Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Institution
- Keyword
-
- Race (2)
- AIDS (1)
- AIDS epidemic (1)
- Antibody testing (1)
- Business justification (1)
-
- Civil rights (1)
- Civil rights litigation (1)
- Classism (1)
- Color (1)
- Curriculum (1)
- Discrimination (1)
- Disparate impact (1)
- Equal employment (1)
- Feminization of poverty (1)
- Fetal rights (1)
- Gender and law (1)
- HIV disease (1)
- HIV infection (1)
- Law professors (1)
- Law school clinics (1)
- National origin (1)
- Race and law (1)
- Racism (1)
- Religion (1)
- Saint Louis University Public Law Review (1)
- Sex (1)
- Sex worker (1)
- Sexism (1)
- Stereotypes (1)
- University of Michigan Law School (1)
Articles 1 - 4 of 4
Full-Text Articles in Law and Race
Women And Aids - Racism, Sexism, And Classism, Taunya L. Banks
Women And Aids - Racism, Sexism, And Classism, Taunya L. Banks
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Proving Discrimination After Price Waterhouse And Wards Cove, Candace Kovacic-Fleischer
Proving Discrimination After Price Waterhouse And Wards Cove, Candace Kovacic-Fleischer
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
INTRODUCTION Anyone involved in litigation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 19641 or similar state statutes may wonder what is entailed in proving or disproving discrimination after the United States Supreme Court's October 1988 Term. In fact, in the pending Civil Rights Act of 1990, Congress is considering reversing some of what the Supreme Court did during that Term. One of the issues that the Supreme Court addressed during the 1988 Term involved allocating burdens of proof in two major types of Title VII claims, dis- parate-treatment and disparate-impact. Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, dealt with a disparate-treatment …
Gender And Race Bias Against Lawyers: A Classroom Response, Suellyn Scarnecchia
Gender And Race Bias Against Lawyers: A Classroom Response, Suellyn Scarnecchia
Articles
In reviewing other clinicians' approaches to teaching about bias, I identified problems that eventually led me to design a two-hour class session on bias against lawyers. The following is a review of a few other teaching methods and a description of my own approach, detailing its own strengths and weaknesses. This is not an exhaustive review of all possible approaches to bias. It is offered to promote classroom discussion of bias against lawyers and to invite the development of innovative alternatives to my approach.
Women In The Aids Epidemic: A Portrait Of Unmet Needs, Arlene Zarembka, Katherine M. Franke
Women In The Aids Epidemic: A Portrait Of Unmet Needs, Arlene Zarembka, Katherine M. Franke
Faculty Scholarship
While rarely a month goes by that the topic of AIDS escapes discussion in the legal literature, a survey of legal publications reveals that the implications of AIDS for women has received scant treatment by legal commentators. Unfortunately, this neglect is not unique to the legal community, but reflects a larger societal disinterest in women with AIDS.
In fact, this epidemic looks quite different from the perspective of women. The medical, social, and legal needs of women affected by AIDS are in many ways needs that preexisted AIDS, but which have been magnified by the threat and implications of HIV …