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In the Supreme Court Today: Sex Discrimination in Passing Your Citizenship On...
In the Supreme Court Today: Sex Discrimination in Passing Your Citizenship On to Your Children In the Supreme Court this morning, the Obama administration is defending discrimination in the law of U.S....
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Record Number of LGBT Asylum Victories, Most from Jamaica
Record Number of LGBT Asylum Victories, Most from Jamaica Immigration Equality, a national organization that helps obtain asylum for individuals persecuted in their home country based on their sexual...
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DOMA and Binational Couples
DOMA and Binational Couples Among the many issues raised by the decision yesterday by the Obama administration to stop defending Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act are those related to the...
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Where are the Immigrant Women on International Women’s Day?
Where are the Immigrant Women on International Women’s Day? They are most likely working, looking for better opportunities and sending money home to the family members that have stayed behind. The...
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New Documentary on Women, War, Family and the Democratic Republic of Congo
New Documentary on Women, War, Family and the Democratic Republic of Congo Women Make Movies is distributing a new documentary film by Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel. Here is the description of...
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Immigration Judge Adjourns Deportation Proceeding of Bi-National Lesbian...
Immigration Judge Adjourns Deportation Proceeding of Bi-National Lesbian Couple Pending DOMA Litigation In what appears to be the first such action of its type, an Immigration Judge in Manhattan has...
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Brown Girl in the Ring (Show Me Your Motion, Not Your Papers)
Brown Girl in the Ring (Show Me Your Motion, Not Your Papers) Brown girl in the ring Tra la la la la There’s a brown girl in the ring Tra la la la la la la Brown girl in the ring Tra la la la la She...
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Introducing the Pace Community Law Practice
Introducing the Pace Community Law Practice The Pace Law Community Practice (PCLP) is one of the first legal services office of its kind in the country. It is a legal residency program that hires Pace...
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Persecution Complex: 3rd Circuit Finds Village Head’s Threat of Marriage or...
Persecution Complex: 3rd Circuit Finds Village Head’s Threat of Marriage or Incarceration Was Not Persecution Substantial evidence supports the BIA’s decision. While Zhang contends that she was...
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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...
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Converge! Re-Imagining the Movement to End Gender Violence
Converge! Re-Imagining the Movement to End Gender Violence CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS - SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL TO converge@law.miami.edu DUE DATE: Friday, October 18, 2013 (may be extended) For...
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Bill Would Bar US Entry For Some Foreign Pregnant Women
Bill Would Bar US Entry For Some Foreign Pregnant Women That’s the title of this article from Law 360. Meanwhile, foreign men are free to come here and impregnate as many women as they like, obtaining...
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Is Ginsburg’s Decision in Sessions v. Morales-Santana Good for Women?
In Sessions v. Morales-Santana, a decision written by Justice Ginsburg, the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional today a federal law that makes it more difficult for U.S. citizen fathers than mothers...
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Upcoming Louis Henkin Lecture on Human Rights @MiamiLawSchool
If you’ll be in Miami on October 15, 2019, please consider attending this lecture at the University of Miami School of Law: 8th Annual Louis Henkin Lecture on Human Rights Featuring: Catherine...
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Cook on “Johnny Appleseed: Citizenship Transmission Laws and a White...
Blanche Bong Cook (Kentucky) has posted to SSRN her article, “Johnny Appleseed: Citizenship Transmission Laws and a White Heteropatriarchal Property Right in Philandering, Sexual Exploitation, and...
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Race, Gender & Class &“Intersecting Inequalities” within Filipina Care Work
Read scholars Jennifer Nazareno, Cynthia Cranford, Lolita Lledo, Valerie Damasco and Patricia Roach’s newly published article in Vol. 36 of the Gender & Society journal entitled, Between Women of...
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UK Government Excludes Migrant Women from Protections in Key Anti-Gender...
As reported in the recent Human Rights Watch piece, “UK: Tackling Violence against Some Women, But Not All,” (July 22, 2022), although the United Kingdom government has just sworn to ratify the...
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