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The Michael Jackson Pill: Equality, Race, And Culture, Jerome Mccristal Culp Jr.
The Michael Jackson Pill: Equality, Race, And Culture, Jerome Mccristal Culp Jr.
Michigan Law Review
This chronicle is in tribute to the work of Derrick Bell, past, present, and future. I have borrowed his character Geneva Crenshaw as part of that tribute, and I hope she helps me raise some of the issues that he has taught us are important.
All characters in this chronicle are fictional, including Professor Culp and Professor Bell. Any relationship they may have to the real Professor Bell and Professor Culp is dictated by the requirements of creativity and the extent to which reality and fiction necessarily merge. I know that the real Derrick Bell is wiser than the one …
Only Words, David C. Dinielli
Only Words, David C. Dinielli
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Only Words by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Religion And The Search For A Principled Middle Ground On Abortion, Michael W. Mcconnell
Religion And The Search For A Principled Middle Ground On Abortion, Michael W. Mcconnell
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Politics of Virtue: Is Abortion Debatable? by Elizabeth Mensch and Alan Freeman
Life's Sacred Value—Common Ground Or Battleground, Alexander Morgan Capron
Life's Sacred Value—Common Ground Or Battleground, Alexander Morgan Capron
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom by Ronald Dworkin
Divorce, Custody, Gender, And The Limits Of Law: On Dividing The Child, Lee E. Teitelbaum
Divorce, Custody, Gender, And The Limits Of Law: On Dividing The Child, Lee E. Teitelbaum
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Dividing the Child: Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody by Elanor E. Maccoby and Robert H. Mnookin
The Lenses Of Gender: Transforming The Debate On Sexual Inequality, Jill M. Dahlmann
The Lenses Of Gender: Transforming The Debate On Sexual Inequality, Jill M. Dahlmann
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Lenses of Gender: Transforming the Debate on Sexual Inequality by Sandra Lipsitz Bem
Understanding Mixed Motives Claims Under The Civil Rights Act Of 1991: An Analysis Of Intentional Discrimination Claims Based On Sex-Stereotyped Interview Questions, Heather K. Gerken
Understanding Mixed Motives Claims Under The Civil Rights Act Of 1991: An Analysis Of Intentional Discrimination Claims Based On Sex-Stereotyped Interview Questions, Heather K. Gerken
Michigan Law Review
This Note analyzes the Civil Rights Act of 1991 and relevant case law to determine whether posing sex-stereotyped interview questions is actionable conduct under Title VII. It questions whether proof of discrimination during a phase in the hiring process, specifically during the interview stage, supports a Title VII claim without other independent evidence that the hiring decision was discriminatory. Part I explains that the circuit courts have envisioned the impact of discrimination during the hiring process differently and, as a result, are divided in determining whether sex-stereotyped interview questions are actionable under Title VII. Part II examines the legislative history …
Rape Discourse In Press Coverage Of Sex Crimes, Peggy Reeves Sanday
Rape Discourse In Press Coverage Of Sex Crimes, Peggy Reeves Sanday
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes
A Question Of Choice, Michele A. Estrin
A Question Of Choice, Michele A. Estrin
Michigan Law Review
A Review of A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington
"But Whoever Treasures Freedom…": The Right To Travel And Extraterritorial Abortions, Seth F. Kreimer
"But Whoever Treasures Freedom…": The Right To Travel And Extraterritorial Abortions, Seth F. Kreimer
Michigan Law Review
In a prior article, I addressed the problem of extraterritorial abortions under the assumption that the federal constitutional right of reproductive choice would be repudiated by the Supreme Court on Justice Scalia's theory that such rights lack sufficiently deep roots in the history and traditions surrounding the framing of the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment. I argued there that a constitutional methodology that relied on traditions and expectations of the Framers would provide a strong basis for concluding that the Constitution imposes severe limits on states' power to project their moralities extraterritorially. If Justice Scalia is serious about a regard …
Conflict Of Constitutions? No Thanks: A Response To Professors Brilmayer And Kreimer, Gerald L. Neuman
Conflict Of Constitutions? No Thanks: A Response To Professors Brilmayer And Kreimer, Gerald L. Neuman
Michigan Law Review
This colloquy was organized around the unpleasant hypothesis that the Supreme Court would overrule Roe v. Wade and that Congress would not fill the resulting void with federal legislation. The abortion debate would then move to the states, where local majorities could enact their own resolutions. If the local majorities were large enough, they could even write their local resolutions into their state constitutions. The contrasting state constitutions that could result might then replicate the comparativists' current juxtaposition between the U.S. Constitution and the constitutions of Germany and Ireland. In some states, prohibition of abortion would be constitutionally required, while …
Divorce Reform And The Legacy Of Gender, Milton C. Regan Jr.
Divorce Reform And The Legacy Of Gender, Milton C. Regan Jr.
