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University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
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Marriage
Family law
Anti-discrimination
Sexuality and the law
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Human Rights Law
Law and Society
Contracts
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Contribution to Book
Love and Contracts in
Don Quixote
Faculty Scholarship (2013)
Martha M. Ertman
Viewing love as a contract seems, initially, like mistaking windmills for giants, or a peasant girl for a grand lady. ...
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Contribution to Book
The Productive Tension between Official and Unofficial Stories of Fault ...
Faculty Scholarship (2010)
Martha M. Ertman
Officially Contract law ignores fault. However, an unofficial story complements the official one, and explains why fault occasionally slips into ...
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Mapping the New Frontiers of Private Ordering: Afterword
Faculty Scholarship (2007)
Martha M. Ertman
Defining the limits of contract is an important project in contemporary contracts scholarship. Professor Ertman’s Afterword to the University of ...
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Book Review: Legal Tenderness
Faculty Scholarship (2006)
Martha M. Ertman
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The Elasticity of Contract
Faculty Scholarship (2006)
Martha M. Ertman
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Book
Rethinking Commodification: Cases and Readings in Law and Culture
Book Gallery (2005)
Martha M. Ertman and Joan C. Williams
What is the price of a limb? A child? Ethnicity? Love? In a world that is often ruled by buyers ...
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Marriage Markets
Faculty Scholarship (2003)
Martha M. Ertman
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Contractual Purgatory for Sexual Marginorities: Not Heaven, but Not Hell ...
Faculty Scholarship (1996)
Martha M. Ertman
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Legal History
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Race Treason: The Untold Story of America's Ban on ...
19 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 287 (2010)
Martha M. Ertman
Legal doctrines banning polygamy grew out of nineteenth century Americans’ view that Mormons betrayed the nation by engaging in conduct ...
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Contribution to Book
The Story of Reynolds v. United States: Federal "Hell Hounds ...
Faculty Scholarship (2008)
Martha M. Ertman
Part of the “Law Stories” series published by Foundation Press, this chapter in Family Law Stories tells the back story ...
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Marriage
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The Law of the Land: Will Gay Marriage Change Marriage ...
New America Foundation (2013)
Martha M. Ertman
This panel, moderated by Naomi Cahn, included presentations by Martha Ertman, Liza Mundy, and Jonathan Rauch.
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The Legacy of Jane Larson: The Politics of Practicality and ...
Faculty Scholarship (2013)
Martha M. Ertman
Jane Larson's work and life enriched my own and others. Her intellectual framework - applying legal economic ideas of consent ...
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Changing the Meaning of Motherhood
Faculty Scholarship (2001)
Martha M. Ertman
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Marriage as a Trade: Bridging the Private/Private Distinction
Faculty Scholarship (2001)
Martha M. Ertman
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Commercializing Marriage: A Proposal for Valuing Women's Work Through ...
Faculty Scholarship (1998)
Martha M. Ertman
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Reconstructing Marriage: An InterSEXional Approach
Faculty Scholarship (1998)
Martha M. Ertman
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Family law
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Presentation
The Law of the Land: Will Gay Marriage Change Marriage ...
New America Foundation (2013)
Martha M. Ertman
This panel, moderated by Naomi Cahn, included presentations by Martha Ertman, Liza Mundy, and Jonathan Rauch.
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Introduction
Switch Point Stories: Tales of Sex, Race, and Sexuality (2013)
Martha Ertman
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Contribution to Book
The Upside of Baby Markets
Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families (2010)
Martha M. Ertman
Few think there is an upside to baby markets. This chapter challenges conventional wisdom by suggesting that marketizing parenthood through ...
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For Both Love and Money: Viviana Zelizer's "The Purchase ...
Faculty Scholarship (2009)
Martha M. Ertman
Viviana Zelizer’s recent book, The Purchase of Intimacy (2005) presents an innovative theory of how social and legal actors negotiate ...
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Contribution to Book
Private Ordering under the ALI Principles: As Natural as Status
Faculty Scholarship (2006)
Martha M. Ertman
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What's Wrong with a Parenthood Market? A New and ...
Faculty Scholarship (2003)
Martha M. Ertman
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Love and Work: A Response to Vicki Schultz's
Life ...
Faculty Scholarship (2002)
Martha M. Ertman
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Marriage as a Trade: Bridging the Private/Private Distinction
Faculty Scholarship (2001)
Martha M. Ertman
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The ALI Principles' Approach to Domestic Partnership
Faculty Scholarship (2001)
Martha M. Ertman
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