Gender

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Deconstructing CEDAW’s Article 14: Naming and Explaining Rural Difference, William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law (2011)

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is the...

 

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Judging Parents, Judging Place: Poverty, Rurality and Termination of Parental Rights (with Janet L. Wallace), (Forthcoming) Missouri Law Review (2011)

Parents are constantly judged, by fellow parents and by wider society. But the consequences of...

 

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The Geography of the Class Culture Wars, Seattle University Law Review (2011)

This Essay is a contribution to a colloquy about Joan C. Williams’s book, Reshaping the...

 

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How You Gonna’ Keep Her Down on the Farm, University of Missouri, Kansas City Law Review (2010)

This is a contribution to a collection of autobiographical essays, “One-L Revisited,” in which authors...

 

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Gender, Geography & Rural Justice, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice (2009)

Like other legal scholars, feminists often think about social change over time, using history as...

 

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Migration, Development and the Promise of CEDAW for Rural Women, Michigan Journal of International Law (2009)

This Article explores the potential of international development efforts and human rights law to enhance...

 

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Place Matters: Domestic Violence and Rural Difference, Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society (2008)

This Article considers the phenomenon of domestic violence in relation to the rural-urban axis. Written...

 

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Rural Families and Work-Family Issues, Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia (2008)

This essay, an entry for the on-line Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia, provides an overview...

 

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Toward a Feminist Theory of the Rural, Utah Law Review (2007)

Feminists have often criticized law’s ignorance of women’s practical, lived experiences, even as they have...

 

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A Kinder, Gentler Law School? Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Legal Education at King Hall, UC Davis Law Review (2005)

Diversity is touted as a preeminent concern and important goal of the legal profession generally...

 

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Her Own Good Name: Two Centuries of Talk about Chastity, Maryland Law Review (2004)

Since the earliest days of U.S. legal history, women have sought legal redress for statements...

 

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"On the Chastity of Women all Property in the World Depends": Injury from Sexual Slander in the Nineteenth Century, Indiana Law Journal (2003)

In this Article, Professor Pruitt discusses conceptions of the injury associated with defamation law, focusing...

 

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Law Review Story, Arkansas Law Review (1997)

This essay is the story of the author’s election as editor-in-chief of the Arkansas Law...

 

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A Survey of Feminist Jurisprudence, UALR Law Journal (1994)

This essay articulates a relatively early taxonomy of the various strands of feminist legal theory....

 

Migration

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Deconstructing CEDAW’s Article 14: Naming and Explaining Rural Difference, William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law (2011)

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is the...

 

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Human Rights and Development for India's Rural Remnant: A Capabilities-Based Assessment, U.C. Davis L. Rev. (2011)

The cachet that India currently enjoys on the world stage is linked largely to the...

 

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Latina/os, Locality, and Law in the Rural South, Harvard Latino Law Review (2009)

In this era of municipal anti-immigrant ordinances and federal-local cooperation to enforce immigration laws, legal...

 

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Migration, Development and the Promise of CEDAW for Rural Women, Michigan Journal of International Law (2009)

This Article explores the potential of international development efforts and human rights law to enhance...

 

Rural

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Deconstructing CEDAW’s Article 14: Naming and Explaining Rural Difference, William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law (2011)

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is the...

 

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Human Rights and Development for India's Rural Remnant: A Capabilities-Based Assessment, U.C. Davis L. Rev. (2011)

The cachet that India currently enjoys on the world stage is linked largely to the...

 

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Judging Parents, Judging Place: Poverty, Rurality and Termination of Parental Rights (with Janet L. Wallace), (Forthcoming) Missouri Law Review (2011)

Parents are constantly judged, by fellow parents and by wider society. But the consequences of...

 

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The Geography of the Class Culture Wars, Seattle University Law Review (2011)

This Essay is a contribution to a colloquy about Joan C. Williams’s book, Reshaping the...

 

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Spatial Inequality as Constitutional Infirmity: Equal Protection, Child Poverty and Place, Montana Law Review (2010)

This is the first in a series of articles that maps legal conceptions of (in)equality...

 

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How You Gonna’ Keep Her Down on the Farm, University of Missouri, Kansas City Law Review (2010)

This is a contribution to a collection of autobiographical essays, “One-L Revisited,” in which authors...

