The Continuing Legacy and Long Tail of Court-Ordered School Desegregation

The storm clouds hovering above public and private universities in the United States are neither divine judgement nor a day of reckoning. Rather, they...

Where do—and should—future disabilities fit within the law? Disability civil rights laws expressly extend rights to individuals with present or past...

On Friday, the archconservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued a stunning nationwide injunction that directly affects one-fourth of...

In its recent decision in Chiles v. Salazar, the Supreme Court invalidated Colorado’s law prohibiting licensed counselors from engaging in efforts to...

In United States v. Skrmetti the Supreme Court will consider whether Tennessee’s broad prohibitions on gender-affirming care for minors violates the...

Prohibitions on gender-affirming care for minors in the United States came to a head in the last few months, with the issuance of an Executive Order...

To uphold Tennessee’s ban on pediatric gender-affirming care, the court in United States v. Skrmetti hid from the specter of discrimination. The court...

“In a time when disinformation is being laundered through government agencies, the responsibility to protect evidence-based care falls to courageous...

The power of identity has driven our nation’s civil rights movements. In the 1960s, Frank Kameny, the father of the gay rights movement was inspired...

Forty-six minutes into the Supreme Court’s oral argument in the birthright-citizenship litigation, Solicitor General D. John Sauer got a question he...

Educational opportunities and outcomes will determine whether a society thrives or merely survives a 100-year-life. Nations should ensure that...

For the over half-million people currently homeless in the United States, the U.S. Constitution has historically provided little help: it is strongly...

The Supreme Court’s evisceration of the federal constitutional right to abortion has raised the specter of criminal and civil liability for abortion...

In the last five years, 27 states have passed bans prohibiting transgender minors from receiving gender-affirming care. These treatments include...

When intimate privacy is violated, self- and relational development is impaired to the detriment of individuals and society. Despite these costs...

In United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Tennessee’s law, Senate Bill 1 (SB1) that bans most gender affirming...