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Catharine Alice MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946) is an American feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.
Sep 6, 2021 · Catharine A. MacKinnon is a lawyer, teacher, writer, and activist on sex equality issues domestically and internationally. She is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and from 2008-2012 was the first Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Apr 23, 2024 · Catharine A. MacKinnon (born October 7, 1946, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.) is an American feminist and professor of law, an influential if controversial legal theorist whose work primarily took aim at sexual abuse in the context of inequality.
Catharine A. MacKinnon is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at Michigan Law and the long-term James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She specializes in sex equality issues under international and domestic (including comparative, criminal, and constitutional) law.
Catharine Alice MacKinnon é uma jurista e ativista feminista estadunidense, nascida em 7 de outubro de 1946. Ela é professora de direito. [1] É membro da Academia de Artes e Ciências dos Estados Unidos. [2] Biografia
Mar 19, 2018 · MacKinnon’s approach was rooted in the theory that sexual harassment realized and reiterated women’s inequality, that it locked women into a kind of dependence and failure.
Sep 8, 2022 · Catharine A. MacKinnon is the 2022 recipient of the American Philosophical Society’s Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence. A longtime visiting professor at Harvard Law School and professor at the University of Michigan Law School, MacKinnon is only the 26th winner of the prize since it was first awarded in 1895.
Sep 7, 2021 · Catharine A. MacKinnon, whose legal theories laid the basis for sexual harassment being defined as a form of sex discrimination, has championed the revival of the amendment as a weapon against what she sees as the continuing subordination of women through sexual violence and economic inequality. “You go after sexuality and economics, you’ve ...
As Catharine MacKinnon explores this and other international legal questions about genocide, rape, and women's status, these essays supply ample evidence for her stature as one of the most original and provocative legal theorists of our age.
Aug 24, 2020 · The editors of the Oxford Political Review recently sat down with Professor Catharine MacKinnon, one of the foremothers of feminist legal theory. Her seminal book, The Sexual Harassment of Working Women , published in 1979, cleared the path for the legal recognition of harassment in the workplace as a case of sex discrimination.
