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Category Archives: Feminism and Law
Judge Orders Woman To Pay Alimony, Legal Fees, To Ex-Spouse Convicting Of Attacking Her
A San Diego judge has told an ex-wife to pay her ex-husband’s legal fees and be ready to pay him alimony should he make the request once he leaves prison. Judge Geoffrey Pollack noted that he had discretion in the … Continue reading
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Univ. of Michigan to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Title IX
From the FLP mailbox, this notice of an upcoming conference at the University of Michigan, May 9-11, 2012: The new University of Michigan Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy (SHARP) Center for Women and Girls! is hosting a national … Continue reading
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On female privilege
(Cross-posted at Concurring Opinions) You mention male privilege in a blog post, and it’s inevitable: Someone else (usually male) will start asking about female privilege. If men have privilege, don’t women have privilege too? And does that undercut the idea … Continue reading
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Goodmark on “Legal System Fails Abused Women”
An op-ed by Leigh Goodmark (Baltimore) appears in today’s Baltimore Sun. Here is an excerpt: After learning that Topeka, Kan., District Attorney Chad Taylor planned to stop prosecuting misdemeanor domestic violence cases in response to county budget cuts, the Topeka … Continue reading
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Reid on “Sex, Drugs, and American Jurisprudence”
Susan Reid (J.D. Columbia, 2011) has posted to SSRN her working paper “Sex, Drugs, and American Jurisprudence: The Medicalization of Pleasure.” Here is the abstract: This paper explores the role of medical arguments in cases where courts have overturned statutes … Continue reading
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Birckhead on “Delinquent by Reason of Indigency”
Tamar Birckhead (UNC) has posted to SSRN a draft her essay Delinquent by Reason of Indigency, 38 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y __ (forthcoming 2012). Here is the abstract: This Essay, written for the 12th Annual Access to Equal … Continue reading
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Federal Judge Sam Sparks and the 2011 Texas Abortion Act
Judge Sam Sparks did not have very kind words for the attorneys on either side of the challenge to the 2011 abortion Act in his opinion in Texas Medical Providers Performing Abortion Services v. Lakey. He was also not impressed … Continue reading
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Feminist Law Prof Carrie Bettinger-Lopez and Miami Human Rights Clinic Win Big Women’s Rights Case Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
From Froomkinland: U. Miami lawyers from our new Human Rights Clinic won a major moral victory for their client Jessica Lenahan (formerly formerly Jessica Gonzales) in a decision announcedtoday July 21, 2011 by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Jessica Lenahan (Gonzales) v. United … Continue reading
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Invitation and Call for Papers: Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network, January 2012
The Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network is a newly-constituted group that seeks to bring together scholars across a range of fields who are interested in feminist legal theory. At our inaugural get-together at the Law and Society Association meeting … Continue reading
Financial and Other Support Requested for Documentary Film Advocating Justice for Sex Trafficking Victims and Survivors
Professor Kate Nace Day (Suffolk) was one of the organizers of the “Human Rights and Sex Trafficking” Film Forum, held last December in Cambridge, Massachusetts (previously blogged here and here). A collaborative team — including Professor Day, practicing lawyers, law students, … Continue reading
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Spindelman on “Sexual Freedom’s Shadows”
Marc Spindelman (Ohio State) has published his essay Sexual Freedom’s Shadows, 23 Yale J.L. & Feminism 179 (2011). It is both review of a book by Tim Dean called Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (UChicago Press, 2009), … Continue reading
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Mészáros on “Young People Raping and Taping”
József Mészáros has posted to SSRN a working draft of his paper The New Pornographers: Neuroscience Justifies a Robust Regulatory Response to Young People Raping and Taping. Here is the abstract: An increase in the occurrence of young men participating … Continue reading
Drawing Attention to Date Rape Drug Cases
In a column in today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. -Tony Infanti
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Ouellete’s “Bioethics and Disability: Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics”
Alicia Ouellete (Albany) has published a new book, Bioethics and Disability: Toward a Disability-Conscious Bioethics, with Cambridge University Press. Here‘s the publisher’s description: Bioethics and Disability provides tools for understanding the concerns, fears, and biases that have convinced some people with disabilities … Continue reading
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A Few Somewhat Disconnected Thoughts About Rape
In an effort to be an ethical attorney I try, though sometimes fail, to honor the “innocent until proven guilty” presumption that people charged with crimes are entitled to in my writing and legal analysis. High profile rape cases present … Continue reading
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Correlation is not Causation
Why, why, why do people continue to ignore this simple rule–including people who presumably know better but who invoke a correlation as a lazy rhetorical device? In The Atlantic this month, neuroscientist David Eagleman writes about biological bases for criminal … Continue reading
Areheart on “Disability Trouble”
Bradley A. Areheart, the Bruce R. Jacob Visiting Assistant Professor at Stetson University College of Law, has posted to SSRN his article Disability Trouble, 29 Yale Law & Policy Review 347 (2011). Its theoretical framework borrows from Judith Butler’s work on gender and … Continue reading
When Innocence Is Pink: Why There Is A Gender Gap In Exonerations of the Wrongfully Convicted and Efforts That Might Shrink It
