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Gender
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Projecting Concepts of Gender Onto Same-Sex Divorce
By Tracy Thomas
Suzanne A. Kim & Edward Stein, Gender in the Context of Same-Sex Divorce and Relationship Dissolution. This article identifies ways that judges, lawyers, researchers, and policy makers may attend to the…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Exploring the Relationship Between Trusts and Gender
By Tracy Thomas
Deborah S. Gordon, Engendering Trust, Wisconsin Law Review, 2019This article, part of a Wills, Trusts, and Estates Meets Gender, Race, and Class Symposium, explores the relationship between trusts and gender…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender and the Globalization of Constitutional Norms
By Tracy Thomas
Jenna Sapiano & Beverley Baines, Feminist Curiosity about International Constitutional Law and Global Constitutionalism, Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Issue 1, 2019Cynthia Enloe’s theory of feminist curiosity…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
How Candidate “Likeability” is Gendered
By Tracy Thomas
Vox, "Likeability" Ratings in Recent New Hampshire Poll Show Just How Tough Female Candidates Have ItNew Hampshire voters approve of the job Sen. Elizabeth Warren is doing; they just don’t…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
How Marriage Continues to Be Gendered in Same-Sex Divorce
By Tracy Thomas
Suzanne Kim & Edward Stein, "Gender in the Context of Same-Sex Divorce and Relationship Dissolution" We suggest that marriage is likely to remain gendered in a variety of ways in the near…
PrawfsBlawg
I’m Sorry, but We Need to Stop Apologizing
Main Tuesday, June 18, 2019I'm Sorry, but We Need to Stop ApologizingI'm in Tel Aviv where I am reminded I was born to Chutzpah but I was also born a…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Gendered Effects of Using Algorithms of Recidivism
By Tracy Thomas
Melissa Hamilton, The Sexist Algorithm, 38 Behavioral Sciences & the Law 145 (2019)Algorithmic risk assessment tools are informed by scientific research concerning which factors are predictive of recidivism and thus…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Catharine MacKinnon on the Butterfly Effect of Activist Politics and Legal Change
By Tracy Thomas
Video, The Butterfly Effect with Catharine MacKinnonThe always-impressive Catharine MacKinnon discussing substantive equality, male dominance grounded in sexual abuse and gender subordination, and legal change.
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Understanding the Origins, Use, and Misuse of the Term “Toxic Masculinity”
By Tracy Thomas
The Problem With the Term "Toxic Masculinity"Over the past several years, toxic masculinity has become a catchall explanation for male violence and sexism. The appeal of the term, which distinguishes…
PrawfsBlawg
Call for authors: Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Property Opinions
Main Wednesday, April 03, 2019Call for authors: Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Property OpinionsDeadline for Applying: Friday, April 26, 2019The U.S. Feminist Judgments Project seeks contributors of rewritten judicial opinions and commentary…