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#CoverYourFangs: Behind the Mask of a University During COVID
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In Fall 2020, St. Mary\u27s University students in Dr. Lindsey Passenger Wieck\u27s Introduction to Public History classes set out to preserve the stories of our campus community during the pandemic. These graduate and undergraduate students added items to the JOTPY COVID-19 Archive and then told stories about these items in the exhibits that follow. In these exhibits, you\u27ll find examples of the struggles faced by our campus community as well as the ways that students, faculty, and staff persevered in the face of these challenges. You\u27ll see ways that our campus spaces have changed and the ways that our classes have changed with virtual learning. In 2020, many of us have learned that we are stronger than we knew. Supporting each other through tough times is the most important things our community can do.https://commons.stmarytx.edu/covidarchives/1000/thumbnail.jp
Mitigating Discrimination by Businesses: Adopting a Substantial Amount of Expression Test in the Wake of the Court\u27s 303 Creative Decision
No full textThe Supreme Court’s recent decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis[1] balanced Colorado’s anti-discrimination public accommodations law and its burden on a website designer’s right to be free from compelled speech.[2] Choosing to hold for the website designer, the Court decided that Ms. Smith was free to refuse her wedding website service to same-sex couples.[3] Put another way, the Court’s decision granted businesses that are open to the public a license to discriminate through the Free Speech Clause. Not only is this the first time that a business’s First Amendment rights overrode a public accommodations law’s compelling interest in preventing discrimination, but to qualify for this license to discriminate, a business only has to engage in “pure speech[.]”[4] A plain reading of the opinion could lead to discrimination against members of the public by a wide array of “creative professionals,”[5] including traditional examples, such as artists and writers, and even extending to other professions, such as lawyers and healthcare professionals.
The Court’s holding creates a license to discriminate that threatens to revive discriminatory practices not seen since before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Therefore, to mitigate the effects of the 303 Creative opinion, the lower courts should interpret the opinion narrowly and adopt a “substantial amount of expression” test to determine if the business claiming this Free Speech Clause license to discriminate is actually engaged in pure speech. A test such as this will involve evaluating the nature of the goods or services to determine if they are sufficiently expressive to garner First Amendment protection and trump the government’s compelling interest behind a public accommodations law. This test draws upon scholarship on the concept of proportionality in constitutional claims, which places some of the burden associated with strict scrutiny on the claimant. Thus, the test will serve to confine the limits of the holding to bona fide claims by businesses actually engaged in expressive activities
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Get PDFProblem: Hard for new gym goers to know how to achieve their goals. Motivation: I had a hard time figuring out how to achieve the goals I wanted in the gym. A lot of it was just not knowing what to do or how to do it. Solution: I want to create an application that will display some basic information, such as maintenance calories and current weight. It will be able to assist with calculations that need to take place to achieve a certain fitness goal.https://commons.stmarytx.edu/rscpos24/1026/thumbnail.jp
Why liberal feminist law fail women volunteers in India and the United States: Between activism and complicity
Get PDFIn this section from my book, Women Volunteers in India and the United States: Between Activism and Complicity, I examine the potential and limitations of liberal-feminist laws in India and the United States to achieve gender equality. Liberal feminism, a strand of feminist thought, argues that gender equality can be achieved by reforming existing legal and political systems. For instance, a liberal-feminist approach to eradicating workplace sexual harassment might involve passing laws like Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which allows employees to seek redress for harms caused by such practices.
Drawing on data from legal texts, feminist writings, interviews, and ethnographic observations of feminist activists in northern India, I argue that while liberal feminism offers a pragmatic strategy by working within existing patriarchal structures, this reliance on patriarchal systems is also its greatest weakness. My analysis of liberal-feminist laws in two vastly different democracies reveals that they often fail to create gender-equitable conditions because they emerge from and operate within patriarchal, male-privileging social systems. Instead of dismantling systemic inequalities, these laws frequently reinforce existing hierarchies and predominantly benefit society’s most privileged groups.
I propose an alternative feminist approach to addressing gender inequality—one that focuses on transforming the underlying sexist social structures rather than addressing isolated issues through piecemeal legal reforms. This broader approach could more effectively address interconnected issues like gender violence and pay inequality, moving toward comprehensive social change rather than lackluster legal solutions.https://commons.stmarytx.edu/rsc25pres/1016/thumbnail.jp
St. Mary\u27s School of Law Graduation, 2018
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St. Mary\u27s School of Law Graduation, 2018
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St. Mary\u27s School of Law Graduation, 2018
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St. Mary\u27s School of Law Graduation, 2018
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St. Mary\u27s School of Law Graduation, 2018
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St. Mary\u27s School of Law Graduation, 2018
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