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Illegal Sex Toy Patents, W. Nicholson Price Ii May 2021

Illegal Sex Toy Patents, W. Nicholson Price Ii

Reviews

In Patenting Pleasure, Professors Sarah Rajec and Andrew Gilden highlight a surprising incongruity: while many areas of U.S. law are profoundly hostile to sexuality in general and the technology of sex in particular, the patent system is not. Instead, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has over the decades issued thousands of patents on sex toys—from vibrators to AI, and everything in between. This incongruity is especially odd because patent law has long incorporated a doctrine that specifically tied patentability to the usefulness of the invention, and up until the end of the 20th century one strand of that …


The Countermajoritarian Paradox, Neal Devins Sep 2019

The Countermajoritarian Paradox, Neal Devins

Neal E. Devins

No abstract provided.


Feminism Unmodified [Book Review], Dan Danielsen May 2012

Feminism Unmodified [Book Review], Dan Danielsen

Dan Danielsen

This article is a book review of "Feminism Unmodified" by Catherine A. MacKinnon, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.


Liberalism And Abortion, Robin West Jan 1999

Liberalism And Abortion, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

First in a groundbreaking book, Breaking the Abortion Deadlock: From Choice to Consent, published in 1996, then in various public fora, from academic conference panels to Christian radio call-in shows, and now in a major law review article entitled My Body, My Consent: Securing the Constitutional Right to Abortion Funding, Eileen McDonagh has sought to redefine drastically our understanding of the still deeply contested right to an abortion, and hence, of the nature of the constitutional protections which in her view this embattled right deserves. Her argument is complicated and subtle, but its basic thrust can be readily …


The Countermajoritarian Paradox, Neal Devins Jan 1995

The Countermajoritarian Paradox, Neal Devins

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The (Queer) Revolution Will Not Be Liberalized, Sarah E. Chinn, Kris Franklin Jan 1993

The (Queer) Revolution Will Not Be Liberalized, Sarah E. Chinn, Kris Franklin

Articles & Chapters

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Book Review Of Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making Of A Homosexual Minority In The United States 1940–1970, By John D’Emilio, Arthur S. Leonard Jan 1983

Book Review Of Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making Of A Homosexual Minority In The United States 1940–1970, By John D’Emilio, Arthur S. Leonard

Other Publications

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Book Review, Robert F. Nagel Jan 1979

Book Review, Robert F. Nagel

Publications

No abstract provided.