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

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...

Societies worldwide are polarized over social justice, with identity-based status hierarchies manifesting inequalities at both individual and...

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...

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...

Prof. Kim Forde-Mazrui of the University of Virginia responds to Sonja Starr’s print Article, The Magnet School Wars and the Future of Colorblindness...

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

This book responds to a sea change in federal civil rights law. Its focus is on the recent decisions on affirmative action, almost entirely rejecting...

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...

The role of implicit racial biases in police interactions with people of color has garnered increased public attention and scholarly examination over...

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