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When Parental Expectations Shape Our Legal Consciousness

Author Qian Liu on why she wrote "Leftover Women in China."

Representing Immigrants in a Hostile Legal Environment

Susan Bibler Coutin writes about lawfully protecting immigrants in an inhospitable environment.

Debt in the United States

How the landscape of debt in the United States has shifted significantly.

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From Apartheid to Democracy: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine

by Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man (Author), Sarah Leah Whitson (Author)

Sep 2025

The Master-Servant Doctrine: How Old Legal Rules Haunt the Modern Workplace

by Elizabeth Chika Tippett (Author)

Nov 2025

Rewriting the Rules: Gender-Responsive Lawmaking for the Twenty-First Century

by Ramona Vijeyarasa (Author)

Jan 2026

Open Access

The Middle-Class New Deal: Restoring Upward Mobility and the American Dream

by A. Mechele Dickerson (Author)

Jan 2026

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

by Miriam Driessen (Author)

Feb 2026

Open Access

Rewriting the Rules: Gender-Responsive Lawmaking for the Twenty-First Century

by Ramona Vijeyarasa (Author)

Jan 2026

Open Access

Insuring Cyberinsecurity: Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators

by Shauhin A. Talesh (Author)

Aug 2025

Open Access

On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy

by Susan Bibler Coutin (Author)

Aug 2025

Open Access

Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis

by Kathryn Henne (Author), Matt Ventresca (Author)

Aug 2025

Open Access

Leftover Women in China: Understanding Legal Consciousness through Intergenerational Relationships

by Qian Liu (Author)

Aug 2025

Open Access

Undoing Nothing: Waiting for Asylum, Struggling for Relevance

by Paolo Boccagni (Author)

Jun 2025

Open Access

Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients

by Anna Kirkland (Author)

Apr 2025

Open Access