There are over 60 innocence projects nationwide, and they do tremendous work. According to the Cardozo Innocence Project website, “There have been 271 post-conviction DNA exonerations in United States history.” The Innocence Project has profiles of each of the exonerees … Continue reading
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Some Say CEDAW is Bad Idea
Christina Hoff Sommers, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, writes here in the Policy Review on Feminism by Treaty: Why CEDAW is Still a Bad Idea. Here is an excerpt: The question the Senate has … Continue reading
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Another Attack On Hotel Staff Member Results In Suspension Of Supervisor, Agreement To Provide “Panic Buttons”
The Hotel Pierre, site of another reported sexual attack on an employee, has suspended a housekeeping because that person apparently only entered the report into a logbook. A manager saw the report the next morning and called highers-up, who then … Continue reading
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“An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 American-born children are sold for sex each year. The escalating numbers have prompted national initiatives by the F.B.I. and other law enforcement agencies, and new or pending legislation in more than a dozen states, most recently Georgia, which enacted a toughened human trafficking law this month.”
That’s a sentence pulled from this NYT article.
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Aura Bogado on “Slutwalk”
Here. She raises some issues that need to be thought through. ETA: Links to additional critiques of Slutwalks here.
Posted in Coerced Sex, Feminism and Law, Race and Racism, Sex Trafficking
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feminists@law: A new UK website and journal
An exciting addition to feminist legal theory is feminists@law, a new “open access journal of feminist legal scholarship” from some folks at Kent Law School in the UK: feminists@law aims to publish critical, interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged scholarship that extends feminist … Continue reading
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Barbara Lenk Confirmed for Seat on Mass. SJC
Barbara Lenk has won confirmation for a seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. She now becomes the first openly gay or lesbian person to sit on Massachusetts’s highest court. Here is Justice Lenk’s bio from the Massachusetts Appeals Court’s … Continue reading
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King & Spalding Fired for “Obsequious Act of Weakness”
The notoriously anti-LGBT Attorney General for the State of Virginia has fired King & Spalding in retaliation for its withdrawal from representing the U.S. House of Representatives in defending the constitutionality of the federal DOMA in court: “King & Spalding’s … Continue reading
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On Civil Marriage
Jessica Knouse, University of Toledo College of Law, is publishing Civil Marriage: Threat to Democracy in the 2012 volume of the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law. Here is the abstract. This article argues that civil marriage and democracy are … Continue reading
Latina Lawyers Before the Supreme Court
Maria Guadalupe Mendoza has published The Thirteen Known Latina Litigants Before the Supreme Court of the United States. Here is the abstract, updated April 3, 2011. From 1935 to 2010, only thirteen known Latinas have argued before the Supreme Court … Continue reading
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MIT Releases Third Study On Status Of Women Science and Engineering Faculty
Today, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology releases a report examining the status of women faculty in science and engineering, the third such report since 1999. The upshot: There’s progress, but more needs to be done. The number of women faculty … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Employment Discrimination, Feminism and Families, Feminism and Law, Feminism and Science, Feminism and the Workplace, Feminists in Academia, The Underrepresentation of Women
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Black on “Stalled: Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards”
Barbara Black, the Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director of the Corporate Law Center at the University of Cincinnati College of Law has posted to SSRN her essay, Stalled: Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards. Here is the abstract: In … Continue reading
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Liz Glazer on “Sexual Reorientation”
Yesterday I had the good fortunate to hear an engaging talk by Feminist Law Prof Liz Glazer (Hofstra). She was invited by the student LAMBDA organization in connection with our school’s Spotlight on Diversity Week, held annually each year. Here … Continue reading
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Cyra Choudhury on “Exporting Subjects: Globalizing Family Law Progress Through International Human Rights”
Cyra Akila Choudhury (FIU) has posted to SSRN her article Exporting Subjects: Globalizing Family Law Progress Through International Human Rights, 32 J. Mich. Int’l Law 259 (2011) Here is the abstract: This article examines the global export of domestic U.S. legal … Continue reading
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Sisters On the Bench
Hannah Brenner, Michigan State University College of Law, is publishing Gender and the Judiciary in South Africa: A Review of the Documentary Film Courting Justice, in a forthcoming issue of the Yale Journal of International Affairs. Here is the abstract. … Continue reading
The Value of a Name
Names are important. They reflect our identity, and so the ability to keep or change them implicates our autonomy. A recent lawsuit in Japan brings this importance into sharp relief. There, a group of women filed suit yesterday, challenging a … Continue reading
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Harassment in the Intersection: Gender, Race, and Class in the Street
When people talk about “street harassment,” they are usually talking about a man harassing a woman he doesn’t know in a public place. They are usually talking about a man doing things like whistling, cat-calling, or offering crude commentary about … Continue reading
The Look of (In)Justice
Apparently spurred by Justice Scalia’s provocative comments a few months ago regarding the constitutional rights of women (or, according to him, lack thereof), Dennis Curtis and Judith Resnik have put together a slide show over at Slate that explores different … Continue reading
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Who are these people?
