European Network of Migrant Women (ENoMW)
University of Connecticut - Storrs
NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Brooklyn Law School
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Florida A&M University College of Law
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Seattle University School of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Loyola Law School
Private And Family Life, Gender Equality And Social Security Under The European Convention On Human Rights - Di Trizio V Switzerland,
2017
Trinity College Dublin
Private And Family Life, Gender Equality And Social Security Under The European Convention On Human Rights - Di Trizio V Switzerland, Mel Cousins
Mel Cousins
The United States As Global Sheriff: Using Unilateral Sanctions To Combat Human Trafficking,
2017
American University Washington College of Law
The United States As Global Sheriff: Using Unilateral Sanctions To Combat Human Trafficking, Janie Chuang
Janie A Chuang
By situating the U.S. rise to dominance in historical and political context, this Article underscores the significance of U.S. unilateralism for international anti-trafficking law and policy.
Stories Of Teaching Race, Gender, And Class: A Narrative,
2017
American University
Stories Of Teaching Race, Gender, And Class: A Narrative, Brenda V. Smith
Brenda Smith
This Essay transcribes and discusses Smith’s keynote speech at the New England Clinical Conference at Harvard Law School in November, 2015. Smith’s speech discusses the intersection between race, gender, and class, highlighting them as sites of vulnerability through a personal storytelling lens. By sharing her individual experiences, Smith hopes to draw attention to insecurities and threats faced by many individuals who refuse to speak out.
Panel On Sex Trafficking (Transcript),
2017
Florida International University College of Law
Panel On Sex Trafficking (Transcript), Cyra Akila Choudhury, Aziza Ahmed, Sienna Baskin, Sandy Skelany
Cyra A. Choudhury
This article is a transcript of a talk delivered at the "CONVERGE! Reimagining the Movement to End Gender Violence" conference at the University of Miami on the topic of HIV, sex work, and violence against women.
Beyond Vulnerability: Refugee Women’S Leadership In Jordan,
2017
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Beyond Vulnerability: Refugee Women’S Leadership In Jordan, Widad Hassan
All Graduate Works by Year: Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
While both men and women are affected by conflicts and humanitarian crises, 80 percent of the world’s refugees and internally displaced persons are women and children, indicating that women experience conflict and war differently. The emphasis on women’s vulnerability during conflicts and humanitarian crises leads to their exclusion from leadership roles and decision-making on humanitarian programs and issues that impact them. Though women experience numerous socio-cultural barriers to exercising leadership in humanitarian settings, they have taken on important roles in emergency response and in refugee camps. This paper traces the progress of UN and humanitarian agencies recognition and ...
Book Review,
2017
Duke Law School
Book Review, Catherine Fisk
Catherine Fisk
Reviewing Alice Kessler-Harris, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century America (2001)
More Women In Parliament: Advocacy Lessons Learned From The Georgian Women’S Task Force On Political Participation,
2017
SIT Graduate Institute
More Women In Parliament: Advocacy Lessons Learned From The Georgian Women’S Task Force On Political Participation, Emma Shattuck
Capstone Collection
Emma Shattuck – PIM 75
MORE WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT: ADVOCACY LESSONS LEARNED
FROM THE GEORGIAN WOMEN’S TASK FORCE ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
May 2017
This Policy Advocacy Course-Linked Capstone is a case study of an on-going advocacy campaign to increase women’s political participation in the Republic of Georgia’s Parliament. It tells the story of a dedicated group of advocates who are determined to help Georgian women’s voices be heard in a primarily male-dominated political context. Drawing on my personal experience living and working in Tbilisi, Georgia, and based on comprehensive key informant interviews with leaders of the campaign ...
Newsroom: As Manning Released, Trial Attorney Coombs Looks Back On Case, Looks Forward To Teaching Again At Rwu Law 05-17-2017,
2017
Roger Williams University School of Law
Newsroom: As Manning Released, Trial Attorney Coombs Looks Back On Case, Looks Forward To Teaching Again At Rwu Law 05-17-2017, Edward Fitzpatrick
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Meeting Of The Minds And Bodies: Contract Law And The Mutuality Of Sexual Exchanges,
2017
Harvard Law School
Meeting Of The Minds And Bodies: Contract Law And The Mutuality Of Sexual Exchanges, Kelly Jo Popkin
DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law
Though it may seem like an obvious analogy, a comparison of consent to sex and consent to contract has rarely been explored in such detail. The legal concepts protecting bargainers to a contract can be applied to analyses of sexual coercion in consent to sexual encounters, thereby affording survivors with greater protection against instances of sexual violence that seem to consistently slip through the cracks of our criminal justice system. More importantly, this analysis has never before been applied to the Title IX campus sexual assault adjudication process and policies. As a procedure involving civil law, rather than criminal law ...
A Patient's Right Not To Hear: The Public Health Case For Challenging Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Description Mandates By Refocusing On The Listener,
2017
Northeastern University School of Law
A Patient's Right Not To Hear: The Public Health Case For Challenging Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Description Mandates By Refocusing On The Listener, Juliana Shulman-Laniel
DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law
This Article argues for a reframing of the discourse surrounding abortion-specific informed consent laws, calling for scholars and practitioners to focus not solely on the physician’s right against compelled speech, but also a patient’s right not to listen. Although this right has not been firmly recognized by the courts, a growing body of case law and scholarly papers has begun to acknowledge the potential for this right. This Article begins by examining how bridging the First Amendment rights of doctors-as-speakers and patients-as-listeners within the context of the unique doctor-patient relationship may help to establish a patient’s right ...
