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A. Dirk Moses

The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

Stefanie Fox

“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.

Noura Erakat, Deborah Chasman

A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.

Amy Kapczynski, Christopher Morten, Reshma Ramachandran

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

Azadeh Shahshahani

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

Elizabeth Sepper and James Nelson

Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.

Jacob S. Abolafia, Jonathan S. Gould

The courts have become a flashpoint in the United States and Israel—but for very different reasons.

David McDermott Hughes

With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

Will Holub-Moorman

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

Brishen Rogers

Workers will benefit from technology when they control how it’s used.

Alex Raskolnikov

For years the left has rallied around taxing the 1 percent, but this group is too narrow.

James Chappel

The tone of exhausted pragmatism—even among friends of the program—is counterproductive. It is beyond time to fight fire with fire.

Ira Katznelson

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

Emily Berman

Yawning gaps in the law empower police to collect and store massive amounts of data, all on the grounds that it might one day turn out useful.

Christopher Newfield

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

Louise Melling

A sharp uptick in challenges to U.S. antidiscrimination laws threatens decades of progress in extending civil rights to all.

Sonali Chakravarti

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

Lisa Heinzerling

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

Lenore Palladino

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

Feisal G. Mohamed

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

Ben Schacht
An “unholy alliance” of state and private industry threatens to undermine democracy and individual autonomy.
Joseph Margulies

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

Matthew Crain

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

Rachel Rebouché

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

Ben Schacht
Advocacy of human rights has a long history on the left, but does it have a future?
Samuel Clowes Huneke

The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people. A new book considers how gender became so integral to bureaucracy.

Rosie Gillies
As Roe is struck down by the Supreme Court, we bring together recent and archival essays to assess what is at stake—and how we might move from reproductive rights to reproductive justice.
Stuart Schrader

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Joseph Fishkin, William E. Forbath

Final Response: The path ahead is steep, but we have the intellectual resources to forge a more egalitarian constitutional order.

Sanjukta Paul

There’s far more to progressive political economy than market competition and reverence for business.

Kate Andrias

Achieving the potential of our founding principles requires us to ask hard questions.

Mark Tushnet

Past progressive legal traditions offer valuable lessons, but reformers must also look to the future.

Aziz Rana

In practice, domestic equality has often relied on dominance and exclusion.

Andrea Scoseria Katz

We must decouple the law from value-blind formalism.

Joseph Fishkin, William E. Forbath

We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.

Zachary Manfredi

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

Stuart Streichler

Amidst the January 6 hearings, the fiftieth anniversary of Nixon’s scandal reminds us that it has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

Paul Gowder

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

Harmony Goldberg, Erica Smiley

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

Rachel Rebouché

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.

Mary Bernstein

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

Deborah Chasman, Joshua Cohen
In a deeply unequal society, the law can certainly impede progress, but it also remains an essential resource in building a more just world.
Amna A. Akbar, Jocelyn Simonson, Sameer Ashar

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

Matt Nadel
Angel Francisco Breard was executed by Virginia in contempt of a treaty that required his home country to be notified when he was first charged. What difference might it have made if the U.S. had obeyed the law?
Mary Kathryn Nagle & Emma Lower
The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act is an important step, but activist Mary Kathryn Nagle argues that only full restoration of Indigenous sovereignty will stop the epidemic.
Randall L. Kennedy

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

Judith Levine

“Don’t Say Gay” laws can be traced to the Reagan-era crusade to put “parents' rights” before the interests of children.

Dorothy Roberts, Nia T. Evans

The system's roots aren't in rescuing children, but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.

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