To understand laws pertaining to gender-based violence (GBV) in countries with high HIV prevalence particularly among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW), we reviewed GBV laws and regulations from initial ten eastern and southern African countries participating in the United States...

This article examines the roots of the disproportionate values the legal system assigns to paternal roles in the family law and child support system, looking to social norms, traditional family law, and the state's interests in the well-being of children. This hierarchy of values reveals itself...

Over half the states have enacted laws diminishing or curtailing the rights of the executive branch (legislatures or governors) to enact laws to preserve, protect, or safeguard public health in the wake of the COVID-19 emergency. Governor DeSantis, of Florida, for example effectively banned mask...

Despite this phenomenal success and the Biden administration’s strong support, a divided Congress narrowly failed to extend these enhancements to 2022. The adverse impact was immediate. The January 2022 monthly child poverty rate increased by more than 40 percent to 17 percent in January 2022,...

In December 2017, it was announced that the first birth from a uterus transplant in America occurred at Baylor University (earlier births had been reported from Sweden). In this case the uterus came from a living stranger, but in other reported cases the uterus has been donated by a family...

The author focuses on the international jurisprudential controversies on the inferior boundary of the right to life, starting by emphasising that the notion of “life” is not well-defined in several international conventions. The author discussed several cases decided by the Inter-American...

The estate planning of an individual who owns a professional or other enterprise that maintains a tax-advantaged plan, such as a self-directed 401(k) plan, requires more than the completion and filing of the individual’s plan beneficiary designations. Complete planning requires that measures...

This Article, forthcoming in the American Journal of Comparative Law, assesses how Chinese intestacy laws augment and redress wealth inequality. In 2021, China’s first civil code took effect, reforming among other things the decades-old Succession Law. Focusing on the intestacy rules (the...

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (2017–19) in Australia revealed widespread misconduct in the financial sector including funeral insurance. There was evidence of confusion caused by the distinction between funeral life...