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Volume 11, Number 2 (Summer 2000)

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Volume 11, Number 1 (Winter 2000)

© Copyright 2000 Hastings College of the Law

U.S. Dietary Supplement Regulation:  Belief systems And Legal Rules

Article by Michael H. Cohen

Still Cloudy, With Little Chance of Clearing:  FDA's Proposed Rule on Structure/Function Claims for Dietary Supplements

Commentary by Michele Simon

Herbal Remedies Are Not Dietary Supplements:  A Proposal For Regulatory Reform

Note by Cary Elizabeth Zuk

Breaking the Federal/State Impasse Over Medical Marijuana:  A Proposal

Policy Commentary by Marsha N. Cohen

The Criminalization of Medicinal Marijuana

Speeches from the 1999 HWLJ Symposium

When Service With a Smile Invites More than Satisfied Customers:  Third Party Sexual Harassment and the Implications Of Charges Against Safeway

Note by Sarah L. Ream

Amicus Curiae Brief:  Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education

Filed with the U.S. Supreme Court

Volume 10, Number 2 (Summer 1999)

© Copyright 1999 Hastings College of the Law

A Congratulatory Note

by David I. Levine

Metaphor, Women and Law

Note by Adam Arms

The Risks of State Intervention in Preventing Prenatal Alcohol Abuse and the Viability of an Inclusive Approach:  Arguments for Limiting Punitive and Coercive Prenatal Alcohol Abuse Legislation in Minnesota

Article by Caroline S. Palmer

A Comparative Analysis of Women's Issues:  Toward a Contextualized Methodology

Article by Antoinette Sedillo López

Protecting Children:  Explaining Disparities in the Female Offender's Pretrial Process, and Policy Issues Surrounding Lenient Treatment of Mothers

Note by Sean B. Berberian

Why Breastfeeding is (Also) a Legal Issue

Article by Corey Silberstein Shdaimah

Illegally Yours

Essay by Laura Weinstock

In the Padded Closet:  Thoughts on a Secret Life

Essay by Naomi A. Himmelhoch

Volume 10, Number 1 (Winter 1999)

© Copyright 1999 Hastings College of the Law

Introduction

by Minal A. Shah

Economic Justice for Sex Workers

Article by Margo St. James

Shining the Spotlight on Johns:  Moving Toward Equal Treatment of Male Customers and Female Prostitutes

Note by Julie Lefler

Duet:  Prostitution, Racism and Feminist Discourse

Article by Vednita Carter and Evelina Giobbe

A First Hand Look at the San Francisco Task Force Report on Prostitution

Article by Carol Leigh

What's Wrong with Prostitution?  What's Right with Sex Work?   Comparing Markets in Female Sexual Labor

Article by Elizabeth Bernstein

For Their Own Good:  The Results of the Prostitution Laws as Enforced by Cops, Politicians and Judges

Article by Norma Jean Almodovar

Feminists as Collaborators and Prostitutes as Autobiographers:   De-Constructing an Inclusive Yet Political Feminist Jurisprudence

Article by Cynthia Chandler

Sex Work and Feminism:  Building Alliances Through a Dialogue Between Siobhan Brooks and Professor Angela Davis

Interview by Siobhan Brooks

"A Million Dollars and an Apology":  Prostitution and Public Benefits Claims

Article by Margaret A. Baldwin

I Dance for a Living

Article & Photographs by Dawn Passar

An Uncommon Alliance:  Finding Empowerment for Exotic Dancers through Labor Unions

Note by Sarah Chun

Volume 9, Number 2 (Fall 1998)

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Amicus Curiae Brief:  Cornelia Whitner v. The State of South Carolina

Amicus Curiae Brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court

Unprotected Identities:  Recognizing Cultural Ethnic Divergence In Interpreting Title VII's "National Origin" Classification

Note by Eugenio Abellera Cruz

Child Care Tax Credits, the Child Tax Credit, and the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997:  Congress' Missed Opportunity to Provide Parents Needed Relief from the Astronomical Costs of Child Care

Article by Sara J. Beuhler

Inscription Fantasies and Interface Erotics:  A Social-Material Analysis of Keyboards, Repetitive Strain Injuries and Products Liability Law

Article by Sarah S. Jain

The Transition from Property to People:  The Road to the Recognition of Rights for Non-Human Animals

Note by Derek W. St. Pierre

Self-Reflection within the Academy:  The Absence of Women in Constitutional Jurisprudence

Article by Karin Mika

Volume 9, Number 1 (Winter 1998)

© Copyright 1998 Hastings College of the Law

Female Juvenile Delinquency:  Sexual Solutions, Gender Bias, and Juvenile Justice

