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Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Abstract

Last year Michigan joined a growing number of law schools across the country offering a new course on "Women and the Law." Student demands for "Women and the Law" courses and the interest of male, as well as female, students in the subject seem to reflect an increased awareness that the law itself has been the principal vehicle for the historical subjugation of women. The recent women's movement. to an unprecedented extent, has relied almost exclusively on legal attacks for the achievement of its goals. Other great social movements of recent decades have relied on marches, sit-ins, and boycotts, but the women's movement has used test cases, legislative reform, and constitutional amendment. As women's efforts in self-education and consciousness-raising bring them to new awareness of their rights, the amount of litigation will continue to increase, and lawyers of both sexes will be called upon to articulate the issues, know the statutory law in detail, and understand the potential constitutional challenges.

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