Blog Profile / Feminist Law Professors
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Blog Post Archive
Aloni on “Relationship Recognition Madness”
Aloni on “Relationship Recognition Madness” Erez Aloni (Whittier) has published an op-ed, “Relationship Recognition Madness.” at Huff Po. Here is an excerpt. He takes on the new FAFSA rules that take account the income of co-habitating unmarried parents in determining a student’s eligibility for financial … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Sepper on “Doctoring Discrimination in the Same-Sex Marriage Debates”
Sepper on “Doctoring Discrimination in the Same-Sex Marriage Debates” Elizabeth Sepper (Washington University St. Louis) has posted to SSRN her working paper Doctoring Discrimination in the Same-Sex Marriage Debates, Indiana L.J. (forthcoming...Show More Summary
Apps Can Teach You Anything: Yes, a Masturbation App
Apps Can Teach You Anything: Yes, a Masturbation App I’m not making this up: Forwarded to me by a friend who said he did not see this app and think of me (huh?). Anyway, it’s HappyPlayTime (tag line: “female masturbation made friendly”). Here‘s the app’s “mission”: Sexuality is one … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Update on Kaitlyn Hunt Case
Update on Kaitlyn Hunt Case Kaitlyn Hunt, the Florida high school senior accused of a sex offense for a lesbian relationship with a then-14 year old girl has rejected a deal that would have required her to plead guilty to third-degree felony child abuse. A … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Camille Paglia’s Review of Three Academic Studies of BDSM
Camille Paglia’s Review of Three Academic Studies of BDSM Camille Paglia reviews (here) for the Chronicle three recent books: Three books from university presses dramatize the degree to which once taboo sexual subjects have gained academic legitimacy. Margot Weiss’s Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality (Duke … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Fla. Asst. State Attorney Prosecuting High School Senior for Same-Sex Relationship
Fla. Asst. State Attorney Prosecuting High School Senior for Same-Sex Relationship There is a petition here at change.org urging th eIndian River County (Florida) State Attorney and Assistant Attorney to stop the prosecution of 18-year old Kaitlyn Hunt, an 18-year old high school senior in a consensual relationship with a fellow … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Sexual Behavior and Critics of Consent Theory
Sexual Behavior and Critics of Consent Theory Over (here) at The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf has in interesting take on whether consent is an appropriate litmus test for measuring ethical sexual behavior. Unfortunately, the article’s title — The Ethics of Extreme Porn: Is Some Sex Wrong Even Among … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Corbin on “Compelled Disclosures”
Corbin on “Compelled Disclosures” Carolina Mala Corbin (Miami) has posted to SSRN her article Compelled Disclosures, Ala. L. Rev. (forthcoming). Here is the abstract: Courts have faced a wave of compelled disclosure cases recently. By government mandate, tobacco manufacturers must include graphic warnings on their … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
A Creative Photographer’s Birthday Gift to Her 5 Year-Old Daughter (and the Rest of Us)
A Creative Photographer’s Birthday Gift to Her 5 Year-Old Daughter (and the Rest of Us) Texas-based photographer Jamie C. Moore wanted to take pictures of her daughter Emma on the occasion of Emma’s fifth birthday. She writes (here) on her blog: So my amazing daughter, Emma, turned 5 last month, and I had been searching … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Gender and Curse Words
Gender and Curse Words From Holy Sht: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Moher (via Slate here) : With the development of feminism, many swearwords have become more equal-opportunity, not less. Bitch can now be applied to men and women, as can cunt. … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Spindelman’s Review of Dale Carpenter’s “Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas”
Spindelman’s Review of Dale Carpenter’s “Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas” Marc Spindelman (OSU) has published Tyrone Garner’s Lawrence v. Texas at 111 Mich. L. Rev. 1111 (2013). Here is the abstract: Dale Carpenter’s Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Show More Summary
Persad on “What Marriage Law Can Learn from Citizenship Law (and Vice Versa)”
Persad on “What Marriage Law Can Learn from Citizenship Law (and Vice Versa)” Govind Persad (Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania; PhD Candidate, Philosophy, Stanford University) has posted to SSRN What Marriage Law Can Learn...Show More Summary
Ben-Asher on “The Lawmaking Family”
Ben-Asher on “The Lawmaking Family” Noa Ben-Asher (Pace) has posted to SSRN her working paper The Lawmaking Family. Here is the abstract: Increasingly there are conflicts over families trying to “opt out” of various legal structures, especially public school education. Examples of opting-out conflicts include … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Angelina Jolie On Preventive Mastectomy
Angelina Jolie On Preventive Mastectomy Actress and activist Angelina Jolie writes about her decision to undergo a mastectomy and reconstructive surgery. Her op-ed, “My Medical Choice,” lays out her reasons, which include a discussion of the death of her mother from cancer, and her own … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Student-Teacher Loses Her Job Over SlutWalk
Student-Teacher Loses Her Job Over SlutWalk From the Las Cruces (New Mexico) Sun News (here): [Theresa] Illgen, 23, appeared in a front-page photograph in the Las Cruces Sun-News wearing a bra and appearing to motivate those who marched to educate students, and the public, about the … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Where are the Women? Stanford Law School “CodeX FutureLaw Conference” Edition
Where are the Women? Stanford Law School “CodeX FutureLaw Conference” Edition Check out the line-up for yourself, here. 26 speakers; 25 men. One woman who is a student. Conference organizer Tim Hwang said this in a Law.com article about the purpose of the conference. He said the inspiration behind the conference … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
After More Than a Century, the Netherlands Gets a King
After More Than a Century, the Netherlands Gets a King For the first time in 123 years, the Netherlands has a male sovereign. Queen Beatrix has abdicated, somewhat ironically on Queen’s Day, paving the way for her oldest son, Willem-Alexander, to become the nation’s king. Beatrix follows in the tradition of … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Defining Pregnancy In Law
Defining Pregnancy In Law Khiara M. Bridges, Boston University School of Law, has published When Pregnancy Is an Injury: Rape, Law and Culture, at 65 Stanford Law Review 457 (2013). Here is the abstract. This Article examines criminal statutes that grade more … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
Of Husband Hunting and Diamond Mines
Of Husband Hunting and Diamond Mines There has been a tremendous dust-up in response to Susan Patton’s (a member of the Princeton class of 1977) letter to the Daily Princetonian. In her letter, Patton exhorts Princeton women to begin the task of husband hunting in their … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors
All-woman team from Ethiopia looks to compete in Jessup moot competition
All-woman team from Ethiopia looks to compete in Jessup moot competition Here’s an excerpt from a message Diane Marie Amann has posted over on IntLawGrrls: “For the 1st time in history, a team made up solely of women will represent Ethiopia in the final rounds of the Jessup International Law Moot Court … Continue reading ? Feminist Law Professors