Article by Laurie Schaffner

Riding the Punishment Wave:  On the Origins of Our Devolving Standards of Decency

Article by Craig Haney

The Immigrant as Criminal:  Punishing Dreamers

Article by Bill Ong Hing

Sliding Backwards:  The Impact of California Evidence Code Section 1108 on Character Evidence, Rape Shield Laws and the Presumption of Innocence

Article by Celia McGuinness

The Laws of Community:  The Normative Implications of Crime, Common Interest Developments, and "Celebration"

Note by Dana Young

Volume 8, Number 2 (Fall 1997)

© Copyright 1997 Hastings College of the Law

A World View for the Next Generation of American Feminists:  Lessons Learned From the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women at Beijing

Essay by Megan Ryan

Across Boundaries:  The Emergence of an International Movement of Women with Disabilities

Article by Jennifer Kern

The Development of Gender-Based Asylum Law:  A Critique of the 1995 INS Guidelines

Note by Diana Saso

The Rights Framework in Reproductive Health Advocacy -- A Reappraisal

Article by Bharati Sadasivam

Why Packing a Pistol Perpetuates Patriarchy

Essay by Alana Bassin

Complaint-Filing Interviews and the Constitution of the Organizational Structure:  Understanding the Limitations of Rape Reform

Article by Lisa Frohman

Claiming Our Foremothers:  The Legend of Sally Hemings and the Tasks of Black Feminist Theory

Article by Stephanie L. Phillips

Volume 8, Number 1 (Winter 1997)

© Copyright 1997 Hastings College of the Law

Law and the Gendered Politics of Identity: Who Owns the Label "Lesbian"?

Article by Elvia R. Arriola

All Roads are Good: Beyond the Lexicon of Christianity in Free Exercise Jurisprudence

Article by Verna C. Sanchez

A Feminist Response to the Exon Bill

Note by Sarah Chester

Working on the "Mommy-Track": Motherhood and Women Lawyers

Article by Rebecca Korzec

Peer Sexual Harassment: Existing Harassment Doctrine and its Application to School Children

Article by Amy M. Rubin

Outlaw Mothers

Note by Jenny Wald

Shape-Shifters, Masqueraders, & Subversives: An Argument for the Liberation of Transgendered Individuals

Note by Hasan Shafiqullah

Volume 7, Number 2 (Summer 1996)

© Copyright 1996 Hastings College of the Law

She Defined the Common Good

Dedication to Barbara Jordan by Eva Jefferson Paterson and Cheryl A. Stevens

Reframing the Welfare Debate: Advocating for the Poor in the 1990s

Forward by Andrew L. Barlow

Scapegoating the Poor: Welfare Reform All Over Again and the Undermining of Democratic Citizenship

Article by Mark Neal Aaronson

From Mother's Duty to Personal Responsibility: The Evolution of AFDC

Article by Jill Duerr Berrick

A Street Without an Exit: Excerpts From the Lives of Latinas in Post-187 California

Article by Tanya Broder and Clara Luz Navarro

Women's Work: Attitudes, Regulation, and Lack of Power within the Sex Industry

Note by Heidi Machen

The Women's Committee of 100 Plus, and Our Advertisement in The New York Times

Article by Deirdre English

Welfare Reform: Implications and Alternatives

Article by Neil Gilbert

The Burden of History Haunts Current Welfare Reform

Article by Mary Ann Mason

Noble Justice, Ignobly Applied: A Review of Neil Gilbert's Welfare Justice: Restoring Social Equity

Book Review by Randi Mandelbaum

Welfare Reform Meets Ideological Impasse

Article by Stephen D. Sugarman

Insightfully Depicting the "Trees" but Blurring the "Forest": A Review of Jill Duerr Berricks's Faces of Poverty: Portraits of Women and Children on Welfare

Book Review by Shauna I. Marshall

By Hook or by Crook: Conformity, Assimilation and Liberal and Conservative Poor Relief Theory

Article by Larry Cata Backer

Volume 7, Number 1 (Winter 1996)

© Copyright 1996 Hastings College of the Law

United States v. Virginia: Reinforcing Archaic Stereotypes About Women in the Military Under the Flawed Guise of Educational Diversity

Article by Lucille M. Ponte

California Healthcare Workers and Mandatory Reporting of Intimate Violence

Article by Donna Mooney and Michael Rodriguez, M.D.

