Law

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

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

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

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

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

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

We must decouple the law from value-blind formalism.

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.

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.