Category Archives: Feminist Legal Scholarship

Here is the abstract: Intellectual property law constitutes one of the primary policy tools by which society influences the development and design of new technologies. However, the underlying philosophical basis for this system of rewards has gone largely unexamined. For … Continue reading →

At the blog Credit Slips, law prof Elizabeth Warren notes that “another 1.3 million people lost health insurance between 2004 and 2005. That brings the 2005 total to 46.6 million Americans without health insurance.” She writes: With “medical bankruptcy” having … Continue reading →

Feminist law prof KC Sheehan notes that after a lapse of only 6 years she has posted her article “Caring for Deconstruction” here on on SSRN. According to KC: “The article points out similarities between Robin West’s caring justice and … Continue reading →

Written by Anna R. Kirkland, this article was published in Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 1-37, March 2003, but very recently made available for downloading here at SSRN. Below is the abstract: Transsexual and transgendered people, … Continue reading →

“Feminist Praxis in a Trade Union Gender Project” by Sue Ledwith appears in Industrial Relations Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 379-399, July 2006. It can be downloaded here. Below is the abstract: “Research as political feminist engagement is explored … Continue reading →

Here is the abstract: This essay discusses how the short stories of Chicago lawyer Lowell B. Komie (particularly the stories collected in the recent volume The Legal Fiction of Lowell B. Komie) showcase gender and lawyer stereotypes in a way … Continue reading →

Feminist Law Prof Nancy Levit (University of Missouri —  Kansas City School of Law) has posted to ssrn her article, “Confronting Conventional Thinking: The Heuristics Problem in Feminist Legal Theory,” Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 28, 2006.   Here is the … Continue reading →

Martha Nussbaum wrote a completely awsome review of “Manliness” by Harvey Mansfield. Below is an excerpt but by all means read it in its entirety here: …Mansfield’s assertions (I cannot quite call them arguments) seem to be as follows. Manliness, … Continue reading →

Feminist Law Prof Caroline Anne Forell (University of Oregon School of Law) has posted to ssrn her article, “The Meaning of Equality: Sexual Harassment, Stalking, and Provocation in Canada, Australia, and the United States,”  8 Thomas Jefferson L. Rev. (2006). … Continue reading →

Feminist Law Prof Naomi Cahn (George Washington University Law School) has posted to ssrn her article, “Women in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Dilemmas and Directions,” 12 William & Mary J. of Women & L. 335 (2006).   Here is the abstract: A … Continue reading →

Feminist law prof Marc Spindelman has published commentary (linked below) about a case, Ohio v. Carswell, that the Ohio Supreme Court has recently agreed to hear which involves a challenge to the state’s domestic violence law under Ohio’s recently-enacted (anti-gay) … Continue reading →

Feminist Law Prof Anthony C. Infanti (University of Pittsburgh) has posted to ssrn his article, “Homo Sacer, Homosexual: Some Thoughts on Waging Tax Guerrilla Warfare,” Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left, Forthcoming.   Here is the abstract: Inspired by … Continue reading →

  Feminist Law Prof Darren Rosenblum (Pace University School of Law) has posted to ssrn his article, “Parity/Disparity: Electoral Gender Inequality on the Tightrope of Liberal Constitutional Traditions,”  39 UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 1119 (2006).   Here is the … Continue reading →

Scholars of family law, taxation, economics, history and gender studies will be interested in a forthcoming book by Dennis J. Ventry, Jr., a rising star who joins the faculty at American University Washington College of Law this Fall.   Ventry’s … Continue reading →

Here is the abstract: “Digital communications sexual harassment is on the rise. Such harassment occurs through sexually offensive and unwarranted e-mails, placing harassing messages on electronic bulletin boards, and other forms of harassment that occur through the Internet. To date, … Continue reading →

Feminist Law Prof Deborah Zalesne (City University of New York School of Law) has posted to ssrn her article (co-authored with David Barnes of Seton Hall University School of Law), “A Unifying Theory of Contract Damages,” 55 Syracuse L. Rev. … Continue reading →

Abstract: “In May 2004, the Supreme Court of Canada handed down its decision on Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser. Higher life forms, such as plants, are not patentable in Canada. However, this decision comforted the agricultural-biotechnology industry by providing protection … Continue reading →

Feminist Law Prof Scott Moss (Marquette Law School) has posted to ssrn his article “Against ‘Academic Deference’: How Recent Developments in Employment Discrimination Law Undercut an Already Dubious Doctrine,”  1 Berkeley J. Empl. & Labor  L. (2006)  Here is the … Continue reading →

Feminist Law Prof Susan Sturm (Columbia Law School) has posted to ssrn her article, “The Architecture of Inclusiveness: Advancing Workplace Equity in Higher Education,” 29 Harv. J. L. & Gender (2006).    Here is a portion of the abstract:   … Continue reading →

Here’s the abstract: Copyright laws are written and enforced to help certain groups of people assert and retain control over the resources generated by creative productivity. Because those people are predominantly male, the copyright infrastructure plays a role, largely unexamined … Continue reading →

Here’s the abstract: “Does Rational Choice Theory (RCT) have something important to contribute to the humanities? Jon Elster and others answer affirmatively, arguing that RCT is a powerful tool that will lend clarity and rigor to work in the humanities … Continue reading →

 Madhavi Sunder of University of California, Davis – School of Law has posted to ssrn her paper The Invention of Traditional Knowledge.  This is the abstract: James Boyle’s cultural environmentalism metaphor laid the foundation for the recognition and protection of … Continue reading →

Here’s the abstract: In this article, I challenge the conventional left-liberal wisdom about the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health: that Justice Margaret Marshall’s opinion for the court in the case – holding that … Continue reading →

I’m compiling a list of feminist blogs at which one (or more) of the active bloggers lives in the American South. If you are Southern feminist blogger and want to be included, please leave the name and URL of your … Continue reading →