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Unchaste And Incredible: The Use Of Gendered Conceptions Of Honor In Impeachment, Julia Simon-Kerr Jan 2008

Unchaste And Incredible: The Use Of Gendered Conceptions Of Honor In Impeachment, Julia Simon-Kerr

Faculty Articles and Papers

This paper demonstrates that the American rules for impeaching witnesses developed against a cultural background that equated a woman's honor, and thus her credibility, with her sexual virtue. The idea that a woman's chastity informs her credibility did not originate in rape trials and the confusing interplay between questions of consent and sexual history. Rather, gendered notions of honor so permeated American legal culture that attorneys routinely attempted to impeach female witnesses by invoking their sexual histories in cases involving such diverse claims as title to land, assault, arson, and wrongful death. But while many courts initially accepted the notion …


The Corruption Of Civilizations, Timothy K. Kuhner Jan 2008

The Corruption Of Civilizations, Timothy K. Kuhner

Faculty Publications By Year

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Gender And Nation-Building: Family Law As Legal Architecture Symposium - Nation Building: A Legal Architecture: Articles And Essays, Tracy E. Higgins, Rachel P. Fink Jan 2008

Gender And Nation-Building: Family Law As Legal Architecture Symposium - Nation Building: A Legal Architecture: Articles And Essays, Tracy E. Higgins, Rachel P. Fink

Faculty Scholarship

Although the discipline of family law in the western legal tradition transcends the public/private law boundary in many ways, it is the argument of this Essay that family law, in the private law sense of defining the rights and obligations of members of a family, forms an important part of the legal architecture of nation-building in at least three ways. First, access to the resources of the nation-state devolves through biologically and culturally gendered national boundaries, both reflecting and reinforcing the differential status of men and women in the sphere of the family. Second, the social institution of the family …


Law And Economic Change During The Short Twentieth Century, John Henry Schlegel Jan 2008

Law And Economic Change During The Short Twentieth Century, John Henry Schlegel

Contributions to Books

Published as Chapter 16 in Cambridge History of Law in America, Volume 3: The Twentieth Century and After (1920–), Michael Grossberg & Christopher Tomlins, eds.

The brief recounting of the American economy in the twenties and thirties raises obvious questions about law and economic change. Economic change is the shift from one enacted, in both senses, understanding of economic life to another, in the case of the short twentieth century, from an associationalist economy to an impatient economy. This chapter explicates this economic change, and interrogates it in order to understand the role of law in its occurrence. Despite the …


Independent Protection And Advocacy: Th E Role Of Counsel In Institutional Settings, Karen O. Talley Jan 2008

Independent Protection And Advocacy: Th E Role Of Counsel In Institutional Settings, Karen O. Talley

NYLS Law Review

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Institutional Reform Litigation, Leonard Koerner Jan 2008

Institutional Reform Litigation, Leonard Koerner

NYLS Law Review

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The History Of The New York City Law Department: Fighting For The City By William E. Nelson, Ross Sandler Jan 2008

The History Of The New York City Law Department: Fighting For The City By William E. Nelson, Ross Sandler

NYLS Law Review

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Fighting For The City In Context: William Nelson And The Legal History Of New York, William P. Lapiana Jan 2008

Fighting For The City In Context: William Nelson And The Legal History Of New York, William P. Lapiana

NYLS Law Review

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“Equality, I Spoke Th At Word/As If A Wedding Vow”: Mental Disability Law And How We Treat Marginalized Persons, Michael J. Perlin, John Douard Jan 2008

“Equality, I Spoke Th At Word/As If A Wedding Vow”: Mental Disability Law And How We Treat Marginalized Persons, Michael J. Perlin, John Douard

NYLS Law Review

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Sex Offender As Scapegoat: The Monstrous Other Within, John Douard Jan 2008

Sex Offender As Scapegoat: The Monstrous Other Within, John Douard

NYLS Law Review

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Critical Mass: Restricting Advocates’ Rights Under The Community Reinvestment Act, Ruth S. Uselton Jan 2008

Critical Mass: Restricting Advocates’ Rights Under The Community Reinvestment Act, Ruth S. Uselton

NYLS Law Review

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Sandisk Corp. V. Stmicroelectronics, Inc., Patrick R. Colsher Jan 2008

Sandisk Corp. V. Stmicroelectronics, Inc., Patrick R. Colsher

NYLS Law Review

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Introduction, Ross Sandler Jan 2008

Introduction, Ross Sandler

NYLS Law Review

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Reflections On The New York City Law Department, Edward I. Koch Jan 2008

Reflections On The New York City Law Department, Edward I. Koch

NYLS Law Review

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Lawyers For Government Have Unique Responsibilities And Opportunities To Influence Public Policy, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr. Jan 2008

Lawyers For Government Have Unique Responsibilities And Opportunities To Influence Public Policy, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr.

