The Alabama Supreme Court’s 2024 ruling in LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, which granted the legal status of children to cryopreserved embryos, is not just a landmark in the nation’s ongoing abortion disputes. It is a shift in how the law thinks about personhood and reproductive rights, with implications for IVF practices, as well […]

In studying how and how much administrative agencies influence how judges interpret statutes, researchers face this problem: Judges write court opinions strategically, making those opinions sometimes unreliable measures of why judges read statutes the way they do. This paper suggests another approach: Trace agency influence by looking at how often lawyers refer to agency views […]

Despite having vastly different cultures and political landscapes, the United States and South Korea (hereinafter Korea) have experienced similar tensions between feminist and anti-feminist movements in recent years. The Trump administration has facilitated attacks on women’s freedoms that have existed for decades. Notably, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not protect the right […]

The International Labour Organization reports that in 2024, the female labor force participation rate in the United States stood at 56.6%, only 7.5% higher than the global average of 49.1%. Research indicates a negative correlation between women’s participation in labor markets and the time demands of unpaid household services, which includes “care of person, housework […]