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General - Books

General - Articles

Race, Culture, and Contract Law: From the Cottonfield to the Courtroom
Anthony R. Chase
28 Conn. L. Rev. 1-66 (1995)
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An Essay in the Deconstruction of Contract Doctrine
Clare Dalton
94 Yale L.J. 997 (1985)
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Law School Feminist Chic and Respect for Persons: Comments on Contract Theory and Feminism in "The Flesh-Colored Band Aid"
David R. Dow
28 Hous. L. Rev. 818 (1991)
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Is a Burrito a Sandwich? Exploring Race, Class, and Culture in Contracts
Marjorie Florestal
14 Mich. J. Race & L. 1 (2008)

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Re-Reading Contracts: A Feminist Analysis of Contracts Casebook
Mary Joe Frug
34 Am. U. L. Rev. 1065 (1985)
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The Body Market: Race Politics & Private Ordering
Michele Goodwin
49 Ariz. L. Rev. 599 (2007)
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Sketches of a Redemptive Theory of Contract Law
Emily M.S. Houth
66 Hastings L.J. 951 (2015)

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An Expressive Theory of Contract: From Feminist Dilemmas to a Reconceptualization of Rational Choice in Contract Law
Gillian K. Hadfield
156 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1235 (1998)
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Out of the Whiteness: On Raced Codes and White Race Consciousness in Some Tort, Criminal, and Contract Law
Amy H. Kastely
63 U. Cin. L. Rev. 269 (1994)

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Tongue-Tied in the Market: The Relevance of Contract Law to Racial-Language Minorities
Julian S. Lim
91 Calif. L. Rev. 579 (2003)
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Letter to David Dow—Friendly Critic and Critical Friend
Peter Linzer & Patricia A. Tidwell
28 Hous. L. Rev. 861 (1991)

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Classical Nostalgia: Racism, Contract Ideology, and Formalist Legal Reasoning in Patterson v. McLean Credit Union
Allan H. Macurdy
18 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 987 (1990)
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The Relevance of Race and Disparity in Discussions of Contract Law
Blake D. Morant
31 New Eng. L. Rev. 889 (1997)

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The Gendered Curriculum: Of Contracts and Careers
Marjorie Maguire Shultz
77 Iowa L. Rev. 55 (1991)
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Teaching Gender as a Core Value in the First-Year Contracts Class
Kerri Lynn Stone
36 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 537-43 (2011)

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'It's All in the Contract': Rethinking Critiques of Contract
Barbara Sullivan
18 Law in Context 112 (2000)
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Feminists & Contract Doctrine
Deborah L. Threedy
32 Ind. L. Rev. 1247 (1999)

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The Flesh-Colored Band Aid—Contracts, Feminism, Dialogue, and Norms
Patricia A. Tidwell & Peter Linzer
28 Hous. L. Rev. 791 (1991)
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Whose Deal is it? Teaching about Structural Inequality by Teaching Contracts Transactionally
Kellye Y. Testy
34 U. Tol. L. Rev. 699 (2003)

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Public Responsibilities Beyond Consent: Rethinking Contract Theory
Leon E. Trakman
45 Hofstra L. Rev. 217 (2016)
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Racial Inequality in Contracting: Teaching Race as a Core Value
Deborah Zalesne
3 Colum. J. Race & L. 23 (2013)

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The Federal Marriage Amendment: To Protect the Sanctity of Marriage or Destroy Constitutional Democracy?
Joan E. Schaffner
54 Am. U. L. Rev. 1487 (2005)
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Article included in Vulnerable Populations and Transformative Law Teaching:

Equity - Articles

Syndicated Construction Loans, Defaulting Lenders, and Equitable Remedies
Charles E. Aster & Michael A. Attaway
48 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 853 (2016)
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The Equitable Dimension of Contract
Henry E. Smith
45 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 897 (2012)

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The Gendered Origins of the Lumley Doctrine: Binding Men's Consciences and Women's Fidelity
Lea S. VanderVelde
101 Yale L.J. 775 (1992)
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Form Contracts - Books

Form Contracts - Articles

Consumer Assent to Standard Form Contracts and the Voting Analogy
Wayne Barnes
112 W. Va. L. Rev. 839 (2010)

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Good Faith

Critical Race Realism: Re-Claiming the Antidiscrimination Principle Through the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law
Emily M.S. Houth
66 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 455 (2005)
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Critical Interventions: Toward an Expansive Equality Approach to the Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law
Emily M.S. Houth
88 Cornell L. Rev. 1025 (2003)

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Impossibility

Rescuing Impossibility Doctrine: A Postmodern Feminist Analysis of Contract Law
Mary Joe Frug
140 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1029 (1992)

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Contracts for Organs - Articles

Altruism Exchanges and the Kidney Shortage
Stephen J. Choi, Mitu Gulati, & Eric A. Posner
77 Law & Contemp. Probs. 289 (2014)
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The Exchange of Inmate Organs for Liberty: Diminishing the "Yuck Factor" in the Bioethics Repugnance Debate
Jamila Jefferson-Jones
16 J. Gender Race & Just. 105 (2013)

