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Incarceration As Sexualized Violence, Leigh S. Goodmark Jan 2026

Incarceration As Sexualized Violence, Leigh S. Goodmark

Faculty Scholarship

Sexual violence—rape, sexual assault, strip and body cavity searches, surveillance, and reproductive abuse—is a regular occurrence in women’s prisons. Some of that violence is clearly illegal; some occupies a legally gray middle ground; and some is considered essential to the operation of the prison system. All of it, however, could violate the law if the victims were not incarcerated. Sexual violence is so pervasive within women’s prisons that incarceration can only be understood as a form of sexualized violence. Given the certainty that people incarcerated in women’s prisons will experience some form of sexual abuse, continued incarceration can only be …


Pushing Boundaries, Paula A. Monopoli Jan 2025

Pushing Boundaries, Paula A. Monopoli

Faculty Scholarship

This essay was originally published in Balkinization as part of an online symposium and it is reprinted with permission. The essay engages with Julie Suk's book, After Misogyny: How the Law Fails Women and What to Do About It. It suggests that feminist legal scholars have been considering their intellectual options in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In After Misogyny, Professor Suk offers a conceptual path forward in a post-Dobbs world. Suk’s trenchant analysis of the failure of law to render substantive gender equality and her …


Teaching Critical Use Of Legal Research Technology, Jennifer E. Chapman Jan 2024

Teaching Critical Use Of Legal Research Technology, Jennifer E. Chapman

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Nineteenth Amendment And Dobbs, Paula A. Monopoli Jan 2024

The Nineteenth Amendment And Dobbs, Paula A. Monopoli

Faculty Scholarship

There was a surge in legal scholarship around the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution—the Woman Suffrage Amendment—leading up to its centennial in August 2020. But this scholarly interest around the Nineteenth peaked two years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June 2022. This paper revisits the Nineteenth Amendment in light of the Court’s decision in Dobbs. It argues that the Nineteenth should be understood as a ban on sex discrimination that extends beyond the right to vote. The Amendment expands the scope of women’s citizenship as a matter of …


Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2023 Oct 2023

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall 2023

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Remembering The Origins Of Modern Legal Education, Paula A. Monopoli Jan 2023

Remembering The Origins Of Modern Legal Education, Paula A. Monopoli

Faculty Scholarship

American legal education came under tremendous pressure in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. That crisis precipitated a decline in law school applications and a concomitant decrease in the size of American law school enrollments during the 2011–2012 academic year. Commentators offered a myriad of proposals for reforming legal education during that period. Yet many of those proposals failed to gain traction, and a decade later legal education looks much the same, albeit with smaller enrollments. One of those proposals was to shorten the three-year course of study. In this Article, I revisit the origins of that long-standing feature …


Situating Dobbs, Paula A. Monopoli Jan 2023

Situating Dobbs, Paula A. Monopoli

Faculty Scholarship

The recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health has been characterized as an outlier because its effect is to erase a previously recognized constitutional right. This paper situates Dobbs in a broader feminist constitutional history. It asks if this retrenchment is really such a unique turn in American jurisprudence when it comes to protections or “rights” that matter most to women’s lived experience. The paper argues that if one opens the aperture of constitutional history to embrace a more capacious view of rights, those afforded to women have often been eroded or erased by state legislatures, Congress, and courts. …


Mental Health Care And Intimate Partner Violence: Unasked Questions, Delaney E. Anderson, Richard C. Boldt Jan 2022

Mental Health Care And Intimate Partner Violence: Unasked Questions, Delaney E. Anderson, Richard C. Boldt

Faculty Scholarship

There is significant overlap between the group of people who experience trauma, including domestic or intimate partner violence, and those who are hospitalized for severe mental illness. In recent years there has been a growing awareness in the mental health treatment community of the prevalence of trauma among individuals with behavioral health problems. Despite the strong evidence of elevated rates of exposure to domestic or intimate partner violence among individuals experiencing mental illness (including depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder), mental health professionals often do not effectively address this co-occurring factor in assessing and treating their clients or patients. The …


