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The Modern Day Scarlet Letter, Ifeoma Ajunwa
The Modern Day Scarlet Letter, Ifeoma Ajunwa
Fordham Law Review
American society has come to presuppose the efficacy of the collateral legal consequences of criminal conviction. But little attention has been paid to their effects on the reintegration efforts of the formerly incarcerated and, in particular, formerly incarcerated women. An 1848 case, Sutton v. McIlhany, affirmed collateral legal consequences as constituting an important part of criminal punishment. More recent cases, such as Turner v. Glickman, in which a class of people convicted of drug crimes were subsequently denied food stamps and other government benefits, have upheld the constitutionality of imposing these legal penalties on an individual even after …
To Judge Or Not To Judge: A Comparative Analysis Of Islamic Jurisprudential Approaches To Female Judges In The Muslim World (Indonesia, Egypt And Iran), Engy Abdelkader
To Judge Or Not To Judge: A Comparative Analysis Of Islamic Jurisprudential Approaches To Female Judges In The Muslim World (Indonesia, Egypt And Iran), Engy Abdelkader
Fordham International Law Journal
No abstract provided.
The Changing Professional Landscape Of Large Law Firms, Glass Ceilings And Dead Ends: Professional Ideologies, Gender Stereotypes, And The Future Of Women Lawyers At Large Law Firms, Eli Wald
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Role Of International Bodies In Influencing U.S. Policy To End Violence Against Women, Lenora M. Lapidus
The Role Of International Bodies In Influencing U.S. Policy To End Violence Against Women, Lenora M. Lapidus
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Women's Place: Urban Planning, Housing Design, And Work-Family Balance, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Women's Place: Urban Planning, Housing Design, And Work-Family Balance, Katharine B. Silbaugh
Fordham Law Review
In the past decade a substantial literature has emerged analyzing the role of work-family conflict in hampering women's economic, social, and civil equality. Many of the issues we routinely discuss as work-family balance problems have distinct spatial dimensions. “Place” is by no means the main factor in work-family balance difficulties, but amongst work-family policy makers it is perhaps the least appreciated. This Article examines the role of urban planning and housing design in frustrating the effective balance of work and family responsibilities. Nothing in the literature on work-family balance reform addresses this aspect of the problem. That literature focuses instead …
Women As Perpetrators: Does Motherhood Have A Reformative Effect On Prostitution? , Lynne Marie Kohm
Women As Perpetrators: Does Motherhood Have A Reformative Effect On Prostitution? , Lynne Marie Kohm
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article explores whether motherhood may have any restorative effect on prostitution. Section I provides an overview of the crime of prostitution. It analyzes the underlying themes of autonomy, power, authority, and control, and considers whether prostitution is an example of the ultimate loss of these qualities, or an exercise of complete freedom and liberty in autonomy. Section II discusses how motherhood affects the life of a prostitute. It analyzes current social science research and studies and explores maternal responsibilities in terms of potential work interruption, new personal roles, and anxieties associated with the work/family/crime triad. It also considers the …
Sex Before Violence: Girls, Dating Violence, And (Perceived) Sexual Autonomy, Cheryl Hanna
Sex Before Violence: Girls, Dating Violence, And (Perceived) Sexual Autonomy, Cheryl Hanna
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article explores the phenomenon of girl violence by examining teen dating violence and girls' experiences with intimate abuse both as victims and as perpetrators. While there is a tendency to view women's experiences as victims of violence as separate and distinct from their experiences as victims of violence, the two phenomena are interrelated. A girl's violent victimization can lead her to victimize someone else, just as her own violence can lead her to violent victimization. These conversations about young women and sexual behavior are especially important for lawyers and advocates. While the implementation of legal strategies such as civil …
Sexual Abuse Of Women In United States Prisons: A Modern Corollary Of Slavery, Brenda V. Smith
Sexual Abuse Of Women In United States Prisons: A Modern Corollary Of Slavery, Brenda V. Smith
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This paper addresses the sexual abuse of women in custody as a more contemporary manifestation of slavery. Part II situates the sexual abuse of women in custody and women slaves in their historical context. Part II also charts the creation of the first penitentiaries in the United States and the "Reform Movement," led by Quaker women who were also involved in the abolition movement, and later in the suffrage movement. It further examines the impact that women's entry into male prisons as workers in the 1970s and 1980s - pursuant to Title VII - had on the sexual abuse of …
Mother Of Atrocities: Pauline Nyiramasuhuko's Role In The Rwandan Genocide, Carrie Sperling
Mother Of Atrocities: Pauline Nyiramasuhuko's Role In The Rwandan Genocide, Carrie Sperling
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article describes Pauline Nyiramasuhuko's role in the Rwandan genocide and her case before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). It explores a woman's ability to be equally involved in atrocities by exploring Pauline's case. Her case challenges the myth than women, by their nature, are incapable of being warriors, and that somehow their roles as women and mothers prohibit them from planning or participating in depraved violence.
