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Abortion Post-Glucksberg And Post-Gonzales: Applying An Analysis That Demands Equality For Women Under The Law, Mary Kathryn Nagle Aug 2009

Abortion Post-Glucksberg And Post-Gonzales: Applying An Analysis That Demands Equality For Women Under The Law, Mary Kathryn Nagle

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

Because the government has historically enacted laws criminalizing abortion to preserve traditional stereotypes regarding a woman's domestic and subordinate position in society,22 abortion regulations necessitate an Equal Protection Clause analysis. [...] this article will examine first how Gonzales and Glucksberg forecast Roe's now inevitable demise, and accordingly, why abortion regulations must now be evaluated under an Equal Protection Clause analysis- in place of the crumbling Due Process Clause framework.23 Finally, this article will explain how and why the Partial Birth Abortion Act of 2003 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.


What’S The Constitution Got To Do With It? Regulating Marriage In Pakistan, Karin Carmit Yefet Aug 2009

What’S The Constitution Got To Do With It? Regulating Marriage In Pakistan, Karin Carmit Yefet

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

[...] the supreme law of the land seems to embody a blatant contradiction. The Pakistani Constitution extends protection to an impressive catalog of fundamental rights, placing Pakistan in line with some of the most western-minded constitutional regimes in the world.3 At the same time, in contrast to the American-style constitutional commitment to separate church and state,4 the Pakistani regime is constitutionally committed to integrate the two, in the sense that all laws must conform to the injunctions of Islam as a condition of their constitutional validity.5 So the same Constitution that protects western fundamental rights also elevates Islamic law, a …


“But Some Of [Them] Are Brave”: Identity Performance, The Military, And The Dangers Of An Integration Success Story, Mario L. Barnes May 2007

“But Some Of [Them] Are Brave”: Identity Performance, The Military, And The Dangers Of An Integration Success Story, Mario L. Barnes

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

By dislodging the story and acknowledging the effects of unconscious bias, the Armed Forces will be better able to address the ways in which some use identity-race in particular-as a tool to stigmatize, dishonor, and disfavor group members based on their perceived characteristics.11 As it currently stands, the operation of unconscious biases interacts with Armed Forces' institutional policy choices-such as a commitment to formal equality achieved through race- and gender-neutral regulations-and organizational social norms to negatively shape the work "performance"12 of women and minority service members.


Women In The Sphere Of Masculinity: The Double-Edged Sword Of Women’S Integration In The Military, Noya Rimalt May 2007

Women In The Sphere Of Masculinity: The Double-Edged Sword Of Women’S Integration In The Military, Noya Rimalt

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

Too many women together are not a good thing anywhere, especially not in the military.2 Noa is one of numerous women who have managed to cross traditional gender lines in the Israeli military in the last decade, assigned to positions that typically had been reserved for men.3 The inclusion of those women in traditional masculine spheres was the result of legal changes initiated by women and feminist groups in the 1990s.4 Those changes were designed to promote greater gender equality in the military by opening prestigious combat units to women soldiers.5 Hence, Noa and all other women whose military experiences …


Just Do It, Girardeau A. Spann Jul 2004

Just Do It, Girardeau A. Spann

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Rights In Conflict: The First Amendment’S Third Century, Robert M. O'Neil Apr 2002

Rights In Conflict: The First Amendment’S Third Century, Robert M. O'Neil

Law and Contemporary Problems

O'Neil has witnesses the resolution, or at least the clarification, of many free speech and press issues. There are, however, persistent issues that deserve particularly close scrutiny. Three such issues are tensions between free expression and privacy, civility, and equality.


Taxing The Market Citizen: Fiscal Policy And Inequality In An Age Of Privatization, Lisa Philipps Oct 2000

Taxing The Market Citizen: Fiscal Policy And Inequality In An Age Of Privatization, Lisa Philipps

Law and Contemporary Problems

Focusing on Canada, Philipps argues that recent efforts to revise important facets of the income tax system are best understood through the lens of privatization. By promoting personal responsibility, the tax code is contributing to the erosion of the ideal of social citizenship and replacing it with a new model of market citizenship.


Taking Economic Equality Off The Table, Gene R. Nichol Apr 2000

Taking Economic Equality Off The Table, Gene R. Nichol

Law and Contemporary Problems

Nichol considers Pres Clinton's Administration's record on issues of economic equality, including California Gov Pete Wilson's plan to discriminate against newly arrived California welfare recipients. The Clinton Administration has not been alone in taking economic fairness off the political agenda, but they have clearly done their part.


The Dimensions Of American Constitutional Equality, J. Harvie Wilkinson Iii Jan 1992

The Dimensions Of American Constitutional Equality, J. Harvie Wilkinson Iii

Law and Contemporary Problems

Liberty and equality are the hallmark characteristics of any legal order. Constitutional equality in the US is discussed. The rights of equality are not economic in nature, and they are not subject to strictly majority rule.


Equality, Paul J. Mishkin Jul 1980

Equality, Paul J. Mishkin

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.