In recent years, civil rights legislation has been the subject of significant attention. In part, this is due to the emergence of novel and contested interpretations of longstanding statutes offering protection against discrimination based upon sex and marital status. Courts and agencies are...

A discussion of the High Court of Australia's recent decision in Thorne v Kennedy with reference to the three vitiating factors discussed by the High Court: duress, undue influence and unconscionable conduct. It is suggested that the High Court left unclear the status of lawful act duress, and...

Funding higher education is among the critical financial decisions made by individuals and families. There are myriad options. Yet, the conventional wisdom — namely using Section 529 Plans — may not be the optimal vehicle to effectuate this goal. Therefore, this Article discusses various...

Merchant Authorized Consumer Cash Substitutes (MACCS) have existed in one form or another for hundreds of years although without a generic name. At nineteenth century American railroad construction sites far from established towns, companies paid employees with “scrip.” Coca Cola, beginning...

Russian Abstract: В данной записке мы собрали аргументы в пользу необходимости защиты и укрепления института наследования, как естественной связки семьи и частной...

This paper aims to approach some aspects related to the denial of the childfree choice in women rights agenda in connection with liberal and radical thought approaches to human rights discourse. It is argued that the rise of family planning in illiberal societies vis-à-vis liberal societies...

This paper studies the effects of non-market outside options on measures of female job mobility using a hand-collected data set of 3,041 MBA resumes. Specifically, I examine two aspects of the household: spousal assets and children. In order to proxy for these unobserved household...

This paper explores the potential benefit of enforcement in Child Support policies to child mortality rates. Exploiting the sharp changes in Child Support laws across states and over the years 1975-1993, we find that adoption of a full set of policies reduces the child death rate by 23% relative...

This chapter considers the landmark status of the House of Lords in Thorner v Major [2009] UKHL 18, understanding it as an example of story-telling in the law. The chapter explores the issues surrounding the equitable doctrine of proprietary estoppel, as it applies in particular in the context...