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Only Words

Catharine A. MacKinnon

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ISBN 9780674639348

Publication Date: 03/01/1996

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160 pages

5 x 7-1/2 inches

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Catharine A. MacKinnon is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law (Long-Term) at Harvard Law School.

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At Politico, read Catharine MacKinnon and other legal scholars’ responses to the sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh: “The question isn’t only whether Brett Kavanaugh can still be a Supreme Court Justice; it’s whether he can still be a federal judge”
Read a New York Times “Table for Three” conversation between Professor MacKinnon and Gretchen Carlson, who in 2016 became a public face of sexual harassment when she sued her former employer Fox News’s chief executive Roger Ailes
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Catharine MacKinnon Is Winner of the 2014 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of American Law Schools Section on Women in Legal Education

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