First Readings for Spring 2025

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Dates for Spring 2025

•  The form for submitting assignments will be activated on Monday, December 9, 2024.
  • Assignments will begin to be posted Monday, December 9, 2024.
• The form for submitting assignments will be deactivated on Monday, February 3, 2025.
  • Assignments will be removed on Monday, February 3, 2025.

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Gender-Based Violence (LAWS 781 §001)

Instructor Name(s)

Martin

Textbook Information

There is no textbook for this course.  All materials will be posted to the course TWEN page.  If you are not able to access the TWEN page, please email me for the password.

General Assignment Information

Welcome to the Gender-Based Violence Seminar!  There is no assigned textbook for this course.  All course readings will be available on the course TWEN page.  If you have not been pre-registered for the TWEN page, please email me for the password.  The first class assignment and readings include:

Assignment

Find a news article from 2023 or 2024 discussing a legal or policy issue relating to gender-based violence that interests you.  Be prepared to introduce the article in class and describe the legal or policy issue at stake.

Reading Assignment

UN Women, Facts and Figures: Ending Violence Against Women

Radhika Coomaraswamy, Preliminary Report Submitted by the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Its Causes and Consequences, UN Doc. E/CN.4/1995/42 (1994), The Nature of the Problem, paragraphs 47-78.

 The Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (DEVAW), UN Doc. A/RES/48/104, Articles 1-2 (1994). Lisa N. Sacco, Defining Domestic Violence, Congressional Research Service (Mar. 27, 2019).

Julie Goldscheid, Gender Neutrality, The “Violence Against Women” Frame, and Transformative Reform, 82 UMKC L. Rev. 623 (2014)(excerpts).