Race, Poverty, History, Adoption, and Child Abuse: Connections

Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...

On January 1, 2022, the most radical change to the American jury in at least thirty-five years occurred in Arizona: peremptory strikes, long a feature...

Professor Elizabeth Scott, the chief reporter of the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of Children and the Law, has often observed that the...

This Article considers the interaction between marriage, households, and public welfare-type benefits. In light of constant cultural and media...

There is one group that the court does not put into an identity straitjacket—those claiming religious exemptions.

Courts routinely use low cash bail as a financial incentive to ensure that released defendants appear in court and abstain from crime. This can create...

Singlehood is becoming an increasingly important social identity category. Thousands of people are members of Facebook groups such as I am my Own...

The pathway to stable and secure middle-class status involves two elements: the ability to postpone family formation to facilitate human capital...

The lawyer-client relationship is pivotal in providing access to courts. This paper presents results from a large-scale field experiment exploring how...

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 –...

Originalism is becoming the coin of the realm at the conservative Supreme Court. Even newly appointed liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has drawn...

Family law is for young people. To facilitate child rearing and help spouses pool resources over a lifetime, the law obligates parents to minor...

When Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck got engaged the first time, in 2002, he gave her a very pricey ring. That engagement ring was reportedly worth as...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez that our Constitution...

This lecture critiques Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and assesses its implications for liberty and equality. Dobbs’ immediate effect...

At the core of election law in the United States are contestations over the rights of African Americans to participate and be represented in the...

In 2021 the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) gave final approval to the Uniform Cohabitants' Economic Remedies Act (UCERA). The Act provides a framework...

The recently enacted Respect for Marriage Act is important bipartisan legislation that will protect same-sex marriage should the Supreme Court...