The 2002 book "Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law" by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler inspired Michael Seitzman to write what?
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Michael Seitzman Michael Seitzman (born November 1, 1967) is an American writer, producer and film director best known for film "North Country".
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North Country (film) North Country is a 2005 American drama film directed by Niki Caro, starring Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, Michelle Monaghan, Jeremy Renner, Woody Harrelson and Sissy Spacek. The screenplay by Michael Seitzman was inspired by the 2002 book "Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law" by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler, which chronicled the case of "Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Company".
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Daniel Greenberg (educator) Daniel A. Greenberg (born c. 1934), one of the founders of the Sudbury Valley School, has published several books on the Sudbury model of school organization, and has been described by Sudbury Valley School trustee Peter Gray as the "principal philosopher" among its founders. He is a former physics professor at Columbia University, and is described by Lois Holzman as the school's "chief 'philosophical writer'".
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Phyllis Chesler Phyllis Chesler (born October 1, 1940) is an American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). She is known as a feminist psychologist, and is the author of 16 books, including the best-seller "Women and Madness" (1972). Chesler has written on topics such as gender, mental illness, divorce and child custody, surrogacy, second-wave feminism, pornography, prostitution, incest, and violence against women.
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Judith L. Lichtman Judith L. Lichtman is an American attorney specializing in women’s rights and an advocate for human and civil rights. Lichtman currently serves as the senior advisor of the National Partnership for Women & Families. She is largely credited with the passage of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
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Richard Harold Steinberg Richard Harold Steinberg (born July 15, 1960), is a Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, Director of the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project, and Editor-in-Chief of the Human Rights and International Criminal Law Online Forum (a cooperative undertaking with the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the editorial boards of the American Journal of International Law and International Organization. He was formerly Assistant General Counsel to the United States Trade Representative under Josh Bolten in the first Bush Administration. He has written over forty articles on international law and politics, and edited, co-edited, or co-authored six books: "Partners or Competitors? The Prospects for U.S.-EU Cooperation on Asian Trade" (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999)," The Greening of Trade Law: International Trade Organizations and Environmental Issues" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), "The Evolution of the Trade Regime: Economics, Law, and Politics of the GATT/WTO" (Princeton University Press, 2006), "International Law and International Relations" (Cambridge University Press, 2007), "International Institutions" (SAGE 2010), and "Assessing the Legacy of the ICTY" (Martinus Nijhoff, 2011).
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Nader v. General Motors Corp. Nader v. General Motors Corp. (25 N.Y. 2d 560, 1970) was a court case in which author and automobile safety lecturer Ralph Nader claimed that General Motors had “conduct[ed] a campaign of intimidation against him in order to ‘suppress plaintiff's criticism of and prevent his disclosure of information’ about its products” regarding his book "Unsafe at Any Speed". Mere information gathering is not sufficient for action under intrusion upon seclusion tort: "privacy is invaded only if the information sought is of a confidential nature and the defendant's conduct was unreasonably intrusive." Judge Brietel concluded that GM's actions "constitute intrusion upon privacy".
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Carol S. Bruch Carol Sophie Bruch (born June 11, 1941) is an American legal scholar and professor emerita of the law school at the University of California, Davis. A recognized authority on family marital property law, and private international law, she has influenced and worked on the drafting of family law statutes in California and other US states, and also international agreements. She holds a JD from UC Berkeley School of Law and an AB from Shimer College.
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Christopher M. Fairman Christopher M. Fairman (July 26, 1960 – July 22, 2015) was a professor of law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and Associate Dean for Faculty. He was also the C. William O'Neill Professor in Law and Judicial Administration.
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Mel Lipman Melvin S. Lipman, aka Mel Lipman (born in 1936 in Brooklyn, New York) is an attorney, civil libertarian and humanist (nontheist/atheist) activist.
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Selden Rodman Cary Selden Rodman (February 19, 1909 – November 2, 2002) was a prolific U.S. writer of poetry, plays and prose, political commentary, art criticism, Latin American and Caribbean history, biography and travel writing—publishing a book almost every year of his adult life.
