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A Home With Dignity: Domestic Violence And Property Rights, Margaret E. Johnson
A Home With Dignity: Domestic Violence And Property Rights, Margaret E. Johnson
All Faculty Scholarship
This Article argues that the legal system should do more to address intimate partner violence and each party's need for a home for several reasons. First, domestic violence is a leading cause of individual and family homelessness. Second, the struggle over rights to a shared home can increase the violence to which the woman is subjected. And third, a woman who decides to continue to live with the person who abused her receives little or no legal support, despite the evidence that this decision could most effectively reduce the violence. The legal system's current failings result from its limited goals-achieving …
Brief For Bishopaccountability.Org Et Al. As Amici Curiae In Support Of Cert. Petition, John Doe B.P. V. Catholic Diocese Of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Leslie C. Griffin
Brief For Bishopaccountability.Org Et Al. As Amici Curiae In Support Of Cert. Petition, John Doe B.P. V. Catholic Diocese Of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Leslie C. Griffin
Supreme Court Briefs
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Fifty State Survey Of Mandatory Reporting Statutes, Brenda V. Smith
Fifty State Survey Of Mandatory Reporting Statutes, Brenda V. Smith
The Project on Addressing Prison Rape - Surveys
Mandatory reporting state statutes regarding the sexual abuse of children are compiled and reported. Entries include (if provided) the following information: state; mandatory reporting statutes name; what has to be reported; relevant definitions; persons required to report; reporting procedures; and penalty for failure to report.