Cultural feminism and substantive law

Feminism, law, and bioethics.

Feminist legal theory provides a healthy skepticism toward legal doctrine and insists that we reexamine even formally gender-neutral rules to uncover problematic assumptions behind them. The article first outlines feminist legal theory from the perspectives of liberal, cultural, and radical feminism. Examples of how each theory influences legal practice, case law, and legislation are highlighte...

Law and Cultural Conflict

Law, Culture, and Cultural Appropriation

Cultural Chauvinism in Comparative Law

Cultural evidence, child maltreatment, and the law.

This article addresses child maltreatment law's use of cultural evidence. Such evidence, offered by immigrant and nonmainstream parents accused of child maltreatment, serves to mitigate intervention in families or to minimize punishment for the offense. The article explores how the two areas of law that currently regulate child maltreatment--criminal and child welfare law--approach the use of s...