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Law Professor Blog » Women Lawyers
8M ago
Rona Kaufman Kitchen, Privacy: Pre- and Post-Dobbs, 61 Duquesne L. Rev. (2023) The United States Supreme Court has interpreted the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to include a fundamental right to familial privacy. The exact contours of that ..read more
Law Professor Blog » Women Lawyers
8M ago
NYT, TX Drops the "Tampon Tax," the Latest State to Do So On Friday, a bipartisan Texas bill that eliminates sales taxes on menstrual products went into effect, making it the 24th state in the country, as well as District ..read more
Law Professor Blog » Women Lawyers
8M ago
An update on the Ohio abortion amendment on the ballot this fall, including some of my thoughts. ABCNews, Julie Carr Smyth & Christine Fernando, An Ohio Ballot Measure Seeks to Protect Abortion. Opponents Messaging is on Parental Rights, AP, ABCNews ..read more
Law Professor Blog » Women Lawyers
8M ago
Jessie Allen has posted on SSRN the forthcoming work Property and More-than-Human Personhood. The abstract previews: It was international news when the New Zealand Parliament, in a 2017 settlement of Māori land claims, declared that the Whanganui River “is a ..read more
Law Professor Blog » Women Lawyers
8M ago
Rona Kaufman has posted Patriarchal Violence on SSRN. This work was published in volume 71 of the Buffalo Law Review. For over a century, feminist theorists and activists have sought equality for women. They have aimed their efforts at the ..read more
Law Professor Blog » Women Lawyers
8M ago
Nina Varsava, Keith Carlson, Michael Livermore & Daniel Rockmore, Judicial Dark Matter, 91 U. Chicago L. Rev. (forthcoming) Judicial reform efforts aimed at rectifying historical gender and racial inequalities understandably focus on increasing the number of women and people of ..read more
Law Professor Blog » Women Lawyers
8M ago
Camille Hebert, Defining Women, J. Gender, Race & Justice (forthcoming) The current debate about the meaning of the term “woman” has become a proxy for the culture wars over the rights of sexual and gender minorities, with social conservatives claiming ..read more
Law Professor Blog » Women Lawyers
8M ago
Monika Batra Kashyap has published A Critical Race Feminism Critique of Immigration Laws that Exclude Sex Workers: Moving from Theory to Praxis in volume 38 of the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice (2023). The abstract is here: This ..read more
Law Professor Blog » Women Lawyers
9M ago
Naomi Cahn, Singlehood, Wash. U. J. Law & Policy (forthcoming 2024) Singlehood is becoming an increasingly important social identity category. Thousands of people are members of Facebook groups such as I am my Own Soulmate or Community of Single People ..read more
Law Professor Blog » Women Lawyers
9M ago
Jenny-Brooke Condon, #MeToo in Prison, 98 Wash. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023) For American women and nonbinary people held in women’s prisons, sexual violence by state actors is, and has always been, part of imprisonment. For centuries within American women’s prisons ..read more