Books
Katharine K. Baker, Family Law, with Katharine B. Silbaugh (2009) (part of the Aspen Essentials series).
Book Chapters
Katharine K. Baker, "Consent, Rape and the Criminal Law," with Michelle Oberman, in The Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the United States (2023).
Katharine K. Baker, "Procreation and Parenting," in The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law (2020).
Katharine K. Baker, "Sex Equality, Gender Injury, Title IX and Women’s Education in the United States," in Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence (2019).
Katharine K. Baker, "Rape," with Michelle Oberman, in The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion (2009).
Katharine K. Baker, "Asymmetric Parenthood," in Reconceiving the Family: Critique on the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (2006).
Articles
Katharine K. Baker, "Family Law Exceptionalism Revisited," 37 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 395 (2025), 44 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Abortion, Parenthood, and Equality," 26 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 1 (2024), 22 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Gender (Discrimination) Trouble," 76 South Carolina Law Review 223 (2024), 64 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Where Do Families Come from? The Law of Family Definition," 49 Brigham Young University Law Review 1249 (2024), 69 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Making Some Sense of the Constitutional Family," 72 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 1 (2023), 26 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "The Polyamorous Threat to Nonmarriage," 61 Family Court Review 81 (2023), 21 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Equality and Family Autonomy," 24 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 412 (2022), 68 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Equality, Gestational Erasure, and the Constitutional Law of Parenthood," 35 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 1 (2022), 45 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "What Is Nonmarriage?" 73 SMU Law Review 201 (2020), 49 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Campus Misconduct, Sexual Harm and Appropriate Process: The Essential Sexuality of It All," 66 Journal of Legal Education 777 (2017), 27 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Quacking Like a Duck? Functional Parenthood Doctrine and Same-Sex Parents," 92 Chicago-Kent Law Review 135 (2017), 42 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Campus Sexual Misconduct as Sexual Harassment: A Defense of the DOE," 64 University of Kansas Law Review 861 (2016), 29 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "The DNA Default and Its Discontents: Establishing Modern Parenthood," 96 Boston University Law Review 2037 (2016), 55 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Women's Sexual Agency and the Law of Rape in the 21st Century," with Michelle Oberman, 69 Studies in Law, Politics, & Society 63 (2016), 49 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Legitimate Families and Equal Protection," 56 Boston College Law Review 1647 (2015), 49 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Why Rape Should Not (Always) Be a Crime," 100 Minnesota Law Review 221 (2015), 58 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Sex and Equality," 93 Boston University Law Review Annex 11 (2013), 15 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Homogenous Rules for Heterogeneous Families: The Standardization of Family Law When There Is No Standard Family," 2012 University of Illinois Law Review 319, 53 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Marriage and Parenthood as Status and Rights: The Growing, Problematic and Possibly Constitutional Trend to Disaggregate Family Status from Family Rights," 71 Ohio State Law Journal 127 (2010), 60 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "The Stories of Marriage," 12 Journal of Law and Family Studies 1 (2010), 55 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Bionormativity and the Construction of Parenthood," 42 Georgia Law Review 649 (2008), 67 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Supporting Children, Balancing Lives," 34 Pepperdine Law Review 359 (2007), 33 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "The Problem with Unpaid Work," 4 University of St. Thomas Law Journal 599 (2007), 25 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "A Separate Crime of Reckless Sex," with Ian Ayres, 72 University of Chicago Law Review 599 (2005), 68 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Gender and Emotion in Criminal Law," 28 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 447 (2005), 20 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Bargaining or Biology? The History and Future of Paternity Law and Parental Status," 14 Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy 1 (2004), 69 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Asking What Before We Ask Why: Taxonomy, Etiology, and Rape," 989 Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 288 (2003), 12 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Gender, Genes, and Choice: A Comparative Look at Feminism, Evolution, and Economics," 80 North Carolina Law Review 465 (2002), 61 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Biology for Feminists," 75 Chicago-Kent Law Review 805 (2000), 31 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Sex, Rape, and Shame," 79 Boston University Law Review 663 (1999), 54 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Text, Context, and the Problem with Rape," 28 Southwestern University Law Review 297 (1999), 11 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "What Rape Is and What It Ought Not to Be," 39 Jurimetrics 233 (1999), 10 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Property Rules Meet Feminist Needs: Respecting Autonomy by Valuing Connection," 59 Ohio State Law Journal 1523 (1998), 75 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Once a Rapist? Motivational Evidence and Relevancy in Rape Law," 110 Harvard Law Review 563 (1997), 62 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Consorting with Forests: Rethinking Our Relationship to Natural Resources and How We Should Value Their Loss," 22 Ecology Law Quarterly 677 (1995), 52 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Contracting for Security: Paying Married Women What They've Earned," 55 University of Chicago Law Review 1193 (1988), 35 pages.
Reviews and Commentary
Katharine K. Baker, "Alternative Caretaking and Family Autonomy: Some Thoughts in Response to Dorothy Roberts," 76 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1643 (2001) (commentary on Dororthy E. Robert, "Kinship Care and the Price of State Support for Children," 76 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1619 (2001)), 8 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Dialectics and Domestic Abuse," 110 Yale Law Journal 1459 (2001) (reviewing Elizabeth M. Schneider, Battered Women and Feminist Lawmaking (2000)), 33 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Unwanted Supply, Unwanted Demand," 3 Green Bag 2d Series 103 (1999) (reviewing Stephen J. Schulhofer, Unwanted Sex: The Culture of Intimidation and the Failure of Law (1998)), 11 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "A Wigmorian Defense of Feminist Method," 49 Hastings Law Journal 861 (1998) (commentary on Aviva Orenstein, "No Bad Men! A Feminist Analysis of Character Evidence in Rape Trials," 49 Hastings Law Journal 663 (1998)), 9 pages.
Katharine K. Baker, "Taking Care of Our Daughters," 18 Cardozo Law Review 1495 (1997) (reviewing Martha Albertson Fineman, The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies (1995)), 31 pages.