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Authors Tracy Thomas and Jennifer L. Brinkley discuss their new books on two groundbreaking women in law.

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Author Samantha Barbas on the history of the battles of regulating hate speech.

Learning from the History of Rape Kit Protocols

Author Jaimie Morse on how the history of rape kit protocols raises questions of epistemology, representation, and social justice in anti-rape activism in medicine.

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Assisted Reproductive Justice: Race, Law, and the Fertility Industry

by Camisha Ann Russell (Author), Kimberly Mutcherson (Author)

Nov 2026

The Making of the Houston Martyrs: Law and Policing in a Time of War

by Sara M. Benson (Author)

Nov 2026

Dealing in Human Flesh: The Development of Transnational Sex Trafficking in the Early Twentieth Century

by Jeffrey S. Adler (Author)

Dec 2026

Race and Gender in the US Economy: How Markets and Constitutional Law Shape Economic Status

by Gerald D. Jaynes (Author)

Dec 2026

Open Access Titles

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A Baseline of Decency: The Promise and Power of Alt-Labor and Worker Centers

by César F. Rosado Marzán (Author)

Jun 2027

Open Access

Intimate Legalities: Elder Care and Conflict in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Vietnam

by Lynette J. Chua (Author)

Apr 2027

Open Access

Thinking with Critical Race Theory: An Invitation

by Antar A. Tichavakunda (Author)

Apr 2027

Open Access

The Gender of Absence: Women, Girls, and the Search for the Missing

by Elizabeth Barnert (Editor), Sarah Aline Huston (Editor)

Apr 2027

Open Access

Public Law in a Hybrid State: Legal Reform and Global Sociology in Uzbekistan

by Chris Thornhill (Author), Rustamjon Urinboyev (Author), and 1 more

Jul 2026

Open Access

Bodies of Evidence: A History of Rape Kit Protocols in US Emergency Nursing and Global Humanitarian Medicine

by Jaimie Morse (Author)

Jun 2026

Open Access

Gender Bound: Prisons, Trans Lives, and the Abolitionist Horizon

by Joss T. Greene (Author)

Jun 2026

Open Access

Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty

by Miriam Driessen (Author)

Feb 2026

Open Access