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1999

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What Money Cannot Buy: A Legislative Response To C.Rac.K., Adam B. Wolf Dec 1999

What Money Cannot Buy: A Legislative Response To C.Rac.K., Adam B. Wolf

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity (C.R.A.C.K.) is an organization that pays current or former drug addicts $200 to be sterilized. While generating great public controversy, C.R.A.C.K. is expanding rapidly throughout the country. Its clients are disproportionately poor women of color, who are coerced by the offer of money into permanently relinquishing their reproductive rights. This Note argues that C.R.A.C.K. is a program of eugenical sterilization that cannot be tolerated. Moreover, C.R.A.C.K. further violates settled national public policy by offensively commodifying the ill-commodifiable, by demeaning women, and by starting down a slippery slope with devastating consequences. This Note proposes legislation that …


It's Not Just Hair: Historical And Cultural Considerations For An Emerging Technology, Deborah Pergament Dec 1999

It's Not Just Hair: Historical And Cultural Considerations For An Emerging Technology, Deborah Pergament

Chicago-Kent Law Review

History reflects the social, religious and political importance of human hair. Individuals have used hairstyles to flaunt social conventions about gender, race, sexual identity, and social status. Totalitarian governments have regulated hairstyles as a means of social control and dehumanization. Today, advances in technology now make it possible to discover information about an individual's current or potential health status. Judicial decisions and administrative regulations offer individuals limited protection from state or institutional intrusion into the information revealed by genetic hair analysis. This Article argues that the explosion of technologies that use hair to reveal intimate details of an individual's biological …


100 Years Of Women At The University Of Buffalo, Buffalo Law Review Oct 1999

100 Years Of Women At The University Of Buffalo, Buffalo Law Review

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Women's Freedom To Contract At Divorce: A Mask For Contextual Coercion, Penelope Eileen Bryan Oct 1999

Women's Freedom To Contract At Divorce: A Mask For Contextual Coercion, Penelope Eileen Bryan

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Teaching The Retrenchment Generation: When Sapphire Meets Socrates At The Intersection Of Race, Gender, And Authority, Pamela J. Smith Oct 1999

Teaching The Retrenchment Generation: When Sapphire Meets Socrates At The Intersection Of Race, Gender, And Authority, Pamela J. Smith

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

This Article is about perceptions and the negative sociological factors that feed these perceptions as Black women attempt to teach the Retrenchment Generation. For purposes of this Article, the Retrenchment Generation is not limited to any particular age group or period of time. Rather, the Retrenchment Generation refers to a state of mind that makes race-based, sex-based, and race/sex-based microaggressions acceptable and in fact normal. The Retrenchment Generation is defined by the synergism that is created by racial isolation, particularly in the educational arena, retrenchment fervor, and the presumption of incompetence that inflexibly presumes that all professional Black women are …


Rights For The Rape Victim: Lifting Statute Of Limitations For Prosecution Of Violent Crimes, Suzanne M. Knight Sep 1999

Rights For The Rape Victim: Lifting Statute Of Limitations For Prosecution Of Violent Crimes, Suzanne M. Knight

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Let's Plead For Justice And Pray For Healing, Irene Chu Sep 1999

Let's Plead For Justice And Pray For Healing, Irene Chu

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Women And The Privitization Of Eastern Europe, Pietra Lettieri Sep 1999

Women And The Privitization Of Eastern Europe, Pietra Lettieri

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Date Rape Prohibition Act Of 1999, Caroline E. Edwards Sep 1999

Date Rape Prohibition Act Of 1999, Caroline E. Edwards

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Women's Human Rights And "Honor Killings" In Islamic Cultures, Yolanda Asamoah-Wade Sep 1999

Women's Human Rights And "Honor Killings" In Islamic Cultures, Yolanda Asamoah-Wade

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Career Paths For Women And Minorities In The New Millennium, Laura Kingsley Hong Sep 1999

