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The Inclusion Solution
No full textThe legacy of residential segregation in our country continues to have lasting consequences today. In this talk, Mark Dorosin describes how excluded communities have become the targets of unwanted infrastructure (like landfills), funding cuts, and lackluster city services and what we can do to solve this persistent problem of institutional discrimination. Mark Dorosin is the Co-Director of the Julius L. Chambers Center for Civil Rights, a nonprofit law firm providing low-wealth NC communities with legal representation in their efforts to dismantle structural racism. He is also a Professor at the UNC Law School and currently serves as Chair of the Orange County Board of Commissioners. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.https://commons.law.famu.edu/cilj-lectures-pres/1009/thumbnail.jp
The Pink Ghetto Pipeline: Challenges & Opportunities for Women in Legal Education
Full text linkThe demographics of law schools are changing and women make up the majority of law students. Yet, the demographics of many law faculties do not reflect these changing demographics with more men occupying faculty seats. In legal education, women predominately occupy skills positions, including legal writing, clinic, academic success, bar preparation, or library. According to a 2010 Association of American Law Schools survey, the percentage of female lecturers and instructors is so high that those positions are stereotypically female.
The term coined for positions typically held by women is pink ghetto. According to the Department of Labor, pink-collar-worker describes jobs and career areas historically considered women\u27s work, and included on the list is teaching. However, in legal education, tenured and higher-ranked positions are held primarily by men, while women often enter legal education through non-tenured and non-faculty skills-based teaching pipelines. In a number of these positions, women experience challenges like poor pay, heavy workloads, and lower status such as by contract, nontenure, or at will.
While many may view this as a challenge, looking at these positions solely as a pink ghetto diminishes the many contributions women have made to legal education through the skills faculty pipelines. Conversely, we miss the opportunity to examine how legal education has changed and how women have accepted the challenge of being on the front line of educating this new generation of learners while enthusiastically adopting the American Bar Association\u27s new standards for assessment and student learning. There is an opportunity for women to excel in these positions if we provide them with allies who champion for equal status and provide the requisite support.
This article focuses on the changing gender demographics of legal education, legal education pipelines, and the role and status of women in higher education with an emphasis on legal education. The final section applies feminist pedagogy to address challenges, opportunities, and aspirations for women in legal education
2019 Hooding Ceremony Program
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The Double Whammy of Being Female and African-American: How Black Women are More Vulneralbe to Trafficking and Other Forms of Discrimination
Full text linkCommercial sexual exploitation discriminates even among those that fall prey to this heinous criminal enterprise. It is impossible to comprehensively discuss this topic without addressing the fact that the majority of victims are female, females of color, traditionally are from a lower economic status, tend to not have as many educational opportunities, have experienced some form of abuse and trauma, have been a part of the foster care system, and have other vulnerabilities that make them even more susceptible to being trafficked. This discussion would be incomplete without also addressing how trafficking is connected to race and racial discrimination, poverty, the foster care system, gender, migration and inadequate access to real educational opportunities. Each of these factors contributes to the flourishing and lucrative business of trafficking. As a result, those subject to these conditions are more vulnerable and more likely to be trafficked. The vast majority of victims of human trafficking victims are African-American females. Many states prosecute victims of sex trafficking as prostitutes and do not distinguish between adults and children. This article addresses how our criminal justice system failed Cyntoia Brown and is also failing countless other women of color in the same or similar situations. This article may refer to African American youth, not distinguishing between males and females; this is because so few studies break down statistics between the sexes. This only solidifies the point regarding intersectionality and oppression referred to in the article
The Economics of Water Quality
No full textThis volume brings together a number of prominent economic studies all of which deal with key water quality issues. The studies focus on the economic aspects of water quality including identifying the polluters\u27 actions and incentives, designing and comparing control mechanisms, analyzing the costs and benefits of water quality programmes, and finally managing transboundary water quality. They all make recommendations for improving water quality through changing incentives, programmes and/or policies.https://commons.law.famu.edu/faculty-books/1047/thumbnail.jp
The Female Body in the Workplace: Judges and the Common Law
Full text linkIf the common law serves to liberate women, everybody, including judges, should understand the role they do play and should play in the development of the common law. As a career law clerk in the federal courts, I witnessed the decision-making process inside the chambers of federal judges and in the courtrooms. I came to the conclusion that judges, more than statutory law, influence what happens to female bodies in the workplace. Litigants initially drive the common law by filing complaints. However, judicial decisions affect not only the litigants in their individual cases, they also serve as precedent for future conduct, and they influence plaintiffs and their attorneys to file or forego litigation
A Life Worth Living: Fighting Filicide Against Children With Disabilities
Full text linkThis article aims to explore filicide as it relates to children with disabilities. Filicide is a specific type of killing where a parent murders his or her own child. Part II gives a historical perspective on filicide. Part II also explains the various reasons behind filicide and why those reasons specifically apply to the killings of children with disabilities. Further, Part III explores the relationship between sentencing disparities in cases where society sympathizes with the parents of children with disabilities and condemns parents of nondisabled children. Part III also argues that children with disabilities face additional barriers in the fight for access to justice than their victimized, nondisabled counterparts. Part IV concludes by proposing a solution as to how Western society could end filicide against disabled children by protecting them from parents and caregivers who may possibly endanger their lives. Part IV also offers a final reflection on why the lives of children with disabilities deserve to be protected and cherished
Social Justice and Activism in Libraries
No full textThe chapter Research Skills in International Issues and Social Justice Programs: Talking Points and Literature Review discusses the use of international human rights issues to convey the importance of conducting research to understand a human rights issues, its cultural and economic causes, and the importance of taking societal norms and structures into consideration when crafting solutions for problems.https://commons.law.famu.edu/faculty-books/1032/thumbnail.jp
Unbowed, Unbroken, and Unsung: The Unrecognized Contributions of African American Women in Social Movement, Politics, and the Maintenance of Democracy
Full text linkBlack women have made huge contributions to American society in movements, politics, and maintenance of the democracy. Black women have been relegated to footnotes, turned in memes, and largely ignored in politics and other areas of power. Notwithstanding the disrespect, disregard, and failures of the larger society to acknowledge that black own have made significant contributions, not only in the in entertainment industry, but in numerous other ways that have shaped out cultural and political landscape, black women\u27s contributions to the larger society have been huge and impactful; yet there are so many blank spaces where their stories should reside. There is no question that gender plays a glaring role in the collection of history, and women from every other racial category may make a similar argument. However, black women are the focus of this Essay; other are are available to tell their own tales