Will the Score Act Sideline Women Athletes?Members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus are pushing Congress for explicit Title IX protections for women student-athletes in a proposed national law related to name, image and likeness (NIL)—and long-time gender equity advocates…

Jennifer S. Hendricks, Disputed Conceptions of Motherhood This article examines feminist efforts to disentangle womanhood, biological motherhood, and social motherhood in order to promote equality in the law. It argues that this approach has produced important feminist influence and results…

Elizabeth Kukura, Normalizing Maternal Ambivalence, 57 Ariz. St. L.J. 557 (2025)Certain themes are common when identifying good mothers: becoming a mother is an overwhelmingly happy experience; good mothers love their children immediately; good mothers will sacrifice their own health,…

Shiu-Yik Au, Spencer Barnes, Andreanne Tremblay, "Filing While Female: What EEOC Filings Tell us about Workplace Discrimination Severity" We develop a novel metric of workplace discrimination severity: the gender payout gap in the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)…

Kyle C. Velte has published "Liminality, Political Psychology, and Attacks on Transgender Lives" in Volume 54 of the Southwestern Law Review. The introduction is excerpted below: * * *  The multi-pronged nature of [attacks on on LGBTQ rights and…

The Department of Veterans Affairs published a proposed rule seeking to retract existing medical benefits coverage for abortion care under 17.38 of the C.F.R. for veterans and their dependents. Beginning in 2022 with an Interim Final Rule, the VA covered…

Kaiponanea T. Matsumura has published "The Illusion of Stability in Family Law" in Volume 78 of the Vanderbilt Law Review. The abstract is excerpted below: Stability is universally accepted as a central value in family law. Within the context…