Feminist Legal History And Legal Pedagogy, Paula A. Monopoli Jan 2022

Feminist Legal History And Legal Pedagogy, Paula A. Monopoli

Faculty Scholarship

Women are mere trace elements in the traditional law school curriculum. They exist only on the margins of the canonical cases. Built on masculine norms, traditional modes of legal pedagogy involve appellate cases that overwhelmingly involve men as judges and advocates. The resulting silence signals that women are not makers of law—especially constitutional law. Teaching students critical modes of analysis like feminist legal theory and critical race feminism matters. But unmoored from feminist legal history, such critical theory is incomplete and far less persuasive. This Essay focuses on feminist legal history as foundational if students are to understand the implications …


Gender, Voting Rights, And The Nineteenth Amendment, Paula A. Monopoli Jan 2022

Gender, Voting Rights, And The Nineteenth Amendment, Paula A. Monopoli

Faculty Scholarship

One hundred years after the woman suffrage amendment became part of the United States Constitution, a federal court has held—for the first time—that a plaintiff must establish intentional discrimination to prevail on a direct constitutional claim under the Nineteenth Amendment. In adopting that threshold standard, the court simply reasoned by strict textual analogy to the Fifteenth Amendment and asserted that “there is no reason to read the Nineteenth Amendment differently from the Fifteenth Amendment.” This paper’s thesis is that, to the contrary, the Nineteenth Amendment is deserving of judicial analysis independent of the Fifteenth Amendment because it has a distinct …


Perspective: Women, Democracy, And The Pandemic, Paula Monopoli Jan 2021

Perspective: Women, Democracy, And The Pandemic, Paula Monopoli

Maryland Carey Law

No abstract provided.


Contract's Influence On Feminism And Vice Versa, Martha M. Ertman Jan 2021

Contract's Influence On Feminism And Vice Versa, Martha M. Ertman

Faculty Scholarship

Feminist legal theory has both embraced and rejected contract. While contract-based conceptual and doctrinal tools have improved women’s economic and social status, feminists also critique contract-based reforms for colluding with hierarchies of gender, race and class. This chapter charts influential work on both sides of the contract debate and identifies a third approach that sees contract as a mechanism for law to move away from a hierarchal regime by stopping at a contractual way station en route to a more equal system of public ordering. It concludes by identifying ways that feminist legal theorists have injected feminist insights into traditional …


Little Sisters Of The Poor V. Pennsylvania: The Not So Little Effect Of Interfering With The Aca's Contraceptive Mandate, Sabrina Rubis Jan 2021

Little Sisters Of The Poor V. Pennsylvania: The Not So Little Effect Of Interfering With The Aca's Contraceptive Mandate, Sabrina Rubis

Women, Leadership & Equality

No abstract provided.


Coercive Interventions In Pregnancy: Law And Ethics, Debra Debruin, Mary Faith Marshall Jan 2021

Coercive Interventions In Pregnancy: Law And Ethics, Debra Debruin, Mary Faith Marshall

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

No abstract provided.


“Trapped” In A Public Health Emergency: How Abortion Restrictions During The Covid-19 Pandemic Mirror Earlier Attacks On The Abortion Right And How Judicial Review Failed To Protect It, Nancy L. Dordal Jan 2021

“Trapped” In A Public Health Emergency: How Abortion Restrictions During The Covid-19 Pandemic Mirror Earlier Attacks On The Abortion Right And How Judicial Review Failed To Protect It, Nancy L. Dordal

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Artificial Intelligence & Algorithmic Bias: The Issues With Technology Reflecting History & Humans, Maya C. Jackson Jan 2021

Artificial Intelligence & Algorithmic Bias: The Issues With Technology Reflecting History & Humans, Maya C. Jackson

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.


