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Enhancing Autonomy For Battered Women: Lessons From Navajo Peacemaking, Donna Coker Jan 1999

Enhancing Autonomy For Battered Women: Lessons From Navajo Peacemaking, Donna Coker

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In this Article, Professor Donna Coker employs original empirical research to investigate the use of Navajo Peacemaking in cases involving domestic violence. Her analysis includes an examination of Navajo women's status and the impact of internal colonization. Many advocates for battered women worry that informal adjudication methods such as Peacemaking ignore domestic hierarchies of power and thus facilitate the batterer's ongoing violence against the victim. Those who endorse the use of Navajo Peacemaking and other systems of restorative justice believe that such processes are better equipped to cut through the batterer's denial and victim blaming and are more likely to …


Establishing Deliberative Democracy: Moving From Misery To Poverty With Dignity, Irwin P. Stotzky Jan 1998

Establishing Deliberative Democracy: Moving From Misery To Poverty With Dignity, Irwin P. Stotzky

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Religion, Gender, Sexuality, Race And Class In Coalitional Theory: A Critical And Self-Critical Analysis Of Latcrit Social Justice Agendas, Elizabeth M. Iglesias, Francisco Valdes Jan 1998

Religion, Gender, Sexuality, Race And Class In Coalitional Theory: A Critical And Self-Critical Analysis Of Latcrit Social Justice Agendas, Elizabeth M. Iglesias, Francisco Valdes

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Sexual Dis-Orientation: Transgendered People And Same-Sex Marriage, Mary I. Coombs Jan 1998

Sexual Dis-Orientation: Transgendered People And Same-Sex Marriage, Mary I. Coombs

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In this Article, Professor Coombs argues that the debate about same-sex marriage has wrongfully ignored transgendered people and their relationships. She provides an overview of arguments made by opponents of same-sex marriage, such as tradition, procreation, child-rearing, and family values. She then examines cases involving transsexual marriages and uses this analysis to deconstruct the same-sex marriage debate. Professor Coombs argues that an honest consideration of transgendered people and their relationships forces a re-evaluation of arguments against same-sex marriage and disrupts the gendered patriarchy on which traditional marriage rests. Marriage should be seen as a relationship between two people, regardless of …


Out Of The Shadow: Marking Intersections In And Between Asian Pacific American Critical Legal Scholarship And Latina/O Critical Legal Theory, Elizabeth M. Iglesias Jan 1998

Out Of The Shadow: Marking Intersections In And Between Asian Pacific American Critical Legal Scholarship And Latina/O Critical Legal Theory, Elizabeth M. Iglesias

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Race Trials, Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1998

Race Trials, Anthony V. Alfieri

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Toward Respectful Representation: Some Thoughts On Selling Same-Sex Marriage, Marc A. Fajer Jan 1997

Toward Respectful Representation: Some Thoughts On Selling Same-Sex Marriage, Marc A. Fajer

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Lynching Ethics: Toward A Theory Of Racialized Defenses, Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1997

Lynching Ethics: Toward A Theory Of Racialized Defenses, Anthony V. Alfieri

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Roundtable Discussion: Visions For The Future, Daniel L. Greenberg (Moderator), Anthony V. Alfieri, Michelle Adams, Edgar S. Cahn, Jennifer Gordon, Luis Garden Acosta, Alan W. Houseman, Errol G. Louis, Esmerelda Simmons, David A. Thomas Jan 1997

Roundtable Discussion: Visions For The Future, Daniel L. Greenberg (Moderator), Anthony V. Alfieri, Michelle Adams, Edgar S. Cahn, Jennifer Gordon, Luis Garden Acosta, Alan W. Houseman, Errol G. Louis, Esmerelda Simmons, David A. Thomas

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The Inter-Subjectivity Of Objective Justice: A Theory And Praxis For Constructing Latcrit Coalitions, Elizabeth M. Iglesias Jan 1997

The Inter-Subjectivity Of Objective Justice: A Theory And Praxis For Constructing Latcrit Coalitions, Elizabeth M. Iglesias

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Voluntary Bonds: The Impact Of Habitat Ii On U.S. Housing Policy, Janet Stearns Jan 1997

