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Still Cloudy, With Little Chance Of Clearing: Fda's Proposed Rule On Structure/Function Claims For Dietary Supplements, Michele Simon

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

The FDA's proposed rule regarding structure/function claims for dietary supplements is intended to give consumers more information about dietary supplements. While "disease claims" are prohibited under the rule, claims that a product affects a structure or function of the body are permissible. However, the distinction between a "disease claim" and a "structure/function claim" ignores the reasons why many consumers turn to dietary supplements. Rather than dispelling confusion surrounding dietary supplements, the proposed rule will only add to it.

The Criminalization Of Medicinal Marijuana, Hastings Women's Law Journal

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

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Knowledge, Identity, And The Politics Of Law, Margaret Davies, Nan Seuffert

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

As indicated by the title, our primary question concerns the relationship of situated knowledges, identity politics and the political dimension of law. The term "situated knowledges" refers broadly to issues raised in feminist epistemology: how do oppressed groups experience the world differently to the dominant perspective, what is the relationship between different knowledge bases and what is the epistemological significance of "the view from below?" "Identity politics" is a term which has been used to describe political coalitions formed primarily around politically-charged identities. It has been used to indicate, for instance, that identification as a "feminist" or as a "lesbian" …

Stalking: Cultural, Clinical, And Legal Considerations, Carol E. Jordan, Karen Quinn, Bradley O. Jordan, Celia R. Daileader

Office for Policy Studies on Violence Against Women Publications

Crimes of violence against women are unique in their treatment by our culture and our system of legal justice. Both culturally and statutorily, victims of crimes which have historically been perpetrated against women, such as rape, domestic violence, and stalking have received significant focus. This article highlights cultural considerations and provides a statutory and case law analysis.

Foreword: Still Unfinished, Ever Unfinished, Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

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Book Annotations, Leah Chan Grinvald

Scholarly Works

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Exploring The Law Of Law Teaching: A Feminist Process, Kathryn M. Stanchi

Scholarly Works

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Women Defenders On Television: Representing Suspects And The Racial Politics Of Retribution, Joan W. Howarth

Scholarly Works

This Essay is about Ellenor Frutt, Annie Dornell, Joyce Davenport, and other women criminal defense attorneys of prime time television. It examines how high-stakes network television presents sympathetic stories about women working as criminal defense attorneys while simultaneously supporting the popular thirst for the harshest criminal penalties. Real women who choose to represent criminal defendants are fundamentally out of step with angry and unforgiving attitudes toward crime and criminals. Indeed, women defenders have chosen work that puts them in direct opposition to the widespread public willingness to incarcerate record numbers of Americans, often young African-American and Latino men, for longer …

Foreward, Adrienne D. Davis, Joan C. Williams

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Cracking The Foundational Myths: Independence, Autonomy, And Self-Sufficiency, Martha Albertson Fineman

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Cracking Foundations As Feminist Method , Katharine T. Bartlett

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Social Programs And Manageable Units , Saul Levmore

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Subsidized Lives And The Ideology Of Efficiency , Martha T. Mccluskey

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Promoting Family By Promoting Work: The Hole In Martha Fineman's Doughnut , Peter B. Edelman

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Foreward, Adrienne D. Davis, Joan C. Williams

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Cracking Foundations As Feminist Method , Katharine T. Bartlett

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Building On Foundational Myths: Feminism And The Recovery Of "Human Nature": A Response To Martha Fineman , Peter M. Cicchino

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Social Programs And Manageable Units , Saul Levmore

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Playing At Even Strength: Reforming Title Ix Enforcement In Intercollegiate Athletics, Ross A. Jurewitz

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Rethinking Property Rights As Human Rights: Acquiring Equal Property Rights As Human Rights Acquiring Equal Property Rights For Women Using International Human Rights Treaties, Leslie Kurshan

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Consti–Tortion: Tort Law As An End-Run Around Abortion Rights After Planned Parenthood V. Casey, A.J. Stone Iii.

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Grabbing Them By The Balls: Legislatures, Courts, And Team Owners Bar Non-Elite Professional Athletes From Workers' Compensation, Rachael Schaffer

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Models For Safe Child Support Enforcement, Susan Notar, Viki Turetesky

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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A House Of Fools: The Child Custody Protection Act, Christopher M. Law

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Historical Essay: In The Name Of God; An American Story Of Feminism, Racism, And Religious Intolerance: The Story Of Alma Bridwell White, Kristin E. Kandt

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Linking The Visions, Christina B. Whitman

Other Publications

Professor Christina Whitman talks about her teaching and her work.

Why Truth Is Not A Defense In Paternity Actions, 10 Tex. J. Women & L. 69 (2000), Diane S. Kaplan

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

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Social Norms And The Legal Regulation Of Marriage, Elizabeth S. Scott

Faculty Scholarship

Americans have interesting and somewhat puzzling attitudes about the state's role in defining and enforcing family obligations. Most people view lasting marriage as an important part of their life plans and take the commitment of marriage very seriously. Yet any legal initiative designed to reinforce that commitment generates controversy and is viewed with suspicion in many quarters. For example, covenant marriage statutes, which offer couples entering marriage the option of undertaking a modest marital commitment, are seen by many observers as coercive and regressive measures rather than ameliorating reforms.

The law tends to reflect – and perhaps contributes to – …

Civilizing The Natives: Marriage In Post-Apartheid South Africa, David L. Chambers

Articles

South Africa is a land of many cultures. For several hundred years, British and Afrikaaner whites controlled the country, systematically manipulating black people to the whites' advantage. For the most part, however, whites tolerated the continuation within black communities of traditional marriage practices that white Christians considered uncivilized. In 1994, South Africa changed governments. A black majority Parliament came to power, adopting a consitution dedicated to equality and human dignity. Four years later, Parliament adopted a new marriage law that, though permitting some of the external trappings of the traditional marriage system to continue, eliminated by law much of the …

Personal Harms And Political Inequities, Suzanne B. Goldberg

Faculty Scholarship

When we think back to where the legal battle for gender equality and the rights of gay people stood a century ago, we see that, in fact, there was not much of a battle. Indeed, advocates for change were seldom triumphant. A survey in 1900 would have shown that American women were twenty years away from obtaining the right to vote, were unfit to be lawyers according to the U.S. Supreme Court, and were nowhere near being eligible-let alone required-to serve on juries. The survey would also have revealed a wide-ranging web of federal and state laws and policies that …