Feminist legal analysis and sexual autonomy: using statutory rape laws as an illustration

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Feminist legal scholars disagree on whether formal equality or substantive equality is the preferable goal. Formal equality entails identical treatment for similarly situated people of both sexes, whereas substantive equality allows different treatment of men and women in some circumstances. Statutory rape laws illustrate the conflict between these two views. Formal equality opposes the laws because they penalize men but not women, but substantive equality supports them as necessary under current realities.

Social aspects, Analysis, Laws, regulations and rules, Equality before the law, Equal protection, Rape, Feminist jurisprudence

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Toward a new history of American accident law: classical tort law and the cooperative first-party insurance movement

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The author outlines the origins of work-related accident law in the US, with emphasis on developments occurring during the second half of the 19th Century. The article contrasts the approach of tort law to accident compensation with that taken by the cooperative industrial insurance societies of workingmen.

Occupational health and safety, Occupational safety and health, History, Liability insurance, Insurance, Torts, Workers' compensation, Accident law

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