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Selected Writings

• Femocrats and Judicial Selection: Reconceptualizing Social Movement Insiders

• Thinking about gender and judging. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 15:1,87-110. 2008.

• Gender on the Agenda: How the Paucity of Women Judges Became an Issue. Journal of Politics 70(3): 717-735. 2008.

• Revolutionary Changes. Judicature, 89 (4): 232. 2006.

• Getting Comfortable with Women's Expertise. Minnesota Women in Political Science. Center on Women and Public Policy. 2006.

• Domestic Violence Intervention Program: Unconditional Shelter? Nonprofit Management and Leadership 16 (2): 221-243. 2005.

• Reading for Change. BookWomen 10 (1): 8-9. 2005.

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Representation: Extending the Frame to Courts. Social Politics 11 (1): 86-116. 2004.

• The Constitutional Status of the Family and Medical Leave Act. After Birth Signature Study Conference Proceedings, October 1, 2004.

• Novel Sleuth. BookWomen, 9 (2): 20-21. 2004.

• Britain Appoints First Woman Law Lord. Judicature, 87 (4): 189-190. 2004.

• Family and Medical Leave: When World is Designed to Work Better for Caretakers, Everyone Benefits. St. Paul Pioneer Press: 13A. August 12, 2004.

• Gender, the Public Policy Enterprise, and Case Teaching. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23 (1) 159-178. 2004.

• Where is Gender in Agenda Setting? Women & Politics, 25 (1/2): 179-207. 2003.

• United Kingdom's Judicial System Undergoes Major Reform. Judicature, 2: 2-5. 2003.

• How Judges Work: Thinking about Social Science and Law. Perspectives on Politics, 1 (2): 369-371. 2003.

• Politics Will Inevitably be a Part of Judicial Selection. Guest Editorial, St. Paul Pioneer Press, January 14, 2003.

• Breaking the Silence: Gender Mainstreaming and the Composition of the European Court of Justice. Feminist Legal Studies, 10: 257-270. 2002.

• Counting Women Judges: The Intersection of Law and Politics. In Center for Economics Progress (ed.), Critical Junctures in Women's Economic Lives: A Collection of Symposium Papers. St. Paul, MN: Center for Economic Progress. 2002.

• Where are the Women in Public Policy Cases? Women's Policy Journal of Harvard, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1: 87-98. 2001.

• Using the Master's Tools to Dismantle the Master's House: Can we Harness the Virtues of Case Teaching? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 20 (2): 346-50. 2001.

• Our Bodies, Our Sleuths. BookWomen 5(2): 13-14. 2000-2001.

• Sisters and Sluts. BookWomen 4(4): 16-17. 2000.

• Beyond Principals and Agents: Seeing Courts as Organizations by Comparing Référendaires at the European Court of Justice and Law Clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court.
  Comparative Political Studies, 33 (5): 593-625. 2000.

• Puppeteers or Agents? What Lazarus's Closed Chambers Adds to our Understanding of Law Clerks. Law & Social Inquiry, 25 (1): 185-226. 2000.

• Tenure in a Chilly Climate. Coauthored with Susan Sterett, P/S, March 1999.

• The Members of the European Court of Justice. Columbia Journal of European Law, 5 (1): 101-133. 1998. Partially reprinted in The Law and Economics of the European Union, by Paul Stephan, Francesco Parisi, and Ben Depoorter, Newark, NJ: Mathew Bender, 2003.

• The European Court of Justice: Integrating Europe through Law. Judicature, 81 (6): 250-255. 1998.

• New Research on Gendered Political Institutions. Political Research Quarterly, 49 (2): 445-466. 1996.

• Pregnancy Discrimination in Comparative Perspective: Toward Substantive Equality. Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, 10: 351-402. 1996.

• Women, Feminism, Gender and the Law: Ruminations of a Feminist Academic. Women and Politics 15 (3): 43-67. 1995.

• Who is Protected? What's Wrong with Exclusionary Policies. Co-published simultaneously in Women & Politics, 13 (3/4): 153-173; and in Janna C. Merrick and Robert H. Blank (eds.), The Politics of Pregnancy: Policy Dilemmas in the Maternal-Fetal Relationship, 153-173. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, Inc. 1993.

• Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace: The Law and Sexual Difference. International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 14: 393-414. 1986.