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Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspedives. Edited by Rebecca J. Cook. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Pp. xiv, 636. Index. $54.95, cloth; 22.95, paper.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
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1 “The supernatural virtue of justice consists in behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is stronger in an unequal relationship.” SIMONE WEIL, WAITING FOR GOD 143 (Emma Craufurd trans., 1973).
2 Patricia J. Williams, Alchemical Notes: Restructuring Ideals from the Deconstructed Rights, 22 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 401, 431 (1987).
3 Guido Calabresi & A. Douglas Melamed, Property Rules, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral, 85 HARV. L. REV. 1089 (1972).
4 LON L. FULLER, THE MORALITY OF LAW 46–49 (2d ed. 1969).
5 With a U.S. judiciary increasingly less dominated by men than it was in die past, it is interesting to note that in child custody cases the courts have moved away from their prior tendency almost invariably to award the child to the mother.
6 For an example of the kind of constructive critique that I think is precisely on target, see Anna Jenefsky’s analysis of Egypt’s reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, in INTERNATIONAL LAW ANTHOLOGY 130 (Anthony D’Amato ed., 1994).
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