Note Topics, Professors, and Scholarship: An Autobiographical Sketch of a Law School Experience

Note by Jason Broth

The Hollow Piercing Scream: An Ode for Black Faculty in the Tenure Canal

Poem by Vincene Verdun and Vernellia Randall

Advocating the Use of California's Stalking Statutes to Prosecute Radical Anti-Abortion Protestors

Note by Olga Rodriguez

Women's Work: Attitudes, Regulation, and Lack of Power within the Sex Industry

Note by Heidi Machen

Volume 6, Number 2 (Summer 1995)

© Copyright 1995 Hastings College of the Law

We are proud to present Volume 6, Number 2, The O.J. Simpson Symposium Issue. Our goal for Volume 6:2 was to draw together scholarship concerning issues of race, class and gender within the context of the O.J. Simpson trial. We have pulled together a diverse group of scholars who have explored an extremely wide range of topics and perspectives. Also available is the full text of a student note published in this issue. We hope that you will be engaged by our presentation and perspective.

Seeing the Elephant

Foreword by C. Keith Wingate

Rosa Lopez, David Letterman, Christopher Darden and Me: Issues of Gender, Ethnicity and Class in Evaluating Witness Credibility (Summary)

Essay by Maria L. Ontiveros

Liars and Lycanthropes: Cultural Images in People v. Simpson (Summary)

Essay by Terry Kay Diggs

Beyond Black and White:
Racializing Asian Americans in a Society Obsessed with O.J. (Summary)

Essay by Cynthia Kwei Yung Lee

Fantasy, Celebrity and Homicide (Summary)

Essay by Thomas Morawetz

Orenthal James Simpson and Gender, Race and Class: In That Order (Summary)

Essay by Crystal Weston

Crossing the Racial Divide: Challenging Stereotypes About Black Jurors (Summary)

Responsive Essay by Richard Boswell

The Other Box: Intersectionality and the O.J. Simpson Trial (Summary)

Responsive Essay by Jami Floyd

Guilt, Reasonable Doubt and the Reasonable Woman (Summary)

Responsive Essay by Rory K. Little

The Big Game: Metaphor and Education in the Simpson Trial (Summary)

Responsive Essay by Eileen A. Scallen

Professional Women and the Professionalization of Motherhood:
Marcia Clark's Double Bind (Summary)

Article by D. Kelly Weisberg

Protective Order Enforcement: Another Pirouette (Summary)

Article by Margaret Martin Barry

The Efficacy of the California Stalking Law: Surveying Its Evolution, Extracting Insights from Domestic Violence Cases (Summary)

Note by Tatia Jordan

Volume 6, Number 1 (Winter 1995)

© Copyright 1995 Hastings College of the Law

Domestic Violence and Title III of the Violence Against Women Act of 1993:
A Feminist Critique

Article by Birgit Schmidt am Busch

Progress Report: Women and People of Color in Legal Education and
the Legal Profession

Article by Valerie Fontaine

Gender Bias in Health: A Life or Death Issue for Women with Coronary Heart Disease

Article by Carol Jonann Bess

Legal Backlash: The Expanding Liability of Women Who Fail to Protect Their Children from Their Male Partner's Abuse

Article by Linda J. Panko

Sexual Harassment by a Public Official Gives Rise to a Section 1983 Claim:
A Legal Argument

Article by George Likourezous

Absence of Choice, Presence of Guilt

Poem by Elizabeth Todd

Reasonable Person and I

Poem by Lydia J. Carlsgaard

Volume 5, Number 2 (Summer 1994)

© Copyright 1994 Hastings College of the Law

Women and Rape in Ethnic Conflict and War

Speech by Dorean Marguerite Koenig

The Civil Lawsuit as a Remedy for International Human Rights Violations Against Women

Article by Beth Stephens

Affecting the Rules for the Prosecution of Rape and Other Gender-Based Violence Before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: A Feminist Proposal and Critique

Article by Jennifer Green, Rhonda Copelon, Patrick Cotter, Beth Stephens, and Kathleen Pratt

Appendix A:
Excerpts from the Rules of Procedure and Evidence

Appendix B:
Gender Justice and the Constitution of the War Crimes Tribunal Pursuant to Security Council Resolution 808 (A Memorandum Prepared by the International Women's Human Rights Clinic of CUNY Law School)

Surfacing Gender: Re-Engraving Crimes Against Women In Humanitarian Law

Article by Rhonda Copelon

A Response to Catharine MacKinnon's Article "Turning Rape Into Pornography: Postmodern Genocide"

Commentary by Vesna Kesic

Women Are Human: Gender-Based Persecution Is A Human Rights Violation Against Women

Article by Priscilla F. Warren

Volume 5, Number 1 (Winter 1994)

