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Category Archives: Feminism and Law
A conference entitled “The Politics of Reproduction: New Technologies of Life” will be hosted by the Barnard Center for Research on Women in New York City on February 28, 2009
“The Politics of Reproduction” will focus on the global social, economic and political repercussions of new forms of reproduction, including assisted reproductive technology (ART) and transnational adoption. These new technologies have created a “baby business” that is largely unregulated and … Continue reading
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Touro Law Center’s Journal of Race, Gender and Ethnicity presents “Transgender Law: Challenging the Boundaries of Law and Gender” Friday, February 20, 2009 8:30 A.M. – 3:00 P.M.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION HERE! Co-Sponsored by LeGaL (the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Law Association of Greater New York) and the Long Island GLBT Community Center. 8:30 a.m. – 9:10 a.m.: Registration and Continental Breakfast 9:10 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.: Welcome … Continue reading
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Senate Passes Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Yesterday, the Senate passed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. As has been written about many times on this blog, the bill would overturn the Supreme Court’s decision from 2007 that severely restricted equal pay claims by imposing an … Continue reading
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Women, Foreclsoures and Sub Prime Loans
Philadelphia has a unique approach to helping homeowners avoid further predatory lending practices and foreclosure auctions, and Women’s Enews has the story.
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Benson on”Failure to Arrest: A Pilot Study of Police Response to Domestic Violence in Rural Illinois”
Sara Benson (Illinois) has posted to SSRN her working paper entitled”Failure to Arrest: A Pilot Study of Police Response to Domestic Violence in Rural Illinois.” It is a qualitative research study conducted in rural Illinois regarding police … Continue reading
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Pamela Foohey, “Child Support and (In)Ability to Pay: The Case for the Cost Shares Model”
Forthcoming in the Journal of Juvenile Law & Policy, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2009 The Abstract: Currently enacted child support guidelines primarily focus on maintaining children’s economic well-being when a single household is split into two. This article argues that … Continue reading
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GENDER, PARENTING, AND THE LAW: A Symposium Saturday, February 7, 2009 at Stanford Law School
Parenting, Gender, and the Law is a symposium sponsored by the Stanford Journal for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, with support from the Clayman Institute, Stanford University Feminist Studies Department, Graduate Student Council at Stanford University, and Stanford Law School. … Continue reading
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On this 2009 anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, the Center for Reproductive Rights calls on President Barack Obama to strike the Hyde Amendment which bans funding for medically necessary abortion from his proposed budget and support Congressional repeal of these funding restrictions.
During his presidential campaign, Mr. Obama came out against Hyde, saying that the federal government should not use its dollars to intrude upon a poor woman’s decision whether or not to carry her pregnancy to term or to selectively withhold … Continue reading
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“Report Describes Concerns Over Treatment of Detained Women Immigrants”
Head on over to Our Bodies, Our Blog to read the post with this title. It highlights a report concerning the treatment of women held in immigration detention centers in Arizona.
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White House Support for LGBT Rights
From the formal statement of President Obama’s agenda on civil rights (here): Support for the LGBT Community “While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too … Continue reading
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Title IX Victory at the Supreme Court
Earlier this morning, the Supreme Court unanimously decided, in Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee, that a plaintiff bringing a Title IX claim is not precluded from also bringing a constitutional claim against the school. I am thrilled that I … Continue reading
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FUNDAMENTALIST PRESSURE IN NORTH WEST FRONTIER PROVINCE OF PAKISTAN, HAS LED TO ALARMING VIOLENCE AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST GIRLS AND WOMEN
From Equality Now: In late December 2008 the Taliban ordered a ban on girls’ education in the district of Swat in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The announcement made by an extremist cleric, Maulana Fazlullah through an … Continue reading
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Seven States Sue To Block ‘Conscience Rule’
Illinois, California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Oregon joined Connecticut’s lawsuit: … to block an impending federal rule that critics say will allow health care providers to deny care, including emergency contraception to rape victims, with no recourse for … Continue reading
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Guatamalan girl testifies in federal court about being duped into coming to the U.S., forced to sell herself and kept captive.
It would be nice if human rights violations like this got more media attention. From the LA Times: When Sandra agreed to make the perilous trek from her native Guatemala to the United States in 2006, she said, she was … Continue reading
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The Cukold and the Kidney-Hold: How a Donated Organ Should be Distributed in Divorce
The New York Daily News features plenty of stories that don’t make it into the New York Times. Here‘s one that caught my eye. A doctor on Long Island donated a kidney to his wife. She then began an … Continue reading
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Cyber Sexual Harassment
Podcast of a radio show featuring fantastic feminist law prof Danielle Citron, plus Latoya Peterson of Racialicious and Jill Filipovic of Feminste, is available here. Danielle’s referenced law review article, Cyber Civil Rights, can be downloaded here. Below is the … Continue reading
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“Supporters of the ballot measure that banned gay marriage in California have filed a lawsuit seeking to block their campaign finance records from public view, saying the reports have led to the harassment of donors.”