Revisiting Anna Moscowitz's Kross's Critique Of New York City's Women's Court: The Continued Problem Of Solving The "Problem" Of Prostitution With Specialized Criminal Courts, Mae C. Quinn
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article explores New York City's non-traditional, judicially based response to prostitution. This article first recounts the history of New York City’s Women’s Court. It then examines the work of the Midtown Community Court, the “problem-solving court” established in 1993 to address criminal issues, like prostitution, in Midtown Manhattan. It also discusses the renewed concerns about sex work in New York and describe the movement, propelled by modern reformers, to address prostitution through specialty courts. It then contrasts the shared features and attributes of the Women’s Court and Midtown Court models. Finally, the article urges modern reformers to step back …
No Penis, No Problem, Kay L. Levine
No Penis, No Problem, Kay L. Levine
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Over the past century and a half, the gendered essence of statutory rape has become deeply embedded in the purpose of the statute, extending its tentacles far beyond the statutory language, such that we can no longer extricate the male-on-female image from the formal law's requirements for prosecution. The reality of statutory rape is, however, far more complex than the traditional gender construct implies. Female sex abusers and male victims exist, in substantial numbers and varieties. Part I documents the statutory rape law's gendered essence, explaining the formal law's traditional gendered classification scheme, the Supreme Court's approval of that approach, …
Lessons Unlearned: Women Offenders, The Ethics Of Care, And The Promise Of Restorative Justice, Marie A. Failinger
Lessons Unlearned: Women Offenders, The Ethics Of Care, And The Promise Of Restorative Justice, Marie A. Failinger
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article focuses on the reality that women's relationality, and particularly their relationships with men in their lives, profoundly affects the behavior that lands them in the criminal justice system. The author argues that restorative justice, which is essentially grounded on an ethical understanding of crime and treats the offender an as interacting subject/agent, is a necessary avenue of response to most women offenders' crimes, and that corrections must go beyond a psychological approach that treats crimes as a form of illness, or a systematic model which attempts primarily to rectify deficits in women's social situation.
Rare & Inconsistent: The Death Penalty For Women, Victor L. Streib
Rare & Inconsistent: The Death Penalty For Women, Victor L. Streib
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Previous studies of the national landscape around the death penalty for women have identified and analyzed past themes and issues.22 This Article brings the analysis current through 2005, beginning with a reprise of the conversations about gender bias and disparity in the death penalty system. It appears that female offenders have always been treated differently from male offenders in the death penalty system, sometimes for reasons that are easily justifiable but too often simply because of sex bias. The next section of this Article explores the current death penalty era, identifying those women who have been sentenced to death, those …
Intimidation And The Culture Of Avoidance: Gender Issues And Mentoring In Law Firm Practice, Elizabeth K. Mcmanus
Intimidation And The Culture Of Avoidance: Gender Issues And Mentoring In Law Firm Practice, Elizabeth K. Mcmanus
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Essay looks at gender issues in law firm practice. The author tries to dispel the notion that just women are gaining equal access to the legal profession at the ground level does not mean that they are achieving similar entrée to the upper echelons of law firm practice. The author considers the factors that challenge women's progress at law firms. The article also looks at the mentoring issue with law firm work and how that affects this the same issue.
