Deborah L Rhode
Biographic Data
| ID | 262387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah L Rhode |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah L |
| FAMILY NAME | Rhode |
| SIGNATURE | RHODE D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford Medicine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Feminist Critical Theories [1990]
Critical feminism, like other critical approaches, builds on recent currents in social theory that have made theorizing increasingly problematic. Post-modern and post-structural traditions that have influenced left legal critics presuppose the social construction of knowledge. From both a philosophical and pragmatic standpoint, feminist legal critics have less stake in the assault on liberalism than critical legal studies (CLS). One central diffe…
Gender and Rights
Part of a series examining philosophical, political, and legal concepts of rights and systems of rights articulation, interpretation, protection, and enforcement, this volume is dedicated to issues arising from the intersection of gender and rights. Editors Rhode (Stanford Law School) and Sanger (Columbia U. School of Law) present 28 essays under t
Virtue and the Law
Character plays a crucial role in US law. This article explores flaws in how moral character requirements determine who can work in licensed occupations, who can practice law, and who can immigrate to the United States or become a citizen. Section I summarizes psychological research on character, which raises questions about a central legal premise that individuals have a settled disposition capable of accurately predicting their behavior indepen…
Gender and the U.S. human rights record
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDeborah L. Rhode Deborah L. Rhode is Ernest W. McFarland Professor at the Stanford University School of Law and director of the Stanford Center on Ethics. Correspondence: Stanford Law School, Crown Quadrangle, Stanford, CA 94305, U.S.A. Email: [email protected] Deborah L. Rhode is Ernest W. McFarland Professor at the Stanford University School of Law and director of the Stanford Center on Ethics. Corres…
Portrait of a Profession in Paralysis
Reading Deborah Rhode's book on the legal profession is a profoundly depressing experience. This is precisely because of the book's understatement
Teaching Billing
In this essay, we explore some of the problems that billing poses for lawyers in practice and in the academy. As our title "teaching billing" suggests, we believe that, although billing is a central practice of lawyers, it receives little sustained attention from either law firms or law schools. Deborah Rhode's important book In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession provides the occasion for these reflections, as she maps some …
Pockets of Professionalism
The Profession and the Public Interest
Ethics, Race, and Reform
Deborah Rhode is a highly acclaimed scholar and a distinguished public servant. Prolific in both academic scholarship and popular commentary, she is the author of numerous books, articles, and essays on the law and the legal profession. In an important convergence of her roles as a scholar and a public intellectual, Rhode recently returned to the subject of the profession in a new book titled In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profe…
The Profession versus the Public Interest
Reforming Alone
"Is There an American "Legal Profession
Conflicts of Commitment
In this article, Professor Rhode explores the issues of professional responsibility that emerged in connection with impeachment proceedings against President William Jefferson Clinton. Those proceedings offer an illuminating case study of crucial questions concerning lawyers' obligations to clients, to the system of justice, and to society generally. Analysis begins by reviewing conflicts of interest for the Independent Counsel and for attorneys …
Subtle Sexism
The Politics of Pregnancy
Media Images, Feminist Issues
Missing Questions
Adolescent Pregnancy and Public Policy
Although teenage pregnancy has recently emerged as a major social problem, its frequency is by no means a recent social phenomenon. The appropriate age for sexual relations and parenthood has always been a matter of cultural definition, and in the United States it has varied considerably across time, region, class, race, ethnicity, and gender. Over the past two centuries, the age at which childbirth is biologically possible has declined, while th…
Shifting the Boundaries
Letting the Law Catch up
The "No-Problem" Problem
Now That We've Burned Our Bras
This book demonstrates, among other things, that law is too important to be left to lawyers. Providing comprehensive investigation of the way in which law shapes and is shaped by changing ideas about gender roles in modern America, this book could not have been written without the wealth of feminist scholarship of the last two decades, particularly work on women's struggles for full rights as citizens, and the impact of the law on women's lives. …
Justice and Gender
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive investigation of gender and the law in the United States. Deborah Rhode describes legal developments over the last two centuries against a background of historical and sociological changes in women's activities and attitudes toward these new developments. She shows the way cultural perceptions of gender influence and in turn are influenced by legal constructions, and what this complicated interact…
Feminist Jurisprudence
In the 1970s feminist legal theory furthered feminist legal practice. Feminist lawyers saw themselves as advocates of ''women's rights," interested in winning legal victories in particular cases. Because their attention was focused on reform through legislation or litigation, the theory they developed was deliberately, if uncritically, grounded in what would be persuasive to those who held power in government institutions. They built directly upo…
Theoretical perspectives on sexual difference
Justice and Gender
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive investigation of gender and the law in the United States. Deborah Rhode describes legal developments over the last two centuries against a background of historical and sociological changes in women's activities and attitudes toward these new developments. She shows the way cultural perceptions of gender influence and in turn are influenced by legal constructions, and what this complicated interact…
Media Images, Feminist Issues
Feminist Critical Theories
Virtue and the Law
