Table of Contents

Introduction and Overview; Part I. Gendered Justice: 1. McQuirter v. State; Commentary: Grayce Zelphine; Judgment: Cortney Lollar; 2. People v. Berry; Commentary: Carolyn B. Ramsey; Judgment: Susan D. Rozelle; 3. Coker v. Georgia; Commentary: Catherine M. Grosso and Barbara O'Brien; 4. Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe; Commentary: Adam Crepelle; Judgment: Melissa L. Tatum; 5. State v. Rusk; Commentary: JoAnne Sweeny: Judgement Michelle J. Anderson; 6. People v. Wu; Commentary: John Felipe Acevedo; Judgment: Leti Volpp; 7. Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska v. Bigfire; Commentary: Anne E. Tweedy; Judgment: Sarah Deer; 8. Commonwealth v. Blache; Commentary: Marie-Amélie George; Judgement: Ben A. McJunkin; Part II. Gender on Trial; 9. State v. Williams; Commentary: Kim Hai Pearson; Judgment: Addie C. Rolnick; 10. State v. Walden; Commentary: Lisa R. Avalos; Judgement: Sarah L. Swan; 11. State v. Norman; Commentary: Joan H. Krause; Judgment: Martha R. Mahoney; 12. Whitner v. State; Commentary: Ruqaiijah Yearby; Judgment: Aziza Ahmed; 13. United States v. Nwoye; Commentary: Sherri Lee Keene; Judgment: Mary D. Fan; 14. Erotic Services Provider Legal Education and Research Project v. Gascon; Commentary: Aya Gruber and Kate Mogulescu; Judgment: I. India Thusi.

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About the Author

Bennett Capers is a Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he is also the Director of the Center on Race, Law, and Justice. He has published widely in law journals on the intersection of race, gender, and criminal justice, and is the author of The Prosecutor's Turn (Metropolitan Books). His commentary and op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, and other journals. Sarah Deer is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. Deer was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2014 and a Carnegie Fellow in 2020. She teaches at the University of Kansas, where she holds a joint appointment in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the School of Public Affairs and Administration. Her efforts to address crime on Indian reservations have received national awards from the American Bar Association and the Department of Justice. Corey Rayburn Yung is the William R. Scott Research Professor at the University of Kansas School of Law and a former Lisa Goldberg Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. His scholarship about criminal law, sexual violence, and policing has influenced state criminal justice reform measures and has been cited by courts across the country, including the Supreme Court of the United States.