International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, Ahead of Print. This article reconceptualizes sex discrimination ascommunicative demeaningthat violates equal civic status,
and shows that comparator-led tests often fail to register this harm. Bringing together relational equality - which addresses relations of ... [...]
This article examines how parents living in poverty in Finland describe their daily family life. Drawing on affect theory and Wetherell's concept of affective practices, the
study explores how emotions are enacted, circulated and embedded in daily routines of care, survival and encounters with welfare institutions. [...]
The California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) has reshaped local elections across the State of California. The CVRA spurred hundreds of cities, school districts, and other local
governments to transition from at-large elections, where all voters in the local government’s territory vote for all members of the local government’s board, [...]
Between 2020 and 2024, the Department of Education undertook two massive experiments on the student loan system. The first was the “payment pause”—a three-and-a-half-year
suspension of payment obligations and interest accrual on all student loans owed to the federal government, enacted in response to the state of emergency caused by [...]
“Punishment” is an all-important category in criminal legal thought. Conventional scholarship adopts a narrow definition and focuses on justifying penal sanctions. Much
critical work, in contrast, seeks to expand the category—defining more practices and institutions as “punishment.” In this Article, I argue that the focus on [...]
Where do—and should—future disabilities fit within the law? Disability civil rights laws expressly extend rights to individuals with present or past disabilities, but it
remains unsettled how the prospect of acquiring a disability in the future should be understood within these laws. [...]
Nearly every Chapter 11 filing is “voluntary,” in that it’s initiated by the company’s managers. Yet the Bankruptcy Code also allows unsecured creditors to force a
company to reorganize under an “involuntary Chapter 11.” Involuntary Chapter 11s are rare and largely ignored by scholars. [...]
AbstractTraditional legal regulation of domestic violence has focused predominantly on acts of physical violence. Yet, growing scholarship shows that domestic violence is often
better understood not as a set of isolated incidents, but as a pattern of coercive and controlling conduct sustained over time. [...]
AbstractAt the World Trade Organization (WTO), many trade disputes could be more effectively and suitably resolved through alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms.
Article 5 of the DSU explicitly provides for the use of good offices, conciliation, and mediation as ADR methods. [...]