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Lochner'S Feminist Legacy, David E. Bernstein
Lochner'S Feminist Legacy, David E. Bernstein
Michigan Law Review
Professor Julie Novkov's Constituting Workers, Protecting Women examines the so-called Lochner era of American constitutional jurisprudence through the lens of the struggle over the constitutionality of "protective" labor legislation, such as maximum hours and minimum wage laws. Many of these laws applied only to women, and Novkov argues that the debate over the constitutionality of protective laws for women - laws that some women's rights advocates saw as discriminatory legislation against women - ultimately had more important implications for the constitutionality of protective labor legislation more generally. Liberally defined, the Lochner era lasted from the Slaughter-House Cases in 1873 - …
Equal Protection, Class Legislation, And Sex Discrimination: One Small Cheer For Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics, Mark G. Yudof
Equal Protection, Class Legislation, And Sex Discrimination: One Small Cheer For Mr. Herbert Spencer's Social Statics, Mark G. Yudof
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Principle to Judicial Doctrine by William E. Nelson