Women and the Law
Library
Research Guide
Compiled
by
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
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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:
Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women’s
Lives: Sex, Violence, Work and Reproduction. Edited by D.
Kelly Weisberg.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K 349.A67
Arbitrating Sexual Harassment
Cases. Edited by Vern E. Hauc.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 3467.A52 A73
Are women human? : and other international dialogues.
By
Catharine
A. MacKinnon.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: HQ1236 .M337 2006
Avoiding and Litigating Sexual
Harassment Claims.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 3467.Z9 A87
Domestic Violence Law. 2d ed. Edited by Nancy K. D. Leman.
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.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K349 .F458 2003
Handling the Domestic Violence
Case.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 9322.Z9 H36
Human rights and gender violence : translating international law into local justice. By
Sally Engle Merry.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: HQ1237 .M47 2006
Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives. Edited by Rebecca J. Cook.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K 644.H86
It’s a Crime: Women and Justice. 2d ed. Edited by Roslyn Muraskin.
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.
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.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: JK 1846.K46 2000
Sex-Based Employment
Discrimination. By Susan M. Omilian,
Jean P. Kamp.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 3467.O48
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Legal Research
Guide.
By Kimberly Pruett.
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
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.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K 644.W64
Women, Armed Conflict, and International
Law. By Judith G. Gardam
and Michelle J. Jarvis.
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,
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K644 .B47 2002
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.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 477.A15 A43
Berkeley Women’s Law Journal, continued as Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law
& Justice.
Cardozo Women’s Law Journal , continued as Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 477.A15 C37
Columbia Journal of Gender and
Law.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: K3.042
Duke Journal of
Gender Law and Policy.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF9325.A15 D84
Hastings Women’s Law Journal.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 477.A15 H37
Law &
Sexuality.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF4754.5.A15 L38
Southern California Review of Law and Women’s
Studies.
Location: 4th Floor
Call No.: KF 477.A15 S68
Violence Against Women: An
International and Interdisciplinary Journal.
Location: 3rd Floor
Call No.: HV 6250.4 .W65 V53
Women’s Rights Law
Reporter.
Location: 3rd Floor Periodicals
Yale Journal of Law and Feminism.
Location: 3rd Floor Periodicals
[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
This page includes surveys of laws and
United Nations treaties affecting women’s reproductive rights in the
Equal Employment
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.