Voluntary Bonds: The Impact Of Habitat Ii On U.S. Housing Policy, Janet Stearns

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Foreword: Under Construction- Latcrit Consciousness, Community, And Theory, Francisco Valdes Jan 1997

Foreword: Under Construction- Latcrit Consciousness, Community, And Theory, Francisco Valdes

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The Jury As Critic: An Empirical Look At How Capital Juries Perceive Expert And Lay Testimony, Scott E. Sundby Jan 1997

The Jury As Critic: An Empirical Look At How Capital Juries Perceive Expert And Lay Testimony, Scott E. Sundby

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Foreword Poised At The Cusp: Latcrit Theory, Outsider Jurisprudence And Latina/O Self-Empowerment, Francisco Valdes Jan 1997

Foreword Poised At The Cusp: Latcrit Theory, Outsider Jurisprudence And Latina/O Self-Empowerment, Francisco Valdes

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Latcrit Theory And The Post-Identity Era: Transcending The Legacies Of Color And Coalescing A Politics Of Consciousness, Mary I. Coombs Jan 1997

Latcrit Theory And The Post-Identity Era: Transcending The Legacies Of Color And Coalescing A Politics Of Consciousness, Mary I. Coombs

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The German Duality Of State And Society, David Abraham Jan 1996

The German Duality Of State And Society, David Abraham

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Bowers V. Hardwick, Romer V. Evans, And The Meaning Of Anti-Discrimination Legislation, Marc A. Fajer Jan 1996

Bowers V. Hardwick, Romer V. Evans, And The Meaning Of Anti-Discrimination Legislation, Marc A. Fajer

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What Juvenile Court Abolitionists Can Learn From The Failures Of Sentencing Reform, David Yellen Jan 1996

What Juvenile Court Abolitionists Can Learn From The Failures Of Sentencing Reform, David Yellen

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Mitigation, Mercy, And Delay: The Moral Politics Of Death Penalty Abolitionists, Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1996

Mitigation, Mercy, And Delay: The Moral Politics Of Death Penalty Abolitionists, Anthony V. Alfieri

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Review Essay: Interrogating Identity, Mary I. Coombs Jan 1996

Review Essay: Interrogating Identity, Mary I. Coombs

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Race-Ing Legal Ethics, Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1996

Race-Ing Legal Ethics, Anthony V. Alfieri

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Defending Racial Violence, Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1995

Defending Racial Violence, Anthony V. Alfieri

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Segregation, Whiteness, And Transformation, Martha R. Mahoney Jan 1995

Segregation, Whiteness, And Transformation, Martha R. Mahoney

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Everyman's Fourth Amendment: Privacy Or Mutual Trust Between Government And Citizen, Scott E. Sundby Jan 1994

Everyman's Fourth Amendment: Privacy Or Mutual Trust Between Government And Citizen, Scott E. Sundby

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Practicing Community (Book Review), Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1994

Practicing Community (Book Review), Anthony V. Alfieri

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Authority, Credibility, And Pre-Understanding: A Defense Of Outsider Narratives In Legal Scholarship, Marc A. Fajer Jan 1994

Authority, Credibility, And Pre-Understanding: A Defense Of Outsider Narratives In Legal Scholarship, Marc A. Fajer

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A Nation At Prayer, A Nation In Hate: Apartheid In South Africa, Tamara Rice Lave Jan 1994

A Nation At Prayer, A Nation In Hate: Apartheid In South Africa, Tamara Rice Lave

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The Ethics Of Violence: Necessity, Excess, And Opposition (Book Review Essay), Anthony V. Alfieri Jan 1994

The Ethics Of Violence: Necessity, Excess, And Opposition (Book Review Essay), Anthony V. Alfieri

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Are Rights The Right Thing? Individual Rights, Communitarian Purposes And America's Problems (Book Review), David Abraham Jan 1993

Are Rights The Right Thing? Individual Rights, Communitarian Purposes And America's Problems (Book Review), David Abraham

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Whiteness And Women, In Practice And Theory: A Reply To Catharine Mackinnon, Martha R. Mahoney Jan 1993

Whiteness And Women, In Practice And Theory: A Reply To Catharine Mackinnon, Martha R. Mahoney

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