Ending The War Against Sex Work: Why It's Time To Decriminalize Prostitution, Linda S. Anderson Jan 2021

Ending The War Against Sex Work: Why It's Time To Decriminalize Prostitution, Linda S. Anderson

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Impact Statements: Giving A Voice To Sexual Assault Survivors, Anamika Roy Jun 2020

Impact Statements: Giving A Voice To Sexual Assault Survivors, Anamika Roy

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


The Individual Right Against Binary Identify, Colin Pochie Jun 2020

The Individual Right Against Binary Identify, Colin Pochie

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Less Talk, More Action: How Law Schools Can Counteract Racial Bias Of Lsat Scores In The Admissions Process, Latasha Hill Jun 2020

Less Talk, More Action: How Law Schools Can Counteract Racial Bias Of Lsat Scores In The Admissions Process, Latasha Hill

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Program For Advancing Equal Access To Justice By Challenging Gender Bias In The Legal Profession: What’S Next?, Women's Bar Association Of Maryland, University Of Maryland Carey School Of Law’S Moser Ethics In Action Initiative, University Of Maryland Carey School Of Law’S Women Leadership And Equality Program Mar 2020

Program For Advancing Equal Access To Justice By Challenging Gender Bias In The Legal Profession: What’S Next?, Women's Bar Association Of Maryland, University Of Maryland Carey School Of Law’S Moser Ethics In Action Initiative, University Of Maryland Carey School Of Law’S Women Leadership And Equality Program

2020: Challenging Gender Bias in the Legal Profession

No abstract provided.


Education Is The Most Appropriate Response To The Phenomenon Of Voluntary Teen Sexting, The Erin Levitas Initative For Sexual Assault Prevention Jan 2020

Education Is The Most Appropriate Response To The Phenomenon Of Voluntary Teen Sexting, The Erin Levitas Initative For Sexual Assault Prevention

C-DRUM Publications

No abstract provided.


Thirty Years Later: Recalling The Gender Bias Report And Asking "What's Next" In The Legal Profession, Pamela J. White Jan 2020

Thirty Years Later: Recalling The Gender Bias Report And Asking "What's Next" In The Legal Profession, Pamela J. White

2020: Challenging Gender Bias in the Legal Profession

No abstract provided.


Lessons For Advocacy From The Life And Legacy Of The Reverened Doctor Pauli Murray, Florence Wagman Roisman Jan 2020

Lessons For Advocacy From The Life And Legacy Of The Reverened Doctor Pauli Murray, Florence Wagman Roisman

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Women, Democracy, And The Nineteenth Amendment, Paula A. Monopoli Jan 2020

Women, Democracy, And The Nineteenth Amendment, Paula A. Monopoli

Faculty Scholarship

This paper explores the status of women’s participation in our democracy, in response to both the commemoration of the Nineteenth Amendment’s centennial and the deep misogyny aimed at women holding formal political power during the current pandemic. The paper explores the connection between constitutional design and the level of women's participation in democratic governance. It suggests that the robust participation of women in our democracy is not only morally right, but that such parity is central to both the legitimacy of the state and its continued existence. The paper begins by describing the state of women’s participation in formal and …


Thirty Years Later: Recalling The Gender Bias Report And Asking What's Next In The Legal Profession, Pamela J. White Jan 2020

Thirty Years Later: Recalling The Gender Bias Report And Asking What's Next In The Legal Profession, Pamela J. White

Maryland Law Review Online

No abstract provided.


Ectogenesis: Is There A Constitutional Right To Substrate-Independent Wombs?, Brit Janeway Benjamin Jan 2020

Ectogenesis: Is There A Constitutional Right To Substrate-Independent Wombs?, Brit Janeway Benjamin

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

No abstract provided.


Sex, Lies, And Videotape: Deep Fakes And Free Speech Delusions, Mary Anne Franks, Ari Ezra Waldman Aug 2019

Sex, Lies, And Videotape: Deep Fakes And Free Speech Delusions, Mary Anne Franks, Ari Ezra Waldman

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


Abortion-Related Disclosures And How The Maryland General Assembly Can Institute A Novel And Innovative Pregnancy Disclosure, Mary L. Scott Jul 2019

Abortion-Related Disclosures And How The Maryland General Assembly Can Institute A Novel And Innovative Pregnancy Disclosure, Mary L. Scott

Maryland Law Review Online

No abstract provided.


The First And The Only, Michele Wojciechowski Jan 2019

The First And The Only, Michele Wojciechowski

Maryland Carey Law

No abstract provided.