 

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Justice Deserts: Spatial Inequality and Local Funding of Indigent Defense, Arizona Law Review (2010)

This Article, written for a symposium on “Funding Justice,” maps legal conceptions of (in)equality onto...

 

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Gender, Geography & Rural Justice, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice (2009)

Like other legal scholars, feminists often think about social change over time, using history as...

 

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Latina/os, Locality, and Law in the Rural South, Harvard Latino Law Review (2009)

In this era of municipal anti-immigrant ordinances and federal-local cooperation to enforce immigration laws, legal...

 

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Migration, Development and the Promise of CEDAW for Rural Women, Michigan Journal of International Law (2009)

This Article explores the potential of international development efforts and human rights law to enhance...

 

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The Forgotten Fifth: Rural Youth and Substance Abuse, Stanford Law & Policy Review (2009)

This Article seeks to raise the visibility of the roughly twenty percent of the U.S....

 

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Place Matters: Domestic Violence and Rural Difference, Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society (2008)

This Article considers the phenomenon of domestic violence in relation to the rural-urban axis. Written...

 

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Rural Families and Work-Family Issues, Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia (2008)

This essay, an entry for the on-line Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia, provides an overview...

 

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Toward a Feminist Theory of the Rural, Utah Law Review (2007)

Feminists have often criticized law’s ignorance of women’s practical, lived experiences, even as they have...

 

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Rural Rhetoric, Connecticut Law Review (2006)

This Article investigates law’s constitutive rhetoric about rural people, places, and livelihoods. Specifically, it considers...

 

Socioeconomic Class and Welfare

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Deconstructing CEDAW’s Article 14: Naming and Explaining Rural Difference, William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law (2011)

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is the...

 

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Human Rights and Development for India's Rural Remnant: A Capabilities-Based Assessment, U.C. Davis L. Rev. (2011)

The cachet that India currently enjoys on the world stage is linked largely to the...

 

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Judging Parents, Judging Place: Poverty, Rurality and Termination of Parental Rights (with Janet L. Wallace), (Forthcoming) Missouri Law Review (2011)

Parents are constantly judged, by fellow parents and by wider society. But the consequences of...

 

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The Geography of the Class Culture Wars, Seattle University Law Review (2011)

This Essay is a contribution to a colloquy about Joan C. Williams’s book, Reshaping the...

 

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Spatial Inequality as Constitutional Infirmity: Equal Protection, Child Poverty and Place, Montana Law Review (2010)

This is the first in a series of articles that maps legal conceptions of (in)equality...

 

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How You Gonna’ Keep Her Down on the Farm, University of Missouri, Kansas City Law Review (2010)

This is a contribution to a collection of autobiographical essays, “One-L Revisited,” in which authors...

 

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Justice Deserts: Spatial Inequality and Local Funding of Indigent Defense, Arizona Law Review (2010)

This Article, written for a symposium on “Funding Justice,” maps legal conceptions of (in)equality onto...

 

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Missing the Mark: Welfare Reform and Rural Poverty, The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice (2007)

This article, written for a symposium assessing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act...

 

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A Kinder, Gentler Law School? Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Legal Education at King Hall, UC Davis Law Review (2005)

Diversity is touted as a preeminent concern and important goal of the legal profession generally...

 

Defamation

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Her Own Good Name: Two Centuries of Talk about Chastity, Maryland Law Review (2004)

Since the earliest days of U.S. legal history, women have sought legal redress for statements...

 

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"On the Chastity of Women all Property in the World Depends": Injury from Sexual Slander in the Nineteenth Century, Indiana Law Journal (2003)

In this Article, Professor Pruitt discusses conceptions of the injury associated with defamation law, focusing...

 

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Law Review Story, Arkansas Law Review (1997)

This essay is the story of the author’s election as editor-in-chief of the Arkansas Law...

 

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The Law of Defamation: An Arkansas Primer, Arkansas Law Review (1989)

This article is a mini-treatise on the law of defamation in Arkansas.

 

Crime

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The Forgotten Fifth: Rural Youth and Substance Abuse, Stanford Law & Policy Review (2009)

This Article seeks to raise the visibility of the roughly twenty percent of the U.S....

 

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Place Matters: Domestic Violence and Rural Difference, Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society (2008)

This Article considers the phenomenon of domestic violence in relation to the rural-urban axis. Written...