I just received the annual email from my dean inviting me to nominate students for several awards. I am taken aback by the criteria for the award from the National Association of Women Lawyers. The award consists of a one-year … Continue reading
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Human Rights Defenders: In the frontlines
Today is Human Rights Day, the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Some thoughts on this day, cross-posted on IntLawGrrls: Dora “Alicia” Recinos Sorto of El Salvador was shot dead in November 2009 while on … Continue reading
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Do Unions Help Women Faculty?
Ann Mari May, Elizabeth Moorhouse, and Jennifer A. Bossard have published Representation of Women Faculty at Public Research Universities: Do Unions Matter? in volume 63 of the Industrial and Labor Relations Review (2010). Here is the abstract. The authors investigate the … Continue reading
Are the Media’s Representations of Supreme Court Nominees Gendered?
Renee Newman Knake and Hannah Brenner, both of Michigan State University College of Law, have published Rethinking Gender Equality in the Legal Profession: What the Media’s Depiction of Supreme Court Nominees Reveals About the Pipeline to Power as an MSU Legal … Continue reading
What’s Wrong With “Women’s Rights,” and Why the US Should Ratify CEDAW Anyway
The Senate Judiciary Committee recently debated whether the United States should ratify CEDAW, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. CEDAW guarantees a wide range of equal rights to women in areas such as employment, … Continue reading
Jessie Hill on Dangerous Terrain: Mapping the Female Body in Gonzales v. Carhart
Jessie Hill has posted on SSRN a short and fascinating analysis of the graphic language used in Gonzales v. Carhart (2007), the “partial-birth abortion” case. Here is part of the abstract: This brief Article focuses on the rhetoric of the … Continue reading
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Senate Hearings on CEDAW
Earlier this week, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law held a “Hearing on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.” The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, … Continue reading
CFP: “Uniform Probate Code: Remaking American Succession Law”
From the FLP mailbox: Call for Papers The Uniform Probate Code: Remaking of American Succession Law October 21, 2011 The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel’s Legal Education Committee is organizing the fourth in a series of academic symposia … Continue reading
Heminway on “Martha Stewart and the Forbidden Fruit”
Joan MacLeod Heminway (Tennessee) has posted to SSRN her 2009 article, Martha Stewart and the Forbidden Fruit: A New Story of Eve, 2009 Mich. State Law Rev. 1017. Here is the abstract: This paper narrates a biblical story – Eve’s ingestion … Continue reading
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Live Blogging “After Gender? Examining International Justice Enterprises”
I’m attending the Pace Law Review Symposium “After Gender? Examining International Justice Enterprises.” The symposium’s goal is “to expand our understanding of the role of gender in international law.” So far, there have been opening remarks by conference organizers Matthew … Continue reading
“What separates a stereotype from reality?”
Yesterday I blogged about Flores-Villar v. United States, the pending Supreme Court case about whether the laws of citizenship can treat the foreign-born children of American men less favorably than it treats the foreign-born children of American women. Ruthann Robson … Continue reading
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In the Supreme Court Today: Sex Discrimination in Passing Your Citizenship On to Your Children
In the Supreme Court this morning, the Obama administration is defending discrimination in the law of U.S. citizenship on the grounds that other countries do it too. When a non-marital child is born outside the United States and has one … Continue reading
Arundhati Roy, “Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.”
The Hindu, a daily paper in India, reports here that a crowd of up to 100 people assembled outside the home of writer Arundhati Roy, shouted anti-Roy slogans and attempted to break into her home. The incident is reported to … Continue reading
Human Rights Efforts in Australia: Spotlight on the Castan Centre at Monash University
The Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University in Australia is “a non-profit, non-partisan centre focusing on the study of human rights law globally, regionally and in Australia” (see program website here). Today the Melbourne paper The Age ran … Continue reading
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Are Women “Persons”?
It’s the anniversary of the “Persons Case.” If you are not a Canadian feminist legal scholar, you can learn more. -Ruthann Robson
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