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Book Review, Barbara Babcock's Woman Lawyer: The Trials Of Clara Foltz, Tracy Thomas Jan 2012

Book Review, Barbara Babcock's Woman Lawyer: The Trials Of Clara Foltz, Tracy Thomas

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Forward: "War On Women" In Women And The Law, Tracy Thomas Jan 2012

Forward: "War On Women" In Women And The Law, Tracy Thomas

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This foreword to Women and the Law highlights the dramatic attacks on women's rights over the past year. It summarizes the articles contained in this annual selection of leading scholarship in the field of women's rights. This "greatest hits" collection pulls together academic research of potential interest to litigators and policymakers on issues of reproductive rights, feminism and the family, violence against women, employment, women's healthcare, and feminist legal theory.


Switching To Prophylactic Injunctions, Tracy Thomas Jan 2012

Switching To Prophylactic Injunctions, Tracy Thomas

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This essay highlights the significance of John Golden’s work on patents to the field of Remedies more generally. In his important new article, Injunctions as More (or Less) Than ‘Off Switches’: Patent-Infringement Injunctions’ Scope (Texas Law Review), Golden proves my thesis: prophylactic injunctions are, and should be, common, normal types of equitable relief. His careful and detailed analysis of the type and frequency of injunctions issued in patent infringement cases exposes the myth that prophylaxis is illegitimate. Steeped in details of patent law, Golden’s work nevertheless contributes significantly to the broader transsubstantive questions of the metes and bounds of equitable …


The Struggle For Gender Equality In The Northern District Of Ohio, Tracy Thomas Jan 2012

The Struggle For Gender Equality In The Northern District Of Ohio, Tracy Thomas

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Riding Into The Sunset In A "Post-Racial" World: Lessons In Equal Educational Opportunity And College Admissions Schemes In France And The United States, Kristen Barnes Jan 2012

Riding Into The Sunset In A "Post-Racial" World: Lessons In Equal Educational Opportunity And College Admissions Schemes In France And The United States, Kristen Barnes

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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and compare two strategies designed to promote ethno-racial inclusion that were initiated in France and the United States in the context of higher education. In particular, I examine the Priority Education Agreements Program or CEP, an innovative affirmative action program which was implemented in 2001 by the Sciences Po, one of France’s elite universities, in relation to the Texas Ten Percent Plan that was established in 1997 in the United States by the State of Texas.

Sections I and II of this paper will provide the historical and social contexts in which …