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abstract. American legislation protecting women and families has a
blind spot: the future career prospects of current stay-at-home parents.
Policies instead focus on parents who want to stay in the workforce
continuously, emphasizing childcare subsidies and parental leave. However, this
focus ignores the quarter of American mothers and seven percent of American
fathers to children

abstract.
Family law is full of hard decisions. One of the
most difficult—and most fundamental—concerns whether courts should remain
committed to generally applicable rules of law even when they lead to
normatively ugly results. Applying Hayek’s theory of law and liberty to
contemporary American family law, this Essay concludes that—despite the risk
of perverse results

abstract.
Debates about war powers focus too much on legal
checks and on the President’s power to start wars. Congressional checks before
and during crises work better than many reformists suppose, and there are
ways to improve Congress’s political checking without substantial legal reform.

Introduction

The disastrous 2003 Iraq war and the sprawling and perpetual

abstract. This
Essay highlights two features of modern war powers that hide from public view
decisions that take the country to war: the executive branch’s exploitation of
interpretive ambiguity to defend unilateral presidential authority, and its
dispersal of the power to use force to the outer limbs of the bureaucracy.

Introduction

American presidents have long

abstract. An assumption that dominates the discourse on race in the United States is that racial subjugation is only harmful to the subjugated. Many people take for granted that White people have nothing to gain from disrupting the existing racial hierarchy. Indeed, efforts to uplift people of color are typically viewed as coming at

abstract. In recent years, faith communities across the United States have begun to create affordable housing on church property, inspired by sincerely held religious beliefs. Some are building microhomes behind their houses of worship. Others are converting residences once used by religious ministers—from rectories to abbeys to convents—into units for seniors and low-income families.

abstract. Money is power. Banks have the extraordinary power to create the nation’s money and credit, which they are entrusted to channel into productive economic uses. Like most other forms of economic power, this publicly granted privilege can be abused for private gain. That is why the “money monopoly” and “money trusts” were once

abstract. In the legal histories of Reconstruction, the
Fifteenth Amendment is usually an afterthought compared to the Fourteenth
Amendment. This oversight is perplexing: the Fifteenth Amendment ushered in a
brief period of multiracial democracy and laid the constitutional foundation
for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This Article helps to complete the
historical record,

abstract. This
Essay defends statutes creating public nuisance and consumer protection causes
of action against firearms industry actors for their failure to take reasonable
measures to control the flow of their products to criminal users. Such laws are
predicate statutes under PLCAA and do not infringe the Second Amendment.

Introduction

Generally speaking, where a particular