Foreward
This book examines the roles played by narrative and culture in the construction of legal cases and their resolution. It is articulated in two parts. Part I recalls epistemological turns in legal...
View ArticleState Endangered Species Acts
The Endangered Species Act provides a comprehensive approach to the complex problem of species extinction. With chapters written by experienced ESA practitioners from a variety of professional...
View ArticleCognitive Disabilities, Legal Practice, and Digital Accessibility
For those seeking to understand the complexities of responding to digital accessibility legal issues, this digest is designed to be of use to newcomers to digital accessibility, as well as seasoned...
View ArticleTesting Charges
Chapter Abstract: The authority of the prosecutor to file charges is broad but not plenary. Legal systems create various mechanisms to test the quality of the evidence supporting the charges that the...
View ArticleThe Insights, Uses and Ethics of Social Neuroscience in Antidiscrimination Law
Article Abstract The article explores the uses in anti-discrimination law of social neuroscience—a broad interdisciplinary field that draws on the insights of brain science, medicine, epidemiology,...
View Article“Illegal Search”: Race, Personhood, and Policing
Roger Fairfax analyzes LL Cool J’s 1990 song, “Illegal Search,” as a precursor to later hip-hop critiques of policing. This song represented LL Cool J’s awakening to social consciousness in the 1990s....
View ArticlePreventing Human Trafficking: The Role of the IOM and the UN Global Compact...
Since the international community adopted the UN Trafficking Protocol nearly two decades ago, our approach to the problem of human trafficking has shifted significantly. With too few traffickers...
View ArticleCommentary on Means v. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
This chapter of FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN HEALTH LAW OPINIONS (Seema Mohapatra and Lindsay F. Wiley, eds., forthcoming 2021) provides commentary on Leslie Griffin’s rewritten majority opinion in...
View ArticleCommentary on Geduldig v. Aiello
This chapter of FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN OPINIONS OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT (Linda Berger, Bridget Crawford & Kathryn Stanchi, eds. 2016) provides commentary on Lucinda Finley’s...
View ArticleRewritten Opinion, In re Madyun
This chapter of Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten (Kimberly Mutcherson ed., 2020) reimagines the trial court opinion in In re Madyun, a case involving a court-ordered Cesarean section...
View ArticleCommentary on Dandridge v. Williams
This chapter of FEMINIST JUDGMENTS: REWRITTEN FAMILY LAW OPINIONS (Rachel Rebouche, ed. 2020) provides commentary on Susan Frelich Appleton’s rewritten majority opinion in Dandridge v. Williams, 397...
View ArticleFeminism’s Transformation of Legal Education and Unfinished Agenda
Feminism has had a broad influence in legal education. Feminist critiques have challenged the substance of legal rules, the methods of law teaching, and the culture of legal education. Following...
View ArticleReconceptualized Majority Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States...
No volume on reproductive justice could be complete without addressing the seminal case of Skinner v. Oklahoma. Skinner is the first Supreme Court decision to subject a law limiting reproduction to...
View ArticleThe Grand Jury and Police Violence Against Black Men
Policing the Black Man explores and critiques the many ways the criminal justice system impacts the lives of African American boys and men at every stage of the criminal process, from arrest through...
View ArticleAdministrative Law--And Its Application in Health Law
In the United States, while the practice of medicine itself is regulated by the individual states, federal administrative agencies play a crucial role in the promulgation and implementation of...
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