Women in Litigation Literature: The Exoneration of Mayella Ewell in To Kill A Mockingbird

This essay explores numerous factors constraining Mayella Ewell’s actions throughout the novel, particularly with respect to her false accusation of Tom Robinson. Some of the forces bearing down on Mayella include class, gender, race, history, morality, as well as familial, social, and legal dynamics. The jury’s verdict convicting Tom Robinson of rape indicates that Mayella received a much more favorable outcome in the trial than she merited.6 Depictions of Mayella within analyses of the novel have portrayed her in an unfavorable light. However, this essay encourages the reader to dig more deeply into the assumptions one must make about justice, fairness, and the law as applied to Mayella’s circumstances before rendering judgment in her case. Part II of this essay argues that the de facto and de jure discrimination against women during that time period, both in society and under the law, exonerates Mayella from the charges laid against her in the novel and instead lays the blame squarely at the feet, not only of Bob Ewell, but also of society and the remarkably gender-biased legal system of that time. Part III of the essay then briefly addresses various legal themes as they relate to Mayella’s exoneration, such as revenge, justice, process, advocacy, punishment, order, and change. The conclusion highlights that this reexamination of To Kill a Mockingbird is intended to foster an increased understanding of women facing violence within the home today. Although, thankfully, much has changed in our current law and society with respect to violence against women, significant challenges remain. Hopefully this essay will encourage readers to further reflect upon and take action to address the obstacles that women living in violent family situations continue to face

Setting the Stage: A Quick Glance Back at the Journal\u27s History

This symposium, organized by the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law, explored several cutting-edge topics related to its over-arching theme, Rhetoric & Relevance: An Investigation into the Present and Future of Feminist Legal Theory. When the journal editors invited me to provide a few opening remarks, they informed me that: the goal of this symposium is to have a series of discussions about current happenings in the field of feminist legal scholarship, so that we may start to answer the question, What\u27s next? These discussions will take place in the form of panels that focus on particular areas of the law. The hope is that as the symposium progresses, the focused panels can shed light on larger patterns of development in feminist legal theory. The organizers of the event did a marvelous job in putting together exceptional panels of experts to discuss three distinct and ground-breaking areas within current feminist legal theory: cyber-privacy, intersex and transgender jurisprudence, and meanings of consent. Rhetoric & Relevance: An Investigation into the Present and Future of Feminist Legal Theory That is an incredibly broad and profound topic. I must admit that I was initially at a loss about how even to begin to scratch its surface with a few brief introductory remarks let alone come up with a crystal ball through which to divine the future. Thankfully, one of the conference organizers subsequently clarified that they would like me to lay the foundation for the symposium through the story of the founding of the Michigan Journal of Gender & Law itself. Therefore, I will reflect upon the creation of the journal and its subsequent contributions in order to help set the stage for the scholarship generated by the symposium\u27s panelists. This background is especially pertinent to the topic of the symposium-investigating the present and future of feminist legal theory-in light of the adage that in order to understand where you are and to know where you are going, you must also know where you have been and understand the past

The Congressional Caucus for Women\u27s Issues: An Inside Perspective on Lawmaking by and for Women

This Article is written to inform constituencies who seek to advance the status of women through the federal legislative process- including lawmakers, Congressional staff, women\u27s organizations, and interested individuals of the general public-about the inner workings of the Congressional Caucus for Women\u27s Issues during the 108th Congress, particularly in the second session. Historians and academics studying women and the law may also find this Article useful. Commonly known as the Women\u27s Caucus, this bipartisan group consists of women Representatives who work together to advance women\u27s issues through raising awareness of and taking action on federal legislation and policy particularly affecting women

The Congressional Caucus for Women\u27s Issues: An Inside Perspective on Lawmaking by and for Women

This Article is written to inform constituencies who seek to advance the status of women through the federal legislative process- including lawmakers, Congressional staff, women\u27s organizations, and interested individuals of the general public-about the inner workings of the Congressional Caucus for Women\u27s Issues during the 108th Congress, particularly in the second session. Historians and academics studying women and the law may also find this Article useful. Commonly known as the Women\u27s Caucus, this bipartisan group consists of women Representatives who work together to advance women\u27s issues through raising awareness of and taking action on federal legislation and policy particularly affecting women

Abhängige Herrschaft im Imperium Romanum

Das Imperium Romanum war kein ‚Staat‘ im modernen Sinne, sondern ein diffuses Gebilde mit unterschiedlichen Substrukturen. Dazu zählten auch die amici et socii: Könige, Fürsten, Städte, nationes, gentes, die mit Rom engere oder weitere Bindungen eingingen. Diese ‚Klientelstaaten‘ werden aus römischer wie regionaler Perspektive anhand von Fallbeispielen, aber auch anhand von inhaltlichen Aspekten in den Blick genommen. Es geht dabei nicht um eine abschließende Beantwortung moderner Fragestellungen, sondern um die Förderung eines Dialoges unterschiedlicher Ansätze und Blickwinkel zum Thema ‚Klientelkönigtum‘. Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge, die die generelle Tragfähigkeit des Klientel-Konzepts, Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen dem Osten und Westen des Imperiums und ihre Auswirkungen auf die lokalen Reiche und Gemeinden diskutieren und damit die Entwicklungen ebenso wie die Bandbreite des Instruments der abhängigen Herrschat und ihrer modernen Deutung deutlich machen.The Imperium Romanum was not a ‘state’ in the modern sense of the term, being a diffuse formation with varying substructures. This also included the amici et socii: kings, princes, cities, nationes, gentes, who entered into links with Rome of different degrees of closeness. These ‘client states’ are examined both from the Roman and the regional perspective on the basis of case studies from all parts of the Empire, but also by covering different kinds of content. What is important here is to encourage a dialog involving differing approaches and angles on the subject of ‘client kings,’ not a definitive answer to modern questions. The current volume collects contributions which discuss the general viability of the concept of clienthood, differences and similarities between the East and West of the Empire and their repercussions for the local empires and communities, thereby clarifying the developments in and scope of the instrument of dependent rule and its modern interpretation

A QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF E-GROCERS

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