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Panel On Intersections Of Gender, Economic, Racial, And Indigenous (In) Justice (Transcript), Margaret Johnson, James Ptacek (Moderator), Nicole Matthews, Hillary Potter

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Plenary 3—Harms Of Criminalization And Promising Alternatives (Transcript), Mimi Kim, Donna Coker, Sujatha Baliga, Alisa Bierria

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Panel On Alternatives To The Crime-Centered Approach To Gender Violence (Transcript), C. Quince Hopkins, Staci Haines, Tiloma Jayasinghe, Andrew Sta. Ana

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Panel On The Possibilities And Limits Of Criminal Justice Reform (Transcript), Michelle Kaminsky, Leigh Goodmark, Connie Burk, Sandra S. Park

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Panel On The Violence Of The Legal System (Transcript), Joan Meier, James Ptacek (Moderator), Angela Diaz-Vidaillet, Alesha Durfee, Wayne Thomas

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Plenary 4—Mobilization (Transcript), Caroline Bettinger-López, Quanita Toffee (Moderator), Terra Slavin, Nan Stoops, Cindy Wiesner

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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“Usually It’S Something In The Writing”: Reconsidering The Narrative Requirement For Protection Order Petitions, Alesha Durfee

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Panel On Organizing Campaigns (Transcript), Cathy Albisa, Kelly Miller (Moderator), Ted Bunch, Jodeen Olguín-Tayler, Lumarie Orozco

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Advancing A Human Rights Framework To Reimagine The Movement To End Gender Violence, Rosie Hidalgo

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Panel On Campus And Youth Respond To Gender Violence (Transcript), Mary Anne Franks, Laura Dunn, Rebecca Wyss, Jessica Williams

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Convergeing Around The Study Of Gender Violence: The Gender Violence Clinic At The University Of Maryland Carey School Of Law, Leigh Goodmark

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Rethinking A New Domestic Violence Pedagogy, Deborah M. Weissman

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Beyond Disparate Impact: How The Fair Housing Movement Can Move On, Rigel C. Oliveri

Faculty Publications

Disparate impact theory is a vital tool for fair housing advocates. It allows them to challenge institutional behaviors that harm minority groups and municipal practices that perpetuate long-standing segregated patterns, without having to go through the difficult process of identifying a specific bad actor with explicitly discriminatory motives. Disparate impact theory has been a failure for fair housing advocates. It is overly complicated, infrequently used, and seldom leads to plaintiff success. Moreover, the availability of this theory has led to the underdevelopment of the law surrounding intentional discrimination, which has ultimately made all cases with circumstantial evidence more difficult to …

A Look At Civil Gideon: Is There A Constitutional Right To Counsel In Certain Civil Cases?, Jess H. Dickinson

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Why The State Cannot “Abolish Marriage”: A Partial Defense Of Legal Marriage, Gregg P. Strauss

Indiana Law Journal

Does a liberal state have a legitimate interest in defining the terms of intimate relationships? Recently, several scholars have answered this question with a no and concluded that the state should abolish marriage, along with all other categories of intimate status. While politically infeasible, these proposals offer a powerful thought experiment. In this Article, I use this thought experiment to argue that the law cannot avoid relying on intimate-status norms and has legitimate reasons to retain an intimate status like marriage.

The argument has three parts. The primary lesson of the thought experiment is that the state cannot abolish intimate …

Employment Discrimination, Peter Reed Corbin, John E. Duvall

Mercer Law Review

Perhaps the most significant cases during the 2014 survey period were those that were not handed down by United States Supreme Court, rather than the cases that were decided. Easily the most talked about case during the survey period was the case pending before the Supreme Court, Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc., in which the Court will decide whether the Pregnancy Discrimination Act requires employers to offer work place accommodations to pregnant employees in order to remain on the job. Another high profile case is Mach Mining, LLC v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in which the Supreme Court will …

Panel On Immigrant Rights, Women, And Gender Violence: Structural Violence And Organizing Strategies (Transcript), María Rodriguez, Donna Coker, Lis-Marie Alvarado, Beatrice Bianchi Fasani, Ramandeep Kaur Mahal, Rebecca Sharpless

