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De La Denuncia A La Sanción: Sistema Penal Peruano Y Procesamiento De Delitos Sexuales, Beatriz Ramirez, Clea Guerra
De La Denuncia A La Sanción: Sistema Penal Peruano Y Procesamiento De Delitos Sexuales, Beatriz Ramirez, Clea Guerra
Beatriz Ramirez
Es una publicación que analiza la tramitación de los delitos contra la libertad sexual en el Perú. Analiza la legislación procesal vigente aún en varias regiones del país: el Codigo de Procedimientos Penales. No se considera el proceso que viene siendo implementado con el nuevo Código Procesal Penal del año 2004.
Race Treason: The Untold Story Of America's Ban On Polygamy, Martha M. Ertman
Race Treason: The Untold Story Of America's Ban On Polygamy, Martha M. Ertman
Martha M. Ertman
Legal doctrines banning polygamy grew out of nineteenth century Americans’ view that Mormons betrayed the nation by engaging in conduct associated with people of color. This article reveals the racial underpinnings of polygamy law by examining cartoons and other antipolygamy rhetoric of the time to demonstrate Sir Henry Maine’s famous observation that the move in progressive societies is “from status to contract.” It frames antipolygamists’ contentions as a visceral defense of racial and sexual status in the face of encroaching contractual thinking. Polygamy, they reasoned, was “natural” for people of color but so “unnatural” for whites as to produce a …
Lawrence Summers At The Nber Conference: The Real Deal, Taunya Lovell Banks
Lawrence Summers At The Nber Conference: The Real Deal, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
This mini commentary is written in response to a public speech made by Lawrence Summers, then President of Harvard University in 2005 in which he asserted that the under-representation of women in science and engineering may be due in part to biological differences in abilities between women and men. This commentary argues that Summers' remarks constitute a brief against affirmative action for women stated so broadly that it easily encompasses objections to affirmative action for blacks and other non-white Americans. It concludes that our inability or unwillingness to make connections between gender bias and racial privilege helps to maintain a …
Gender Bias In The Classrom, Taunya Lovell Banks
Gender Bias In The Classrom, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
No abstract provided.
Women And Aids - Racism, Sexism, And Classism, Taunya L. Banks
Women And Aids - Racism, Sexism, And Classism, Taunya L. Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
No abstract provided.
Unchaste And Incredible: The Use Of Gendered Conceptions Of Honor In Impeachment, Julia Simon-Kerr
Unchaste And Incredible: The Use Of Gendered Conceptions Of Honor In Impeachment, Julia Simon-Kerr
Julia Simon-Kerr
The American rules for impeaching witnesses developed against a cultural background that equated a woman's "honor," and thus her credibility, with her sexual virtue. The idea that a woman's chastity informs her credibility did not originate in rape trials and the confusing interplay between questions of consent and sexual history. Rather, gendered notions of honor so permeated American legal culture that attorneys routinely attempted to impeach female witnesses by invoking their sexual histories in cases involving such diverse claims as title to land, assault, arson, and wrongful death. But while many courts initially accepted the notion that an unchaste woman …
League Of Women Voters Panelist, Charlotte Hughart
League Of Women Voters Panelist, Charlotte Hughart
Charlotte Hughart
No abstract provided.
The Thirteenth Amendment And Access To Education For Children Of Undocumented Workers: A New Look At Plyler V. Doe, Maria Ontiveros, Joshua Drexler
The Thirteenth Amendment And Access To Education For Children Of Undocumented Workers: A New Look At Plyler V. Doe, Maria Ontiveros, Joshua Drexler
Maria L. Ontiveros
This paper examines the extent to which the Thirteenth Amendment can be used to guarantee access to public education for the children of undocumented workers. It offers a reimagined version of Plyer, written using the Thirteenth Amendment, instead of the Fourteenth Amendment. After offering a brief summary of Thirteenth Amendment jurisprudence, it offers a variety of theoretical frameworks for analyzing the denial of education under the U.S. Constitution. It argues that the Thirteenth Amendment can provide a powerful tool for litigation, moral persuasion, organizing and legislation in the area.
Slipping Through The Cracks And Into Schools: The Need For A Uniform Sexual-Predator Tracking System, Cheryl George
Slipping Through The Cracks And Into Schools: The Need For A Uniform Sexual-Predator Tracking System, Cheryl George
Cheryl Page
No abstract provided.
Toward A True Elements Test: Taylor And The Categorical Analysis Of Crimes In Immigration Law, Rebecca Sharpless
Toward A True Elements Test: Taylor And The Categorical Analysis Of Crimes In Immigration Law, Rebecca Sharpless
Rebecca Sharpless
When determining the legal effect of a conviction under immigration law, adjudicators claim to apply a uniform, federal standard that prohibits fact finding regarding the underlying circumstances that gave rise to the conviction. This categorical analysis of crimes is firmly rooted in all levels of administrative and federal court case law. Yet fundamental confusion exists concerning what it means to apply a categorical approach to evaluating when a criminal conviction is of a type that triggers deportation. This article demonstrates that a source of this confusion is a misunderstanding of the nature of a conviction and the difference between a …
'No Right To Judge': Feminism And The Judiciary In Third Republic France, Sara L. Kimble
'No Right To Judge': Feminism And The Judiciary In Third Republic France, Sara L. Kimble
Sara L Kimble
No abstract provided.
Non-Education In America: Gateway To Subsistence Living, Cheryl George
Non-Education In America: Gateway To Subsistence Living, Cheryl George
Cheryl Page
No abstract provided.
The Ladies' Health Protective Association: Lay Lawyers And Urban Cause Lawyering, Felice J. Batlan
The Ladies' Health Protective Association: Lay Lawyers And Urban Cause Lawyering, Felice J. Batlan
Felice J Batlan
Communal Crimes Bill, Saumya Uma
Communal Crimes Bill, Saumya Uma
Dr. Saumya Uma
This is an alternative draft law on communal violence, drafted by a section of civil society, and submitted to the Indian government in January 2008. It incorporates concepts and standards from international law, and formulates new crimes as well as standards of evidence and procedure.
The Importance Of Effective Investigation Of Sexual Violence And Gender-Based Crimes At The International Criminal Court.Pdf, Susana L. Sacouto
The Importance Of Effective Investigation Of Sexual Violence And Gender-Based Crimes At The International Criminal Court.Pdf, Susana L. Sacouto
Susana L. SáCouto
Mega-Cases, Diversity, And The Elusive Goal Of Workplace Reform, Nancy Levit
Mega-Cases, Diversity, And The Elusive Goal Of Workplace Reform, Nancy Levit
Nancy Levit
Employment discrimination class action suits are part of a new wave of structural reform litigation. Like their predecessors - the school desegregation cases in the 1950s, the housing and voting inequalities cases in the 1960s, prison conditions suits in the 1970s, and environmental lawsuits since then - these are systemic challenges to major institutions affecting large segments of the public. This article explores the effectiveness of various employment discrimination remedies in reforming workplace cultures, promoting corporate accountability, and implementing real diversity.
Reviewing the architecture and aftermath of consent decrees in five major employment discrimination cases - the cases against Shoney's, …