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Ellen D. Katz Ellen D. Katz (born 1968 or 1969) is an American law professor at the University of Michigan Law School. Katz has written "a significant body of scholarship on voting rights and election law" and has also written and taught on equal protection, civil rights, and legal history. A scholar of the Voting Rights Act, she wrote a widely cited empirical study of litigation under that act.
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Ann Simonton Ann J. Simonton (born 1952) is an American writer, lecturer, media activist, and former fashion model. She founded and coordinates the non-profit group "Media Watch", which challenges what they see as racism, sexism, and violence in the media through education and action. Simonton has published two autobiographical chapters, "I Never Told Anyone" and "Her Wits About Her". She has also written and produced two educational videos, one of which, "Don't Be a TV: Television Victim", received a Silver Apple Award from the National Educational Video and Film Festival in 1995.
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Anita Hill Anita Faye Hill (born July 30, 1956) is an American attorney and academic. She is a University Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's Studies at Brandeis University and a faculty member of Brandeis' Heller School for Social Policy and Management. She became a national figure in 1991 when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, her boss at the United States Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, of sexual harassment.
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Jennifer S. Hirsch Jennifer Hirsch is a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She is the Deputy Chair of Doctoral Studies at Columbia, as well as the Head of the Department of Sociomedical Studies. Hirsch also co-directs the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation Her most notable work spans across topics such as gender, human sexuality, and public health. Her book "A Courtship After Marriage: Sexuality and Love in Mexican Transnational Families" has been used widely in college classrooms for exploring Mexican women and the ever-changing ideas of marriage among Latinx couples. Hirsch is a member of B'nai Jeshurun (Manhattan)
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Lea Brilmayer Roberta "Lea" Brilmayer is an American legal scholar. She is the Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and an expert in conflict of laws, personal jurisdiction, and international law.
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Linda Seger Linda Seger is a screenwriting coach and script consultant best known for her method of analyzing movie scripts, which she originally developed as her graduate school dissertation project on "What Makes a Great Script." She founded the script consulting industry, becoming the first entrepreneur who saw script consulting as a business, rather than an offshoot of seminars or books. She has consulted on over 2000 screenplays and over 100 produced films and television shows including "Universal Soldier", "The Neverending Story II", "Luther", "The Bridge" (miniseries,)etc. Her clients include Peter Jackson, Tri-Star Pictures, Ray Bradbury, and William Kelley. She lived in Los Angeles for 25 years, and now works from her mountain home in Colorado. Unlike other screenwriting gurus, (John Truby), (Syd Field), and (Michael Hauge), she is not a screenwriter, but has focused exclusively on consulting and teaching. She has presented her seminars in more than 30 countries on six different continents, including seminars for ABC, CBS, NBC, the McGyver series, film commissions, studios, and production companies. She has trained script consultants for the countries of New Zealand, Germany, Scandinavia, Italy, and Austria. .
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Joan Semmel Joan Semmel (born October 19, 1932, New York City) is an American feminist painter, professor, and writer. She is best known for painting large scale, realistic nudes of her own body as seen from her perspective looking down.
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The 34th Rule The 34th Rule (ISBN  ), published January 1, 1999, is a "" novel written by Armin Shimerman and David R. George III. The story in the novel was an allegory for the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, and was inspired by George Takei's experiences during that period. It had originally been pitched as an episode to "Deep Space Nine", but was subsequently turned into a novel.
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Martha Albertson Fineman Martha Albertson Fineman (born 1943) is an American jurist, legal theorist and political philosopher. She is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. Fineman was previously the first holder of the Dorothea S. Clarke Professorship of Feminist Jurisprudence at Cornell Law School and held the Maurice T. Moore Professorship at Columbia Law School.
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Seling v. Young Seling v. Young, 531 U.S. 250 (2001) , was a United States Supreme Court case decided in 2001. The case concerned a challenge to a civil commitment statute for sexual predators in Washington state. The petitioner tried to differentiate this case from previous ones before the Supreme Court which upheld civil commitment statutes. The Court rejected the challenge to the law over the objection of a single Justice.
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Steve Charnovitz Steve Charnovitz (born 1953) is a scholar of public international law, living in the United States. He teaches at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, and is best known for his writings on the linkages between trade and environment and trade and labor rights.