Sks Microfinance And For-Profit Mfis, Unscrupulous Predators Or Political Prey? Examining The Microfinance Credit Crunch In Andhra Pradesh And Assessing The Applicability Of The Un Global Compact "Protect Respect Remedy" Framework, Ashley Feasley
Cornell Law School Inter-University Graduate Student Conference Papers
Microfinance is the practice of originating small loans and capital infusions in developing countries to poor individual families and small businesses that are outside traditional banks. Today microfinance has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry that has stakeholders in the financial services industry, private international organizations (including non-governmental organizations ("NGOs")) and global politics. The successful initial public offering ("IPO") of SKS Microfinance, ("SKS") a for-profit microfinance institution ("MFI") in August 2010 marked the pinnacle of success for the theory that for-profit MFIs could eradicate poverty while simultaneously making a huge profit through microfinance. The extremely successful SKS IPO bolstered the …
Help Or Not - Series 2: Anna Carella’S Criticism Of The Girl Effect, 2011 Columbia University
Help Or Not - Series 2: Anna Carella’S Criticism Of The Girl Effect, Ufuoma Barbara Akpotaire
Ufuoma Barbara Akpotaire
In 2008, the Nike Foundation came out with an initiative called the “Girl Effect.” My thoughts at that time was that this initiative was a remarkable phenomenon. It had a catchy video which I have attached below to give you an idea about the initiative, and at the World Economic Forum in 2009, the Girl Effect was the 4th most popular session.
I came across an article on Aidwatch titled “So now we have to save ourselves and the world too? A critique of the girl effect“. That title did not sit well with me. I wondered how anyone could …
Gendering Consitutional Design In Post-Conflict Societies, 2011 William & Mary Law School
Gendering Consitutional Design In Post-Conflict Societies, Dina Francesca Haynes, Fionnuala Ni Aolain, Naomi Cahn
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
This article commences with a discussion of transitional constitutional
design and the ways in which the branches of government
relate to one another, focusing on the consequences of these structures
for women. We are convinced that an analysis of the rights-bearing
portions of a constitution alone is insufficient to fully capture the way
in which power is structured and experienced. Consistent with other
scholars, we start from the view that “constitutions are derived from
a social contract between the constituents who will be governed and
the political actors who will govern; they explain how the society
and government will operate …
Securing Gender-Based Persecution Claims: A Proposed Amendment To Asylum Law, 2011 William & Mary Law School
Securing Gender-Based Persecution Claims: A Proposed Amendment To Asylum Law, Lucy Akinyi Orinda
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Food Sovereignty Is A Gendered Issue, 2011 University at Buffalo School of Law
Food Sovereignty Is A Gendered Issue, Maggie Ellinger-Locke
Buffalo Environmental Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Letter To Our Readers, 2011 DePaul University
Letter To Our Readers, Jessica Huynh, Carin Mcdonald
DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law
No abstract provided.
When Your Boss "Friends" You: Social Media And The Hostile Environment Claim, 2011 DePaul University
When Your Boss "Friends" You: Social Media And The Hostile Environment Claim, Stephanie A. Kevil
DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law
No abstract provided.
Putting Down The Pom Poms: The National Collegiate Athletic Association Should Stop Ignoring Competitive Cheer And Grant These Athletic Teams Ncaa Emerging Sport Status, 2011 DePaul University
Putting Down The Pom Poms: The National Collegiate Athletic Association Should Stop Ignoring Competitive Cheer And Grant These Athletic Teams Ncaa Emerging Sport Status, E. Emily Richards
DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law
No abstract provided.
Introductory Letter, 2011 DePaul University
Introductory Letter, Deborah Tuerkheimer
DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law
No abstract provided.
Always A Minor, Never A Wife: The Female Adolescent Experience In Polygamous Communities, 2011 DePaul University
Always A Minor, Never A Wife: The Female Adolescent Experience In Polygamous Communities, Alexis Chmell
DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law
No abstract provided.
Taking Care Of Its Own: Comparing The United States Military's Transitional Compensation Program With State Victim Compensation Programs, 2011 DePaul University
Taking Care Of Its Own: Comparing The United States Military's Transitional Compensation Program With State Victim Compensation Programs, Margaret Rose Kuzma
DePaul Journal of Women, Gender and the Law
No abstract provided.
Protecting Women: Preserving Autonomy In The Commodification Of Motherhood, 2011 William & Mary Law School
Protecting Women: Preserving Autonomy In The Commodification Of Motherhood, M. Elliott Neal
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
No abstract provided.
