The Constitution and Female-Initiated Divorce in Pakistan
The legal status of Muslim women, especially in family relations, has been the subject of considerable international academic and media interest. This Article examines the legal regulation of divorce...
View ArticleUnsex Mothering: Toward a New Culture of Parenting
I was, until recently, a pregnant man. I explored some of the issues that arose along my path to parenthood in a recent essay titled Pregnant Man?: A Conversation. My husband and I began the process of...
View ArticleA New Tortious Interference with Contractual Relations: Gender and Erotic...
At the intersection of tort, property, and contract law sits a strange tort. It began in 1853, in London, England, from a ferocious rivalry between two competing opera-house owners. Johanna Wagner, a...
View ArticleBatterers As Agents of the State: Challenging the Public/Private Distinction...
A man in Africa grew up in a country where has been raised to believe — through social traditions, tribal rules, and everyday practice — that members of his tribe are inferior to and dependent on a...
View ArticleTitle VII: A Shift from Sex to Relationships
Over the past few years, the so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy has dominated headlines, courtrooms, and policy discussions, culminating in its repeal in December 2010. Comparatively, little...
View ArticleFeminist Legal Realism
This Article begins to rethink current conceptions of two of the most significant legal movements in this country—Legal Realism and Feminist Jurisprudence. The story of Legal Realism has been retold...
View ArticleGendered (In)security
By Pooja Gehi Over the past decade, both immigrant rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights have been key issues in United States political and legal debates. Yet, the...
View ArticleTempering Idealism with Realism
By C. Quince Hopkins This Article evaluates the potential use of “responsibility initiatives” in gender-based violence, with a specific focus on adult intimate partner violence. This Article analyzes...
View ArticleTransgenderless
By Stevie V. Tran and Elizabeth M. Glazer Legal protection from discrimination on the basis of gender identity has been reserved for perfect gender-nonconformists. These are plaintiffs such as Jimmie...
View ArticleCongressional Power to Effect Sex Equality
Congressional Power to Effect Sex Equality Patricia A. Seith This article will be published in our forthcoming Winter 2013 issue. From its passage by Congress in 1972 to its ratification failure in...
View ArticleBook Review: Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for...
Wendy B. Scott[1] Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia. Edited by Gabriella Guitierrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Nieman, Carmen G. Gonzalez and Angela P. Harris....
View ArticleWindsor, Federalism, and the Future of Marriage Litigation
Mark Strasser* In United States v. Windsor,[1] the United States Supreme Court struck down section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).[2] Now that section 3 has been invalidated, section 2 of DOMA...
View ArticlePanel: On The Front Lines of Law Reform
Editor's Note: The following panel was held during Harvard Law School's "Celebration 60," which honored the 60th anniversary of the first women graduates at HLS. Please click here for a PDF version of...
View ArticleThe Court Treads Lightly: Why Mandatory Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Laws Demand A...
The Court Treads Lightly: Why Mandatory Pre-Abortion Ultrasound Laws Demand a More Concrete Legal Analysis by Courts Rebecca Bucchieri George Mason University School of Law, J.D. Candidate, May 2015;...
View ArticleWitt-Less: A History And Analysis Of The U.S. Military’s Failure To Comply...
Witt-less: A History and Analysis of the U.S. Military’s Failure to Comply With The Ninth Circuit’s Due Process Standard for ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Ari Freilich[1] Please click here for a PDF version...
View ArticleUnsex Mothering: Toward a New Culture of Parenting
I was, until recently, a pregnant man. I explored some of the issues that arose along my path to parenthood in a recent essay titled Pregnant Man?: A Conversation. My husband and I began the process of...
View ArticleReconsidering the Remedy of Gender Quotas
Reconsidering the Remedy of Gender Quotas Tracy A. Thomas* Please click here for a PDF version of the article When newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was asked by surprised...
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The Way Pavers: Eleven Supreme Court-worthy Women
The Four Justices by Nelson Shanks (2012); courtesy of National Portrait Gallery by Meg Penrose Click here for a PDF of the entire Essay. Introduction Four women have served as associate justices on...
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Shaking the Tree: Using Advocacy to Push School Districts to Meet Their...
In September 2018, I, like many women, was glued to my television watching Christine Blasey Ford testify about the indelible mark left by the sexual assault she had experienced as a high school...
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COVID-19, Lockdowns and Street Harassment: what we can learn from empty streets
“You’re maybe the last person I could rape; come here.” “A month ago, as I was leaving to do my shopping, a man in a car ran me over as I was about to cross the street, stopped at my level, insulted...
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