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...
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...
State public utility commissions are at the forefront of the clean-energy transition. These state agencies, which have jurisdiction over energy...
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...
The view that international law functions independently of municipal law (hermetically), does not reflect contemporary international practice. Instead...
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...
Research correlating stringency in land-use regulation to low housing supply, high housing costs, and segregation relies on surveys of planners about...
More than a year after the Supreme Court found there is no fundamental right to get an abortion, 21 states have laws in effect that ban abortion well...
