persistent over time and still exist today. The current sociopolitical context in this state frames access to civil legal services either through a means-tested (and underfunded) program (Civil Legal Assistance) or as a privately purchased market service. This leaves a limited amount of low- or no-cost alternatives, which creates a gap in services for those women whose income is too high to qualify for Civil Legal Assistance programs, yet too low to afford to hire a private attorney. This study examines this two-tiered …

Los Lentes De Género En La Justicia Internacional. Tendencias De La Jurisprudencia Del Sistema Interamericano De Derechos Humanos Relacionada A Los Derechos De Las Mujeres., Beatriz Ramirez, Jeannette Llaja

Beatriz Ramirez

Documento que trae una reflexiva mirada a través de los lentes de género, que incluye casos de violaciones de derechos humanos tramitados ante el Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos en los que las víctimas han sido mujeres, nos revela que si bien son importantes los progresos logrados en la jurisprudencia referida a los derechos de las mujeres y al reconocimiento de los derechos violados, queda aún un largo camino por recorrer ya que podemos comprobar a través de esta lectura que sólo una minoría de los casos presentados, han sido analizados desde la óptica de género tanto por la Comisión …

Money, Sex, And Sunshine: A Market-Based Approach To Pay Discrimination, Deborah Thompson Eisenberg

Deborah Thompson Eisenberg

The Equal Pay Act had a distinct market purpose. Congress made a policy choice to modify the existing compensation market so that employees who perform jobs requiring substantially “equal skill, effort, and responsibility” earn equal wages, regardless of sex. The Act aimed not simply to promote individual fairness, but to foster a more efficient, equitable wage market on a systemic level. Congress recognized that paying lower wages to women constituted “an unfair method of competition,” burdened “commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce,” and prevented the “maximum utilization of available labor resources.” Over time, however, the “market” in …

Revisiting Title Xi's Feminist Legacy: Moving Beyond The Three-Part Test, Deborah Brake

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Women And Reproduction: From Control To Autonomy? The Case Of Chile, Lidia B. Casas

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

International Criminal Court's Protection Of Women: The Hands Of Justice At Work, Tina R. Karkera

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

Northwestern University School Of Law's Two Year Work Requirement And Its Possible Effects On Women: Another Tile In The Glass Ceiling?, Kathleen Kunkle Gilbert

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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International And Regional Standards For Protecting Victims Of Domestic Violence, Andreea Vesa

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Behind The Wedding Veil: Child Marriage As A Form Of Trafficking In Girls, Elizabeth Warner

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Veil Or No Veil? Are We On The Right Track?, Rayhan Asat

Cornell Law School Inter-University Graduate Student Conference Papers

In recent years, it is ironic that a simple Muslim headscarf became one of most contentious and controversial political, culture, religious and human rights issue in various countries around the world. The Muslim headscarf affair has given rise to heated debate in Europe in particular. Extensive scholarship literature contributed to this debate from various aspects, including from the banning of the Niqab from a public sphere, to institutional education and from the courtroom context. One has to acknowledge that few expressions of faith today cause as much fear and loathing in plural democracies as the Muslim headscarf has. I intend …