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Fax: The White House Office Of The Press Secretary December 8, 1997, The White House Dec 1997

Fax: The White House Office Of The Press Secretary December 8, 1997, The White House

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Memorandum for the Secretary of State. A fax disseminate the “Presidential determination on waiver and certification of statutory provisions regarding the Palestine Liberation Organization”.


Treating Sexual Harassment With Respect, Anita Bernstein Dec 1997

Treating Sexual Harassment With Respect, Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Sex Selection Abortion And The Boomerang Effect Of A Woman's Right To Choose: A Paradox Of The Skeptics, Lynne Marie Kohm Dec 1997

Sex Selection Abortion And The Boomerang Effect Of A Woman's Right To Choose: A Paradox Of The Skeptics, Lynne Marie Kohm

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


A Postscript On Vmi, Elizabeth M. Schneider Oct 1997

A Postscript On Vmi, Elizabeth M. Schneider

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


What Do Women Want: Feminism And The Progressive Income Tax , Marjorie E. Kornhauser Oct 1997

What Do Women Want: Feminism And The Progressive Income Tax , Marjorie E. Kornhauser

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Book Review: The Stork And The Plow: The Equity Answer To The Human Dilemma, Sally Lerner Oct 1997

Book Review: The Stork And The Plow: The Equity Answer To The Human Dilemma, Sally Lerner

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law—Gender Equality And Single-Sex Education. United States V. Virginia, 116 S. Ct. 2264 (1996)., Heather Larkin Eason Oct 1997

Constitutional Law—Gender Equality And Single-Sex Education. United States V. Virginia, 116 S. Ct. 2264 (1996)., Heather Larkin Eason

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.


"Supervisor" Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Claims, Liability Insurance, And The Trend Towards Negligence, Amanda D. Smith Oct 1997

"Supervisor" Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Claims, Liability Insurance, And The Trend Towards Negligence, Amanda D. Smith

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

A lack of settled standards for determining liability in supervisor hostile environment sexual harassment lawsuits combined with similar uncertainty in the context of employer liability insurance coverage has resulted in increased litigation in this area. This Note argues that the current predominant standard in the employer liability context, which is based on negligence principle should be rejected in favor of an apparent authority standard, which more appropriately strikes a balance between encouraging employers to identify harassing behaviors and exonerating them from liability when they do so and take appropriate remedial action. It further argues that in order to develop effective …


The Globalization Of Female Child Prostitution: A Call For Reintegration And Recovery Measures Via Article 39 Of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Laurie Robinson Oct 1997

The Globalization Of Female Child Prostitution: A Call For Reintegration And Recovery Measures Via Article 39 Of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Laurie Robinson

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

No abstract provided.


Susan Glaspell's Trifles And A Jury Of Her Peers: Woman Abuse In A Literary And Legal Context, Marina Angel Oct 1997

Susan Glaspell's Trifles And A Jury Of Her Peers: Woman Abuse In A Literary And Legal Context, Marina Angel

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Two Decades Of Intermediate Scrutiny: Evaluating Equal Protection For Women Centennial Pannel, Elizabeth M. Schneider, Deborah Brake, Donna Lenhoff, Sharon Elizabeth Rush, Ann Shalleck Oct 1997

Two Decades Of Intermediate Scrutiny: Evaluating Equal Protection For Women Centennial Pannel, Elizabeth M. Schneider, Deborah Brake, Donna Lenhoff, Sharon Elizabeth Rush, Ann Shalleck

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Borders (En)Gendered: Normativities, Latinas, And A Latcrit Paradigm, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol Oct 1997

Borders (En)Gendered: Normativities, Latinas, And A Latcrit Paradigm, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

UF Law Faculty Publications

This Essay, developed in a prologue and three parts, adopts Latinas'/os' world traveling as a metaphor for Latina/o multidimensionality and as a springboard for LatCrit theorizing. The Prologue is a brief diary entry of unfin de semana viajando mundos - a weekend of actual traveling between New York and Miami; law and familia; profesora and learner; colleague and hija; español and English; norte y sur; normativa and other; indigenous and alien. This abbreviated record of a Latina's life reveals, exposes, and unveils Latinas'/os' daily crossdressing simply by virtue of their latinidad. This Prologue thus serves as a concrete backdrop for …


Preliminary Report: Availability Of Domestic Violence Services For Latina Survivors In New York State, Jenny Rivera Sep 1997

Preliminary Report: Availability Of Domestic Violence Services For Latina Survivors In New York State, Jenny Rivera

In the Public Interest

No abstract provided.


