This Article explores the inheritance rights of individuals situated at the fringes of marital relationships—fiancés, spouses who are in the process of divorcing, and permanently separated spouses. The Article examines whether these categories of individuals ought to enjoy rights to forced...

The Kuwait Nationality Law 1959 denies women the same rights as men to pass on their Kuwaiti citizenship to their children. Male Kuwaitis will automatically pass on their nationality to their children regardless of their choice of spouse, but the same is not true for Kuwaiti women. If a Kuwaiti...

This paper addresses the role of women in post-conflict nation-building, especially in Muslim-majority countries during the post-conflict transitional period. It adopts the case of Afghanistan as a case study and considers what role women should play in post-conflict peace-making, especially in...

In common with much of the world, the populations of both England and Hong Kong are ageing. One of the most important questions of our age is therefore how to allocate the burdens of providing and funding the care that increasing numbers of people are likely to need. Another vital question...

This past term, the Supreme Court applied the due process clause to prevent the states from closing down a tax strategy that employs out-of-state trusts. Many had hoped that the case would serve as a vehicle for the Court to overrule taxpayer-friendly precedents that make the strategy possible....

In the most recent few years, customary international law is increasingly crystalizing to affirm that states must grant nationality to children born in their territory, if they would be otherwise stateless. In prior scholarship, this author has argued that such a norm of a customary...

While most legal commentators believe the battle over abortion is about to shift decisively from the Supreme Court to state legislatures, recent legislative developments are spotlighting the prospect that conservative religious pro-life state lawmakers won’t so easily let the Court leave the...

When an individual lives in a residential community, what causes of action are available when community regulations or rules interfere with that person’s religious practices? The Fair Housing Act (FHA) is the primary piece of civil rights legislation designed to protect individuals from...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s announcement in Obergefell v. Hodges—that the Constitution promises marriage equality for same-sex couples—quickly and broadly swept the nation as a powerful symbol of social progress: of justice, of liberty and equality, of dignity, of freedom, delivered. But the...