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There Are Worse Things Than Being Alone: Polygamy In Islam, Past, Present, And Future, Heather Johnson

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Lessons From Small Cases: Reflections On Dodson V. Arkansas Activities Association, Polly J. Price

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Long-Term Solutions For Children In The Child Welfare System: Families For Teens, Alexandra Lowe

Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal

The article advocates for the Families for Teens Initiative, which focuses on engaging teenagers in the foster care system to identify and connect with family resources that are often overlooked. The initiative aims to prevent poor outcomes such as homelessness and incarceration by emphasizing the importance of maintaining family connections and providing normal developmental opportunities for teens.

Lucky: The Sequel, Martha Chamallas

Indiana Law Journal

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"Even In Dreams, They Are Coming": Islamic Fundamentalism And The Education Of Women In Afghanistan, Caroline B. Fleming

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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A Policy Of Mediocrity: A Review Of United States Policy Concerning The Women Of Afghanistan, Meghan Hallock

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Introduction To Special Collection: Seminar Papers On Women And Islamic Law, Christie S. Warren

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Federalism's Fallacy: The Early Tradition Of Federal Family Law And The Invention Of States' Rights, Kristin Collins

Faculty Scholarship

By examining the history of the federal government's role in the regulation of the family, this article joins the work of others who in recent years have begun to piece together the history of the federal government's role in crafting domestic relations law and policy.'⁸ Much of this attention has focused on federal involvement in domestic relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with relatively less consideration given to the pre-Civil War period. Though recent contributions to this field have helped to cure this imbalance, ¹⁹ there remains a strong sense, especially among lawyers and judges, that …

The Power Of Law And Women's Presence In The Thaksin Era, Virada Somswasdi

Cornell Law School Berger International Speaker Papers

The term "law" as used here depicts consistency in ideology, intent, presumption and the imposition of definitions on day-to-day human relations, including male-female relations. The power of law is the process of definition, which takes precedence over experiences, and also takes precedence over the meaning that women give to their own lives.

This paper refutes a rigid division of issues within law and adopts a feminist perspective, rather than that of the mainstream structure. Issues identified as significant by the women’s movement are thus emphasized. I do not refer to law as the only tool feminists need to resort to …

Teaching Civil Procedure Stories, Nancy S. Marder

Journal of Legal Education

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Teaching Torts Stories, Leslie Bender

Journal of Legal Education

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Book Review: Madam Secretary, Dru Stevenson

ExpressO

Review of Madeline Albright's Memoirs

Telling Stories, Saving Lives: The Battered Mothers' Testimony Project, Women's Narratives, And Court Reform, Leigh Goodmark

ExpressO

In November 2002, the Wellesley Centers for Women’s Battered Mothers’ Testimony Project released Battered Mothers Speak Out, a report detailing human rights abuses committed against forty battered mothers and their children who had litigated cases in the Massachusetts family court system. Although the report initially generated a great deal of attention, the response from the courts was overwhelmingly negative, and the report prompted no change in the courts. Because the stories of these women resonated with my own experiences representing battered women, I wondered why the report had so little effect on system change. The official response of the courts …

Toward A New Theory Of Notice And Deterrence, Dru Stevenson

Cardozo Law Review

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The W Visa: A Legislative Proposal For Female And Child Refugees Trapped In A Post-9/11 World, Marisa S. Cianciarulo

Working Paper Series

This article addresses an urgent humanitarian crisis affecting unaccompanied or abused refugee children and widowed, divorced, abandoned or abused female heads of refugee households. Such women and children suffer the consequences of the post-9/11 U.S. refugee resettlement backlog more severely than the general refugee population. They are far more at risk of life-threatening harm such as trafficking, sexual exploitation and rape. Moreover, they are far less likely to present a threat to U.S. national security than many people who are able to secure visas to the United States quickly and with fewer background checks. Despite their vulnerability and lack of …

The W Visa: A Legislative Proposal For Female And Child Refugees Trapped In A Post-9/11 World, Marisa S. Cianciarulo

