Kathryn Abrams

Publications

• Lawyers on the Post-Dobbs Landscape: The Case of the Ballot Initiative
  113 CAL. L. REV. 921 (2025) · California Law Review · 2025
• Movement Storytelling and the Transformation of the Dreamer Narrative
  33 BERKELEY LA RAZA L.J. 31 (2023) · Berkeley La Raza Law Journal · 2023

• Contentious Citizenship: Undocumented Activism in the Not1More Deportation Campaign
  26 BERKELEY LA RAZA L.J. 46 (2016) · Berkeley La Raza Law Journal · 2016
• Seeking Emotional Ends with Legal Means
  103 CAL. L. REV. 1657 (2015) · California Law Review · 2015
• The Outsider Within: The Radical, Not-So-Scary Feminist Jurisprudence of Ann Scales
  91 DENV. L. REV. 23 (2013) · Denver Law Review · 2013
• Empathy and Experience in the Sotomayor Hearing
  36 OHIO N. U. L. REV. (2010) · Ohio Northern University Law Review · 2010
• Who's Afraid of Law and the Emotions?
  94 MINN. L. REV. 1997 (2010) · Minnesota Law Review · 2010

• Exploring the Affective Constitution
  59 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 571 (2009) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 2009
• Law in the Cultivation of Hope
  95 CAL. L. REV. 319 (2007) · California Law Review · 2007
• Hybridizing Citizenship
  37 U. RICH. L. REV. 935 (2003) · University of Richmond Law Review · 2003
• Feminists in International Human Rights: The Changer and the Changed
  21 BERKELEY J. INT'L L. 390 (2003) · Berkeley Journal of International Law · 2003
• The Progress of Passion
  100 MICH. L. REV. 1602 (2002) · Michigan Law Review · 2002
• Fighting Fire with Fire: Rethinking the Role of Disgust in Hate Crimes
  90 CAL. L. REV. 1423 (2002) · California Law Review · 2002
• The Legal Subject in Exile
  51 DUKE L.J. 27 (2001) · Duke Law Journal · 2001
• The Second Coming of Care
  76 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 1605 (2001) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2001
• Race and Races: Constructing a New Legal Actor
  89 CAL. L. REV. 1589 (2001) · California Law Review · 2001
• Critical Strategy and the Judicial Evasion of Difference
  85 CORNELL L. REV. 1426 (2000) · Cornell Law Review · 2000
• Cross-Dressing in the Master's Clothes
  109 YALE L.J. 745 (2000) · Yale Law Journal · 2000

• From Autonomy to Agency: Feminist Perspectives on Self-Direction
  40 WM. & MARY L. REV. 805 (1999) · William & Mary Law Review · 1999
• Postscript Spring 1998: A Response to Professors Bernstein and Franke
  83 CORNELL L. REV. 1257 (1998) · Cornell Law Review · 1998
• New Jurisprudence of Sexual Harassment
  83 CORNELL L. REV. 1169 (1998) · Cornell Law Review · 1998
• How to Have a Culture War (reviewing <i>Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law</i> by Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry)
  65 U. CHI. L. REV. (1998) · University of Chicago Law Review · 1998
• Respecting Women's Lives and Investigating Women's Consciousness: A Comment on Obiora
  47 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 399 (1997) · Case Western Reserve Law Review · 1997
• The Supreme Court, Visibility, and the "Politics of Presence"
  50 VAND. L. REV. 411 (1997) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1997
• Redefining Women's Agency: A Response to Professor Williams
  72 IND. L.J. (1997) · Indiana Law Journal · 1997
• No "There" There: State Autonomy and Voting Rights Regulation
  65 U. COLO. L. REV. 835 (1994) · University of Colorado Law Review · 1994
• Title VII and the Complex Female Subject
  92 MICH. L. REV. 2479 (1994) · Michigan Law Review · 1994
• Songs of Innocence and Experience: Dominance Feminism in the University
  103 YALE L.J. 1533 (1994) · Yale Law Journal · 1994
• Gender in the Military: Androcentrism and Institutional Reform
  56 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 217 (1993) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 1993
• Social Construction, Roving Biologism, and Reasonable Women: A Response to Professor Epstein
  41 DEPAUL L. REV. 1021 (1992) · DePaul Law Review · 1992
• Hearing the Call of Stories
  79 CAL. L. REV. 971 (1991) · California Law Review · 1991

• Gender Discrimination and the Transformation of Workplace Norms
  42 VAND. L. REV. 1183 (1989) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 1989
• Law's Republicanism
  97 YALE L.J. 1591 (1988) · Yale Law Journal · 1988
• Kitsch and Community
  84 MICH. L. REV. 941 (1986) · Michigan Law Review · 1986
• A Constitutional Law for the Age of Anxiety
  73 CAL. L. REV. 1643 (1985) · California Law Review · 1985
• On Reading and Using the Tenth Amendment
  93 YALE L.J. 723 (1984) · Yale Law Journal · 1984