Women & the Law Seminar

This seminar explores concrete legal problems of particular and current concern to women.

Among the areas potentially covered by the seminar paper and weekly readings are:

• women in the legal profession; women in the workplace;
• women athletes and women as students;
• work/family conflicts; domestic violence, rape, and other violence against women;
• sexual discrimination and harassment;
• divorce and child custody;
• abortion and other regulation of biological reproduction;
• rights of minors as a matter of gender, prostitution and pornography, prosecution of women who commit crimes, especially women who kill domestic partners or who abuse or neglect their children;
• prosecution of women who abuse drugs or alcohol while pregnant;
• treatment of women in the military, treatment of women in international law; and,
• treatment of women as women, versus women as lesbians or women as part of a particular racial, cultural, or religious grouping.