New From Edward Elgar:Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence (Robin West and Cynthia Grant Bowman, eds., 2019). The Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence surveys
feminist theoretical understandings of law, including liberal and radical feminism, as well as socialist, relational, intersectional, post-modern, and pro-sex and [...]
Alan Sage (MIT), Mike Langen (Maastricht University) & Alex Van de Minne (MIT), Where Is the Opportunity in Opportunity Zones? Early Indicators of the Opportunity Zone Program’s
Impact on Commercial Property Prices: In December 2017, the U.S. Congress passed into law the Opportunity Zone (OZ) program, offering significant tax benefits... [...]
Kristy D'Angelo-Corker, Don't Call me Sweetheart!:Why the ABA's New Rule Addressing Harassment and Discrimination is so Important for Women Working in the Legal Profession
Today, 23 Hofstra L. Rev. 263 (2019) Popular culture has recently shone a spotlight on the... [...]
Mary Ziegler, The End of the Rape and Incest Exception, NYT All of a sudden, abortion opponents have abandoned rape and incest exceptions to abortion bans. Louisiana became
the latest state to do so last month, following Ohio, Mississippi and,... [...]
New book, Linda Hirshman, Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment (2019) Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping
story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace... [...]
GOP Vermont Governor Signs Sweeping Abortion Rights Bill into Law Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) on Monday signed into law an expansive abortion rights bill that seeks to preserve
a woman’s right to the procedure. "Like many Vermonters, I have... [...]
The AALS Section on Legal History is pleased to announce a call for papers for its section program, which will be held during the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.
The program is entitled “A Century of Women’s Suffrage.”... [...]
Moira Aikenhead, A '"Reasonable" Expectation of Sexual Privacy in the Digital Age, 41 Dalhousie L.J. 274 (2018) Two Criminal Code offences, voyeurism, and the publication of
intimate images without consent, were enacted to protect Canadians’ right to sexual privacy in... [...]
Yvonne Lindgren, Trump's Angry White Women: Motherhood, Nationalism, and Abortion, Hofstra L. Rev. (forthcoming) A majority of white women — fifty-two percent — voted for
Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. White working-class women supported Trump in even greater... [...]
Melissa Hamilton, The Sexist Algorithm, 38 Behavioral Sciences & the Law 145 (2019) Algorithmic risk assessment tools are informed by scientific research concerning which factors
are predictive of recidivism and thus support the evidence‐based practice movement in criminal justice. [...]