Resolving Conflicts Of Constitution: Inside The Dominican Republic's Constitutional Ban On Abortion, 2011 Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Resolving Conflicts Of Constitution: Inside The Dominican Republic's Constitutional Ban On Abortion, Mia So
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
"Mancession" Or "Momcession"?: Good Providers, A Bad Economy, And Gender Discrimination, 2011 University of California Hastings College of Law
"Mancession" Or "Momcession"?: Good Providers, A Bad Economy, And Gender Discrimination, Joan C. Williams, Allison Tait
Chicago-Kent Law Review
In the aftermath of the 2008 economic downturn, two of the hardest hit industries were manufacturing and construction. As a result, men became unemployed at a higher rate than women, and consequently, women—for the first time ever—became over fifty percent of the employment. This "mancession" gave rise to great debate over the place of women in the workforce and the important role that employment plays in shaping male identity. An intervening critique came in the form of the "momcession" discourse that focused on the impact of the recession on mothers, who were often responsible for caretaking, homemaking, and providing the …
Artificial Insemination And The Presumption Of Parenthood: Traditional Foundations And Modern Applications For Lesbian Mothers, 2011 Chicago-Kent College of Law
Artificial Insemination And The Presumption Of Parenthood: Traditional Foundations And Modern Applications For Lesbian Mothers, William M. Lopez
Chicago-Kent Law Review
This note traces the history of the presumption of parenthood and applies the traditional rationales underlying the presumption to support its application to married lesbian couples. Part I discusses the formation of the presumption in England and recognizes that the presumption was created for three important reasons: to protect the child; to protect the public purse; and to protect the biological family. Part II discusses state laws on artificial insemination and dissects the basic requirements for both same-sex and opposite-sex parents. This Part then applies the presumption's traditional rationales to lesbian couples having children, arguing that the same presumption should …
Disgust And The Problematic Politics Of Similarity, 2011 Roger Williams University School of Law
Disgust And The Problematic Politics Of Similarity, Courtney Megan Cahill
Michigan Law Review
Martha Nussbaum's latest book, From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation & Constitutional Law, could not have come at a more opportune time in the history of gay rights in the United States. All signs point to progress toward "humanity," from same-sex couples' successful bids for marriage equality in a handful of states to the public's increasing acceptance of the prospect of gays and lesbians serving openly in the military. Even if recent cognitive science research indicates that same-sex relationships provoke more than a little disgust in some people, landmark marriage-equality victories in a few states suggest that the law is …
Home Is Where The Crime Is, 2011 Hofstra University School of Law
Home Is Where The Crime Is, I. Bennett Capers
Michigan Law Review
Think of home. Go on. Maybe not your parents' home, which for this reviewer would be enough to induce heavy breathing and general anxiety. Rather, think about the concept of home. Think about the idea of home. Think about Home with a capital letter. Think of home as in The Wizard of Oz and Dorothy's famous "There's no place like home." Think "home sweet home." Or "home is where the heart is." Go on. Of course, there may be other associations that come to mind when one thinks of home. There's security. Safety. Control. Home rule. After all, in the …
Work, Caregiving, And Masculinities, 2011 University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Work, Caregiving, And Masculinities, Ann C. Mcginley
Scholarly Works
In her book Reshaping the Work-Family Debate, Joan Williams demonstrates the vulnerability of parent workers in working class America. In Chapter 2, "One Sick Child Away from Being Fired," she examines the records of ninety-nine union arbitrations to analyze the problems of working class parents who struggle to juggle their working and parenting responsibilities. Because this chapter is a tour de force in an overall excellent book, and because it suggests an area that Professor McGinley's research has focused on over the past number of years, in this Essay, Professor McGinley limits her discussion almost exclusively to this chapter. …
Collateral Consequences, Genetic Surveillance, And The New Biopolitics Of Race, 2011 University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Collateral Consequences, Genetic Surveillance, And The New Biopolitics Of Race, Dorothy E. Roberts
All Faculty Scholarship
This Article is part of a Howard Law Journal Symposium on “Collateral Consequences: Who Really Pays the Price for Criminal Justice?,” as well as my larger book project, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (The New Press, 2011). It considers state and federal government expansion of genetic surveillance as a collateral consequence of a criminal record in the context of a new biopolitics of race in America. Part I reviews the expansion of DNA data banking by states and the federal government, extending the collateral impact of a criminal record—in the form …
Burying Our Heads In The Sand: Lack Of Knowledge, Knowledge Avoidance And The Persistent Problem Of Campus Peer Sexual Violence, 2011 Georgetown University Law Center
Burying Our Heads In The Sand: Lack Of Knowledge, Knowledge Avoidance And The Persistent Problem Of Campus Peer Sexual Violence, Nancy Chi Cantalupo
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This article discusses why two laws that seek to prevent and end sexual violence between students on college campuses, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX") and the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act ("Clery Act"), are failing to fulfill that goal and how these legal regimes can be improved to reach this goal. It explicates how Title IX and the Clery Act ignore or exacerbate a series of "information problems" that create incentives for schools to "bury their heads in the sand" with regard to campus peer sexual violence. These …