“This Article is about the lost history of a campaign by the National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) to achieve uniform no-fault divorce law reform in the United States. In one form or another, NAWL has existed continuously since before 1911, when it began to publish the Women Lawyers Journal. From its Progressive era origins until today, NAWL has pursued a women’s rights agenda within a professional framework. Although prior to ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 women’s suffrage was a key issue for the women lawyers, even then it was far from the only one …”
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Laura Oren, ‘No-Fault Divorce Reform in the 1950s: The Lost History of the “Greatest Project” of the National Association of Women Lawyers’, Law and History Review, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248018000172. Published online: 24 September 2018.
First posted 2018-09-26 15:05:05
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