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Articles PUTTING IT TO GOOD USE: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Women's Right to Reproductive Health
LOOKING FOR LAW IN ALL THE "WRONG" PLACES: Outlaw Texts and Early Women's Advocacy
Notes DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE LIVES OF WOMEN WITH DISABILITIES: No (Accessible) Shelter From the Storm RAPE SHIELD: Immigrants Deserve the Same Protection We Give Our Citizens INTERNATIONAL SEX TRAFFICKING: Dismantling the Demand Articles
THE THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF TITLE IX: Women Have Not Reached the Finish Line
THE COST TO CHILDREN WHEN BATTERERS MISUSE ORDER FOR PROTECTION STATUTES IN CHILD
CUSTODY CASES
QUEERING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TO "STRAIGHTEN OUT" CRIMINAL LAW: What Might Happen When Queer
Theory and Practice Meet Criminal Law's Conventional Responses to Domestic Violence
Essays
BRIDGING THE "DIVIDE" BETWEEN FEMINISM AND CHILD PROTECTION USING THE DISCOURSE OF
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
Notes
THE DECLINE OF DOMESTIC ADOPTION: Intercountry Adoption as a Response to Local Adoption Laws and
Proposals to Foster Domestic Adoption
THE CASTING COUCH IS MORE THAN TORTIOUS: The Case for Expanded Interpretations of Rape Statutes
Articles Maternity and Childrearing Leave Policies for Faculty: the Legal and
Practical Challenges of Complying with Title VII Abandon Probate Court for Abandoned Children: Combining
Probate Guardianship of the Person and Dependency into one Stronger, Fairer
Children’s Court Abortion in 1938 and Today: Plus Ça Change, Plus C’est La Même Chose Notes The Fallacy of Hejab in Iran: A Critique of Islamic
Judicial Review as Performed by the Guardian Council of the Islamic Republic When to Arrest: What Influences Police Determination to Arrest When there is
a Report of Domestic Violence? Articles
Strange Brew: The Wisconsin Brewing Industry's
Opposition to Prohibition, Women's Suffrage and the Age of Consent Laws Intercollegiate Athletics: The Program Expansion Standard
Under Title IX's Policy Interpretation Notes
The Right to
Procreate While Incarcerated: A look at the 'Obvious' Differences Between
Male and Female Inmates Justice and the Generals: Holding Foreign Military Officers Accountable for Rape and Extrajudicial
Killing; The Case of the U.S. Churchwomen Killed in El Salvador
Education Policy Brief: The Imperative of Developing
Teen Dating Violence Prevention and Intervention Programs in Secondary Schools
Symposium Articles
Trapped by a Paradox: Speculations on Why Female
Law Professors Find it Hard to Fit into Law School Cultures
Beyond the Matrix: The Psychological Cost of Fighting for Gender
Justice in Law Teaching Coalescing with Salt: A Taste for Inclusion Notes
It's a Hormonal Thing: Premenstrual Syndrome and Postpartum Psychosis as a Criminal Defense
China's One-Child Policy's Effects on Women and the Paradox of
Persecution and Trafficking Briefs
On the Cutting
Edge: As Pending Supreme Court Cases Concerning Contraceptive Coverage and
Second Parent Adoption Show, California Continues to be at the Forefront of Law
Petition for Review, Sharon S. v. Superior Court
Petitioner's Opening Brief on the Merits,
Sharon S. v. Superior Court Los Angeles County Bar Association et al., Letter Brief in Support of Respondent
in Catholic Charities of Sacramento, Inc. v. Superior Court Brief of Amici Curiae, Planned Parenthood
Affiliates of California et al. in Support of Respondent Catholic Charities of
Sacramento, Inc. v. Superior Court
Brief of Amici Curiae, The California Abortion and Reproductive
Rights Action League et al. in Support of Respondent Catholic Charities of
Sacramento, Inc. v. Superior Court Husband and Wife: English Marriage Law From 1750: A Bibilographic Essay Women, the Military and the Court:
Israel at 2001 Battered Bargaining:
Domestic Violence and Plea Negotiation in the Criminal Justice System
Notes
U.S. Involvement in the Sanctions Against Iraq: A
potential Basis for a Legal Claim by Iraqi Women? Jefferson's Daughters: America's Ambiguity Towards Equal Pay for Women
Articles Constitutionalizing
Roe, Casey and Carhart: A
Legislative Due-Process Anti-Discrimination Principle that Gives Consitutional
Content to the "Undue Burden" Standard of Review Applied to Abortion Control
Legislation
Nguyen v. INS and Sex Stereotyping in Citizenship Laws: Building on the Equal
Protection Legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Brief of Petitioners, Tuan Anh Nugyen and Joseph
Alfred Boulais v. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Brief of the National Women's Law Center, et al. as
Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners
Brief of
Equality, NOW and Others as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners
Shielding the
Masses: How Litigation Changed the Face of Birth Control
Blood, Water and the Impure
Woman: Can Jewish Women Reconcile Between Ancient Law and Modern Feminism?
