Crimes Without Punishment: Violence Against Women In Guatemala,
2010
UC Hastings College of the Law
Crimes Without Punishment: Violence Against Women In Guatemala, Karen Musalo, Elisabeth Pellegrin, S. Shawn Roberts
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Scientific Understandings Of Postpartum Illness: Improving Health Law And Policy?,
2010
University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law
Scientific Understandings Of Postpartum Illness: Improving Health Law And Policy?, Stacey A. Tovino
Scholarly Works
In its broadest sense, the Article examines the relationship between science and the law in the context of postpartum illness. From classical antiquity to the present day, physicians and scientists have investigated the causes, correlates, and consequences of the depressions and psychoses that develop in some women following their transition to motherhood. The scientific investigation of postpartum illness has been characterized by an open-ended search for knowledge with the recgonition that scientific findings published one day are subject to revision the next. Legislators and judges also have sought to understand postpartum illness as necessary to make laws that affect and …
Courts And Temperance “Ladies”,
2010
New York Law School
Courts And Temperance “Ladies”, Richard H. Chused
Articles & Chapters
In 1873 and 1874, parts of southern Ohio were gripped by a remarkable string of marches, religious gatherings, and sit-ins by conservative, Christian, white women intent on shutting down the distribution of alcohol in their communities. A fascinating series of issues relating to the use of legal institutions to control these demonstrative women arose during these "temperance crusades." Many women in Hillsboro opposed using available legal avenues to suppress the liquor trade, preferring strategies based on moral suasion. But, as with other major controversies in our history, aspects of the temperance crusade ended up in court despite the desires of …