Career Paths For Women And Minorities In The New Millennium, Laura Kingsley Hong

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Past, Present, And Future Of International Trafficking In Women For Prostitution, Michelle O. P. Dunbar Sep 1999

The Past, Present, And Future Of International Trafficking In Women For Prostitution, Michelle O. P. Dunbar

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Taslitz's Proposal For The Use Of Feminist Evidence Law In The Courtroom, Harvey Gee Sep 1999

Taslitz's Proposal For The Use Of Feminist Evidence Law In The Courtroom, Harvey Gee

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

Book review of Andrew Taslitz's Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom


Women's Political Participation In Developing And Democratizing Countries: Focus On Zimbabwe, Stacy R. Sandusky Sep 1999

Women's Political Participation In Developing And Democratizing Countries: Focus On Zimbabwe, Stacy R. Sandusky

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.


Sex, Drugs, & The Restatement (Third) Of Torts, Section 6(C): Why Comment E Is The Answer To The Woman Question , Dolly M. Trompeter Jun 1999

Sex, Drugs, & The Restatement (Third) Of Torts, Section 6(C): Why Comment E Is The Answer To The Woman Question , Dolly M. Trompeter

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


Regulating Paid Household Work: Class, Gender, Race, And Agendas Of Reform , Peggie R. Smith Apr 1999

Regulating Paid Household Work: Class, Gender, Race, And Agendas Of Reform , Peggie R. Smith

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Anti-Essentialism V. Essentialism Debate In Feminist Legal Theory: The Debate And Beyond, Jane Wong Apr 1999

The Anti-Essentialism V. Essentialism Debate In Feminist Legal Theory: The Debate And Beyond, Jane Wong

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

No abstract provided.


The Charleston Policy: Substance Or Abuse?, Kimani Paul-Emile Jan 1999

The Charleston Policy: Substance Or Abuse?, Kimani Paul-Emile

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

In 1989, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) adopted a policy that, according to subjective criteria, singled out for drug testing, certain women who sought prenatal care and childbirth services would be tested for prohibited substances. Women who tested positive were arrested, incarcerated and prosecuted for crimes ranging from misdemeanor substance possession to felony substance distribution to a minor. In this Article, the Author argues that by intentionally targeting indigent Black women for prosecution, the MUSC Policy continued the United States legacy of their systematic oppression and resulted in the criminalizing of Black Motherhood.


Constitutional Law—Abstention And Abortion: Application Of The Undue Burden Standard To "Certificate Of Need" Regulations. Planned Parenthood Of Greater Iowa, Inc. V. Atchison, 126 F.3d 1042 (8th Cir. 1997)., Robert Smith Jan 1999

Constitutional Law—Abstention And Abortion: Application Of The Undue Burden Standard To "Certificate Of Need" Regulations. Planned Parenthood Of Greater Iowa, Inc. V. Atchison, 126 F.3d 1042 (8th Cir. 1997)., Robert Smith

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.


And Miles To Go Before I Sleep: The Road To Gender Equity In The California Legal Profession, Maryann Jones Jan 1999

And Miles To Go Before I Sleep: The Road To Gender Equity In The California Legal Profession, Maryann Jones

University of San Francisco Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Freedom To Marry For Same-Sex Couples: The Opening Appellate Brief Of Plaintiffs Stan Baker Et Al. In Baker Et Al. V. State Of Vermont, Mary Bonauto, Susan M. Murray, Beth Robinson Jan 1999

The Freedom To Marry For Same-Sex Couples: The Opening Appellate Brief Of Plaintiffs Stan Baker Et Al. In Baker Et Al. V. State Of Vermont, Mary Bonauto, Susan M. Murray, Beth Robinson

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

As the first state to prohibit slavery by constitution, and one of the few states which, from its inception, extended the vote to male citizens who did not own land, the State of Vermont has long been at the forefront of this nation's march toward full equality for all of its citizens. In July 1997, three same-sex couples challenged Vermont to act as a leader yet again, this time in affording full civil rights to the State's gay and lesbian citizens. Stan Baker and Peter Harrigan, Nina Beck and Stacy Jolles, and Holly Puterbaugh and Lois Farnham were denied marriage …


