Tag: Law and Justice

Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

The passage of the administration’s Inflation Reduction Act should be celebrated, but without explicit corporate guardrails it’s doomed.

The legal doctrine of "superior responsibility" makes the Russian president liable for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing.

The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people.

Critics say human rights discourse blunts social transformation. It doesn't have to.

It has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

The language of universal rights can be a powerful tool for advancing social justice.

Recent union drives point the way to more effective action against corporate power.

David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.

It is time to stop talking about Roe as the touchstone for abortion rights and to start imagining what law and policy can do to facilitate affordable and available services.

In the fight for LGBTQ equality, the law is often the last thing to change.

When we think, write, and act alongside movements, we help disrupt the everyday violence of law and imagine more radical transformation.