Articles
Stereotypes in South African and American Constitutional Law: Achieving
Gender Equality and Transformation
The Progress of Tanzanian Women in the Law: Women in Legal Education,
Legal Employment and Legal Reform
Earnest and Sincere Women in their Work: Litta Belle Hibben Campbell
and Women of the Early USC Law School
The Revenge of the Hot Dog Slut: Peer Harassment After Davis v. Monroe
Saying Nothing, Talking Loud: Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown, Caricatures of
African-American Womanhood
Symposium: Gender-Based Analyses of World Religions and the Law
Giddul's Wife and the Power of the Court: On Talmudic Law, Gender, Divorce
and Exile
Out-Lawing God and the Daughter
Keeping the Sex in Sex Education: The First Amendment's Religion Clauses
and the Sex Education Debate
Briefs and Articles
United States v. Morrison: The United States Supreme Court, the
Violence Against Women Act and the "New Federalism"
Brief of Petitioner, Brzonkala v. Morrison; U.S. v. Morrison
Brief Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners
Brief Amici Curiae of Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr. in Support of Petitioners
Venus and Mars in the Jury Deliberation Room: Exploring the Differences
That Exist among Male and Female Jurors During the Deliberation Process
Symposium: Gender-Based Analyses of World Religions and the Law
Genesis, Gender and Community
Gender, Justice and the Left Hand of God: A Lutheran Perspective
Universals and Particulars: A Comment on Women's Human Rights and Religious
Marriage Contracts
Articles
Confronting a Hazard: Do Eating Disorders Plague Women in the Legal
Profession?
Time to Surrender: A Call for Understanding and the Re-evaluation of
Heavy Metal Music Within the Contexts of Legal Liability and Women
Articles
Federalizing Social Welfare in a World of Gender Difference: A History
of Women's Work in New Deal Policy
The Failure of United States v. Lopez Analyzing the Violence
Against Women Act
A Case Study of Taiwanese Family Law
A Matter of Fact: Hostile Work Environments and Summary Judgments
Articles
Girl's Rights Under International Law: An Argument for Establishing
Gender Equaility as a Jus Cogens
Women's Rights and the Accomodation of "Difference": Muslim Women in
India
Gingerbread Women: Stereotypical Female Attorneys in the Novels of John
Grisham
Effects of Gender Differences on Physician-Assisted Suicide: Practice
and Regulation
Introduction
The Battered Wife of God: Violence, Law, and the Feminist Critique of
the Prophets
Marriage as a Legal Metaphor: Commentary on Rachel Adler
Response to Rachel Adler's "The Battered Wife of God
Articles
Not Color-Or Gender-Neutral: New Tax Treatment of Employment Discrimination
Damages
Feminist Jurisprudence and the First Ammendment: Hearing
Litigating Women's Rights as Human Rights: The Case of United States
V. Lanier
Ruminations on In Re Kasinga: The Decisions's Legacy
In Re Fauziya Kasinga: Brief for the Respondent
Book Review
Critical Race Feminism: Old Wine in a New Bottle or New Legal Genre?
Articles
The Beginning of Wisdom Is to Call Things by Their Right Names
The Socratic Method and Women Law Students: Humanize, Don't Feminize
(Why) Does Gender Equity in College Athletics Entail Gender Equality?
California's Stepparent Visitation Statute: For the Welfare of the Child,
or a Court-Opened Door to Legally Interfere With Parental Autonomy: Where
Are the Constitutional Safeguards?
6:2 Spring 1997 Symposium: Taxing Women: Thoughts
on a Gendered Economy
Editors' Introduction
The Importance of Feminists Paying Attention to Socioeconomic Systems
A Taxing Woman: The Relationship of Feminist Scholorship to Tax
Feminism and "Safe Subjects Like the Tax Code"
"A Principle of Law but Not of Justice": Men, Women and Income Taxes
in the U.S. 1913-1948
Taxes and Peace: A Case Study of Taxing Women
The Economics of Home Production
Joint Versus Separate Filing: Joint Return Tax Rates and Federal Complicity
in Directing Economic Resources From Women to Men
Taxing Lesbians
Gender Equity and Tax Policy: The Theory of "Taxing Men"
Taxation and Gendered Citizenship
Social Security: What Can Be Done About Marriage Penalties?
