Hands Up At Home: Militarized Masculinity And Police Officers Who Commit Intimate Partner Abuse,
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Hands Up At Home: Militarized Masculinity And Police Officers Who Commit Intimate Partner Abuse, Leigh S. Goodmark
Faculty Scholarship
The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the almost daily news stories about abusive and violent police conduct are currently prompting questions about the appropriate use of force by police officers. Moreover, the history of police brutality directed towards women is well documented. Most of that literature, however, captures the violence that police do in their public capacity, as officers of the state. This article examines the violence and abuse perpetrated by police in their private lives, against their intimate partners, although the public and private overlap significantly to the extent that the power and training provided to ...
The Proposed Equal Protection Fix For Abortion Law: Reflections On Citizenship, Gender, And The Constitution,
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
The Proposed Equal Protection Fix For Abortion Law: Reflections On Citizenship, Gender, And The Constitution, Anita L. Allen
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law
No abstract provided.
Principles And Passions: The Intersection Of Abortion And Gun Rights ,
Fordham University School of Law
Principles And Passions: The Intersection Of Abortion And Gun Rights , Nicholas J. Johnson
Faculty Scholarship
In this article, Professor Nicholas J. Johnson explores the parallels between the right of armed self-defense and the woman's right to abortion. Professor Johnson demonstrates that the theories and principles advanced to support the abortion right intersect substantially with an individual's right to armed self-defense. Professor Johnson uncovers common ground between the gun and abortion rights - two rights that have come to symbolize society's deepest social and cultural divisions - divisions that prompt many to embrace the abortion right while summarily rejecting the gun right. Unreflective disparagement of the gun right, he argues, threatens the vitality of the ...
The Economics Of Dowry: Causes And Effects Of An Indian Tradition,
Harvard University
The Economics Of Dowry: Causes And Effects Of An Indian Tradition, Tonushree Jaggi
University Avenue Undergraduate Journal of Economics
I argue that dowries exist because of a combination of two reasons. First, there is an excess supply of women in the Indian marriage market that results in the use of dowry as an equilibrating mechanism. Secondly, a differential in the patterns of human capital accumulation of men and women have led to a larger positive benefit from marriage for women than for men, the net difference of which is theoretically equivalent to the amount of the dowry. Both these explanations for the existence of dowry are fundamentally grounded in the powerful social and cultural ideologies of marriage held by ...
African Customary Law, Customs, And Women's Rights,
Trinity College, Oxford
African Customary Law, Customs, And Women's Rights, Muna Ndulo
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
The sources of law in most African countries are customary law, the common law and legislation both colonial and post-independence. In a typical African country, the great majority of the people conduct their personal activities in accordance with and subject to customary law. Customary law has great impact in the area of personal law in regard to matters such as marriage, inheritance and traditional authority, and because it developed in an era dominated by patriarchy some of its norms conflict with human rights norms guaranteeing equality between men and women. While recognizing the role of legislation in reform, it is ...
Estimating Gender Disparities In Federal Criminal Cases,
University of Michigan Law School
Estimating Gender Disparities In Federal Criminal Cases, Sonja Starr
Law & Economics Working Papers
This paper assesses gender disparities in federal criminal cases. It finds large gender gaps favoring women throughout the sentence length distribution (averaging over 60%), conditional on arrest offense, criminal history, and other pre-charge observables. Female arrestees are also significantly likelier to avoid charges and convictions entirely, and twice as likely to avoid incarceration if convicted. Prior studies have reported much smaller sentence gaps because they have ignored the role of charging, plea-bargaining, and sentencing fact-finding in producing sentences. Most studies control for endogenous severity measures that result from these earlier discretionary processes and use samples that have been winnowed by ...
Roe V. Wade And The Dred Scott Decision: Justice Scalia's Peculiar Analogy In Planned Parenthood V. Casey,
American University Washington College of Law
Roe V. Wade And The Dred Scott Decision: Justice Scalia's Peculiar Analogy In Planned Parenthood V. Casey, Jamin B. Raskin
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Protecting Women’S Human Rights: A Case Study In The Philippines,
American University Washington College of Law
Protecting Women’S Human Rights: A Case Study In The Philippines, Tamar Ezer, Arwen Joyce, Priscila Mccalley, Neil Pacamalan
Human Rights Brief
No abstract provided.
The Marital Rape Exemption: A Violation Of A Woman's Right Of Privacy,
Golden Gate University School of Law
The Marital Rape Exemption: A Violation Of A Woman's Right Of Privacy, Maria Pracher
Golden Gate University Law Review
This Comment reviews the statutory status of the marital rape exemption, examines its historical origins, and critically analyzes the legal justifications supporting the exemption. The final section discusses the relation between the marital rape exemption and a woman's constitutional right of privacy.
The Effect Of Abortion Legalization On Sexual Behavior: Evidence From Sexually Transmitted Diseases,
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
The Effect Of Abortion Legalization On Sexual Behavior: Evidence From Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Jonathan Klick, Thomas Stratmann
Faculty Scholarship at Penn Carey Law
Unwanted pregnancy represents a major cost of sexual activity. When abortion was legalized in a number of states in 1969 and 1970 (and nationally in 1973), this cost was reduced. We predict that abortion legalization generated incentives leading to an increase in sexual activity, accompanied by an increase in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Using Centers for Disease Control data on the incidence of gonorrhea and syphilis by state, we test the hypothesis that abortion legalization led to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases. We find that gonorrhea and syphilis incidences are significantly and positively correlated with abortion legalization. Further, we ...
