Kamala Harris Has a Brilliant Idea on Abortion We need more ideas like the one Senator Kamala Harris of California proposed last week to stop abortion laws from going into

effect unless the federal government agrees they comply with Roe... [...]

Connecticut Passes Most Generous Paid Family Leave in the U.S. Connecticut is poised to become the seventh state in the U.S. to provide paid time off to new parents and caregivers,

adding further fuel to paid family leave as an... [...]

Jeffrey Meli & James Spindler, Salary History Bans and Gender Discrimination A number of important jurisdictions have recently enacted salary history bans to combat the gender

pay gap. This paper examines the effect of such bans by developing a novel,... [...]

While Some States Try to Ban Abortion, These States are Expanding Access When an abortion law makes headlines in 2019, it’s usually as a ban. Aggressive abortion restrictions

have passed in numerous states in recent months, with some banning the... [...]

Kristy D'Angelo-Corker, Don't Call me Sweetheart!:Why the ABA's New Rule Addressing Harassment and Discrimination is so Important for Women Working in the Legal Profession

Today, 23 Hofstra L. Rev. 263 (2019) Popular culture has recently shone a spotlight on the... [...]

Mary Ziegler, The End of the Rape and Incest Exception, NYT All of a sudden, abortion opponents have abandoned rape and incest exceptions to abortion bans. Louisiana became

the latest state to do so last month, following Ohio, Mississippi and,... [...]

New book, Linda Hirshman, Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment (2019) Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping

story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace... [...]

GOP Vermont Governor Signs Sweeping Abortion Rights Bill into Law Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R) on Monday signed into law an expansive abortion rights bill that seeks to preserve

a woman’s right to the procedure. "Like many Vermonters, I have... [...]

The AALS Section on Legal History is pleased to announce a call for papers for its section program, which will be held during the 2020 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

The program is entitled “A Century of Women’s Suffrage.”... [...]

Moira Aikenhead, A '"Reasonable" Expectation of Sexual Privacy in the Digital Age, 41 Dalhousie L.J. 274 (2018) Two Criminal Code offences, voyeurism, and the publication of

intimate images without consent, were enacted to protect Canadians’ right to sexual privacy in... [...]