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Comment On The Paper By Gladys Acosta, Martin D. Farrell Feb 2011

Comment On The Paper By Gladys Acosta, Martin D. Farrell

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Parental Rights And The Best Interests Of The Child: Implications Of The Adoption And Safe Families Act Of 1997 On Domestic Violence Victims' Rights, Rachel Venier Feb 2011

Parental Rights And The Best Interests Of The Child: Implications Of The Adoption And Safe Families Act Of 1997 On Domestic Violence Victims' Rights, Rachel Venier

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Bursting The Foundational Myths Of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism: A Call For Brave New Families Or Brave New Villages? , Mary Romero Feb 2011

Bursting The Foundational Myths Of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism: A Call For Brave New Families Or Brave New Villages? , Mary Romero

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Caretakers, Entitlement, And Diversity , Twila L. Perry Feb 2011

Caretakers, Entitlement, And Diversity , Twila L. Perry

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Bursting The Foundational Myths Of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism: A Call For Brave New Families Or Brave New Villages? , Mary Romero Feb 2011

Bursting The Foundational Myths Of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism: A Call For Brave New Families Or Brave New Villages? , Mary Romero

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Caretakers, Entitlement, And Diversity , Twila L. Perry Feb 2011

Caretakers, Entitlement, And Diversity , Twila L. Perry

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Aryans, Gender, And American Politics, Robert Tsai Jan 2011

Aryans, Gender, And American Politics, Robert Tsai

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

This short essay discusses some of the ways in which the Aryan movement in America activates gendered beliefs for the goal of legal, political, and cultural transformation. In recent years, the community has moved from common law theories of white sovereignty to more robust forms of racial constitutionalism. The piece is drawn from "America's Forgotten Constitutions: Defiant Visions of Power and Community"


Examining Entrenched Masculinities Within The Republican Government Tradition, Jamie Abrams Jan 2011

Examining Entrenched Masculinities Within The Republican Government Tradition, Jamie Abrams

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

“May all our citizens be soldiers, and all our soldiers citizens,” Sarah Livingston Jay toasted to revelers celebrating the Revolutionary War in 1789. She expressly conveyed what this article describes as the “foundational fusion” of republican government traditions coupling the military service of citizens-soldiers with male political citizenship. While the core of this fusion is deep, long-standing, and well-documented, this article explores the implicit tensions conveyed in her toast – the dominant masculinity dimensions of this foundational fusion. How do women and black men historically gain full political citizenship and effectuate republican government guarantees given its anchoring in entrenched dominant …


Advice And Consent Vs. Silence And Dissent? The Contrasting Roles Of The Legislature In U.S. And U.K. Judicial Appointments, Mary Clark Jan 2011

Advice And Consent Vs. Silence And Dissent? The Contrasting Roles Of The Legislature In U.S. And U.K. Judicial Appointments, Mary Clark

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The Senate‘s role in judicial appointments has come under increasingly withering criticism for its uninformative and spectacle-like nature. At the same time, Britain has established two new judicial appointment processes - to accompany its new Supreme Court and existing lower courts - in which Parliament plays no role. This Article seeks to understand the reasons for the inclusion and exclusion of the legislature in the U.S. and U.K. judicial appointment processes adopted at the creation of their respective Supreme Courts.

The Article proceeds by highlighting the ideas and concerns motivating inclusion of the legislature in judicial appointments in the early …