12 Facts About Catharine MacKinnon

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Catharine MacKinnon's 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.

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Catharine MacKinnon's is the third generation of her family to attend her mother's alma mater, Smith College.

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Catharine MacKinnon's obtained her J D from Yale University in 1977 and a Ph.

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Catharine MacKinnon is a highly cited legal scholar and regular public speaker.

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Catharine MacKinnon's has written extensively on social and political theory and methodology.

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Catharine MacKinnon was co-counsel for Mechelle Vinson, the plaintiff, and wrote the brief in the Supreme Court.

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Catharine MacKinnon wrote in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review in 1985:.

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Catharine MacKinnon represented Boreman from 1980 until Boreman's death in 2002.

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Catharine MacKinnon's brief argued that seizure of materials for which no harm was shown was unconstitutional.

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In 2001, Catharine MacKinnon was named co-director of the Lawyers Alliance for Women Project, an initiative of Equality Now, an international non-governmental organization.

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Catharine MacKinnon argues that the inequality between women and men in most societies forms a hierarchy that institutionalizes male dominance, subordinating women, in an arrangement rationalised and often perceived as natural.

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Catharine MacKinnon's writes about the interrelations between theory and practice, recognizing that women's experiences have, for the most part, been ignored in both arenas.

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