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2021

University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law

Contracts

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Contract's Influence On Feminism And Vice Versa, Martha M. Ertman Jan 2021

Contract's Influence On Feminism And Vice Versa, Martha M. Ertman

Faculty Scholarship

Feminist legal theory has both embraced and rejected contract. While contract-based conceptual and doctrinal tools have improved women’s economic and social status, feminists also critique contract-based reforms for colluding with hierarchies of gender, race and class. This chapter charts influential work on both sides of the contract debate and identifies a third approach that sees contract as a mechanism for law to move away from a hierarchal regime by stopping at a contractual way station en route to a more equal system of public ordering. It concludes by identifying ways that feminist legal theorists have injected feminist insights into traditional …


Upgrading Unconscionability: A Common Law Ally For A Digital World, Babette E. Boliek Jan 2021

Upgrading Unconscionability: A Common Law Ally For A Digital World, Babette E. Boliek

Maryland Law Review

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