Interesting how some people are First Amendment absolutists up until the time that they are the ones getting hated on, and then suddenly harassment is seen as a problem that should have special remedies for themselves only. The quote heading … Continue reading
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Naomi R. Cahn, “Test Tube Families Why the Fertility Market Needs Legal Regulation”
Fabulous feminist law prof Naomi Cahn, one of the best feminist legal theorists around, has a new book out: Synopsis of publisher NYU Press: The birth of the first test tube baby in 1978 focused attention on the sweeping advances … Continue reading
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“Condemned men are buried in sand up to their waists, and women up to their necks, and are pelted with stones until they die or manage to escape. Under the law, a condemned person’s life is spared if he can free himself.”
That’s a sentence from this WaPo article about stonings in Iran. Men have a lot better odds of escaping, obviously, though it’s still horrifying. The article also reports: In his weekly news conference, the judicial spokesman also said that Esha … Continue reading
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Proposed New Law in Ethiopia Threatens to Shut Down Non-Governmental Organizations
From Equality Now: A proposed new law in Ethiopia to regulate charities and societies threatens to halt the work of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), particularly those working in the field of human rights and justice and law enforcement services. The Charities … Continue reading
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Sonia K. Katyal, “Civil Rights Must Be for All”
Awesome feminist law prof Sonia Katyal recently wrote in the National Law Journal: Ten years ago, I sat in a constitutional law class taught by Barack Obama at the University of Chicago Law School. My mother proudly recalls that I … Continue reading
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Watch Christina Hoff Sommers Give Her Lecture Live
A few days ago Christina Hoff Sommers guest posted a lecture here, and referred to “a productive and civil debate with a feminist law professor at Penn State.” The live debate was sponsored by the Federalist Society, and you can … Continue reading
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Mad Law Prof Patricia J. Wiliams asks: “If the nation’s first female Solicitor General breaks a 139-year-old tradition and doesn’t wear a morning coat, can she still do her job with style?”
She writes: Of the details one misses with no television coverage of the Supreme Court, surely the quaintest is that the Solicitor General of the United States must wear tails:more formally known as a morning coat:when arguing the government’s cases. … Continue reading
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“Fashion Advice for Lawyers”
Rebecca Bratspies has some here! Many women thought the normative right to wear pants to work had been thoroughly embedded in the culture well over thirty years ago. This might be a situation in which collective action by all women … Continue reading
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House Passes Lilly Ledbetter Act (and More!)
Yesterday, the House passed the two bills — one that overturns the Supreme Court’s 2007 decision in Ledbetter v. Goodyear and the other that expands opportunities to sue under the Equal Pay Act. More analysis later in the weekend … Continue reading
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Siddharth Kara, “Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery”
From the publisher’s website: Every year, millions of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, made to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. Generating huge profits for their exploiters, sex slaves … Continue reading
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Guest Blog Post: Christina Hoff Sommers on “What’s Wrong and What’s Right With Contemporary Feminism”?
Dear Readers, As a conservative feminist, I am often invited by members of the Federalist Society to speak at their law schools and take part in debates. Bridget Crawford, a moderator of the Feminist Law Professor blog, has kindly offered … Continue reading
“Please Don’t Divorce Us”
Very powerful photo stream opposing the wretched Prop. 8.
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Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan To Be Obama’s Solicitor General.
From this press release: Elena Kagan, Solicitor General Kagan, the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law, is currently the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School. Kagan first came to Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1999 and … Continue reading
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Susan Carle, “Short Notes on Teaching About the Micro-Politics of Class, with Examples from Torts and Employment Law Casebooks”
Abstract: This short Essay explores several potential teaching moments in which one might raise issues concerning the micro-politics of socioeconomic class status. I discuss cases found in popular casebooks for three course areas in which I teach: torts, employment, and … Continue reading
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There Are Holocaust Deniers, There Are People Who Argue That Slavery Was Good For African-Americans And Many, Many Rape Victims Are Disbelieved.
