Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Subject "family law"

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    • Adverse Possession of Identity: Radical Theory, Conventional Practice 
      Clarke, Jessica A. (Oregon Law Review, 2005)
      This Article examines the conditions under which acting as if one has a particular legal status is sufficient to secure that status in the eyes of the law. Legal determinations of common-law marriage, functional parenthood, ...
    • Pregnant People? 
      Clarke, Jessica (Columbia Law Review, 2019)
      In their article Unsexing Pregnancy, David Fontana and Naomi Schoenbaum undertake the important project of disentangling the social aspects of pregnancy from those that relate to a pregnant woman’s body. They argue that ...
    • Settling in the Shadow of Sex 
      Shinall, Jennifer B. (Cardozo Law Review, 2019)
      Divorce has a long history of economically disempowering women. From the time of coverture to the era of modern divorce reform, women have been persistently disadvantaged by divorce relative to men. Family law scholars ...