Regulating Rites: Legal Responses To Female Genital Mutilation In The West, Carol M. Messito Sep 1997

Regulating Rites: Legal Responses To Female Genital Mutilation In The West, Carol M. Messito

In the Public Interest

No abstract provided.


Women's Rights And International Dialogue, Maria De Los Angelos Moreno Sep 1997

Women's Rights And International Dialogue, Maria De Los Angelos Moreno

Penn State International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Women's Rights Under Labor Law: A Comparative Study Of Argentina And Canada, Valerie Oosterveld Aug 1997

Women's Rights Under Labor Law: A Comparative Study Of Argentina And Canada, Valerie Oosterveld

Law Publications

No abstract provided.


The Spousal Assault Policy: A Critical Analysis, Leah Rachin Jul 1997

The Spousal Assault Policy: A Critical Analysis, Leah Rachin

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article examines the complex relationship between PCLS's spousal assault policy and the clinic's mandate to practice poverty law. The author addresses the conflict which arises from the clinic's attempt to reconcile two goals-access to justice for all members of Parkdale's poor community and advocacy in the area of violence against women. The article also examines whether poverty can serve as a catalyst for violent behaviour or whether such a hypothesis is based on classist myths and assumptions. Ultimately, the author concludes that if battering can be linked to poverty, then PCLS (as a poverty law clinic) has an obligation …


Safe At Home: Protecting Female Tenants From Violence, Lori A. Pope Jul 1997

Safe At Home: Protecting Female Tenants From Violence, Lori A. Pope

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This article deals with the tension for legal aid clinics between a policy of not representing landlords and a policy of acting for abused women rather than their alleged abusers. Many women face violence where they live, which can jeopardize their tenancies. To combat the resulting legal problems effectively, clinics may need to work indirectly or even directly for landlords. Clinics ought also to consider lobbying for changes to legislation to allow tenants to take action directly against other tenants who threaten their safety. Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS), which led the way for other clinics in their adoption of …


Choosing Substantive Justice: A Discussion Of Choice, Rights And The New Reproductive Technologies, April L. Cherry Jul 1997

Choosing Substantive Justice: A Discussion Of Choice, Rights And The New Reproductive Technologies, April L. Cherry

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

This paper is an expanded version of the speech that Professor Cherry presented at the National Women Law Students' Association Conference, entitled Consensus and the Community: Diversifying Our Points of View, at the University of Wisconsin Law School on March l, 1996. For Professor Cherry's complete article on this topic, see 10 Wis. Women's L.J. 161 A Feminist Understanding of Sex-Selective Abortion: Solely a Matter of Choice


Testing Testing, Carl E. Schneider Jul 1997

Testing Testing, Carl E. Schneider

Articles

Last year, Congress passed the Ryan White Care Act Amendments of 1996. The amendments authorize ten million dollars for each fiscal year from 1996 through 2000 for counseling pregnant women on HIV disease, for "outreach efforts to pregnant women at high risk of HN who are not currently receiving prenatal care," and for voluntary testing for pregnant women. The amendments compromise a central question: whether prenatal and neonatal AIDS testing should be compelled. The compromise is complex. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is instructed to establish a system for states to use to discover and …


Ru 486 Examined: Impact Of A New Technology On An 0 Id Controversy, Gwendolyn Prothro Jun 1997

Ru 486 Examined: Impact Of A New Technology On An 0 Id Controversy, Gwendolyn Prothro

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Abortion is an extremely divisive issue in American politics and culture. Prothro begins this Article by analyzing the current legal standards governing reproduction, which draw a sharp distinction between abortion and contraception. Prothro then examines the function of RU 486, demonstrating that it acts both as a contraceptive and as an abortifacient. Because of this dual capacity, RU 486 does not fit neatly into the current legal framework. Prothro concludes this Article by arguing that RU 486 should force the Supreme Court to create a new framework for the "procreative right." Prothro argues that this new framework should treat the …


Juno Moneta: On The Erotics Of The Marketplace, Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder Jun 1997

Juno Moneta: On The Erotics Of The Marketplace, Jeanne Lorraine Schroeder

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.