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Reflections And Analysis (Transcript), Lavon Morris-Grant, Eesha Pandit, Rosana Araujo, Reina Fernández, Reyna Gómez

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Building Towards Transformative Justice At Sakhi For South Asian Women, Soniya Munshi, Bhavana Nancherla, Tiloma Jayasinghe

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Equal Protection For Survivors Of Gender-Based Violence: From Criminalization To Law Enforcement Accountability, Sandra S. Park

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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On The Same Bodies: Exploring The Shared Historical Legacy Of Violence Against Women And Reproductive Injustice, Eesha Pandit

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Panel On Beyond The Rape Exception: Using Law And Movement Building To Ensure Reproductive Health And Justice To All Gender Violence Survivors (Transcript), Sara Ainsworth, Jamie Vanaria (Moderator), Jessica Gonzáles-Rojas, Lillian Hewko, Angela Hooton

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Interview—Caroline Bettinger-Lopez And Marleine Bastien On The Fight To Stop Gender Violence: From Haiti To Miami, Caroline Bettinger-López, Marleine Bastien

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Why Opposing Hyper-Incarceration Should Be Central To The Work Of The Anti-Domestic Violence Movement, Donna Coker, Ahjané D. Macquoid

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Panel On New Possibilities For Reframing Work To End Gender Based Violence (Transcript), Marcia Olivo, Monique Hoeflinger (Moderator), Neil Irwin, Jackie Payne

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Panel On Social Justice Pedagogy And Academy/Community Collaboration (Transcript), Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda, Etiony Aldarondo, Ivon Mesa, Natalia Villegas, Deborah M. Wiessman

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

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Dangerous Diagnoses, Risky Assumptions, And The Failed Experiment Of "Sexually Violent Predator" Commitment, Deirdre M. Smith

Faculty Publications

In its 1997 opinion, Kansas v. Hendricks, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law that reflected a new model of civil commitment. The targets of this new commitment law were dubbed “Sexually Violent Predators” (SVPs), and the Court upheld indefinite detention of these individuals on the assumption that there is a psychiatrically distinct class of individuals who, unlike typical recidivists, have a mental condition that impairs their ability to refrain from violent sexual behavior. And, more specifically, the Court assumed that the justice system could reliably identify the true “predators,” those for whom this unusual and extraordinary deprivation of liberty …

Those Awful Tahrir Rapes, Lama Abu-Odeh

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This essay highlights the myriad ways in which street sexual harassment of women in Egypt, of which I argue the mass rapes of Tahrir are an egregious instance thereof, disciplines women's bodies. It describes briefly and dismisses the frameworks for understanding those practices proposed by the left, the right and the government. I also describe the role that law, in conjunction with its lax enforcement, plays in intensifying this regulation.

The essay uses purposefully the fighting radical feminist pronoun "we" to describe the predicament. I "am" an Egyptian women. I consider myself an ally in their attempt to understand, resist …

Civil Disabilities In An Era Of Diminishing Privacy: A Disability Approach For The Use Of Criminal Records In Hiring, Andrew Elmore

Faculty Scholarship

An evaluation of normative and legal frameworks to encourage the employment of people with criminal convictions is in order. While current approaches are likely to eliminate overbroad initial hiring screens, there remains the unfinished project of reintegrating persons with criminal convictions into the workforce. For this, policy tools are needed to discourage the misuse of irrelevant criminal convictions and to encourage a contextualized evaluation of criminal convictions and the fair consideration of applicants’ qualifications separate from them.

This Article proposes a disability normative and legal framework as a useful approach to guide this analysis. Disability laws first consider the privacy …

Southern Free Women Of Color In The Antebellum North: Race, Class, And A "New Women's Legal History", Bernie D. Jones

Akron Law Review

This article develops Welke’s theme and proposes that in the field of legal history, the analyses can not be limited to “race, gender, or class,” but that matrices of race, gender, and class must be considered at their intersections, “race, and gender, and class,” where they might shed light on the significance of shifting legal modalities. It explores how race, gender, and class as legal policy in the 19th century could be crucial for the formation of family and marital relationships in the private sphere. The focus here is upon free women of color living in the antebellum North who …