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The Common Law Inside A Social Hierarchy: Power Or Reason?, Katharine B. Silbaugh
The Common Law Inside A Social Hierarchy: Power Or Reason?, Katharine B. Silbaugh
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Anita Bernstein argues that the common law gives women, too, the right to say no to what they do not want. She demonstrates that the common law is a far-reaching defense of condoned self-regard, a system that allows individuals to place their own interests above the interests of others, particularly when seeking to exclude others. She, therefore, places in the common law a right to protection from rape and a near-absolute right to expel a pregnancy. Bernstein reasons that women’s exclusion from the common law right to say no was a mistake produced by their absence from the judiciary. This …
Exemplary Legal Writing 2019: Five Recommendations, G. Edward White, Sarah Seo
Exemplary Legal Writing 2019: Five Recommendations, G. Edward White, Sarah Seo
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In the song “Natalie Cook” from the musical podcast “36 Questions,” a married couple deals with the fallout from the husband’s discovery that his wife is really an individual named Judith, who “built a past / Made up a history / Details that fit this person named / Natalie.” When the husband accuses the wife, “You’re the one who made her up,” Natalie/Judith responds, “It was a bit more collaborative than you’re remembering.”