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How Myth-Busting About The Historical Goals Of Civil Rights Activism Can Illuminate Paths For The Future, Susan Carle
How Myth-Busting About The Historical Goals Of Civil Rights Activism Can Illuminate Paths For The Future, Susan Carle
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This article considers four myths about the history of civil rights activism, taht have tended to cloud assessments about current current civil rights law and its potential future directions. I argue that correcting those myths can help illunundile promising paths for the future. In each instance, alternative historical narrative routes for further development of core principles of civil rights law, including further theoretical and practical work to pursue long-standing concepts of structural discrimination, the promise of experimentalist approaches to regulation and enforcement, increased interdisciplinary colaboration between law and other social science fields, and more focus on matters of economic inequality …
Referenda And The District Of Columbia's Human Rights Act: Voting On Same-Sex Marriage In The Nation's Capital, Jacob Stewart
Referenda And The District Of Columbia's Human Rights Act: Voting On Same-Sex Marriage In The Nation's Capital, Jacob Stewart
Legislation and Policy Brief
Beginning with Massachusetts in 2003, the courts and legislatures of many states have had to decide whether same-sex marriage is or should be a fundamental right under their respective constitutions. Although only five states and the District of Columbia legally perform same-sex marriages, a few other jurisdictions are in the process of proposing laws moving in that direction. However, the vast majority of states are holding fast to the traditional heterosexual definition of marriage. Thirty-eight states have adopted some sort of Defense of Marriage Act, constitutional amendment, or similar measure that defines marriage as the union between one man and …
Revisiting Title Xi's Feminist Legacy: Moving Beyond The Three-Part Test, Deborah Brake
Revisiting Title Xi's Feminist Legacy: Moving Beyond The Three-Part Test, Deborah Brake
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
"No New Babies?" Gender Inequality And Reproductive Control In The Criminal Justice And Prisons System, Rachel Roth
"No New Babies?" Gender Inequality And Reproductive Control In The Criminal Justice And Prisons System, Rachel Roth
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
The Family Medical Leave Act: What You See And What You Get, Robin R. Cockey
The Family Medical Leave Act: What You See And What You Get, Robin R. Cockey
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Language And The Law, Yadira Calvo
Language And The Law, Yadira Calvo
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Is Law And Art Or A Science?: Comments On Objectivity, Feminism, And Power, Joan Williams
Is Law And Art Or A Science?: Comments On Objectivity, Feminism, And Power, Joan Williams
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Comment On The Paper By Gladys Acosta, Martin D. Farrell
Comment On The Paper By Gladys Acosta, Martin D. Farrell
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Parental Rights And The Best Interests Of The Child: Implications Of The Adoption And Safe Families Act Of 1997 On Domestic Violence Victims' Rights, Rachel Venier
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Comments On Martha Fineman's Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, , Suzanna Danuta Walters
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Comments On Martha Fineman's Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, , Suzanna Danuta Walters
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Foundational Myths And The Reality Of Dependency: The Role Of Marriage , Ann Shalleck
Foundational Myths And The Reality Of Dependency: The Role Of Marriage , Ann Shalleck
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Why Lesbians And Gay Men Should Read Martha Fineman, Nancy D. Polikoff
Why Lesbians And Gay Men Should Read Martha Fineman, Nancy D. Polikoff
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Bursting The Foundational Myths Of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism: A Call For Brave New Families Or Brave New Villages? , Mary Romero
Bursting The Foundational Myths Of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism: A Call For Brave New Families Or Brave New Villages? , Mary Romero
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Caretakers, Entitlement, And Diversity , Twila L. Perry
Caretakers, Entitlement, And Diversity , Twila L. Perry
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Baehr V. Miike
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Illinois V. Wardlow
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Comments On Martha Fineman's Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, , Suzanna Danuta Walters
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: Comments On Martha Fineman's Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, , Suzanna Danuta Walters
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Foundational Myths And The Reality Of Dependency: The Role Of Marriage , Ann Shalleck
Foundational Myths And The Reality Of Dependency: The Role Of Marriage , Ann Shalleck
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Bursting The Foundational Myths Of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism: A Call For Brave New Families Or Brave New Villages? , Mary Romero
Bursting The Foundational Myths Of Reproductive Labor Under Capitalism: A Call For Brave New Families Or Brave New Villages? , Mary Romero
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Why Lesbians And Gay Men Should Read Martha Fineman, Nancy D. Polikoff
Why Lesbians And Gay Men Should Read Martha Fineman, Nancy D. Polikoff
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Caretakers, Entitlement, And Diversity , Twila L. Perry
Caretakers, Entitlement, And Diversity , Twila L. Perry
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
When "The Evil Day" Comes, Will Title Vii's Disparate Impact Provision Be Narrowly Tailored To Survive An Equal Protection Clause Challenge?, Eang L. Ngov
American University Law Review
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Punctuated Equilibrium: A Model For Administrative Evolution, Mark Niles
Punctuated Equilibrium: A Model For Administrative Evolution, Mark Niles
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Equality Dissonance: Jurisprudential Limitations And Legislative Opportunities, Lia Epperson
Equality Dissonance: Jurisprudential Limitations And Legislative Opportunities, Lia Epperson
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
In his pivotal concurrence in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 Justice Kennedy articulated two fundamental strains of an equality ideal for addressing systemic racial segregation and inequality in public education: he eloquently underscored the critical importance of racial integration for educational equity, and reiterated the essential role of the political branches in facilitating this integration. Kennedy noted the compelling government interest in decreasing the effects of de facto racial segregation and isolation and recognized the fallacy of a public/private distinction in defining the constitutional violation of racially segregated educational environments: The plurality opinion is …
Dignity As A Constitutional Value: A South African Perspective, Arthur Chaskalson
Dignity As A Constitutional Value: A South African Perspective, Arthur Chaskalson
American University International Law Review
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Christian Legal Society V. Martinez: How An Obscure First Amendment Case Inadvertently And Unexpectedly Created A Significant Fourteenth Amendment Advance For Lgbt Rights Advocates , Max Kanin
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
Same-Sex Marriage, Same-Sex Cohabitation, And Same-Sex Families Around The World: Why ‘Same’ Is So Different?, Macarena Saez
Same-Sex Marriage, Same-Sex Cohabitation, And Same-Sex Families Around The World: Why ‘Same’ Is So Different?, Macarena Saez
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This paper briefly explains the situation of same sex couples in countries that have opened marriage to individuals of the same sex, offers a summary and analysis of the status of same sex unions in several countries that have not opened marriage to same sex couples, and provides a comparative analysis of the most recurrent arguments used in the processes of recognition and denial of same sex unions in the countries reviewed.
Forty years ago, same sex couples were not legally accepted in any country. In the last thirty years, however, around 20% of the world has granted some rights …