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A Critical Yet Hopeful Comic on Pregnancy Privacy
Jun 05 2024
By Meg Leta Jones and Amanda Levendowski, co-editors of Feminist CyberlawAfter the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, many feared that America was returning to a time before Roe v. Wade. They were wrong. As Feminist Cyberlaw contributor Cynthia Conti-Cook cau
Critical Wage Theory — A Timely New Approach to an Old Problem
Jun 04 2024
By Ruben J. Garcia, author of Critical Wage Theory: Why Wage Justice Is Racial JusticeRaising the federal minimum wage is not a front burner issue in the U.S. presidential election campaign. Other important issues such as the war in Gaza, the trials of former President Donald Trump, or the futur
Fetal personhood laws have been around for years. Why are we only angry now?
Jun 03 2024
By Grace Howard, author of The Pregnancy Police: Conceiving Crime, Arresting PersonhoodWhen I say that the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses are legal persons, many people may assume I’m talking about the recent opinion that stated embryos created in the cour
Inside a thought-provoking ethnography of a southern US District Attorney’s Office
May 23 2024
Gun Present takes us inside the everyday operations of the law at a courthouse in the Deep South. Illuminating the challenges accompanying the prosecution of criminal cases involving guns, the three coauthors—an anthropologist, a geographer, and a district attorney—present a deeply human portrait of
Q&A with Chrystin Ondersma, author of Dignity not Debt
Apr 09 2024
American households have a debt problem. The problem is not, as often claimed, that Americans recklessly take on too much debt. The problem is that US debt policies have no basis in reality. Weaving together the histories and trends of US debt policy with her own family story, Chrystin Ondersma debu
Q&A with Anna Gjika, author of When Rape Goes Viral
Nov 14 2023
Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people's digital engagement. In When Rape Goes Viral, Anna Gjika argues that rather than focusing on survei