When Michael Jackson died in 2009, he left a complicated legacy. But one thing remains true: The King of Pop’s music still generates millions of...
Reviewing, (For the Balkinization Symposium on) Solangel Maldonado, The Architecture of Desire: How the Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and...
In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Even with more women in the workforce than in decades past...
This chapter discusses the failures of the privatized childcare and eldercare infrastructure in the United States. While that system preceded COVID-19...
Professor Elizabeth Scott, the chief reporter of the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of Children and the Law, has often observed that the...
In 2021 the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) gave final approval to the Uniform Cohabitants' Economic Remedies Act (UCERA). The Act provides a framework...
This Article considers the interaction between marriage, households, and public welfare-type benefits. In light of constant cultural and media...
Singlehood is becoming an increasingly important social identity category. Thousands of people are members of Facebook groups such as I am my Own...
Scores of lawsuits have pushed retirement plan sponsors to shorter, easier-to-navigate menus, but – as Ian Ayres and Quinn Curtis argue in this work –...
This chapter provides a brief history of the first three Restatements of Trusts, and it then offers suggestions for a Restatement (Fourth). As this...
Family law is for young people. To facilitate child rearing and help spouses pool resources over a lifetime, the law obligates parents to minor...
The recently enacted Respect for Marriage Act is important bipartisan legislation that will protect same-sex marriage should the Supreme Court...
At the time Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, it joined a series of decisions about contraception, the “legitimacy” of nonmarital children, unmarried...
The price of exit influences the terms of intimate relationships—and constitutes an important factor in distinguishing committed from contingent...
