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Protection Of Battered Women: A Survey Of State Legislation, Lisa G. Lerman Jan 1980

Protection Of Battered Women: A Survey Of State Legislation, Lisa G. Lerman

Scholarly Articles

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Federalism And Social Change, Terrance Sandalow Jan 1980

Federalism And Social Change, Terrance Sandalow

Articles

A familiar passage in Professors Hart and Wechsler's casebook likens the relationship between federal and state law to that which exists between statutes and the common law. The underlying idea is that federal law rests upon a substructure of state law. "It builds upon legal relationships established by the states, altering or supplanting them only so far as necessary for [its] special purpose."' A similar relationship exists between state and federal judicial systems. State courts are courts of general jurisdiction, assumed to have authority to adjudicate controversies unless Congress has displaced them by conferring exclusive jurisdiction on federal courts. Federal …


Sex Discrimination In Coaching, R. Lawrence Dessem Jan 1980

Sex Discrimination In Coaching, R. Lawrence Dessem

Faculty Publications

This article will attempt to provide a legal framework for analysis of this not uncommon payment of lower salaries or stipends to the teacher-coaches (both male and female) of girls' athletics than to the teacher-coaches of comparable or identical boys' sports.


Equal Rights To Trial For Women: Sex-Bias In The Law Of Self-Defense, Elizabeth M. Schneider Jan 1980

Equal Rights To Trial For Women: Sex-Bias In The Law Of Self-Defense, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Faculty Scholarship

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Rape Victim Shield Laws And The Sixth Amendment, J. Alexander Tanford, Anthony J. Bocchino Jan 1980

Rape Victim Shield Laws And The Sixth Amendment, J. Alexander Tanford, Anthony J. Bocchino

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Casenote, Constitutional Law--Equal Protection--New York Statute Requiring Consent Of Mother, But Not Of Father, As Prerequisite To Adoption Of Illegitimate Child Violates The Fourteenth Amendment Because It Draws Gender-Based Distinction Which Bears No Substantial Relation To State Interest In Encouraging Adoption Of Illegitimate Children--Caban V. Mohammed, 441 U.S. 380 (1979), Mary F. Radford Jan 1980

Casenote, Constitutional Law--Equal Protection--New York Statute Requiring Consent Of Mother, But Not Of Father, As Prerequisite To Adoption Of Illegitimate Child Violates The Fourteenth Amendment Because It Draws Gender-Based Distinction Which Bears No Substantial Relation To State Interest In Encouraging Adoption Of Illegitimate Children--Caban V. Mohammed, 441 U.S. 380 (1979), Mary F. Radford

Faculty Publications By Year

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Book Review. Equal Employment Policy For Women By Ronnie Steinberg Ratner, Julia C. Lamber Jan 1980

Book Review. Equal Employment Policy For Women By Ronnie Steinberg Ratner, Julia C. Lamber

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.