Rethinking Red Lights: An Economic Approach To Appalachian Prostitution Laws,
2017
DePaul University
Rethinking Red Lights: An Economic Approach To Appalachian Prostitution Laws, Kandi Spindler
DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law
The legal discourse surrounding prostitution frequently drowns out the voices of sex workers themselves by focusing on questions of morality. But ignoring the voices of those affected by prostitution laws also ignores the driving force behind prostitution: economics. This Note departs from a traditional case study by using interviews with chiefly sex workers and brothel management to craft a more efficient and fair mode of regulating prostitution. By viewing prostitution for what it is—an industry driven by basic economic principles—business law becomes the clear choice for replacing the current, ineffective laws. Furthermore, reshaping prostitution laws to meet the ...
Pushback: Title Vii Takes On Hobby Lobby,
2017
University of San Francisco School of Law
Pushback: Title Vii Takes On Hobby Lobby, Carole Okolowicz
DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law
In Hobby Lobby, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that a for-profit corporation could avoid the requirement under the Affordable Care Act that it pay for coverage of female contraception in the employee health plan due to the employer’s religious objections to birth control. In so deciding, the Court allowed the employer to discriminate against its female employees in their employee benefits. Such a decision raises the possibility of a claim of sex discrimination by the corporation’s female employees under Title VII. This article explores the main issues and pitfalls in such a claim.
The two main issues ...
Have Crisis Pregnancy Centers Finally Met Their Match: California's Reproductive Fact Act,
2017
Northwestern University School of Law
Have Crisis Pregnancy Centers Finally Met Their Match: California's Reproductive Fact Act, Beth Holtzman
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
No abstract provided.
A Mother Of A Problem: How The Language Of Inequality Affects Maternity Leave Policies And Women In Law Firms,
2017
Northwestern University School of Law
A Mother Of A Problem: How The Language Of Inequality Affects Maternity Leave Policies And Women In Law Firms, Hannah Arenstam
Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy
No abstract provided.
Different Voices : Measuring Female Judges' Influence On Women's Rights Issues In The U.S. Courts Of Appeal.,
2017
University of Louisville
Different Voices : Measuring Female Judges' Influence On Women's Rights Issues In The U.S. Courts Of Appeal., Alyson E Hendricks
College of Arts & Sciences Senior Honors Theses
Beginning with President Carter and continuing with each successive president, the federal bench has become more diverse. This has caused scholars to turn their attention to how personal characteristics such as race and sex affect judging. Understanding the effects of gender and race on judging is crucial because white female and minority female judges may bring a different perspective to the bench than their male counterparts due to their shared experiences with discrimination. To fill a gap in the literature, this study examines the impact of women in terms of legal influence and voting behavior. The results demonstrate that women ...
Telling A Story, Changing The World: California Rural Legal Assistance,
2017
California State University, Monterey Bay
Telling A Story, Changing The World: California Rural Legal Assistance, Jonathan J. Chavez
Capstone Projects and Theses
This capstone project attempts to provide an in-depth view of how stories influence change in our lives as well as in the field of law.
Swaying The Jury: The Effect Of Expert Witness Testimony On Jury Verdicts In Rape Trials,
2017
cball@arcadia.edu
Swaying The Jury: The Effect Of Expert Witness Testimony On Jury Verdicts In Rape Trials, Christina E. Ball
Senior Capstone Theses
With the reliance on rape myths to form opinions towards rape victims, the use of expert witnesses is of increased importance. Rape myths may give jurors misinformed notions about why, how, or to whom rape happens. This indicates a need for educational expert testimony in rape jury trials. It is proposed the use of this testimony will help dispel these myths and social biases towards victims of rape. This paper explores the need for expert witness testimony and the relationship between expert witness and jury. It discusses what type of testimony may be presented and who qualifies as an expert ...
My Body, Not My Say: How Roe V. Wade Endangers Women's Autonomy,
2017
Ursinus College
My Body, Not My Say: How Roe V. Wade Endangers Women's Autonomy, Kisha K. Patel
Politics Honors Papers
When defining women’s rights to reproductive decisions in Roe v. Wade, Justice Blackmun fails to ensure protection for women by defining this right in the privacy doctrine. Justice Blackmun’s opinion allows the government to interpret and apply the doctrine to deny women access and availability to reproductive health. This can be shown by the subsequent Supreme Court decisions on privacy that allow the government to overrule the right of the individual woman. This allows for the government to effectively deny women the right to abortion and ultimately prevents women from making independent autonomous decisions. The laws and regulations ...
Sex Reassignment Surgery & The New Standard Of Care: An Analysis Of The Role The Federal Court System, The States, Society, And The Medical Community Serve In Paving The Way For Incarcerated Transgendered Persons' Constitutional Right To A Sex Change,
2017
Barry University School of Law
Sex Reassignment Surgery & The New Standard Of Care: An Analysis Of The Role The Federal Court System, The States, Society, And The Medical Community Serve In Paving The Way For Incarcerated Transgendered Persons' Constitutional Right To A Sex Change, Victor J. Genchi
Barry Law Review
No abstract provided.
Sovereignty And Social Change In The Wake Of India’S Recent Sodomy Cases,
2017
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Sovereignty And Social Change In The Wake Of India’S Recent Sodomy Cases, Deepa Das Acevedo
Boston College International and Comparative Law Review
American constitutional law scholars have long questioned whether courts can truly drive social reform, and this uncertainty remains even in the wake of recent landmark decisions affecting the LGBT community. In contrast, court watchers in India—spurred by developments in a special type of legal action developed in the late 1970s known as public interest litigation (PIL)—have only recently begun to question the judiciary’s ability to promote progressive social change. Indian scholarship on this point has veered between despair that PIL cases no longer reliably produce good outcomes for India’s most disadvantaged and optimism that public interest ...
