Women and the Law
Library
Research Guide
Compiled
by
Karen
E. Reilly
Reference Librarian
California Western
School of Law
Updated September, 2006
SCOPE: This research guide
is not all-inclusive. It does, however, present resources available at the
California Western library and online regarding legal issues associated with
women and the law. It is designed to provide the researcher with guidance as to
the location of materials dealing with this subject. Additional research can be
conducted by using the KIM catalog system, legal periodical indexes, and other
finding aids. Access to Lexis, Westlaw, and the Internet is limited to
students and faculty at California
Western. We welcome suggestions for improvements to this and other
research guides. Please consult the Reference Librarian with suggestions
and further research questions. This research guide was originally
compiled in May, 2002.
Table of Contents
Getting Started
This
research guide presents just a sample of the CWSL Library’s collection of materials
on women and the law. For further research, you may want to search the
KIM system (the library’s catalog) using the following key word phrases:
Texts and Looseleafs
Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women’s
Lives: Sex, Violence, Work and Reproduction. Edited by D.
Kelly Weisberg. Philadelphia: Temple
University
Press, 1996.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K 349.A67
Arbitrating Sexual Harassment
Cases. Edited by Vern E. Hauc.
Washington,
D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, 1995.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 3467.A52 A73
Are women human? : and other international dialogues.
By
Catharine
A. MacKinnon.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of
Harvard University
Press, 2006.
Location: 3rd
Floor
Call No.:
HQ1236 .M337 2006
Avoiding and Litigating Sexual
Harassment Claims.
New York, N.Y.:
Practising Law Institute.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 3467.Z9 A87
Domestic Violence Law. 2d ed. Edited by Nancy K. D. Leman.
St. Paul,
MN:
West Group, 2001.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 9320.D65 2001
Domestic Violence: The Criminal Justice Response. 2d ed. By Eve S. Buzawa, Carl G. Buzawa. Thosand Oaks, CA:
SAGE Publications, 1996.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: HV 6626.B89 1996
Feminist legal theory
: an anti-essentialist reader. By Nancy E. Dowd and
Michelle S. Jacobs, eds.
New York : New
York University Press, c2003.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K349 .F458 2003
Handling the Domestic Violence
Case. New York: Practising
Law Institute.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 9322.Z9 H36
Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice. By
Sally Engle Merry.
Chicago :
University
of Chicago Press, c2006.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: HQ1237 .M47 2006
Human Rights of Women: National and International
Perspectives. Edited by Rebecca J. Cook.
Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1994.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K 644.H86
It’s a Crime: Women and Justice. 2d ed. Edited by Roslyn Muraskin. Upper
Saddle River, N.J.:
Prentice Hall, 2000.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: HV 6046.I86 2000
Rights of Women: A Guide to the Most Important
United Nations Treaties on Women’s Human Rights. 2d ed.
New York: International
Women’s Tribune Centre, 1998.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K 644.R54 1998
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of
Democracy in the United States. By Alexander Keyssar. New
York: Basic Books, 2000.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: JK 1846.K46 2000
Sex-Based Employment
Discrimination. By Susan M. Omilian,
Jean P. Kamp.
Deerfield, IL:
Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1990.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 3467.O48
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Legal Research
Guide.
By Kimberly Pruett.
Buffalo, N.Y.:
William S. Hein, 2001.
Location: Reference Collection
Call No.: KF 241.L33 P78 2001
Sourcebook on Violence Against
Women.
Edited by Claire M. Renzetti,
Jeffrey l. Edleson, Raquel Kennedy
Bergen.
Thousand Oaks, CA:
SAGE Publications, 2001.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: HV 6250.4.W65 S68 2001
Women and International Human
Rights Law. Edited by Kelly D. Askin,
Dorean M. Koenig.
Ardsley, N.Y.:
Transnational, 1999.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K 644.W64
Women, Armed Conflict, and International
Law. By Judith G. Gardam
and Michelle J. Jarvis. Boston:
Kluwer Law International, 2001.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: KZ 6471.G37 2001
Women going backwards
: law and change in a family unfriendly society. By
Sandra Berns.
Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT
: Ashgate, c2002.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K644 .B47 2002
Periodicals
The following journals are available
in the library, and all except Violence Against Women: An
International and Interdisciplinary Journal are available and searchable in
full-text format on Westlaw and LEXIS/NEXIS. LegalTrac,
Hein Online or the Current Index to Legal Periodicals (available on
library computers) may be used to search for articles in these and other law
journals. Many other journals and periodicals on gender and the law are
also available in the library.
