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

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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