NYLS Law Review

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Reflections On My Years As Corporation Counsel, Peter L. Zimroth Jan 2008

Reflections On My Years As Corporation Counsel, Peter L. Zimroth

NYLS Law Review

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The New York City Corporation Counsel: The Best Legal Job In America, Michael A. Cardozo Jan 2008

The New York City Corporation Counsel: The Best Legal Job In America, Michael A. Cardozo

NYLS Law Review

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Defending The Historian’S Art: A Response To Paul A. Crotty’S Attack On Fighting For The City, William E. Nelson Jan 2008

Defending The Historian’S Art: A Response To Paul A. Crotty’S Attack On Fighting For The City, William E. Nelson

NYLS Law Review

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In Re Davis, Adam Schlusselberg Jan 2008

In Re Davis, Adam Schlusselberg

NYLS Law Review

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Cohen V. Jpmorgan Chase & Co., Erin M. Byrnes Jan 2008

Cohen V. Jpmorgan Chase & Co., Erin M. Byrnes

NYLS Law Review

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Constitutional Law And Values—Version ’08 (Not Necessarily An Upgrade), Nadine Strossen Jan 2008

Constitutional Law And Values—Version ’08 (Not Necessarily An Upgrade), Nadine Strossen

NYLS Law Review

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The Collateral Protection Of Rights In A Global Economy, Sheldon Leader Jan 2008

The Collateral Protection Of Rights In A Global Economy, Sheldon Leader

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.


“Only A Sith Thinks Like That”: Llewellyn’S “Dueling Canons,” Pairs Thirteen To Sixteen, Michael Sinclair Jan 2008

“Only A Sith Thinks Like That”: Llewellyn’S “Dueling Canons,” Pairs Thirteen To Sixteen, Michael Sinclair

NYLS Law Review

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Brain, Gender, Law: A Cautionary Tale, Carlin Meyer Jan 2008

Brain, Gender, Law: A Cautionary Tale, Carlin Meyer

NYLS Law Review

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How The International Financial Institutions Can Help To Win Globalization Of More Stakeholders - By Making More Stockholders, Robert C. Hockett Jan 2008

How The International Financial Institutions Can Help To Win Globalization Of More Stakeholders - By Making More Stockholders, Robert C. Hockett

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Book Review, Jennifer L. Behrens Jan 2008

Book Review, Jennifer L. Behrens

Faculty Scholarship

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Contemplating The Meaning Of "The Rule Of Law", Rodney A. Smolla Sep 2007

Contemplating The Meaning Of "The Rule Of Law", Rodney A. Smolla

University of Richmond Law Review

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Rescuing Burke, Carl Bogus Jul 2007

Rescuing Burke, Carl Bogus

Law Faculty Scholarship

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On The Very Idea Of Transitional Justice, Jens David Ohlin Apr 2007

On The Very Idea Of Transitional Justice, Jens David Ohlin

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

The phrase "transitional justice" has had an amazingly successful career at an early age. Popularized as an academic concept in the early 1990s in the aftermath of apartheid's collapse in South Africa, the phrase quickly gained traction in a variety of global contexts, including Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Cambodia, and Sierra Leone. A sizeable literature has been generated around it, so much so that one might even call it a sub-discipline with inter-disciplinary qualities. Nonetheless, the concept remains an enigma. It defines the contours of an entire field of intellectual inquiry, yet at the same time it hides more than it illuminates. …


Mandatory Guidelines: The Oxymoronic State Of Sentencing After United States V. Booker, Hon. Graham C. Mullen, J. P. Davis Mar 2007

Mandatory Guidelines: The Oxymoronic State Of Sentencing After United States V. Booker, Hon. Graham C. Mullen, J. P. Davis

University of Richmond Law Review

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