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Contract Development in a Matching Market: The Case of Kidney Exchange
Kimberly D. Krawiec, Wenhao Liu, & Marc L. Melcher
80 Law & Contemp. Probs. 11 (2017)
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Cutting the Cord to Private Cord Blood Banking: Encouraging Compensation for Public Cord Blood Donations After Flynn v. Holder
Seema Mohapatra
84 U. Colo. L. Rev. 933 (2013)
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The Curious Case of Umbilical Cord Blood: Minors and Donation
Sarah Panis
30 Med. & L. 383 (2011)

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Prostitution & Sex - Articles

Duet: Prostitution, Racism and Feminist Discourse
Vednita Carter & Evelina Giobbe
10 Hastings Women's L.J. 37 (1999)
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Sex as Contract: Abortion and Expanded Choice
Peter D. Feaver, Robert Kling, & Thomas K. Plofchan Jr.
4 Stan. L. Pol'y Rev. 211 (1992)

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Contractarians and Feminists Debate Prostitution
Sibyl Schwarzenbach
18 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 103 (1990)
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Selling Sex: Analyzing the Improper Use Defense to Contract Enforcement Through the Lens of Carroll v. Beardon
Julie M. Spanbauer
59 Clev. St. L. Rev. 693 (2011)
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Slavery & Peonage - Books

Slavery & Peonage - Articles

The New Peonage
Tamar R. Birckhead
72 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1595 (2015)
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Peonage and Contractual Liberty
Aziz Z. Huq
101 Colum. L. Rev. 351 (2001)

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Paying Eliza: Comity, Contracts, and Critical Race Theory—19th Century Choice of Law Doctrine and the Validation of Antebellum Contracts for the Purchase and Sale of Human Beings
Diane J. Klein
20 Nat'l Black L.J. 1 (2006)
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Contract, Race, and Freedom of Labor in the Constitutional Law of "Involuntary Servitude"
James Gray Pope
119 Yale L.J. 1474 (2010)
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Principle and Prejudice: The Supreme Court and Race in the Progressive Era: Part 2: The Peonage Cases
Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
82 Colum. L. Rev. 646 (1982)

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A New Peonage?: Pay, Work, or Go to Jail in Contemporary Child Support Enforcement and Beyond
Noah D. Zatz
39 Seattle U. L. Rev. 927 (2016)
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Surrogacy, Custody, & Other Topics - Books

Surrogacy, Custody, & Other Topics - Articles

Contractualizing Custody
Sarah Abramowicz
83 Fordham L. Rev. 64 (2014)
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The Black Surrogate Mother
Anita L. Allen
8 Harv. BlackLetter J. 17 (1991)

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Surrogacy, Slavery, and the Ownership of Life
Anita L. Allen
13 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 139 (1990)
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Surrogate Motherhood: The Challenge for Feminists
Lori B. Andrews
16 Law, Med. & Health Care 72 (1988)
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Stateless and International Surrogacy from the International and European Legal Perspectives
Veronique Boillet & Hajime Akiyama
27 Swiss Rev. of Int'l & Eur. Law 513 (2017)

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Windsor, Surrogacy, and Race
Khiara M. Bridges
89 Wash. L. Rev. 1125 (2014)
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Revisiting The Handmaid's Tale: Feminist Theory Meets Empirical Research on Surrogate Mothers
Karen Busby & Delaney Vun
26 Can. L. Fam. L. 13 (2010)
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Compensated Surrogacy
Martha A. Field
89 Wash. L. Rev. 1155 (2014)

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Surrogacy Contracts—Gestational and Traditional: The Argument for Nonenforcement
Martha A. Field
31 Washburn L.J. 1 (1991)
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Abortion Clauses in Surrogacy Contracts: Insights from a Case Study
Deborah L. Forman
49 Fam. L.Q. 29 (2015)
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An Essay on Surrogacy and Feminist Thought
Joan Mahoney
16 L. Med. & Health Care 81 (1988)

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In Defense of Surrogacy Agreements: A Modern Contract Law Perspective
Yehezkel Margalit
20 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L. 423 (2014)
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Rethinking the Force Behind Forced Procreation: The Case for Giving Women Exclusive Decisional Authority over Their Cryopreserved Pre-Embryos
Marina Merjan
64 DePaul L. Rev. 737 (2015)
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Surrogate Mothers: An Exploration of the Empirical and the Normative
Lina Peng
21 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 555 (2013)

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The Ethics and Economics of Enforcing Contracts of Surrogate Motherhood
Richard A. Posner
5 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol'y 21 (1989)
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Developing Markets in Baby-Making: In the Matter of Baby M
Carol Sanger
30 Harv. J. L. & Gender 67 (2007)
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Surrogacy as the Sale of Children: Applying Lessons Learned from Adoption to the Regulation of the Surrogacy Industry's Global Marketing of Children
David M. Smolin
43 Pepp. L. Rev. 265 (2016)

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On Being the Object of Property
Pat Williams
From the 1987 Feminism and Legal Theory Conference

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The Contractual Family: The Role of the Market in Shaping Family Formations and Rights
Deborah Zalesne
36 Cardozo L. Rev. 1027 (2015)
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Tortious Interference - Articles

A New Tortious Interference with Contractual Relations: Gender and Erotic Triangles in Lumley v. Gye
Sarah Swan
35 Harv. J.L. & Gender 167 (2012)

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