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Illusion of Equality: The Rhetoric and Reality of Divorce Reform by Martha Albertson Fineman
Employment Equality, Affirmative Action, And The Constitutional Political Consensus, Robert A. Sedler
Employment Equality, Affirmative Action, And The Constitutional Political Consensus, Robert A. Sedler
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Equality Transformed: A Quarter-Century of Affirmative Action by Herman Belz and A Conflict of Rights: The Supreme Court and Affirmative Action by Melvin I. Urofsky
Illiberal Education: The Politics Of Race And Sex On Campus, Bruce Goldner
Illiberal Education: The Politics Of Race And Sex On Campus, Bruce Goldner
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus by Dinesh D'Souza
Legislative Inputs And Gender-Based Discrimination In The Burger Court, Earl M. Maltz
Legislative Inputs And Gender-Based Discrimination In The Burger Court, Earl M. Maltz
Michigan Law Review
In An Interpretive History of Modem Equal Protection, Michael Klarman poses a powerful challenge to the conventional wisdom regarding the structure of Burger Court jurisprudence. Most commentators have concluded that during the Burger era the Court lacked a coherent vision of constitutional law, and was given to a "rootless" activism or a "pragmatic" approach to constitutional analysis. Klarman argues that, at least in the area of equal protection analysis, the Burger Court's approach did reflect a unifying theme, which he describes as a focus on "legislative inputs." According to Klarman, this approach "directs judicial review towards purging legislative decision-making of …
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 …
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
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
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
Feminizing Unions: Challenging The Gendered Structure Of Wage Labor, Marion Crain
Feminizing Unions: Challenging The Gendered Structure Of Wage Labor, Marion Crain
Michigan Law Review
In this article, I argue that labor unions can be an effective, central tool in a feminist agenda targeting the gendered structure of wage labor. Collective action is the most powerful and expedient route to female empowerment; further, it is the only feasible means of transforming our deeply gendered market and family structure. Others have laid the groundwork by showing how existing individual-model challenges have been unable to accomplish such broad-based reform. I begin where they leave off.
The Obliging Shell: An Informal Essay On Formal Equal Opportunity, Patricia Williams
The Obliging Shell: An Informal Essay On Formal Equal Opportunity, Patricia Williams
Michigan Law Review
I am struck by the Court's use of the word "equality" in the last line of its holding. It seems an extraordinarily narrow use of "equality," when it excludes from consideration so much clear inequality. It, again, resembles the process by which the Parol Evidence Rule limits the meaning of documents or words by placing beyond the bounds of reference anything that is inconsistent, or, depending on the circumstances, even that which is supplementary. It is this lawyerly language game of exclusion and omission that is the subject of the rest of this essay.
Finding A "Manifest Imbalance": The Case For A Unified Statistical Test For Voluntary Affirmative Action Under Title Vii, David D. Meyer
Finding A "Manifest Imbalance": The Case For A Unified Statistical Test For Voluntary Affirmative Action Under Title Vii, David D. Meyer
Michigan Law Review
This Note analyzes the "manifest imbalance" standard developed in Weber and Johnson and the various approaches the lower courts have taken in trying to apply the test. Part I examines the Weber and Johnson opinions in some detail, and argues that the Court intended to permit affirmative action aimed at remedying the evident effects of past discrimination, regardless of whether the employer or society at large is to blame. Section I.A describes the diverging constitutional and statutory standards for evaluating voluntary affirmative action programs, and the policies behind the divergence. Sections I.B and I.C take a closer look at the …
Mother-Love And Abortion: A Legal Interpretation, Darleen Darnell
Mother-Love And Abortion: A Legal Interpretation, Darleen Darnell
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Mother-Love and Abortion: A Legal Interpretation by Robert D. Goldstein
Deconstructing Gender, Joan C. Williams
Deconstructing Gender, Joan C. Williams
Michigan Law Review
I start out, as have many others, from the deep split among American feminists between "sameness" and "difference." The driving force behind the mid-twentieth-century resurgence of American feminism was an insistence on the fundamental similarity of men and women and, hence, their essential equality.
I begin in Part I by challenging the widely influential description of gender advocated by Carol Gilligan. While Part I challenges the description of gender differences offered by Gilligan feminists, it does not deny the existence of gender differences. The chief strength of the feminism of difference is its challenge to what have been called male …
How It Was, How It Is, Clare Dalton
How It Was, How It Is, Clare Dalton
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Unequal Colleagues: The Entrance of Women into the Professions, 1890-1940 by Penina Migdal Glazer and Miriam Slater
Reexamining The Law Of Rape, Janet E. Findlater
Reexamining The Law Of Rape, Janet E. Findlater
Michigan Law Review
A Review Real Rape by Susan Estrich
Stories Of Rights: Developing Moral Theory And Teaching Law, Patricia A. Cain, Jean C. Love
Stories Of Rights: Developing Moral Theory And Teaching Law, Patricia A. Cain, Jean C. Love
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Rights, Restitution, & Risk: Essays in Moral Theory by Judith Jarvis Thomson, edited by William Parent
Why We Lost The Era, Judith L. Hudson
Why We Lost The Era, Judith L. Hudson
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Why We Lost the ERA
The 1986 And 1987 Affirmative Action Cases: It's All Over But The Shouting, Herman Schwartz
The 1986 And 1987 Affirmative Action Cases: It's All Over But The Shouting, Herman Schwartz
Michigan Law Review
For the moment, the affirmative action wars are over. In a ten-year set of decisions, culminating in five during the last two terms, the Court has now legitimated almost all types of race and gender preferences, even if they benefit nonvictims, including voluntarily adopted preferences in hiring, promotion, university admissions, and government contracting; hiring and promotion preferences in consent decrees; and court-ordered hiring and promotions. It has approved preferences by both public and private bodies, and for both racial-ethnic minorities and women. It has barred only layoffs of white (and presumably male) employees who have more seniority than employees hired …
Discrimination, Jobs, And Politics: The Struggle For Equal Employment Opportunity In The United States Since The New Deal, James L. Thompson
Discrimination, Jobs, And Politics: The Struggle For Equal Employment Opportunity In The United States Since The New Deal, James L. Thompson
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Discrimination, Jobs, and Politics: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity in the United States since the New Deal by Paul Burstein