"Taxing Marriage"
Women's, Men's and Children's Equalities: Some Reflections and Uncertainties
Afteword: Towards a Feminization of Wealth
Articles
Beyond "Compelling": Tenants' Rights in the Conflict Between Religious
Freedom and Laws That Prohibit Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation
Child Custody, Community and Autonomy: The Ties That Bind?
Articles
Gender Bias at the Heart of Justice: An Empirical Study of State Task
Forces
Reconstructing MacKinnon: Essentialism, Humanism, Feminism
Paternalism Without Paternity: Discrimination Against Single Women Seeking
Artificial Insemination by Donor
Estate of Clack: Adding Insult to Injury, or More Problems With
the QTIP Tax Provisions
Disparate Treatment of Spouse Murder Defendants
Articles
Institutional Myths, Historical Narratives and Social Science Evidence:
Reading the "Record" in the Virginia Military Institute Case
Patriarchal Stories I: Cultural Rape Narratives in the Courtroom
And Justice for All: The Admissibility of Uncharged Sexual Misconduct
Evidence Under the Recent Amendment to the Federal Rules of Evidence
Arming Students for Battle: Amending Title IX to Combat the Sexual Harassment
of Students by Students in Primary and Secondary School
Holding Husbands and Lovers Accountable for Rape: Eliminating the "Defendant"
Exception of Rape Shield Laws
5:1 Fall 1995 Lesbians in the Law: Symposium Issue
Editor's Introduction
Opening Remarks
Sex-Based Discrimination: Common Legacies and Common Challenges
Sex and Race in Queer Legal Culture: Ruminations on Identities &
Inter-Connectivities
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Islander Sisters
United Lesbians of African Heritage
"Coming Out": The Practical Battles of Being Visible as a Lesbian
Musing about Discrimination Based on Sex and Sexual Orientation as "Gender
Role" Discrimination
Fighting the Battles in the Public Sector
Hate Crimes and Other Practical Battles
Stories from Home: Tales from the Intersection of Race, Gender and Sexual
Orientation
First and Last Chance: Looking for Lesbians in Fifties Bar Cases
To Market, To Market: Considering Class in the Context of Lesbian Legal
Theories and Reforms
The Intersection of Race and Gender and Its Effects in the Workplace
The Los Angeles County Bar Association Report on Sexual Orientation
Bias
This Report was prepared by the Los Angeles County Bar Association's
Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Orientation Bias based on research conducted
over the course of two years. The Report itself illustrates the pervasive
and harmful effects of sexual orientation discrimination in the Los Angeles
legal community.
4:1 Fall 1994 American Association of Law Schools
Symposium: Bringing Values and Perspectives Back into the Law School Classroom:
Practical Ideas for Teachers
Introduction
Starting With the Students: Lessons From Popular Education
Foreward: Toward a Race-Conscious Pedagogy in Legal Education
Constructing Professional Boundaries in Law School: Reactions of Students
and Implications for Teachers
Politicizing the Classroom
Bringing Values and Perspectives Back into the Law School Classroom
Articles
Feminist Perspectives, Disability, Sexuality and Law: New Issues and
Agendas
Reproductive Rights and the Human Genome Project
A Radical Reshaping of the Law: Interpreting and Remedying Street Harassment
Is Beauty the Beast?
A Legal and Social Comparison of Heterosexual and Same-Sex Domestic
Violence: Similar Inadequacies in Legal Recognition and Response
Articles
At the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation: Toward Lesbian
Jurisprudence
Parental Rights and the Definition of Motherhood in Surrogate Motherhood
Sexual Harassment in the Military
Abused Women Abused by the Law: The Plight of Battered Women in California
and a Proposal for Revising the California Self-Defense Law
Responses
I Ain't Gonna Work on Zoe's Farm No More: Reply to Susan Grover
"Ain't"?
Articles
The Rights and Wrongs of Norplant Offers
Education: An Illusion for Women
Call the Caterer: Hawaii to Host First Same-Sex Marriage
Employment Discrimination and Clergywomen: Where the Law Has Feared
to Tread
To Work or Not to Work, and What About the Kids?
2:2 Spring 1993 Women and the Courts
Introduction: Feminism and the Courts
Zoe Baird, Betrayal and Fragmentation
A Justification of the Cultural Defense as Partial Excuse
The Legal Community's Response to Drug Use During Pregnancy in the Criminal
Sentencing and Dependency Contexts: A Survey of Judges, Prosecuting Attorneys,
and Defense Attorneys in Ten California Counties
Downward Departures Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Are Parenthood
and Pregnancy Appropriate Sentencing Considerations?
