This book review of Catherine Ross's Lessons in Censorship places issues involving the free speech rights of public school students in the context of family law.
Children should be seen and not heard, or so the old saying goes. A new version of this adage is now playing out across the United States, as more...
Today, intimate privacy—which seeks to protect access to and information about our body, health, sexuality, gender, intimate thoughts, desires...
In looking at the history of family law, we locate family law – and the status of women and children within it – as a function of political economy...
Congress and state legislatures are showing renewed interest in youth privacy, proposing myriad new laws to address data extraction, addiction...
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...
Content moderation is typically viewed as an affront to free expression. When companies remove online abuse, they face accusations of censorship. Lost...
Conservative media titan Rupert Murdoch is making news again – this time, with a secretive effort to change an irrevocable trust. That trust has...
Reviewing, (For the Balkinization Symposium on) Solangel Maldonado, The Architecture of Desire: How the Law Shapes Interracial Intimacy and...
We live in an age of student surveillance. Once student surveillance just involved on-campus video cameras, school resource officers, and tip lines...
Fifty years ago, federal and state lawmakers called for the regulation of a criminal justice “databank” connecting federal, state, and local agencies...
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...
The recent mass arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators have left many asking how such suppression can be justified in a free society. Yet—despite...
On Thursday afternoon, in an important lawsuit seeking to clarify which religious objectors will be taken seriously when they seek legal exemptions, a...
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...
Differences in marriage rates reflect the demographic composition of each party: Democrats are more likely to be Black or Hispanic, and to be younger...
