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So Much Activity, So Little Change: A Reply To The Critics Of Battered Women's Self-Defense, Kit Kinports
So Much Activity, So Little Change: A Reply To The Critics Of Battered Women's Self-Defense, Kit Kinports
Journal Articles
Prior to 1970, the term "domestic violence" referred to ghetto riots and urban terrorism, not the abuse of women by their intimate partners. Today, of course, domestic violence is a household word. After all, it has now been ten years since the revelation of football star O.J. Simpson's history of battering purportedly sounded "a wake-up call for all of America"; ten years since Congress enacted legislation haled as "a milestone . . .truly a turning point in the national effort to break the cycle" of violence; and twenty years since Farrah Fawcett's portrayal of Francine Hughes in the movie The …
'Lesser Evils' In The War On Terrorism, Mark A. Drumbl
'Lesser Evils' In The War On Terrorism, Mark A. Drumbl
Scholarly Articles
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Defending Imminence: From Battered Women To Iraq, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
Defending Imminence: From Battered Women To Iraq, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan
All Faculty Scholarship
The war against Iraq and nonconfrontational killings by battered women are two recent examples of a more general theoretical problem. The underlying question is when may a defender act in self-defense. While some nineteenth century common law cases vested the rights in the defender, arguing that it was unfair to force her to live in fear, contemporary domestic and international law cast the balance decidedly on the side of the aggressor, by forcing the defender to wait until the aggressor's attack is imminent. The Bush Administration and the battered woman simply ask whether the pendulum swung too far in the …
Beyond Imminence: Evolving International Law And Battered Women's Right To Self-Defense, Shana Wallace
Beyond Imminence: Evolving International Law And Battered Women's Right To Self-Defense, Shana Wallace
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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