American University Journal of
Gender, Social Policy and the Law. Washington,
D.C.: Washington
College of Law,
American
University, 1999- .
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 477.A15 A43
Berkeley Women’s Law Journal, continued as Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law
& Justice. Berkeley:
University of California,
Boalt Hall School of Law, 1985- Location: 3rd
Floor Periodicals
Cardozo Women’s Law Journal , continued as Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender.
New York: Benjamin
N. Cardozo
School of Law,
Yeshiva University,
1993-
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 477.A15 C37
Columbia Journal of Gender and
Law. New York:
Columbia University
School of Law, 1991- .
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K3.042
Duke Journal of
Gender Law and Policy.
Durham, N.C. : Duke University School of Law, 1994-.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF9325.A15 D84
Hastings Women’s Law Journal. San Francisco,
CA:
Hastings
College of Law, 1989- .
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 477.A15 H37
Law &
Sexuality.
New Orleans, La. : Students of Tulane University School of Law,
c1991- .
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF4754.5.A15 L38
Southern California Review of Law and Women’s
Studies.
Los Angeles: Students of the
Gould School
of Law, University
of Southern California,
1992- .
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 477.A15 S68
Violence Against Women: An
International and Interdisciplinary Journal.
Thousand Oaks, CA:
SAGE Publications, 1995- .
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: HV 6250.4 .W65 V53
Women’s Rights Law
Reporter.
Newark, N.J., : Women's Rights Law Reporter, Inc.
Location: 3rd Floor Periodicals
Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.
New Haven, CT:
[The Journal], 1989- .
Location: 3rd Floor
Periodicals
Internet Resources
[Note: Internet site addresses
change frequently. Accordingly, some of these sites may no longer exist
at the addresses provided. To locate a site, search for the page title
using an Internet search engine such as Google (http://www.google.com/).]
Center for Reproductive Law and
Policy
http://www.crlp.org/
This page includes surveys of laws and
United Nations treaties affecting women’s reproductive rights in the United States
and overseas.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission
http://www.eeoc.gov/
This site provides links
to federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex or pregnancy,
instructions for how to file a charge, and guidance for small businesses in
complying with the law.
Hieros Gamos
http://www.hg.org/women.html
This web page includes links to the
texts of conventions and treaties, and well as reports from United Nations
commissions and international organizations regarding women’s rights, and
articles addressing the status of women in various countries.
Lambda Legal Defense Fund
http://lambdalegal.org/
This page features links to recent briefs and decisions
regarding gay and lesbian rights, a state-by-state guide to state and local
laws affecting those rights, and cases from each state.
Office of National Drug Control
Policy
http://whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/drugfact/women
This site includes links to
information about women and drug use, including drug arrests, sentencing and
correctional statistics.
United
States Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women
http://www.usdoj.gov/ovw/
This web page includes links to OVW special
initiatives such as the President’s Family Justice Center Initiative,
Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, the Safety for Indian Women
Demonstration Initiative, OVW’s Measuring
Effectiveness Initiative, domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines, state
coalitions, and other Federal agencies with violence against women programs.
United States Department of Labor
http://www.dol.gov/
This page features links to laws and regulations, statistics, historical
information and news releases dealing with many topics, including women in the
workplace.
Women’s Human Rights Resources
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/
This site provides links to books
and articles regarding international women’s human rights issues, and well as
United Nations documents and conventions and related web sites.
Lexis-Nexis and Westlaw
These
resources are available in the library only to CWSL students and faculty. Both services contain a large
variety of primary (e.g., cases, statutes, regulations, etc.) and secondary
(e.g., journal articles, practice guides, etc.) materials.
Westlaw offers the following more
specialized publications or databases related to women and the law, among
others:
Andrews Employment Litigation
Reporter
Andrews Sexual Harassment Litigation
Reporter
Employment Discrimination Law Update
Journal of Family Violence
Journal of Gender, Race &
Justice
Journal of International Women’s
Studies
Sex-Based Employment Discrimination
Sexual Harassment: Federal Law
Violence Against
Women
Women’s Studies International Forum
Finally,
Westlaw offers a database of federal cases involving employment law entitled
Federal Labor & Employment Cases (FLB-CS).
Lexis offers the following specialized
databases:
Mealey’s Sexual Discrimination/Harassment
Larson on Employment Discrimination
Employment Law : Mealey’s
Litigation Report
If you have questions about these services or how to search for
particular materials, please see a Reference Librarian.
