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Forty Years Of Disability Policy In Legal Education And The Legal Profession: What Has Changed And What Are The New Issues, Laura Rothstein
Forty Years Of Disability Policy In Legal Education And The Legal Profession: What Has Changed And What Are The New Issues, Laura Rothstein
Laura Rothstein
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Rethinking Employment Discrimination Harms, Jessica Roberts
Rethinking Employment Discrimination Harms, Jessica Roberts
Indiana Law Journal
Establishing harm is essential to many legal claims. This Article urges the law to adopt a more expansive notion of the harms of employment discrimination to better reflect the cognitive functions of individuals who face discrimination. While the effect of implicit bias on the mental state of potential discriminators is well-worn territory in antidiscrimination scholarship, little has been written about a sister theory: stereotype threat. More than a decade’s worth of social psychology research indicates that when a person is conscious of her membership in a particular group and the group is the subject of a widely recognized stereotype, that …
Nexus Redux, Anjum Gupta
Nexus Redux, Anjum Gupta
Indiana Law Journal
Pursuant to its obligations under international law, the U.S. government has agreed to provide protection to individuals who fear persecution in their home countries for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. This protection in the United States takes the form of asylum, and the asylum statute states that the United States will protect individuals from persecution that occurred or will occur “on account of” one of those grounds. The Supreme Court has stated that in order to meet the “on account of” or “nexus” requirement, an asylum applicant must provide some evidence, …
To Read Or Not To Read: Privacy Within Social Networks, The Entitlement Of Employees To A Virtual Private Zone, And The Balloon Theory, Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid
To Read Or Not To Read: Privacy Within Social Networks, The Entitlement Of Employees To A Virtual Private Zone, And The Balloon Theory, Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid
American University Law Review
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Marriage Equality, United States V. Windsor, And The Crisis In Equal Protection Jurisprudence, Susannah W. Pollvogt
Marriage Equality, United States V. Windsor, And The Crisis In Equal Protection Jurisprudence, Susannah W. Pollvogt
Hofstra Law Review
The article discusses equal protection jurisprudence in America in relation to the U.S. Supreme Court's (USSC's) ruling in the 2013 marriage equality case United States v. Windsor. The views of USSC Justice Anthony Kennedy are mentioned, along with an unconstitutional animus legal doctrine and a heightened rational basis standard of review. The U.S. Constitution's Equal Protection Clause is addressed in relation to the nation's discrimination laws.
Forty Years Of Disability Policy In Legal Education And The Legal Profession: What Has Changed And What Are The New Issues, Laura Rothstein
Forty Years Of Disability Policy In Legal Education And The Legal Profession: What Has Changed And What Are The New Issues, Laura Rothstein
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.