When a child is injured or killed by an adult in the home, a marked gender  division appears in the application of criminal responsibility against the non abusing parent. States regularly use accomplice liability/accountability theory  or statutes criminalizing the failure to protect one’s children against mothers  for the harm perpetrated by her male partner, but […]

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 permits hiring discrimination on the grounds of religion, sex and natural origin as a bona fide occupational qualifcation (BFOQ), if the same is integral to the business of the establishment. For years, the American franchise Hooters has been subjected to various lawsuits for its discriminatory hiring […]

Guns and domestic violence can be a lethal combination for victims. In the  1990s, Congress recognized this danger and passed two important pieces of legislation: one barring individuals subject to a protection order from possessing firearms, and one prohibiting the same from individuals convicted of domestic violence. Unfortunately, these laws have not been well-enforced. One […]

Queer and transgender Americans have secured substantial federal protections in the past decade, from United States v. Windsor’s takedown of the  Defense of Marriage Act to Obergefell v. Hodges’s guarantee of marriage equality to Bostock v. Clayton’s affirmation of the inclusion of queer and transgender identity in Title VII protections. Other recent developments, including new […]

Assisted reproduction has become increasingly widespread in the United  States, with 73,602 children born using assisted reproductive technologies  (ART) in 2020 alone. Yet, as of late, ART has not fostered much mainstream  feminist action or extensive contemporary discourse within feminist legal  theory. This raises the questions that motivate this Note: What has led to feminist […]

This Note details the rise of the modern multilevel marketing companies’ (MLMs) business model and explores how MLMs have become synonymous with deceptive recruiting practices that target and exploit women and minorities. To understand the rise of the “modern MLM”—defined by this Note as direct selling companies incorporated after 1979—this Note begins with a discussion […]