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Revisiting Mary Ann Glendon: Abortion, Divorce, Dependency, And Rights Talk In Western Law, Margaret Brinig, Linda Mcclain May 2014

Revisiting Mary Ann Glendon: Abortion, Divorce, Dependency, And Rights Talk In Western Law, Margaret Brinig, Linda Mcclain

Margaret F Brinig

This essay revisits Mary Ann Glendon’s comparative law study, Abortion and Divorce in Western Law and her subsequent book, Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse. Glendon’s comparative study actually included a third topic: “forms of dependency which are connected with pregnancy, marriage, and child raising.” The topic of dependency has obvious relevance to consideration of intergenerational obligations and the interplay between family responsibility and societal responsibility for addressing dependency needs. A central claim Glendon made in both books is that the U.S. legal tradition is “libertarian,” views individuals as “lone rights bearers,” and exalts the “right to be …


Daniel Kelly And Peg Brinig Were Featured In A Productive Partnership: Notre Dame’S New Law And Economics Program Is Much In Demand – Notre Dame Lawyer (Spring 2011), Daniel Kelly, Margaret Brinig Feb 2014

Daniel Kelly And Peg Brinig Were Featured In A Productive Partnership: Notre Dame’S New Law And Economics Program Is Much In Demand – Notre Dame Lawyer (Spring 2011), Daniel Kelly, Margaret Brinig

Margaret F Brinig

Daniel Kelly and Peg Brinig were featured in A Productive Partnership: Notre Dame’s new Law and Economics Program is much in demand – Notre Dame Lawyer (spring 2011), page 12.

A PRODUCTIVE PARTNERSHIP

Notre Dame’s new Law and Economics Program is much in demand

by Mark A. Cohen


Chicago Catholic Schools -- Stake A Claim To Neighborhoods (Quotes: Margaret "Peg" Brinig) Huffington Post Chicago -- September 4, 2012, Margaret Brinig Jan 2014

Chicago Catholic Schools -- Stake A Claim To Neighborhoods (Quotes: Margaret "Peg" Brinig) Huffington Post Chicago -- September 4, 2012, Margaret Brinig

Margaret F Brinig

Chicago Catholic Schools -- Stake a Claim to Neighborhoods (Quotes: Margaret "Peg" Brinig) Huffington Post Chicago -- September 4, 2012 Article by Joshua Hale A series of research articles by University of Notre Dame Professors Margaret Brinig and Nicole Garnet have laid out the case. In a paper summarizing their findings, "Catholic Schools, Urban Neighborhoods, and Education Reform" Brinig and Garnet used three decades of data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods to evaluate the effect of a Catholic school closure on its neighborhood. They found -- even after controlling for other demographic variables that might predict …