Faculty & Staff
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Nancy
E. Dowd Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law Associate Director, Center on Children & the Law Box 117626 / Gainesville, Florida 32611 e-mail: dowd@law.ufl.edu 352.273.0930 / Fax: 352.392.3005 |
Publications
Note: Complete detailed list in
vita.Current Books
- Handbook on Children, Culture and Violence (edited with Dorothy Singer & Robin Fretwell Wilson, Sage, forthcoming 2006)
- Feminist Legal Theory: An Anti-Essentialist Reader (edited with Michelle S. Jacobs, NYU Press, 2003)
- Redefining Fatherhood (NYU Press, July 2000)
- In Defense of Single Parent Families (NYU Press, 1997)
Articles/Chapters
- Race, Gender and Work/Family Policy, Washington University Journal of Law and Policy (forthcoming 2004)(Symposium Issue, Tenth Anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act)
- From Genes, Marriage and Money to Nurture: Redefining Fatherhood, Cardozo Women’s Law Journal (2003)
- Diversity Matters: Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Legal Education, University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy (with Kenneth Nunn and Jane Pendergast); 15 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 11-56 (2003).
- Book Review, Sandra Berns, Women Going Backwards: Law and Change in a Family Unfriendly Society (2002), 12 Griffith Law Review 149 (forthcoming 2003)
- Law, Culture and Family: The Transformative Power of Culture and the Limits of Law, 78 Chicago-Kent Law Review 785 (2003)
- Single Parent Adoption, in Families by Law: Adoption Reader (Naomi Cahn and Joan H. Hollinger eds., NYU Press 2003)
- 2001 Annual International Survey of Family Law: United States, 16 International Journal of Law, Society and the Family 439-469 (April 2002)
- Gender and Law, in The Oxford Companion to American Law 325-331 (Kermit L. Hall ed., Oxford University Press 2002)
- Remarks, Panel Two: Who's Minding the Baby?, 49 American University Law Review 987 (2000)(Symposium Issue, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It)
- Resisting Essentialism and Hierarchy: A Critique of Work/Family Policies for Women Lawyers, 16 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal 185 (2000)
- Women's, Men's and Children's Equalities: Some Reflections and Uncertainties, 6 Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 587 (1997)(Symposium Issue, Taxing Women: Thoughts on a Gendered Economy)
