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Full-Text Articles in Law
Tribe's Judicious Feminism, Anita L. Allen
Tribe's Judicious Feminism, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Great Expectations: Women In The Legal Profession: A Commentary On State Studies, Ann J. Gellis
Great Expectations: Women In The Legal Profession: A Commentary On State Studies, Ann J. Gellis
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Gatekeepers Of The Profession: An Empirical Profile Of The Nation's Law Professors, Robert J. Borthwich, Jordan Schau
Gatekeepers Of The Profession: An Empirical Profile Of The Nation's Law Professors, Robert J. Borthwich, Jordan Schau
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
Part I of this Note surveys the existing body of literature on legal education, with a particular emphasis on previous empirical studies concerning law professors. Part II focuses on the increasing number of women in the teaching profession. Part III looks at the nonteaching experience of law teachers, including judicial clerkships, private practice, government experience, and public interest experience. Finally, Part IV examines the influence of "elite schools" in law school hiring and tenure decisions.
Legal Images Of Battered Women: Redefining The Issue Of Separation, Martha R. Mahoney
Legal Images Of Battered Women: Redefining The Issue Of Separation, Martha R. Mahoney
Michigan Law Review
Part I of this article discusses violence in the ordinary lives of women, describing individual and societal denial that pretends domestic violence is rare when statistics show it is common, and describing the ways in which motherhood shapes women's experience of violence and choices in response to violence. Part II examines definitions of battering and evaluates their effectiveness at disguising or revealing the struggle for control at the heart of the battering process. I then describe in Part III the pressures that self-defense and custody cases place on legal and cultural images of battered women and contrast the development of …
Abortion Law In Canada: A Matter Of National Concern, Moira Mcconnell, Lorenne Clark
Abortion Law In Canada: A Matter Of National Concern, Moira Mcconnell, Lorenne Clark
Dalhousie Law Journal
Canada's newest abortion legislation, embodied in Bill C-43, was defeated in the Senate on January 31st, 1991. The Bill sought to remedy the state of "lawlessness" which has existed respecting abortion ever since the decision reached by the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Morgentaler in January, 1988. However, this determination is incorrect. The law is quite clear: there is no criminal prohibition against abortion in Canada. This follows directly from the Court's holding in the Morgentaler decision that the old law, s. 287 (formerly s.251) of the Criminal Code, infringed a woman's right to security and liberty of …
Gender Justice Without Foundations, Marion Smiley
Gender Justice Without Foundations, Marion Smiley
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Feminism/Postmodernism edited by Linda J. Nicholson and Justice and the Politics of Difference by Iris Marion Young
The Challenges Of Multiplicity, Jennifer Nedelsky
The Challenges Of Multiplicity, Jennifer Nedelsky
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought by Elizabeth V. Spelman
Women And Law In Classical Greece, Craig Y. Allison
Women And Law In Classical Greece, Craig Y. Allison
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Women in Law in Classical Greece by Raphael Sealey
Unwelcome Imports: Racism, Sexism, And Foreign Investment, William H. Lash Iii
Unwelcome Imports: Racism, Sexism, And Foreign Investment, William H. Lash Iii
Michigan Journal of International Law
This article will address the problems minorities and women face from Japanese foreign direct investment. This article focuses on Japanese direct investment because the rapid rise in Japan's direct investment in the United States, combined with a record of discrimination by Japanese firms in Japan and abroad, makes Japanese investment the best example of the problems addressed in this article. However, the discriminatory attitudes described here may well be held by other foreign investors, and therefore, the legislation proposed later in this article addresses a broader problem.
Note, The Convention For The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women: Radical, Reasonable, Or Reactionary?, Sarah C. Zearfoss
Note, The Convention For The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women: Radical, Reasonable, Or Reactionary?, Sarah C. Zearfoss
Michigan Journal of International Law
This Note will explore the merits behind these positions and attempt a resolution. If the potential effect of the Convention can only be to freeze and enshrine sex equality law as it currently exists, one who is interested in achieving changes in the law for the purpose of benefiting women will not want to put her energy into lobbying for ratification. It is therefore important to get past political strategies and determine what promise the Convention might hold for women in the United States. If the United States were to ratify the Convention, what changes, if any, would result?
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1991 - January) No. 2, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1991 - January) No. 2, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Women's Work, Jana B. Singer
25 Years Of Women At Notre Dame Law School: The Early Years, Notre Dame Law School
25 Years Of Women At Notre Dame Law School: The Early Years, Notre Dame Law School
About the Law School
The year 1966 stands as the first time women were invited to join the next class of lawyers to be educated at Notre Dame Law School.