Feminist Judging: An Introductory Essay
Gender Bias Task Forces: How They Have Fulfilled Their Mandate and Recommendations
for Change
Justice: One Woman's Perspective
Equal Justice for Some
Women's Pathways to Felony Court: Feminist Theories of Lawbreaking and
Problems of Representation
Thelma and Louise and Bonnie and Jean: Images of Women as Criminals
Heat of Passion and Wife Killing: Men Who Batter/Men Who Kill
Reconstructing the Female Criminal: Women and Crack Cocaine
A Collage of Voices: A Dialogue With Women in Prison
A Matter of Justice: Overcoming Juror Bias in Prosecutions of Batterers
Through Expect Witness Testimony of the Common Experiences of Battered
Women
A Cynical Twist of Fate: How Processes of Ruling in the Criminal Justice
System and the Social Sciences Impede Justice for Battered Women
Privacy and the Rape Victim: The Inconsistent Treatment of Privacy Interests
in Two Recent Supreme Court Cases
The End of Frye Is the Beginning of Successful Sexual Assault
Prosecution
Pregnancy and the Criminalization of Perinatal Substance Abuse: Unethical,
Unconstitutional and Poor Public Policy
Review Essay: Feminism, Lawyering, and Death Row
1:1 Winter 1992 A Symposium on Reconstructing Motherhood
Reflection on Reconstructing Motherhood
M Is for the Many Things
Mother Blaming: Psychology and the Law
Abortion and the Maternal-Fetal Conflict: Broadening Our Concerns
Politics and Pregnancy: Adolescent Mothers and Public Policy
Maternal Feelings: Myth, Taboo, and Child Custody
Intimate Work: The Regulation of Female Sexuality and Reproduction
Two Legal Constructs of Motherhood: "Protective" Legislation in Mexico
and the United States
Is It Enough that Johnson Controls?
13:2 Spring 2004
13:1 Fall 2003
12:2 Spring 2003
12:1 Fall 2002
11:2 Spring 2002
11:1 Fall 2001
10:2 Spring 2001
10:1 Fall 2000
9:2 Spring 2000
9:1 Fall 1999
8:2 Spring 1999
8:1 Fall 1998
7:2 Spring 1997
7:1 Fall 1997
6:2 Spring 1997 Symposium:
Taxing Women: Thoughts on a Gendered Economy
6:1 Fall 1996
5:2 Spring 1996
5:1 Fall 1995 Lesbians
in the Law: Symposium Issue
4:2 Spring 1995
4:1 Fall 1994 American
Association of Law Schools Symposium
3:2 Spring 1994
3:1 Fall 1993
2:2 Spring 1993 Women and
the Courts
2:1 Fall 1992 Women and
Crime
1:1 Winter 1992 A Symposium
on Reconstructing Motherhood
Dina Bogecho
Kristin Brandser Kalsem
Karen Nutter
David K. Reinert
Michelle R. Adelman
Suzanne Eckes
Nina W. Tarr
Adele M. Morrison
Sherrie L. Russell-Brown
Alison Fleisher
Christian Jordan
Saranna Thornton
Virginia G. Weisz and
Suzanne McCormick
Richard W. Bourne
Mougeh Shisheneh Mozafarian
Catherine Popham Durant
Eric J. Boos
Julia Lamber
Robert T. Downs
Carlos X. Colorado
Tiffany J. Zwicker
Beverly I. Moran
Leslie Espinoza Garvey
Phoebe A. Haddon
Connie Huang
Marry H. Hansel
Mary-Christine Sungaila
Charles A. Bird (Counsel of Record)
Michael N. Feuer of Morrison & Forrester LLP
Nancy M.
Solomon of California Women's Center
Eve C. Gartner & Donna Lee of Planned
Parenthood Federation of America
Robert Riley of Planned Parenthood of
Western Washington
Lilly Spitz of California Planned Parenthood Education
Fund, Inc.