ExpressO

Abstract of The W Visa: A Legislative Proposal for Female and Child Refugees Trapped in a Post-9/11 World Marisa S. Cianciarulo, Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow, Villanova University School of Law This article addresses an urgent humanitarian crisis affecting unaccompanied or abused refugee children and widowed, divorced, abandoned or abused female heads of refugee households. Such women and children suffer the consequences of the post-9/11 U.S. refugee resettlement backlog more severely than the general refugee population. They are far more at risk of life-threatening harm such as trafficking, sexual exploitation and rape. Moreover, they are far less likely to present a …

A Separate Crime Of Reckless Sex, Katharine K. Baker

All Faculty Scholarship

This article attempts to make progress on both the problems of sexually transmitted disease and acquaintance rape by proposing a new crime of reckless sexual conduct. A defendant would be guilty of reckless sexual conduct if, in a first sexual encounter with another particular person, the defendant had sexual intercourse without using a condom. Consent to unprotected intercourse would be an affirmative defense, to be established by the defendant with a preponderance of the evidence. As an empirical matter, first-encounter unprotected sex greatly increases the epidemiological force of sexually transmitted disease and a substantial proportion of acquaintance rape occurs in …

Gender And Emotion In Criminal Law, Katharine K. Baker

All Faculty Scholarship

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Women Lawyers, Their Status, Influence, And Retention In The Legal Profession, Paula A. Patton

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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The Shadow Of Professor Kingsfield: Contemporary Dilemmas Facing Women Law Professors, Martha Chamallas

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Some Dumb Girl Syndrome: Challenging And Subverting Destructive Stereotypes Of Female Attorneys, Ann Bartow

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Foreword To Symposium 2004: Attrition Of Women From The Legal Profession, Brooke D. Rodgers-Miller

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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I Do Know How She Does It (But Sometimes I Wish I Didn't), Rebecca White

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

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Lawrence Summers At The Nber Conference: The Real Deal, Taunya Lovell Banks

Faculty Scholarship

This mini commentary is written in response to a public speech made by Lawrence Summers, then President of Harvard University in 2005 in which he asserted that the under-representation of women in science and engineering may be due in part to biological differences in abilities between women and men. This commentary argues that Summers' remarks constitute a brief against affirmative action for women stated so broadly that it easily encompasses objections to affirmative action for blacks and other non-white Americans. It concludes that our inability or unwillingness to make connections between gender bias and racial privilege helps to maintain a …

Telling Stories, Saving Lives: The Battered Mothers' Testimony Project, Women's Narratives, And Court Reform, Leigh S. Goodmark

Faculty Scholarship

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The Evolving, Yet Still Inadequate, Legal Protections Afforded Battered Immigrant Women, Indira K. Balram

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

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Bankruptcy Reform And The Financial Well-Being Of Women: How Intersectionality Matters In Money Matters, Kristin (Brandser) Kalsem

Faculty Articles and Other Publications

After eight years of heated controversy, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 was signed into law by president Bush on April 20, 2005. Proponents of the Act claimed that it would cure the bankruptcy crisis and that the wealthy would no longer be allowed to abuse the system at the expense of hard-working American families. Opponents cast the legislation as a dream come true for the credit card companies, claiming that it would serve only to enrich the rich at the expense of the poorest of the poor. One of the key issues that emerged from …

Some Dumb Girl Syndrome: Challenging And Subverting Destructive Stereotypes Of Female Attorneys, Ann Bartow

Law Faculty Scholarship

This Essay considers ways in which female attorneys confront sexism and stereotyping in the legal profession and in life, and strongly endorses embracing feminism, and wearing comfortable shoes.

Women In Science: Biological Factors Should Not Be Ignored, Kingsley R. Browne

Law Faculty Research Publications

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Same-Sex Marriage, Slippery Slope Rhetoric, And The Politics Of Disgust: A Critical Perspective On Contemporary Family Discourse And The Incest Taboo, Courtney Megan Cahill

Scholarly Publications

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