Michelle Oberman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6504791 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle Oberman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Oberman |
| SIGNATURE | OBERMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4924-9432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mothers Who Kill Their Children
A special kind of horror is reserved for mothers who kill their children. Cases such as those of Susan Smith, who drowned her two young sons by driving her car into a lake, and Melissa Drexler, who disposed of her newborn baby in a restroom at her prom, become media sensations. Unfortunately, in addition to these high-profile cases, hundreds of mothers kill their children in the United States each year. The question most often asked is, why? What…
Consent, Rape, and the Criminal Law
This article explores the impact of rape law reform, both within and beyond the criminal law. The story of U.S. criminal rape law reform tends to be told as one of remarkable feminist success followed by widespread stagnation. Despite comprehensive changes in the law, reporting rates, prosecution rates, and conviction rates for rape increased only slightly. This article resists that binary account of success and failure by offering a more nuanced…
Abortion Bans, Doctors, and the Criminalization of Patients
January 2018, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology issued a position statement opposing the punishment of women for self‐induced abortion. To those unfamiliar with emerging trends in abortion in the United States and worldwide, the need for the declaration might not be apparent. Several studies suggest that self‐induced abortion is on the rise in the United States. Simultaneously, prosecutions of pregnant women for behavior thought t…
The Sticky Standard of Care
The problem at the heart of “Stemming the Standard‐of‐Care Sprawl: Clinician Self‐Interest and the Case of Electronic Fetal Monitoring,” an article by Kayte Spector‐Bagdady and colleagues in the November‐December 2017 issue of the Hastings Center Report, is the persistence of a suboptimal standard of care long after evidence‐driven approaches would dictate a change. That problem is not simply defensive medicine, or what the authors call “standard…
Two Truths and a Lie
Laws governing adolescent sexuality are incoherent and chaotically enforced, and legal scholarship on the subject neither addresses nor remedies adolescents’ vulnerability in sexual encounters. To posit a meaningful relationship between the criminal law and adolescent sexual encounters, one must examine what we know about adolescent sexuality from both the academic literature and the adults who control the criminal justice response to such intera…
Two Truths and a Lie
Laws governing adolescent sexuality are incoherent and chaotically enforced, and legal scholarship on the subject neither addresses nor remedies adolescents’ vulnerability in sexual encounters. To posit a meaningful relationship between the criminal law and adolescent sexual encounters, one must examine what we know about adolescent sexuality from both the academic literature and the adults who control the criminal justice response to such intera…
Two Truths and a Lie
Laws governing adolescent sexuality are incoherent and chaotically enforced, and legal scholarship on the subject neither addresses nor remedies adolescents’ vulnerability in sexual encounters. To posit a meaningful relationship between the criminal law and adolescent sexual encounters, one must examine what we know about adolescent sexuality from both the academic literature and the adults who control the criminal justice response to such intera…
The Sticky Standard of Care
The problem at the heart of “Stemming the Standard‐of‐Care Sprawl: Clinician Self‐Interest and the Case of Electronic Fetal Monitoring,” an article by Kayte Spector‐Bagdady and colleagues in the November‐December 2017 issue of the Hastings Center Report, is the persistence of a suboptimal standard of care long after evidence‐driven approaches would dictate a change. That problem is not simply defensive medicine, or what the authors call “standard…
Abortion Bans, Doctors, and the Criminalization of Patients
January 2018, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology issued a position statement opposing the punishment of women for self‐induced abortion. To those unfamiliar with emerging trends in abortion in the United States and worldwide, the need for the declaration might not be apparent. Several studies suggest that self‐induced abortion is on the rise in the United States. Simultaneously, prosecutions of pregnant women for behavior thought t…
Consent, Rape, and the Criminal Law
This article explores the impact of rape law reform, both within and beyond the criminal law. The story of U.S. criminal rape law reform tends to be told as one of remarkable feminist success followed by widespread stagnation. Despite comprehensive changes in the law, reporting rates, prosecution rates, and conviction rates for rape increased only slightly. This article resists that binary account of success and failure by offering a more nuanced…
Mothers Who Kill Their Children
A special kind of horror is reserved for mothers who kill their children. Cases such as those of Susan Smith, who drowned her two young sons by driving her car into a lake, and Melissa Drexler, who disposed of her newborn baby in a restroom at her prom, become media sensations. Unfortunately, in addition to these high-profile cases, hundreds of mothers kill their children in the United States each year. The question most often asked is, why? What…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Criminal law (2 works) · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Abortion (1 work)