Although it is evident in routine decision-making and a crucial vehicle of rationalization,
commensuration as a general social process has been given little consideration by …

In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America.
Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as …

Not only are there willing buyers for body parts or babies, Radin observes, but some
desperately poor people would be willing sellers, while better-off people find such trades …

The Anglo-American common law originally provided that a husband, as master of his
household, could subject his wife to corporal punishment or" chastisement" so long as he …

In this essay, Professor Siegel examines efforts to reform racial and gender status law in the
nineteenth century in order to raise questions about the ways antidiscrimination law …

We are in the midst of an information revolution, and we are-only beginning to understand its
implications. In the past decade, we have undergone a dramatic transformation in the way …

Abstract Editors Rachel Brown and Deva Woodly bring together Mara Marin, Shatema
Threadcraft, Christopher Paul Harris, Jasmine Syedullah, and Miriam Ticktin to examine the …

Amendment, Americans were breaking with traditional conceptions of the family that were
rooted in coverture, as well as with understandings of federalism that placed family relations …

At common law, husbands were exempt from prosecution for raping their wives. Over the
past quarter century, this law has been modified somewhat, but not entirely. A majority of …

Work Under Capitalism synthesizes recent institutionalist and Marxist ideas about the
organization of production, situating production within a social context. Starting with the …