Character plays a crucial role in US law. This article explores flaws in how moral character requirements determine who can work in licensed occupations, who can practice law, and who can immigrate to the United States or become a citizen. Section I summarizes psychological research on character, which raises questions about a central legal premise that individuals have a settled disposition capable of accurately predicting their behavior indepen…
Perspectives on Professional Women
Adolescent Pregnancy and Public Policy
Although teenage pregnancy has recently emerged as a major social problem, its frequency is by no means a recent social phenomenon. The appropriate age for sexual relations and parenthood has always been a matter of cultural definition, and in the United States it has varied considerably across time, region, class, race, ethnicity, and gender. Over the past two centuries, the age at which childbirth is biologically possible has declined, while th…
Feminist Jurisprudence
In the 1970s feminist legal theory furthered feminist legal practice. Feminist lawyers saw themselves as advocates of ''women's rights," interested in winning legal victories in particular cases. Because their attention was focused on reform through legislation or litigation, the theory they developed was deliberately, if uncritically, grounded in what would be persuasive to those who held power in government institutions. They built directly upo…
The Profession versus the Public Interest
Conflicts of Commitment
In this article, Professor Rhode explores the issues of professional responsibility that emerged in connection with impeachment proceedings against President William Jefferson Clinton. Those proceedings offer an illuminating case study of crucial questions concerning lawyers' obligations to clients, to the system of justice, and to society generally. Analysis begins by reviewing conflicts of interest for the Independent Counsel and for attorneys …
Missing Questions
Ethical Perspectives on Legal Practice
Class Conflicts in Class Actions
Class Conflicts in Class Actions
Conflicts of Interest in Educational Reform Litigation
This article explores the problems presented in educational reform litigation where plaintiffs disagree over the remedial objectives of the suit. Relying on reported decisions, interviews, and case histories, the paper first examines the conflicts that have surfaced within plaintiff classes, such as disputes over busing, mainstreaming, and deinstitutionalization. Discussion then focuses on the inadequacies of existing procedural mechanisms for co…
Ethical Perspectives on Legal Practice
Perspectives on Professional Women
Theoretical perspectives on sexual difference
Justice and Gender
Gender Difference and Gender Disadvantage
This paper explores the theoretical foundations of American sex discrimination law. Traditional legal frameworks have analyzed gender issues in terms of gender difference. Yet, inder this approach, sex-based differences have been both overlooked and overvalued. In some instances, such as occupational restrictions and military service, courts have transformed biological distinctions into cultural imperatives. In other cases, such as those involvin…
Feminist Critical Theories
Gender difference and gender disadvantage
The "No-Problem" Problem
Now That We've Burned Our Bras
This book demonstrates, among other things, that law is too important to be left to lawyers. Providing comprehensive investigation of the way in which law shapes and is shaped by changing ideas about gender roles in modern America, this book could not have been written without the wealth of feminist scholarship of the last two decades, particularly work on women's struggles for full rights as citizens, and the impact of the law on women's lives. …
Justice and Gender
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive investigation of gender and the law in the United States. Deborah Rhode describes legal developments over the last two centuries against a background of historical and sociological changes in women's activities and attitudes toward these new developments. She shows the way cultural perceptions of gender influence and in turn are influenced by legal constructions, and what this complicated interact…
Feminist Jurisprudence
In the 1970s feminist legal theory furthered feminist legal practice. Feminist lawyers saw themselves as advocates of ''women's rights," interested in winning legal victories in particular cases. Because their attention was focused on reform through legislation or litigation, the theory they developed was deliberately, if uncritically, grounded in what would be persuasive to those who held power in government institutions. They built directly upo…
Shifting the Boundaries
Letting the Law Catch up
Missing Questions
Adolescent Pregnancy and Public Policy
Although teenage pregnancy has recently emerged as a major social problem, its frequency is by no means a recent social phenomenon. The appropriate age for sexual relations and parenthood has always been a matter of cultural definition, and in the United States it has varied considerably across time, region, class, race, ethnicity, and gender. Over the past two centuries, the age at which childbirth is biologically possible has declined, while th…
Media Images, Feminist Issues
The Politics of Pregnancy
Subtle Sexism
Conflicts of Commitment
In this article, Professor Rhode explores the issues of professional responsibility that emerged in connection with impeachment proceedings against President William Jefferson Clinton. Those proceedings offer an illuminating case study of crucial questions concerning lawyers' obligations to clients, to the system of justice, and to society generally. Analysis begins by reviewing conflicts of interest for the Independent Counsel and for attorneys …
Portrait of a Profession in Paralysis
Reading Deborah Rhode's book on the legal profession is a profoundly depressing experience. This is precisely because of the book's understatement
Teaching Billing
In this essay, we explore some of the problems that billing poses for lawyers in practice and in the academy. As our title "teaching billing" suggests, we believe that, although billing is a central practice of lawyers, it receives little sustained attention from either law firms or law schools. Deborah Rhode's important book In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession provides the occasion for these reflections, as she maps some …
Pockets of Professionalism
The Profession and the Public Interest
Political science (31 works) · Law (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Law (18 works) · Legal Education and Practice Innovations (13 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes (7 works) · Economic Justice (4 works)