Traffic Jam: Recommendations For Civil Penalties To Curb The Recent Trafficking Of Women From Post-Cold War Russia, Christopher M. Pilkerton Jan 1999

Traffic Jam: Recommendations For Civil Penalties To Curb The Recent Trafficking Of Women From Post-Cold War Russia, Christopher M. Pilkerton

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

This Article will examine the recent criminal trend of trafficking women from post-Cold War Russia into the United States. First, it will examine the Russian mafia and its development. It will also discuss the system of economic corruption that currently exists in Russia, which facilitates government involvement with this criminal activity. It will further investigate the issues surrounding trafficked women and the international anti-trafficking conventions that have been created by the United Nations. Next, it will go into a deeper discussion of the current status of relevant international law and the issues involving the International Criminal Court. Finally, this Article …


Be Careful What You Wish For: An Examination Of Arrest And Prosecution Patterns Of Domestic Violence Cases In Two Cities In Michigan, Andrea D. Lyon Jan 1999

Be Careful What You Wish For: An Examination Of Arrest And Prosecution Patterns Of Domestic Violence Cases In Two Cities In Michigan, Andrea D. Lyon

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

This Article will examine six months of data on arrests for domestic violence in the cities of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor. In order to be able to interpret what the data means Lyon did some other research. The results were surprising- for example, although women tend to be injured most severely by domestic violence, they use violence in intimate relationships a little more often than men. Part I of this Article traces a brief history of domestic violence and discusses the issue of who commits domestic violence, Part II discusses the "must arrest" and "should arrest" policies and their history, …


Gender, Risk Taking, And Negotiation Performance, Charles B. Craver, David W. Barnes Jan 1999

Gender, Risk Taking, And Negotiation Performance, Charles B. Craver, David W. Barnes

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

This Article will evaluate the impact of the confluence of two factors- gender and the availability of a credit/no-credit grading option- on student performance in Professor Craver's Legal Negotiating course at George Washington University. Our empirical assessment will analyze the results achieved on negotiation exercises and on course papers by the 612 male and female law students who took Professor Craver's course over the past eleven years. Do a greater percentage of female students take the Legal Negotiating course on a credit/no-credit basis, when that option is available, than do their male cohorts? Are the woman students who take the …


Equality And Sex Discrimination In The European Union-Is Shifting The Burden Of Proof The Answer?, Janet L. Luxton Jan 1999

Equality And Sex Discrimination In The European Union-Is Shifting The Burden Of Proof The Answer?, Janet L. Luxton

Penn State International Law Review

No abstract provided.


Lesbian Baiting In The Military: Institutionalized Sexual Harassment Under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue" , Christin M. Damiano Jan 1999

Lesbian Baiting In The Military: Institutionalized Sexual Harassment Under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue" , Christin M. Damiano

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Feminist Theory And Feminist Method: Transforming The Experience Of The Classroom, Ann Shalleck Jan 1999

Feminist Theory And Feminist Method: Transforming The Experience Of The Classroom, Ann Shalleck

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Whose Security Is It? Military Violence Against Women During Peacetime, Cathleen Caron Jan 1999

Whose Security Is It? Military Violence Against Women During Peacetime, Cathleen Caron

Human Rights Brief

No abstract provided.


The Essence Of Her Womanhood: Defining The Privacy Rights Of Women Prisoners And The Employment Rights Of Women Guards , Rebecca Jurado Jan 1999

The Essence Of Her Womanhood: Defining The Privacy Rights Of Women Prisoners And The Employment Rights Of Women Guards , Rebecca Jurado

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.


Bibliographical Essay: Women And The Legal Profession , Cynthia Grant Bowman Jan 1999

Bibliographical Essay: Women And The Legal Profession , Cynthia Grant Bowman

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.