Bebe J. Anderson of The Center for
Reproductive Law and Policy
Claudia A. Lewis & Sarah L. Kowalski
of Farella Braun & Martel LLP
Ronora Pawelko of Education Fund of Family
Planning Advocates of NYS
Hazel D. Lord
Guy I. Seidman & Eyal A. Nun
Peter Margulies
Nausheen Hassan
Robert J. Franklin
Jeffery A. Van Detta
Mary-Christine Sungaila
Nancy A. Falgout (Counsel of Record),
Julie Goldshield, Sherry J. Leiwant and Marcellene E. Hearn
of NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
Martha F. Davis, Kate Stoneman Visiting Professor of Law & Democracy, Albany School of Law
Steven R. Shapiro and Lucas Guttentag of American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
Nancy Duff Campbell (Counsel of Record),
Nancy L. Perkins and John D. Daley of Arnold & Porter
Joan Entmacher, Dina R. Lassow, Christina Martin Firvida and Jennifer Mezey of
National Women's Law Center
Ogden Northrup Lewis (Counsel of Record) of Davis Polk & Wardwell
Jessica Neuwirth of Equality Now
Anna Birenbaum
Ilana S. Cristofar
Mark S. Kende
Jennifer L. Rakstad, Charlotte E. Kaiser & Kris T. Pribadi
John G. Tomlinson, Jr.
Sarah Diane Stevenson
Lori A. Tribbet-Williams
Aryeh Cohen
Emily Albrink Fowler Hartigan
Gary J. Simson & Erika A. Sussman
Mary-Christine Sungaila
Mary-Christine Sungaila (Counsel of Record), David S. Ettinger and
Lisa R. Jaskol of HORVITZ & LEVY, LLP
Martha F. Davis, Julie Goldshield and Yolanda S. Wu of NOW LEGAL
DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND
Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Sandra Benlevy
Theodore Y. Blumoff
Marie A. Failinger
Carol Weisbrod
Julie E. Buchwald
Alexis A. Lury
Kathleen M. Keller
Sara E. Kropf
Li-Ju Lee
Isabel Medina
Ladan Askari
Vrinda Narain
Carrie S. Coffman
Cynthia A. Prado
Eric Oifer
Rachel Adler
Nomi Maya Stolzenberg
Sheila Briggs
Karen B. Brown
Gayle Binion
Rights of Abused Mothers vs Best Interest of Abused Children: Courts'
Termination of Battered Women's Parental Rights Due to Failure to Protect
Their Children from Abuse
Amy R. Melner
Mary-Christine Sungaila
Karen Musalo
Karen Musalo
Jody Armour
Kif Augustine-Adams
Jennifer L. Rosato
Mark Kelman
Diane L. Abraham
Interview with Patricia Schroeder
Marjorie E. Kornhauser
Lawrence Zelenak
Alice Kessler-Harris
Patricia C. Bradford
Joni Hersch
Amy C. Christian
Patricia A. Cain
Nancy E. Shurtz
Nancy C. Staudt
Jonathan Barry Forman
Mary Moers Wenig
Nancy E. Dowd
Edward J. McCaffery
Julie M. Ruhlin
Linda K. Thomas
Jeannette F. Swent
Jeffrey Brand-Ballard
Holly J. Harlow
Wendy C. Gerzog
Wendy Keller
Dianne Avery
Andrew E. Taslitz
Karen M. Fingar
Alexandra A. Bodnar
Garth E. Hire
Tracey Jensen
Catharine P. Wells
Deborah L. Rhode
Francisco Valdes
Shella M. Aguilar, MPH
D. Lisa Powell
Barbara J. Cox
Amelia A. Craig
Jackie Goldberg
B. Kay Shafer
Isabelle R. Gunning
Joan W. Howarth
Ruthann Robson
Sandra Farrington-Domingue
Catharine Pierce Wells
Frances Ansley
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Robert Granfield
Duncan Kennedy
Stephanie M. Wildman
Harlan Hahn
Julia Walsh
Tiffanie Heben
Meg Gehrke
Carla M. da Luz
Mary Eaton
Scott B. Rae, Ph.D.
Yxta Maya Murray
Kym C. Miller
Marc Linder
Susan S. Grover
Douglas A. Berman
Barbara Anne Murphy
Erik J. Toulon
Elisabeth S. Wendorff
Ellen R. Zieve
Judith Resnik
Susan S. Grover
Alison Dundes Renteln
Barrie Becker and Judge Peggy Hora
Tracy Tyson
Sharon Elizabeth Rush
Kathleen L. Soll
Brenda Aris and Gloria Killian
Gloria Killian
Kathleen Daly
Susan N. Herman
Donna K. Coker
Lisa Maher
Tracy Thornburg and Diane Trunk
Alana Bowman
Tineke Ritmeester and Ellen Pence
Terri Villa-McDowell
Teri Breuer
Shawn N. Randolph
Joan W. Howarth
Fatima Cortez
Carol Sanger
Catherine McBride-Chang, Carol Nagy Jacklin and Chandra Reynolds
Marjorie M. Shultz
Deborah L. Rhode
Mary Becker
Judith Grant
Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
Laura C. Fry