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What's Wrong With Sexual Harassment, Katherine M. Franke
What's Wrong With Sexual Harassment, Katherine M. Franke
Faculty Scholarship
In this article, Professor Franke asks and answers a seemingly simple question: why is sexual harassment a form of sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? She argues that the link between sexual harassment and sex discrimination has been undertheorized by the Supreme Court. In the absence of a principled theory of the wrong of sexual harassment, Professor Franke argues that lower courts have developed a body of sexual harassment law that trivializes the legal norm against sex discrimination. After illustrating how the Supreme Court has not provided an adequate theory of sexual harassment as …
Homosexuals, Torts, And Dangerous Things, Katherine M. Franke
Homosexuals, Torts, And Dangerous Things, Katherine M. Franke
Faculty Scholarship
Negligent, intentional, and strict liability torts. From a canonical standpoint, whatever else one might teach, it is not a first-year torts course if these three concepts are not covered. Torts has a canon, even a Restatement. Yet a canon evolves only after some criteria of value has been established such that privileged texts can be identified according to some authoritative standard. In other words, a canon is the result of a process by which a rule of recognition identifies authoritative texts.
At what point can we say that torts became a field and an intact legal subject, the canon …
From Gladiators To Problem-Solvers: Connective Conversations About Women, The Academy, And The Legal Profession, Susan P. Sturm
From Gladiators To Problem-Solvers: Connective Conversations About Women, The Academy, And The Legal Profession, Susan P. Sturm
Faculty Scholarship
Dissatisfaction permeates the public and professional discourse about lawyers and legal education. Diverse communities within and outside the profession are engaged in multiple conversations critiquing legal education and the profession itself. These conversations, though linked in subject matter and orientation, often proceed on separate tracks.
One set of conversations explicitly focuses on women and people of color, centering on their marginalization and underrepresentation in positions of power. Those concerned about race and gender exclusion often participate in separate communities of discourse. Indeed, the symposium that spawned this article framed the inquiry about higher education in terms of gender. This exclusive …