Law and Gender Commons^™

Chapter 11: Gay Rights

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Chapter 12: Marriage

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Chapter 13: Medical Issues

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

Alcohol — p. 105

Premenstrual Syndrome — p. 106

Reproductive Technology — p. 107

Substituted Judgment — p. 108

Termination of Care — p. 110

Transplants — p. 111

General — p. 112

Chapter 14: Obscenity, Pornography & Prostitution

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Chapter 15: Parental Rights

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

Child Kidnapping — p. 121

Education — p. 123

Termination of Rights — p. 124

Unwed Fathers — p. 125

General — p. 126

Chapter 16: Rape

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Chapter 17: Surrogacy

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Chapter 18: Tort Actions

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

Fetal Rights — p. 141

Parental Negligence — p. 142

Wrongful Pregnancy — p. 143

Wrongful Birth — p. 143

General — p. 144

Chapter 19: Miscellaneous

Women's Annotated Legal Bibliography

No abstract provided.

Respect For Diversity: The Case Of Feminist Legal Thought, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Respect for diversity was one quality many faculty members considered significant when searching in 1987 for a new dean of the University of Michigan School of Law. Yet other so-called elite law schools and less prestigious institutions recently have evinced little concern for diversity and even indifference toward the idea. Tenure and appointment disputes at several Ivy League schools have sparked heated controversy and call into question their institutional commitments to diversity. Those disputes have involved the legitimacy of work by women in legal theory and feminist legal thought, although considerable contentious activity also seems to reflect a general lack …

Choosing One's Family: Can The Legal System Address The Breadth Of Women's Choices Of Intimate Relationships, Barbara Cox

Faculty Scholarship

In discussing the legal system's response to alternative families seeking an extension of traditional family benefits, this paper is divided into two main sections. The first section summarizes the Madison experience in trying to pass a comprehensive alternative family rights ordinance. It takes an in-depth look at the entire process from the grassroots pressures on the M.E.O.C. which resulted in formation of the task force to the Common Council's enactment of two minor sections of the proposed ordinance. It will analyze the political and legal process used in an effort to obtain significant reform in the definition of family within …

Freedom Of Expression In A Pluralistic Society, James W. Nickel

Articles

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Individual Entitlement To The Financial Benefits Of A Professional Degree: An Empirical Study Of The Attitudes And Expectations Of Married Professional Students And Their Spouses, Rebecca Redosh Eisner, Ruth Zimmerman

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Part I of this Note describes the case law that delineated the factors examined in the study. Those factors are the financial support provided by the supporting spouse, the extent of personal sacrifice made by the supporting spouse, the length of the marriage and corresponding accumulated assets of the marriage at the time of the divorce, and the relative earning capacities of the two parties after the divorce. Part II discusses the design of the study, and specifically how we manipulated these factors in hypothetical vignettes to measure reactions to the factors. Part III presents the results and our conclusions …

Entitled, Michelle Ben-Hur

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

No abstract provided.

Black Women And The Constitution: Finding Our Place, Asserting Our Rights, Judy Scales-Trent

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Watkins V. United States Army And The Employment Rights Of Lesbians And Gay Men, Arthur S. Leonard

Articles & Chapters

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Breaking Women's Silence In Law: The Dilemma Of The Gendered Nature Of Legal Reasoning, Lucinda M. Finley

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Womens' Experience In Legal Education: Silencing And Alienation, Lucinda M. Finley

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

A Break In The Silence: Including Women's Issues In A Torts Course, Lucinda M. Finley

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Charleston Policy: Substance Or Abuse, The , Kimani Paul-Emile

Faculty Scholarship

In 1989, the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) adopted a policy that, according to subjective criteria, singled out for drug testing, certain women who sought prenatal care and childbirth services would be tested for prohibited substances. Women who tested positive were arrested, incarcerated and prosecuted for crimes ranging from misdemeanor substance possession to felony substance distribution to a minor. In this Article, the Author argues that by intentionally targeting indigent Black women for prosecution, the MUSC Policy continued the United States legacy of their systematic oppression and resulted in the criminalizing of Black Motherhood.

Accommodation And Satisfaction: Women And Men Lawyers And The Balance Of Work And Family, David L. Chambers

Articles

This study of graduates of the University of Michigan Law School from the late 1970s reports on the differing ways that women and men have responded to the conflicting claims of work and family. It finds that women with children who have entered the profession have indeed continued to bear the principalr esponsibilitiesf or the care of children, but it alsof inds that these women, with all their burdens, are more satisfied with their careers and with the balance of their family and professional lives than other women and than men.

Imposing The Underwriters' Duty Of Care On Art Auctioneers, Reginald Bullock Jr.

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

More Than A Mouthful: Libel And The Restaurant Review, Amy G. Borress

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Privacy And The Regulation Of The New Reproductive Technologies: A Decision-Making Approach, Antoinette M. Sedillo Lopez

Faculty Scholarship

This article maps out the territory that must be explored in this very complex area and analyzes the implications of governmental regulation of the new reproductive technology. It suggests that the central issue for analysis is the extent to which authority to make decisions concerning reproductive potential should be allocated to individuals rather than to the government. The article describes approaches to allocating decision-making authority with respect to procreative issues. The first is a rights-based approach which emphasizes individual autonomy; this approach will not permit governmental regulation which interferes with personal autonomy in decision making, at least without good reason. …

Demarginalizing The Intersection Of Race And Sex: A Black Feminist Critique Of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory And Antiracist Politics, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

Faculty Scholarship

One of the very few Black women's studies books is entitled All the Women Are White; All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us are Brave. I have chosen this title as a point of departure in my efforts to develop a Black feminist criticism because it sets forth a problematic consequence of the tendency to treat race and gender as mutually exclusive categories of experience and analysis. In this talk, I want to examine how this tendency is perpetuated by a single-axis framework that is dominant in antidiscrimination law and that is also reflected in feminist theory and …

Emerge For The Dark: A Grass Roots Program Teaches The First Step Toward Fighting Violence Toward Women, Stacy Brustin

Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.

Will Roe V. Wade Survive The Rehnquist Court?, Dawn E. Johnsen, Marcy Wilder

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Book Review. Abortion And Divorce In Western Law By Mary Ann Glendon, Lauren K. Robel

Articles by Maurer Faculty

In this book, Professor Mary Ann Glendon contends that the American commitment to individualism and rights has deprived our law of compassion in the areas of abortion and divorce. She argues that while western European countries tell their citizens that their decisions about family are important to the larger society, American law takes extreme and damaging positions that isolate people at times when the community has an interest in their acts. Much of the book is a gentle and persuasive reminder that America lacks any semblance of a national family policy, an omission that looks heartless in comparison to Europe. …

Cessation Of Family Violence: Deterrence And Dissuasion, Jeffrey Fagan

Faculty Scholarship

Family violence research has only recently begun to investigate desistance. Recent developments in the study of behaviors other than family violence, such as the use of addictive substances, suggest that common processes can be identified in the cessation of disparate behaviors involving diverse populations and occurring in different settings. Desistance is the outcome of processes that begin with aversive experiences leading to a decision to stop. Desistance apparently follows legal sanctions in nearly three spouse abuse cases in four, but the duration of cessation is unknown beyond short study periods. Batterers with shorter, less severe histories have a higher probability …

From Driving To Drugs: Governmental Regulation Of Pregnant Women's Lives After Webster, Dawn E. Johnsen

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.