Category Archives: Feminist Legal Scholarship

Julie A. Greenberg (Thomas Jefferson School of Law) has a new article available at SSRN: What do Scalia and Thomas Really Think About Sex? Title VII and Gender Nonconformity Discrimination: Protection for Transsexuals, Intersexuals, Gays and Lesbians. Download it here; … Continue reading →

We’ve all read excellent law review articles that were published in journals of relatively low prestige, and utterly crapulous ones that graced the pages of most highly regarded ones. Online legal research services such as Lexis and Westlaw facilitate the … Continue reading →

Jennifer Gordon (Fordham University School of Law) has posted to ssrn her paper, “Law, Lawyers, and Labor: The United Farm Workers’ Legal Strategy in the 1960s and 1970s and the Role of Law in Union Organizing Today   Here is … Continue reading →

 Feminist Law Prof Stephanie M. Wildman of Santa Clara University School of Law has posted her article “The Persistence of White Privilege,” 18 Wash. U. J. of L. & Pol’y 245 (2005) at  ssrn.   Here is the  abstract:   … Continue reading →

 Laura I. Appleman (Hofstra University School of Law) has posted on ssrn her article The Ethics of Indigent Criminal Representation: Has New York Failed the Promise of Gideon?  Here is the abstract: As has been recently documented in a variety … Continue reading →

The interviewer, Stuart Jeffries, doesn’t seem to like her much, but it’s still an interesting read, especially when she talks about her new book, “Are Women Human?” Here’s an excerpt: …Why does MacKinnon matter? She is undeniably one of feminism’s … Continue reading →

Richard F. Storrow of the Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University has published Quests for Conception: Fertility Tourists, Globalization and Feminist Legal Theory at 57 Hastings L.J. 295 (2006).   Here’s part of the abstract:   Fertility tourism … Continue reading →

This piece has three authors: Devon Carbado, Mitu Gulati, and Gowri Ramachandran. Here is the abstract: “This is a story about gender, makeup and the law. Darlene Jespersen, a bartender, was fired from her job of fifteen years at Harrah’s … Continue reading →

This article was published almost a year ago, but seems timely and important now. Here is the abstract: “Focusing on the exploitation of migrant domestic workers, this article develops and then uses the methodology of applied international intersectionality to analyze … Continue reading →

Abstract: “Much of the work family literature that has blossomed over the last decade has focused on professional women and has emphasized policy changes that would be of less utility to many other working women and men. In this symposium … Continue reading →

The abstract: “Using the Supreme Court’s decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris as a focal point, this article examines the meaning of private choice in public education reform. In Zelman, the Court addressed the validity of the Cleveland city schools’ voucher … Continue reading →

Abstract: “Should law school classes cultivate professional skills or should they advance a broad intellectual agenda? This Article examines the relationship between theory and practice from the standpoint of two movements within law’s academy: clinical education and feminist jurisprudence. Although … Continue reading →

Here is the abstract: “This article updates, expands and revises the author’s previous works concerning gender in sentencing in light of Booker. It describes the dramatic increase of the female incarcerated population in the federal system due primarily to drug … Continue reading →

Here is the abstract: “Sex in prison is a peculiar product of the carceral environment, and far more complicated than suggested by the paradigmatic account of prison rape. That account posits predator and prey: a cruel, sadistic perpetrator who manipulates … Continue reading →

The abstract: “A statistical analysis of 120 survey responses from sexual harassment victims suggests that White women and Women of Color may differ in their uses of internal complaint procedures. Specifically, White women in the study informed their supervisors and … Continue reading →

Forhcoming: William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2006. It’s downloadable at SSRN; below is the abstract: This article presents liberal feminist, essentialist feminist, communitarian feminist, and humanist feminist critiques of the gendered scope … Continue reading →

Here’s the unbluebooked, SSRN-style citation: UMKC Law Review, Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 469-497, 2004.   You can download this paper from SSRN. Here’s the abstract: This article, which was part of a symposium entitled “Dismantling Hierarchies in Legal Education”, … Continue reading →

By Llew Gibbons, downloadable here and forthcoming in 2 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review (2005). Here’s the abstract: In Lawrence v. Texas, the United States Supreme Court held for the first time that morality, standing alone, is not a sufficient … Continue reading →

You can download the whole draft at SSRN! Here is the abstract: Today, it is no secret that the regime of copyright law, once an often-overlooked footnote to our legal system of property, now occupies a central position in modern … Continue reading →

Wendy Gordon brought this article to my attention last fall, and it’s really interesting. It was apparently published here: Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 1, p. 285, 2005. Downloadable at SSRN, the abstract is as follows: In … Continue reading →

Myrna Raeder (Southwestern U. School of Law) has a new article available on SSRN: Remember the Ladies and the Children Too: Crawford’s Impact on Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Cases, 77 Brooklyn Law Review 311 (2005). Here is the abstract: … Continue reading →