The Tulsa Race Massacre was and remains a dark and tragic disgrace for Oklahoma and the entire United States. Black citizens were killed, thousands were left homeless, and 35 blocks of the wealthy community known as Black Wall Street were burned to the ground during the attack. The accumulation...

Using the Bishop Dynasty Trust, a six billion dollar enterprise designed to protect education excellence for native Hawai'ian students, this article considers the problems of appointed trusteeship over dynasty trusts. It addresses two key questions: 1) whom do trustees represent? and 2) to whom...

Women's rights activists scream with urgency over issues regarding reproductive freedoms but miss the real issues by viewing the wage gap problem through rose-colored glasses. There are many examples of feminists reducing activism to a discussion of reproductive freedom and ignoring freedom and...

Stable nations and societies are largely based on stable family law and policy. Questions of family preservation and stability in immigration policy present new dimensions of legal intervention. Offering a review of the relevant literature, this paper presents the challenges in the family law...

“Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor – which is one very strong argument in favor of Matrimony...” Nineteenth century novelist Jane Austen, a single woman all her life in a socio-legal culture that afforded women no legal or economic rights, understood the consequences...

This article explores whether motherhood may have a restorative effect on prostitution. Minimal research has been done in this area, but this article will seek to analyze the available data about prostitutes who are also mothers, review the literature on this subject to date, and discern whether...

Today, more than 5,000 children are living in foster care as a result of immigration enforcement procedures that separate immigrant families. While these children remain largely invisible in the affairs of state politics, they are the principal casualties of an immigration system that...

This article offers an international comparison of adoption of children by same-sex parents, considering the trends in this area of adoption law around the planet, and how these trends may be early indicators for changes in parenting policy