Recently added articles from Texas Journal of Women and the Law:
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT LAWS FOR ABORTION IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD: CAN INTERNATIONAL LAW SECURE THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE FOR MINORS?
Apr 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction For the past fifteen years, international law and policy have increasingly established broad-based support for the advancement and protection of children's rights.1 The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), first adopted on November 20, 1989 by the ...
COLD COMFORT PHARMACY: PHARMACIST TORT LIABILITY FOR CONSCIENTIOUS REFUSALS TO DISPENSE EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
Apr 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction I first learned about emergency contraception as a first-year college student. Returning from the semester break just after New Year, a friend and I began comparing notes about our respective holidays. "It was awful," she told me. "You try driving a crying girl around for ...
THE FAMILY VIOLENCE OPTION IN TEXAS: WHY IT IS FAILING TO AID DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS ON WELFARE AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
Apr 01, 2007; ... I would just try to be on my own . . . but it's . . . gosh, I depend on him so much, and I don't want that, ya know . . . . Sometimes he does threaten me, says, "Well who's gonna pay your lights and this and that." . . . Like today, it's Friday. He's gonna give me some money to pay the lights ....
THE MEANING OF "LIFE": THE MORNING-AFTER PILL, THE QUESTION OF WHEN LIFE BEGINS, AND JUDICIAL REVIEW
Apr 01, 2007; ... I. Introduction We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable to arrive at any consensus, the judiciary, at this point in the development of man's knowledge, is not in a ...
A CASE AGAINST THE FEDERAL PROTECTION OF MARRIAGE AMENDMENT
Oct 01, 2006; ... I. Introduction The social meanings associated with marriage vary widely by culture, community, and individual. Despite the myriad subjective meanings attached to marriage, however, the marriage contract in the United States represents a legal and economic relationship sanctioned and ...
A PURSE OF HER OWN: THE CASE AGAINST JOINT BANK ACCOUNTS1
Oct 01, 2006; ... I. Introduction Over eighty percent of married American couples who keep accounts at financial institutions keep joint bank accounts.2 Although families do not hold a large portion of their wealth in savings or checking accounts at any given time,3 joint accounts serve as a funnel for ...
OUT OF THE LOOP: FEMALE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT CANDIDATES DISADVANTAGED BY A NOMINATION PROCESS IMBUED WITH FAVORITISM
Oct 01, 2006; ... I. Introduction "Equality is valued nearly everywhere ... [a]s a reality, in lives lived or institutions run, it hardly exists anywhere."1 Over the last 50 years, women have made great progress in gaining access to legal education and becoming qualified for judgeships in the U.S ....
RECOGNIZING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ANIMAL ABUSE: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CHANGE TO THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE
Oct 01, 2006; ... I. Introduction A woman left the battered women's shelter where she had been staying to return to her abusive husband.1 She decided to leave the shelter after receiving pictures of her husband cutting off her dog's ears with gardening shears.2 He sent the ears too.3 In another family, ...
THE FOCUS FACTOR
Apr 01, 2006; ... I. Introduction Legal training, we like to tell our students, will give you a new way of looking at the world; you will approach problems differently and think about them from a more critical perspective. You will organize your analysis and marshal your arguments in ways that may impact ...
STRATEGIES FOR COMBATING SEXUAL HARASSMENT: THE ROLE OF LABOR UNIONS
Apr 01, 2006; ... I. Introduction Sexual harassment is a major problem in today's workplace. The large number of charges filed with the EEOC annually and the results of workplace surveys demonstrate that harassment, with its devastating consequences for the target of the harassment and for workplace ...
SUBORDINATED STILLS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF SEXIST PRINT ADVERTISING AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR LAW
Apr 01, 2006; ... I. Introduction In the last half century, the professions, especially law, have become increasingly open to women, but the access path is still surprisingly narrow and convoluted. Nancy J. Reichman and Joyce S. Sterling's Fall 2004 study report, Sticky Floors, Broken Steps, and Concrete ...
THE MAKING OF MARRIAGE IN THIRTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND: VERB TENSE, POPULAR LEGALISM, AND THE ALEXANDRINE LAW OF MARRIAGE
Apr 01, 2006; ... I.Introduction Beginning around the year 1200, ecclesiastical courts across Europe were determining the validity of the marriages of ordinary laypeople based largely upon a single factor-the tense of the words that the parties had exchanged. Pope Alexander III, more than any other single ...
SOLUTION TO DISSOLUTION: DETECTIVE FICTION FROM WILKIE COLLINS TO GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ
Oct 01, 2005; ... The distinction's always fine between detection and invention. -Mary Jo Salter1 I.Introduction The detective novel, as a literary genre, has traditionally presupposed a legal culture in which the guilty can be identified and their crimes satisfyingly punished, a culture ...
GEORGIA'S MARRIED WOMEN'S PROPERTY ACT: AN EFFECTIVE CHALLENGE TO COVERTURE
Oct 01, 2005; ... I. Introduction "[A]ll men are created equal"1 are the enduring words of the Declaration of Independence that have echoed throughout the history of the United States and have remained the foundation of American society. Unfortunately for women, at the time of the writing of the ...
GENDER CONSTRUCTION AND THE LIMITS OF LIBERAL EQUALITY
Oct 01, 2005; ... I. Introduction This article will suggest a possible answer to the puzzling question of why despite the egalitarian principles upon which Western liberal democracies are allegedly predicated sex discrimination in these societies persists and sex discrimination on the basis of religion ...
UNOFFICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY: A PROPOSAL FOR THE PERMANENT WOMEN'S TRIBUNAL ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN ARMED CONFLICT
Oct 01, 2005; ... I. Introduction Before an unofficial1 "tribunal" organized by women's rights activists during the 1993 Vienna World Conference on Human Rights ("Vienna Conference"), a Bosnian woman voiced her despair, highlighting the international legal order's tragic failure to adequately address ...
GLOBAL BURQAS
Apr 01, 2005; ... I. Introduction In an ideal world, men and women would enjoy equal rights. Unfortunately, this is not an ideal world. Based on this truth, this comment seeks to explore situations around the globe that are actually disguised forms of oppression, "global burqas."1 To most ...
"STICK A TOOTHBRUSH DOWN YOUR THROAT:" AN ANALYSIS OF THE POTENTIAL LIABILITY OF PRO-EATING DISORDER WEBSITES
Apr 01, 2005; ... I. Introduction A young girl-perhaps unsure of herself and teased mercilessly at school, perhaps a victim of abuse or family dysfunction, perhaps seemingly normal-stumbles across a website promoting a "lifestyle" of seeming power and achievement. All it takes is an iron will, the site ...
LIABILITY OF NON-INDIAN BATTERERS IN INDIAN COUNTRY: A JURISDICTIONAL ANALYSIS
Apr 01, 2005; ... I. Introduction Indian1 tribes are not recognized as juridical entities in the international law context, but neither are they arms of the federal government or of any state government-they possess an inherent sovereignty that is subject only to the overriding power of the federal ...
STICKY FLOORS, BROKEN STEPS, AND CONCRETE CEILINGS IN LEGAL CAREERS
Oct 01, 2004; ... I. Introduction1 Reports of cracks in the glass ceiling of the legal profession have been around for nearly two decades. Many speculate that since women now comprise the new majority of students in U.S. law schools it is only a matter of time until women control the practice of law.2 A ...