The Impact Of Public Abortion Funding Decisions On Lndigent Women: A Proposal To Reform State Statutory And Constitutional Abortion Funding Provisions, Carole A. Corns
The Impact Of Public Abortion Funding Decisions On Lndigent Women: A Proposal To Reform State Statutory And Constitutional Abortion Funding Provisions, Carole A. Corns
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
This Note argues that state legislatures should relax funding restrictions on abortions for indigent women and proposes specific mechanisms to ensure the equal protection of indigent women in the abortion context. Part I briefly recounts the history of federal funding for abortions, from the liberal post-Roe funding scheme to the restrictive funding arrangements that have prevailed since the early 1980s. Part II surveys the existing literature and discusses patterns of state funding and the impact of funding restrictions on indigent women seeking abortions. This literature shows that the tightening of state funding policies subsequent to the federal Medicaid restrictions has …
Fetal Protection And Employment Discrimination - The Johnson Controls Case, George J. Annas
Fetal Protection And Employment Discrimination - The Johnson Controls Case, George J. Annas
Faculty Scholarship
Employers have historically limited women's access to traditionally male, high-paying jobs. In one famous case early in this century, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Oregon law that forbade hiring women for jobs that required more than 10 hours of work a day in factories. The Chief Justice explained that this restriction was reasonable because "healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring" and preserving the physical well-being of women helps "preserve the strength and vigor of the race." This rationale was never particularly persuasive, and women's hours have not been limited in traditionally female, low-paid fields of employment, such as …
Law's Patriarchy, Lynne Henderson
Gender Based Peremptory Challenges And The New York State Constitution, Frederick T. Kelsey
Gender Based Peremptory Challenges And The New York State Constitution, Frederick T. Kelsey
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Feminist Jurisprudence: Why Law Must Consider Women's Perspectives, Ann Juergens
Feminist Jurisprudence: Why Law Must Consider Women's Perspectives, Ann Juergens
Faculty Scholarship
A growing number of scholars are asking how the law would be different if it took women's points of view and experiences into account. Feminist Jurisprudence argues that we must look at the norms embedded in our legal system and rethink the law. It is about being inclusive of women, and of all people who differ from the norms of the law as it is today. The endeavor will necessarily shake up established relations between family, the workplace and the state. Lawyers, judges, and legislators should get ready for the changes.
Parental Leaves And Poor Women: Paying The Price For Time Off, Maria O'Brien
Parental Leaves And Poor Women: Paying The Price For Time Off, Maria O'Brien
Faculty Scholarship
This Article presents a critique of unpaid "parental" leaves and the parental leave legislation recently passed by Congress.1 Eight states have already enacted parental leave statutes of various kinds.' For the sake of simplicity and uniformity, however, this Article focuses on the proposed federal legislation3 and its anticipated effects on unemployed and underemployed women.4 Specifically, this Article argues that the debate about parental leave 5 has ignored the possibility that the cost of this mandated benefit is likely to be borne by poor, low-skill working women6 who will find that their job opportunities narrow as employers try to shift some …
Workplace Discrimination: Truthfulness And The Moral Imagination, Emily Calhoun
Workplace Discrimination: Truthfulness And The Moral Imagination, Emily Calhoun
Publications
No abstract provided.
Women And Legal Scholarship: A Bibliography, Paul M. George, Susan Mcglamery
Women And Legal Scholarship: A Bibliography, Paul M. George, Susan Mcglamery
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Nurturin Rights: An Essay On Women, Peace, And International Human Rights, Barbara Stark
Nurturin Rights: An Essay On Women, Peace, And International Human Rights, Barbara Stark
Michigan Journal of International Law
This essay will explore the relationship between what many view as the two most urgent issues of our time: nurturing rights, and promoting peace.
Domestic Violence Against Women: A Comparative Analysis Of Remedies Under The American And Indian Legal Systems, Anita Elizabeth Jacob Ninan
Domestic Violence Against Women: A Comparative Analysis Of Remedies Under The American And Indian Legal Systems, Anita Elizabeth Jacob Ninan
LLM Theses and Essays
The purpose of this thesis is to compare the legal remedies available to women who are the victims of domestic violence in the United States and India and analyze whether the existing laws in the two systems are effective and sufficient in combating this growing problem. Domestic violence against women is a reality. It haunts the female species form the cradle to the grave, manifesting itself in sociocultural crime peculiar to some societies like India, such as female feticide, female infanticide, bride burning dowry deaths, and wife battering (both a developing country like India and an economically developed country like …