 

Families

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Judging Parents, Judging Place: Poverty, Rurality and Termination of Parental Rights (with Janet L. Wallace), (Forthcoming) Missouri Law Review (2011)

Parents are constantly judged, by fellow parents and by wider society. But the consequences of...

 

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The Geography of the Class Culture Wars, Seattle University Law Review (2011)

This Essay is a contribution to a colloquy about Joan C. Williams’s book, Reshaping the...

 

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Spatial Inequality as Constitutional Infirmity: Equal Protection, Child Poverty and Place, Montana Law Review (2010)

This is the first in a series of articles that maps legal conceptions of (in)equality...

 

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Gender, Geography & Rural Justice, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice (2009)

Like other legal scholars, feminists often think about social change over time, using history as...

 

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Migration, Development and the Promise of CEDAW for Rural Women, Michigan Journal of International Law (2009)

This Article explores the potential of international development efforts and human rights law to enhance...

 

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Place Matters: Domestic Violence and Rural Difference, Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society (2008)

This Article considers the phenomenon of domestic violence in relation to the rural-urban axis. Written...

 

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Rural Families and Work-Family Issues, Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia (2008)

This essay, an entry for the on-line Sloan Work and Family Encyclopedia, provides an overview...

 

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Toward a Feminist Theory of the Rural, Utah Law Review (2007)

Feminists have often criticized law’s ignorance of women’s practical, lived experiences, even as they have...

 

Juvenile Justice

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The Forgotten Fifth: Rural Youth and Substance Abuse, Stanford Law & Policy Review (2009)

This Article seeks to raise the visibility of the roughly twenty percent of the U.S....

 

International and Transnational

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Deconstructing CEDAW’s Article 14: Naming and Explaining Rural Difference, William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law (2011)

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is the...

 

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Human Rights and Development for India's Rural Remnant: A Capabilities-Based Assessment, U.C. Davis L. Rev. (2011)

The cachet that India currently enjoys on the world stage is linked largely to the...

 

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Migration, Development and the Promise of CEDAW for Rural Women, Michigan Journal of International Law (2009)

This Article explores the potential of international development efforts and human rights law to enhance...

 

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No Black Names on the Letterhead? Efficient Discrimination and the South African Legal Profession, Michigan Journal of International Law (2002)

Although there have long been black lawyers in South Africa, during apartheid only a handful...

 

Development

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Deconstructing CEDAW’s Article 14: Naming and Explaining Rural Difference, William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law (2011)

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is the...

 

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Human Rights and Development for India's Rural Remnant: A Capabilities-Based Assessment, U.C. Davis L. Rev. (2011)

The cachet that India currently enjoys on the world stage is linked largely to the...

 

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Migration, Development and the Promise of CEDAW for Rural Women, Michigan Journal of International Law (2009)

This Article explores the potential of international development efforts and human rights law to enhance...

 

Race/Ethnicity

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The Geography of the Class Culture Wars, Seattle University Law Review (2011)

This Essay is a contribution to a colloquy about Joan C. Williams’s book, Reshaping the...

 

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Latina/os, Locality, and Law in the Rural South, Harvard Latino Law Review (2009)

In this era of municipal anti-immigrant ordinances and federal-local cooperation to enforce immigration laws, legal...

 

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A Kinder, Gentler Law School? Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Legal Education at King Hall, UC Davis Law Review (2005)

Diversity is touted as a preeminent concern and important goal of the legal profession generally...

 

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No Black Names on the Letterhead? Efficient Discrimination and the South African Legal Profession, Michigan Journal of International Law (2002)

Although there have long been black lawyers in South Africa, during apartheid only a handful...

 

Legal Education and the Legal Profession

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How You Gonna’ Keep Her Down on the Farm, University of Missouri, Kansas City Law Review (2010)

This is a contribution to a collection of autobiographical essays, “One-L Revisited,” in which authors...

 

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A Kinder, Gentler Law School? Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Legal Education at King Hall, UC Davis Law Review (2005)

Diversity is touted as a preeminent concern and important goal of the legal profession generally...

 

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No Black Names on the Letterhead? Efficient Discrimination and the South African Legal Profession, Michigan Journal of International Law (2002)

Although there have long been black lawyers in South Africa, during apartheid only a handful...

 

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Law Review Story, Arkansas Law Review (1997)

This essay is the story of the author’s election as editor-in-chief of the Arkansas Law...