Foreword

© Copyright 1994 Hastings College of the Law

"Woman" in the Service of National Identity

by Julie Mertus

Violations of the Rules of War By Bosnian Croat and Muslim Forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina

by Ivana Nizich

BISER: A Conversation with Bosnian Women Living in Exile

by Diana Kapidzic and Aida Daidzic

Rape as a Weapon of War in the Former Yugoslavia

Hastings Law School Symposium

No Justice, No Peace: Accountability for Rape and Gender-Based Violence in the Former Yugoslavia

Based on a Mission of the Women in the Law Project of the International Human Rights Law Group

Volume 4, Number 2 (Summer 1993)

© Copyright 1993 Hastings College of the Law

Civil Rights and Suffrage: Myra Bradwell's Struggle for the Equal Citizenship for Women

by Louisa S. Ruffine

Toward Gender Equality in Professional Sports

by Syda Kosofsky

A Lesbian Feminist Critique of Susan Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family: Lesbian Families with Children as a Non-Heterosexist Model for the Development of Morality and Justice

by Deborah M. Henson

Deaths

by Jim Miller

Volume 4, Number 1 (Winter 1993)

© Copyright 1993 Hastings College of the Law

Clemency for Battered Women Who Kill Their Abusers: Finding a Just Forum

by Alison M. Madden

The Breadth of Context and the Depth of Myth: Completing the Feminist Paradigm

by Emily Calhoun

The Case Against Gender-Based Peremptory Challenges

by David Everett Marko

Organizing for Change: A Community Law Response to Police Misconduct

by Dianne L Martin

Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer 1992)

© Copyright 1992 Hastings College of the Law

Learning to Teach Gender, Race, Class, and Heterosexism: Challenge in the Classroom and Clinic

by Beverly Balos

Teaching Law Reform in the 1990s

by Jane E. Schukoske

Are You My Mother? A Judge's Decision in In Vitro Fertilization Surrogacy

by Suzanne F. Seavello

Building Multicultural Alliances: A Practical Guide

by Bisola Marignay

Montana Fight Over Women's Rights

by Carl Tobias

Volume 3, Number 1 (Winter 1992)

© Copyright 1992 Hastings College of the Law

On Motherhood and Working

by Linda Joy Kattwinkel

Latinas in Crisis:
A Struggle for Rights in the Face of Oppression --
Addresses from the Conference

A Brief Note on the Birth of Latinas

by Rocio, de Lourdes Cordoba

Violence Against Undocumented Women

by Sandra Henriquez Cacavas

The Latina Reproductive Rights Movement

by Luz Alvarez Martinez

When Mommy or Daddy is Gay: Developing Constitutional Standards for Custody Decisions

by Paula A. Brantner

Statutory Interpretation and the Public Interest

by Zacharia Nethercot

On the Night in Question

by Kirstin Olsen

Volume 2, Number 1 (Spring 1990)

© Copyright 1990 Hastings College of the Law

a poem for africans at hastings law school

by Lisa B. Thompson

An Equal Protection Analysis of Restrictive Abortion Laws: Affirmative Steps to Protect Women's Liberty

by Beth Morrow

Susan Q. Wombwoman v. State of California

by Laura Weinstock

Whatever Made You Think I Was Consenting: A Proposal to Silence Patriarchal Influence in Civil Sexual Assault Cases

by Mary Ellen Lemieux

Censorship and the Portrayal of Lesbian Existence in the English Literary Tradition

by Carol-Lynn Thompson

Bringing Fiction to Justice: Including Individual Narrative in Judicial Opinions

by Valerie Karno

Final Report of the California Senate Task Force on Family Equity

by Joanne Schulman, Sara McCarthy & Mimi Modisette
This Report was first published as a California State Senate Publication in June 1987.   This Volume contains Chapters I (Judiciary), 2 (Community Property), and 5 (Child Support). The Preface, Introduction, and Chapters 3 (Family Home) and 4 (Spousal Support) were reprinted in Volume 1: 1.

Volume 1, Number 1 (Spring 1989)

© Copyright 1989 Hastings College of the Law

Foreword

by Mary Dunlap

Final Report of the California Senate Task Force on Family Equity

by Joanne Schulman, Sara McCarthy & Mimi Modisette

A Personal Journey Through Feminist Legal Theory

by Diane M. Bessette

Beyond the Battered Woman Syndrome: An Argument for the Development of New Standards and the Incorporation of a Feminine Approach to Ethics

by Deborah Kochan

Personal Experiences of a Deaf Law Student

by Alice McGill

Less State Intervention and Greater State Assistance' Equals Greater Maternal Rights and Less Prenatal Abuse

by Cecilia McGraw

Poems:

Ode to a Crim Teacher

by Laura Weinstock

Untitled

by Michelle Ben-Hur

The Technological Mother: The Aftermath of Roe v. Wade

          by Joanna K. Weinberg

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