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- ↑ Deana Sacks Pollard website at Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Texas Southern University retrieved 2nd Nov 2015 [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Deana Pollard, Regulating Violent Pornography, 43 Vanderbilt Law Review 125 (1990).
- ↑ Deana Pollard Sacks, Sex Torts, 91 Minnesota Law Review 791 (2007).; Deana Pollard Sacks, Intentional Sex Torts, Fordham Law Review (2008) .
- ↑ CSPAN video of Pollard Sacks talk at Harvard Law School on implicit bias
- ↑ Deana Pollard Sacks, State Actors Beating Children: A Call for Judicial Relief, 42 U.C. Davis Law Review (2009)