Mayeri on Marital Supremacy and the Constitution of the Nonmarital Family

Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania Law School , has posted Marital Supremacy and the Constitution of the Nonmarital Family , which ap...

Wright on the Public/Private Binary and Family Law History

Danaya C. Wright, University of Florida Levin College of Law, has posted Theorizing History: Separate Spheres, the Public/Private Binary an...

Weekend Roundup

Adam Goodman (University of Southern California) has compiled a list of all the events marking the 50th anniversary of the signing of the ...

Norma Basch: An Appreciation by Sarah Barringer Gordon

[We are postponing the Weekend Roundup until later today for this appreciation of Norma Basch , Professor Emerita Rutgers University-Newark ...

Norma Basch (1934-2015)

[Over at H-Law , R. B. Bernstein has reported the sad news of Norma Basch ’s death.  The New York Times obituary is here .  We will be post...

Gupta-Kagan on a Landmark Family Law Case

Josh Gupta-Kagan, University of South Carolina School of Law , has posted Stanley v. Illinois ' Untold Story , William & Mary Bill o...

New Website Showcases Law, Family, and Slavery in Early Washington, D.C.

Via Slate's The Vault , we have word of the online archival repository " O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C. Law & Family...

Compromise and Marital-Status Discrimination

At the heart of After Roe  is a story about when and why conflict about abortion and gender escalated. Before writing the book, I believed t...