Know Your Rights: A Guide To Employment Law For California Workers, Marci Seville, Maria Blanco, Whitney Gabriel, Anne Yen May 1997

Know Your Rights: A Guide To Employment Law For California Workers, Marci Seville, Maria Blanco, Whitney Gabriel, Anne Yen

Women’s Employment Rights Clinic

The Women's Employment Rights Clinic of Golden Gate University School of Law has written this handbook to help guide California employees who have legal questions regarding their employment. The chapters include broad overviews of different areas of the law. The law changes frequently, and this book contains only basic information. Employees should use this handbook as a starting place for further action and advice; it is not meant to be a substitute for legal counsel.


United States V. Virginia's New Gender Equal Protection Analysis With Ramifications For Pregnancy, Parenting, And Title Vii, Candace S. Kovacic-Fleischer May 1997

United States V. Virginia's New Gender Equal Protection Analysis With Ramifications For Pregnancy, Parenting, And Title Vii, Candace S. Kovacic-Fleischer

Vanderbilt Law Review

In this Article, Professor Kovacic-liTeischer argues that the Supreme Court's recent decision in United States v. Virginia raises gender equal protection analysis to the level of strict scrutiny. Professor Kovacic-Fleischer asserts that the Court's refusal to accept as immutable VMI's single-sex institutional design, and the Court's requirement that VMT make adjustments and alterations that will enable qualified women to undertake VM's curriculum evidences this shift in gender equal protection analysis. Professor Kovacic-Fleischer then turns to the significance of the Court's citation to California Federal Savings & Loan Association v. Guerra. She asserts that this citation indicates that the Court effectively …


A Feminist View Of American Elder Law, Rebecca Korzec Apr 1997

A Feminist View Of American Elder Law, Rebecca Korzec

All Faculty Scholarship

ANY discussion of contemporary American elder law must consider gender issues. A number of gender concerns are readily discernible, including workplace and family issues. Significantly, sex-based disparities are increasing within the elderly population. In turn, these disparities exacerbate problems of fairness and equity in meeting intergenerational family needs and expectations.

As with childrearing, in contemporary American society, the major caregiving responsibility for the growing number of frail elderly falls largely on women rather than men. With an increasing number of women working outside the family home, the intersection of work and family issues is receiving considerable attention both in academic …


Protecting The Least Respected: The Girl Child And The Gender Bias Of The Vienna Convention's Adoption And Reservation Regime, Linda A. Malone Apr 1997

Protecting The Least Respected: The Girl Child And The Gender Bias Of The Vienna Convention's Adoption And Reservation Regime, Linda A. Malone

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

No abstract provided.


Feminism, Globalization And Culture: After Beijing, L. Amede Obiora Apr 1997

Feminism, Globalization And Culture: After Beijing, L. Amede Obiora

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

In this article, Professor Obiora begins with the premise that the

credibility of traditional legal frameworks has eroded, because the law

remains unable to relieve the oppressions and polarization between cultures,

even in the wake of global institutional transformations that seem to help the

oppressed, particularly women. Professor Obiora offers the Beijing Platform

for Action as a radical new solution for human rights protection, radical in

that it is one of the first declaratives to transcend the previous dichotomy of

issues among women by expressing a commitment to a global framework in

which to address these issues, particularly the feminization …


A Feminist Reassessment Of Civil Society, Susan H. Williams Apr 1997

A Feminist Reassessment Of Civil Society, Susan H. Williams

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Law and Civil Society


Redefining Women's Agency: A Response To Professor Williams, Kathryn Abrams Apr 1997

Redefining Women's Agency: A Response To Professor Williams, Kathryn Abrams

Indiana Law Journal

Symposium: Law and Civil Society


Notre Dame Lawyer - Spring 1997, Notre Dame Law School Apr 1997

Notre Dame Lawyer - Spring 1997, Notre Dame Law School

Notre Dame Lawyer