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Good News for Gene Schaerr
As reported by outlets including Above the Law, well-known litigator Gene Schaerr is leaving his law firm for a new post at the State of Utah. His departure e-mail describes his new role as “defending...
View ArticleWhy Some Risk Sending Intimate Pictures to “Strangers” and What It Says About...
It is, as always, an honor and a pleasure to speak with the Co-Op community. Thank you to Danielle for inviting me back and thank yous all around for inviting me onto your desks, into your laps, or...
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Pro-Marriage Deregulation of Conjugal Unions and Marriage Equality: Two Sides...
I am delighted to be guest-blogging for Concurring Opinions this month. It is an honor to be part of this community! Throughout February, I will be sharing my thoughts on how certain narratives are...
View ArticleWhat Makes a Stranger Not So Strange
Most of the literature on trust among strangers comes from game theorists. Scholars perform simulations of so-called “trust games” to suggest that “impersonal trust” can develop under this or that...
View ArticleWhen Love’s Promises Are Fulfilled By the U.S. Supreme Court
Today, in a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme recognized the fundamental nature of love’s promises. In Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, the Court held, “the Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to...
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Race, Love, and Promise
Martha Ertman’s wonderful new book, Love’s Promises: How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families, is a must read for anyone concerned about families or law. Ertman’s core argument is...
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Crisis of the Dissents Divided? — Disagreement among the Obergefell Four
In the various news feeds and pundit commentaries concerning the recent same-sex marriage case, the focus has been on the divide between the majority and dissenting opinions. Some side with the...
View ArticlePosner & Segall v. Scalia & Whelan
Many of you have probably already read Judge Posner and Eric Segall’s piece in the New York Times about Justice Scalia’s conception of the role of religion in regards to civil rights, particularly...
View ArticleWedlocked Book Symposium
We are delighted to introduce Professor Katherine Franke and the participants in our online symposium on Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality: How African American and Gay Mistakenly Thought the...
View Article“What Have We Gotten Ourselves Into?”: Reflections on Katherine Franke’s...
In 1989, Paula Ettelbrick, then legal director of Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and her boss, Tom Stoddard, debated the importance of same-sex marriage for the struggle for lesbian and gay...
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Our Precious Perversions
It’s a strange time to be a pervert in America. Donald Trump may well be elected the 45th president, running on a platform of protecting the traditional family by rolling back newly-won, sweeping...
View ArticleWedlocked or Wedlinked? Will Same-Sex Couples Remake Marriage or Will They...
Katherine Franke’s Wedlocked is a model of critical scholarship. The book’s motto is “be careful what you wish for” as it ponders the potential negative consequences of a newly granted ability to...
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UCLA Law Review Vol. 63, Issue 1
Volume 63, Issue 1 (January 2016) Articles Navigating Paroline‘s Wake Isra Bhatty 2 Regional Federal Administration Dave Owen 58 Exhausting Patents Wentong Zheng 122 Comments Post-Deportation Remedy...
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Reflections for Father’s Day
Thank you to everyone at Concurring Opinions for inviting me to guest blog, and thank you to Solangel for her kind introduction. I’m usually a pretty private person, but I’d like to open up a bit in my...
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4 Wishes for Father’s Day
My post on Thursday expressed concerns about the cultural assumption that taking care of young children is a woman’s role. Today, I present a four-part wish list of public policy interventions. With...
View ArticleWorking 9 to 5: What a Way to Make a Living
Joanna Grossman’s Nine to Five: How Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Continue to Define the American Workplace is an invaluable contribution to the popular understanding of how gender works – or doesn’t –...
View ArticlePour Myself a Cup of Ambition
It feels indulgent to have the chance to respond to reviews of my book, Nine to Five: How Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Continue to Define the American Workplace (Cambridge 2016)—all the more so given...
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Dads Change Diapers Too
This is my third and final post about fathers as caregivers, drawing from some of my own experiences as a dad. (Earlier posts are available here and here.) Father’s Day this year was really special...
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Divergent Paths to Same-sex Marriage: What We Can Learn from South Africa
Last Sunday marked the one year anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, in which the Supreme Court ruled that excluding same-sex couples from marriage was unconstitutional. Obergefell was a huge...
View ArticleUCLA Law Review Vol. 64, Issue 6
Volume 64, Issue 6 (December 2017) Articles Inner-City Anti-Poverty Campaigns Anthony V. Alfieri 1374 Movement Lawyers in the Fight for Immigrant Rights Sameer M. Ashar 1464 From Stop and Frisk to...
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