So its no surprise that one response to Nicholas Kristof’s recent column in the NYT on sex trafficking was what he describes here in a follow up column as “skepticism.” He further responds to his critics here at his blog. … Continue reading
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Teenaged Girls and Dating Related Violence
An article in the NYT entitled “Killings Prompt Efforts to Spot and Reduce Abuse of Teenagers in Dating” [Note on January 4th: That WAS the title when I blogged this yesterday, but this morning the title has been changed to … Continue reading
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Thinking Critically About Sex Trafficking
That’s the title of this post at Sociological Images. It asserts that readers: … ought be critical consumers of stories about sex trafficking, the moving of girls and women across national borders in order to force them into prostitution. … Continue reading
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“New Norway law bans buying of sex”
From the BBC News: A new law has come into force in Norway making the purchase of sex illegal. Norwegian citizens caught paying for prostitutes at home or abroad could face a hefty fine or a six-month prison sentence, authorities … Continue reading
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“Shocks fit well into the brothel business model because they cause agonizing pain and terrify the girls without damaging their looks or undermining their market value.”
That’s a quote from this Nicholas Kristof column in the NYT. The protagonist of the column was finally freed from the brothel in which she had been imprisoned by a police raid. There are many pimps who, under the guise … Continue reading
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Update from the National Women’s Law Center
From the FLP Mailbox: As we’re gearing up for the new Administration and the new session of Congress, I wanted to share with you the National Women’s Law Center’s resources on some of the issues that are likely to be … Continue reading
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Equality Now: Take action to support women in Afghanistan and human rights organizations in Ethiopia
From the FLP mailbox: Equality Now has just issued Women’s Action Update 21.6 in its Afghanistan campaign, re-iterating its call to the Afghan government to immediately and unconditionally reinstate to Parliament Malalai Joya, who was wrongly suspended for criticizing fellow … Continue reading
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Teenaged girls told to “wield power over boyfriends, brothers, and friends who may be tempted to use a gun.”
Because according to this article in the Boston Globe entitled “Girl Power,” they might be responsible for male violence. Here’s an excerpt: Some criminal law specialists praised the effort as a unique way to combat the causes of violence and … Continue reading
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Women at the Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer law firm have reportedly been advised to wear high heels with skirts rather than trousers to”embrace their femininity.”
According to the WSJ Law Blog, anyway, which cites to the Daily Mail, so take that for what it is worth. Via Ms. JD.
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Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee: Does Title IX preempt an Equal Protection claim brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983?
At the ACS Blog Dina Lassow writes: The Fitzgerald case began in 2001, when Jackie, who was then in kindergarten, told her parents that one of the boys on the school bus was forcing her to lift her skirt, pull … Continue reading
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More On Slave Trafficking
This article refers to the trafficked, enslaved people as “child maids” and focuses on children trafficked from Africa.
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A case of sexual harassment and mistaken identity in the digital age?
This “First Person” column in the Chron describes what the pseudonymous author asserts was a false charge of sexual harassment. His claim is that he was charged with sexually harassing a student who was also a university employee. The student, … Continue reading
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“Makes a different and useful gift.”
Take note, Alabamans.
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“The National Crime Victimization Survey, based on projections from a national sample survey, says that at least 248,300 individuals were raped or sexually assaulted in 2007, up from 190,600 in 2005, the last year the survey was conducted.”
That’s a quote from Human Right’s Watch. The underlying DoJ survey is accessible here. The data shows that domestic violence, rape, and sexual assault increased more than any other violent crimes. With the exception of simple assault, which increased … Continue reading
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Four Oklahoma City University law professors allege discrimination and harassment.
Details here and here. Paul Secunda has some observations here.
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Women and Girls As Property
The source is the Daily Mail, a newspaper of somewhat dubious reliability, and I can’t find similar accounts anywhere else, but fwiw (ETA: Guardian article here): Saudi court tells girl aged EIGHT she cannot divorce husband who is 50 years … Continue reading
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Positive Application of Sex Trafficking Laws: A Case Study
Ex-law clerk sentenced in prostitution case By Dan Herbeck NEWS STAFF REPORTER A former State Supreme Court official who used his motor home to transport an illegal alien prostitute from Hamburg to Kentucky was sentenced Tuesday by a federal judge … Continue reading
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How much ad revenue can various for profit blogs reap off the misery and misfortunes of a desperate and depressed law student?
A lot, apparently. I’m not going to link to any of them, because whether they are being disgustingly licentious or self-aggrandizingly professing great concern, at the end of the day they are all about the links and the clicks and … Continue reading
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Check out the “Gender & Sexuality Law Blog”
Here! Founded by Columbia Law Profs Katherine Franke and Suzanne Goldberg, who, happily for FLP readers, will sometimes cross post here, see e.g.!
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Thoughts on Her Body, My Baby – the Racial Implications of Surrogacy
Khiara Bridges is the Center for Reproductive Rights/Columbia Law School fellow at Columbia Law School who has just completed her PhD in Columbia’s Anthropology Department studying the intersection of race, poverty, and gender through the experience of women in an … Continue reading
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