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The Feminist War On Crime, Aya Gruber
The Feminist War On Crime, Aya Gruber
Publications
One of the most celebrated successes of the feminist movement is its lasting impact on domestic violence criminal laws. Today, society has moved from discourse characterizing domestic abuse as legitimate or merely a private problem to a belief that battering is a heinous crime, more egregious than garden-variety assault. I know all too well how far the pendulum has swung, having practiced as a public defender in the District of Columbia domestic violence system. Day after day, prosecutors proceeded with cases against the wishes of victims, resulting in the mass incarceration of young black men. Could this have been the …
Biomedical Ethics And The Law: A Critical Perspective, Keith N. Hylton
Biomedical Ethics And The Law: A Critical Perspective, Keith N. Hylton
Faculty Scholarship
Health law, a fast growing field of scholarship, appears to consist largely of two schools. One focuses on health care antitrust, taking as its fundamental premise the notion that health care markets should be distinguished from and treated differently than other markets. This premise underlying health care antitrust is based on a few recurring features of health care markets, such as informational asymmetry, that are taken as sufficient bases for treating them differently.1 The other school of health law is biomedical ethics, which has taken on increasing importance in view of the many tradeoffs that arise when health care …