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Conflict Of Laws: Foreign Law As Datum, Herma Hill Kay Aug 2016

Conflict Of Laws: Foreign Law As Datum, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

Examines the contributions of California Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Traynor to the field of conflict of laws. Review of the case of the 'Estate of Perkins'; Case of 'Bernkrant v. Fowler'; View that Traynor's approach to a conflicts problem cannot be equalled by other judges.


Tribute To Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Herma Hill Kay Aug 2016

Tribute To Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Remembering Brainerd Currie, Herma Hill Kay Aug 2016

Remembering Brainerd Currie, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

The following is a tribute to esteemed Law Professor, Brainerd Currie. Currie was a renowned scholar in the field of Conflict of Laws and sought to use his knowledge and passion for the Law to shape the Lives of his students, including Herma Hill Kay. Professor Kay highlights her relationship with Currie during her time at the University of Chicago Law School, and how Currie inspired her decision to go into legal academia herself


What Is Legal Education? And Should We Permit It To Continue In Its Present Form?, Herma Hill Kay Aug 2016

What Is Legal Education? And Should We Permit It To Continue In Its Present Form?, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


The Need For Self-Imposed Quotas In Academic Employment, Herma Hill Kay Aug 2016

The Need For Self-Imposed Quotas In Academic Employment, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Unconstitutional Discrimination In The Conflict Of Laws: Privileges And Immunities, Brainerd Currie, Herma Hill Schreter Aug 2016

Unconstitutional Discrimination In The Conflict Of Laws: Privileges And Immunities, Brainerd Currie, Herma Hill Schreter

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Commentary: Private Clubs And Public Interests: A View From San Francisco, Herma Hill Kay Aug 2016

Commentary: Private Clubs And Public Interests: A View From San Francisco, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Poverty And The Law Of Child Custody, Herma Hill Kay, Irving Philips Aug 2016

Poverty And The Law Of Child Custody, Herma Hill Kay, Irving Philips

Herma Hill Kay

Questions whether the law, in its approach to the child custody determination, hinders or advances the child's smooth progress toward social, emotional, psychological and physical maturity. Extent to which custody decisions are affected by poverty; Discussion of how custody decisions can reasonably be made; Law and practice of child custody.


Legal Planning For The Mentally Retarded: The California Experience, Herma Hill Kay, Louise J. Farnham, Beth Davis Karren, Jeanne Knakal Aug 2016

Legal Planning For The Mentally Retarded: The California Experience, Herma Hill Kay, Louise J. Farnham, Beth Davis Karren, Jeanne Knakal

Herma Hill Kay

Focuses on the development of legal planning for the mentally retarded in California from 1960 to 1971. Role of two pioneering organizations on the study of mental health services and retardation; Theoretical basis for requiring court commitment as part of hospital admission process; Effect of legal implications of commitment on the retarded; Impact of legal aspects on parents' motivation for the retarded's care facilities; Creation of legal tool for coordinating services on a personal basis.


Quasi-Community Property In The Conflict Of Laws, Herma Hill Schreter Aug 2016

Quasi-Community Property In The Conflict Of Laws, Herma Hill Schreter

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Quasi-Community Property In The Conflict Of Laws, Herma Hill Schreter Jul 2014

Quasi-Community Property In The Conflict Of Laws, Herma Hill Schreter

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Unconstitutional Discrimination In The Conflict Of Laws: Privileges And Immunities, Herma Hill Schreter, Brainerd Currie Jul 2014

Unconstitutional Discrimination In The Conflict Of Laws: Privileges And Immunities, Herma Hill Schreter, Brainerd Currie

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Claiming A Space In The Law School Curriculum: A Casebook On Sex-Based Discrimination, Herma Hill Kay Jul 2014

Claiming A Space In The Law School Curriculum: A Casebook On Sex-Based Discrimination, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

The article presents information on a law school casebook on sex-based discrimination in Columbia. It provides information that it has raised the legal issues of a law school related to traditional curriculum on women and the law that affects women law students. It informs that it focused on sex discrimination in employment to law students and graduates with using own prepared material regarding law school. It reveals that sexual interaction within the family, women and crime, and women and employment issues has been discussed in the seventh edition of the law school casebook.


David P. Currie (1936-2007) In Memoriam, Richard A. Epstein, Gerhard Casper, David Gossett, Herma Hill Kay Jul 2014

David P. Currie (1936-2007) In Memoriam, Richard A. Epstein, Gerhard Casper, David Gossett, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


David P. Currie (1936-2007), Gerhard Casper, Richard A. Epstein, David Gossett, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

David P. Currie (1936-2007), Gerhard Casper, Richard A. Epstein, David Gossett, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Foreword, Herma Kay Dec 2012

Foreword, Herma Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Remembering Mary Dunlap As A Student, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

Remembering Mary Dunlap As A Student, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

Recounts the experience of having Mary C. Dunlap as a student at the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California in Berkeley. Introduction by Dunlap and fellow students, Nancy Davis and Wendy Webster Williams of a course on Women and the Law into the Boalt Hall curriculum; Establishment of the Davis, Dunlap and Williams women' rights law firm, which was later reorganized as the public interest women's rights firm of Equal Rights Advocates, Inc.; Admittance of Dunlap of being involved in a lesbian relationship; Reason given by Dunlap for studying law.


Commentary: Toward A Theory Of Fair Distribution, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

Commentary: Toward A Theory Of Fair Distribution, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Second Generation Diversity Issues Program, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

Second Generation Diversity Issues Program, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


The Challenge To Diversity In Legal Education, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

The Challenge To Diversity In Legal Education, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


The Future Of Women Law Professors, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

The Future Of Women Law Professors, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Women Law School Deans: A Different Breed, Or Just One Of The Boys, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

Women Law School Deans: A Different Breed, Or Just One Of The Boys, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Ehrenzweig's Proper Law And Proper Forum, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

Ehrenzweig's Proper Law And Proper Forum, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


The Instructor ... Invites The Students To Share His Amazement That Self-Respecting Judges Could Ever ... Reach Such Results, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

The Instructor ... Invites The Students To Share His Amazement That Self-Respecting Judges Could Ever ... Reach Such Results, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Tribute To Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

Tribute To Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Berkeley Women's Law Journal: A Powerful Force At Twenty, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

Berkeley Women's Law Journal: A Powerful Force At Twenty, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

Anniversaries provide appropriate occasions to learn from experience by examining the past and planning for the future. The Twentieth Anniversary of the founding of the Berkeley Women's Law Journal (now the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice) is such an occasion.


Chief Justice Traynor And Choice Of Law Theory, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

Chief Justice Traynor And Choice Of Law Theory, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Currie's Interest Analysis In The 21st Century: Losing The Battle, But Winning The War, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

Currie's Interest Analysis In The 21st Century: Losing The Battle, But Winning The War, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Models Of Equality, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

Models Of Equality, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.


Equality And Difference: The Case Of Pregnancy, Herma Hill Kay Dec 2012

Equality And Difference: The Case Of Pregnancy, Herma Hill Kay

Herma Hill Kay

No abstract provided.