BEKKELEY WOMEN’S LAW JOURNAL 2001 Volume 16 COMMENTARY Gender and Legal Writing: l Law Schools’ Dirty Little Secrets Kathryn M. Stanchi Jan M. Levine It is the policy of the Berkeley Women's Law Journal not to draw a distinction between student pieces and the work of scholars, practitioners, and community workers. ARTICLES Protecting Human Victims of Trafficking: 29 An American Framework Kelly E. Hyland The Effects of Rape Law Reform on 72 Rape Case Processing Stacy Futter Walter R. Mebane, Jr. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS The High Cost of Merging With A 140 Religiously-Controlled Hospital Monica Sloboda Striking Back Against Homophobia: 157 Prohibiting Peremptory Strikes Kathryn Ann Barry Based on Sexual Orientation A New Forum for Comfort Women: 174 Fighting Japan in United States Maki Arakawa Federal Court BOOK REVIEW Worthy Workers, Unworthy Humans 201 Immigrant Women and United States Rhacel Salazar Immigration Policies Parrenias Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy by Grace Chang BOOKS RECEIVED Emigré Feminism: Transnational Perspectives edited by Alena Heitlinger Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader edited by Adrien Katherine Wing Women on the Row: Revelations from Both Sides of the Bars by Kathleen O’Shea Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare, and Poverty by Jody Raphael