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The Ladies' Health Protective Association: Lay Lawyers And Urban Cause Lawyering, Felice Batlan
The Ladies' Health Protective Association: Lay Lawyers And Urban Cause Lawyering, Felice Batlan
Akron Law Review
By examining the LHPA, this Article seeks, however modestly, to extend the Hurstian project. The Article argues that the LHPA, composed of a group of middle-class women interacting with their environment, neighbors, the courts, private businesses, and city and state officials, on a deeply local and quotidian basis, had a significant impact in shaping a multitude of New York City laws and law had a profound affect in creating and molding the work and identity of the organization.
The Early Female Jewish Members Of The Maryland Bar: 1920–1929, Deborah Sweet Eyler
The Early Female Jewish Members Of The Maryland Bar: 1920–1929, Deborah Sweet Eyler
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Postcolonial Theory Of Spousal Rape: The Carribean And Beyond, Stacy-Ann Elvy
A Postcolonial Theory Of Spousal Rape: The Carribean And Beyond, Stacy-Ann Elvy
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
Many postcolonial states in the Caribbean continue to struggle to comply with their international treaty obligations to protect women from sexual violence. Reports from various United Nations programs, including UNICEF, and the annual U.S. State Department Country Reports on Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Jamaica, and Saint Lucia (“Commonwealth Countries”), indicate that sexual violence against women, including spousal abuse, is a significant problem in the Caribbean. Despite ratification of various international instruments intended to eliminate sexual violence against women, such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Commonwealth Countries have retained the …
Intellectual Property And Gender: Reflections On Accomplishments And Methodology, Kara W. Swanson
Intellectual Property And Gender: Reflections On Accomplishments And Methodology, Kara W. Swanson
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.