The Glass Sneaker: Thirty Years Of Victories And Defeats Involving Title Ix And Sex Discrimination In Athletics, Diane Heckman
The Glass Sneaker: Thirty Years Of Victories And Defeats Involving Title Ix And Sex Discrimination In Athletics, Diane Heckman
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Why The Model Penal Code's Sexual Offense Provisions Should Be Pulled And Replaced, Deborah W. Denno
Why The Model Penal Code's Sexual Offense Provisions Should Be Pulled And Replaced, Deborah W. Denno
Faculty Scholarship
By all accounts, the Model Penal Code is enormously respected and influential. Yet, relatively soon after the Code's 1962 publication, the Code's sexual offense provisions and even its 1980 revised Commentaries were already considered outdated. The rapid onslaught of the sexual and feminist revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s brought an intense momentum to change rape laws that the Code had, in part, either mirrored or inspired. Only because of the passage of time, the Code's sexual offense provisions and Commentaries now misrepresent the progressive thinking of the Code's reporters. For these reasons, I think the Model Penal Code's sexual …
Balanced Lives For Lawyers, Deborah L. Rhode
Lecture: Canaries In The Mine: Work/Family Conflict And The Law, Joan C. Williams
Lecture: Canaries In The Mine: Work/Family Conflict And The Law, Joan C. Williams
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
When Equal Protection Fails: How The Equal Protection Justification For Abortion Undercuts The Struggle For Equality In The Workplace, Kristina M. Mentone
When Equal Protection Fails: How The Equal Protection Justification For Abortion Undercuts The Struggle For Equality In The Workplace, Kristina M. Mentone
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Mainstream Legal Responses To Domestic Violence Versus Real Needs Of Diverse Communities, Elizabeth Murno, Jessica F. Vasquez
Mainstream Legal Responses To Domestic Violence Versus Real Needs Of Diverse Communities, Elizabeth Murno, Jessica F. Vasquez
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Keynote speaker Marcia Ann Gillespie, editor-in-chief of Ms. Magazine, discussed the importance of getting to the root of what makes violence against women. She stressed the importance of looking at what makes men act violent, taking down barriers of reporting violence, and analyzing other contributing factors. Panelist Aurora Salamone from the New York City Department for the Aging then discussed domestic abuse against elders, stressing that domestic violence in the household does not all the sudden stop at a certain age. Panelist Kimberly A. Madden from from the Jewish Association for Services of the Aged discussed how violence against elders …
Issues In Representing Immigrant Victims
Issues In Representing Immigrant Victims
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Panelist Emira-Habiby Browne, executive director of the Arab American Family Support Center discussed the misunderstood community of Arab women adn the cultural barriers they experience when they come to America and particularly when they become victims of domestic violence. Panelist Margaret Retter, Executive Director of Din Legal Center Inc., discussed the cultural obstacles that stand in the way of Jewish women who are being abused and the obstacles they face in getting out of that situation. Panelist Julie Dinnerstein, staff Immigration Attorney at the Sanctuary for Families, gave a nuts-and-bolts discussion on remedies available to immigrant battered women. She discussed …
Responses To Glass Ceilings And Open Doors: Women's Adavncement In The Legal Profession: Foreword , Association Of The Bar Of The City Of New York, Committee On Women In The Profession
Responses To Glass Ceilings And Open Doors: Women's Adavncement In The Legal Profession: Foreword , Association Of The Bar Of The City Of New York, Committee On Women In The Profession
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Personal Reflections On Glass Ceilings And Open Doors , Bettina B. Plevan
Personal Reflections On Glass Ceilings And Open Doors , Bettina B. Plevan
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Moving Mountains: A Comment On The Glass Ceilings And Open Doors Report , Judith S. Kaye
Moving Mountains: A Comment On The Glass Ceilings And Open Doors Report , Judith S. Kaye
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Response To Glass Ceilings And Open Doors: A Modest Proposal For Change, Deborah L. Rhode
Response To Glass Ceilings And Open Doors: A Modest Proposal For Change, Deborah L. Rhode
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Response To Glass Ceilings And Open Doors: A Modest Proposal For Change, Judith P. Vladeck
Response To Glass Ceilings And Open Doors: A Modest Proposal For Change, Judith P. Vladeck
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Glass Celings And Open Doors: A Response, Mary Jo White
Glass Celings And Open Doors: A Response, Mary Jo White
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
More Glass Ceilings Than Open Doors: Women As Outsiders In The Legal Profession, Eve B. Burton
More Glass Ceilings Than Open Doors: Women As Outsiders In The Legal Profession, Eve B. Burton
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Glass Ceilings And Open Doors: A Reaction, Patricia M. Wald
Glass Ceilings And Open Doors: A Reaction, Patricia M. Wald
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Women In The Federal Judiciary: Three Way Pavers And The Exhilirating Change President Carter Wrought, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Laura W. Brill
Women In The Federal Judiciary: Three Way Pavers And The Exhilirating Change President Carter Wrought, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Laura W. Brill
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.