Sex Segregation in Sports as a Public Health Issue

Sex segregation in sports has a profound impact on women’s health. The ongoing practice of defaulting to sex segregation should be analyzed as a public health issue. Although not every sport at every level should be desegregated, the effect of sports participation on health—women’s health in particular—weighs into the proper analysis of both law and policy. Ultimately, the vast majority of athletic pursuits, particularly at non-elite levels, are about the health of both mind and body, and the structure and content of those pursuits deserves careful consideration through the lens of health.

Settling in the Shadow of Sex: Gender Bias in Marital Asset Division

Yet as this Article suggests, women’s own choices are not solely to blame for women’s economic disempowerment after divorce. Family law scholars should no longer ignore the role of bias against women—bias that has nothing to do with breadwinning, caretaking, or conformity with gender expectations.

Sexual Ageplay in Virtual Reality: Practicing Free Speech or Producing Child Pornography

A man enters a bedroom and sees a child sleeping on her bed. He approaches her and begins to rub her back. The child stirs and looks up, excited to see the man. She giggles as he undresses her, and soon they have sex. But the man is not actually with the child, instead he is sitting in his armchair, playing a popular adult virtual reality (VR) game, Kanolojo.

When Sharing is Not Caring: Creating an Effective Criminal Framework Free from Specific Intent Provisions to Better Achieve Justice for Victims of Revenge Pornography

“The moral of the story is he doesn’t respect me . . . . If you can’t respect me, you have to respect the law.” INTRODUCTION “Quick go in bathroom take quick pic for me . . . Do it u know u beautiful always to me,” he said. She obliged. The very next day, the picture was on Instagram: “This is from Chyna yesterday to me. I never been so disrespected in my life . . . . This woman is so disrespectful and I don’t care.” Calls of “revenge porn” ran rampant… Read More

The Fair Housing Act After Fifty Years: Opening Remarks

Fifty years ago, on this day in late March, the United States was about to go through one of the darkest stretches in modern American history. At the end of March 1968, President Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not run for reelection. Just a few days later, of course, on April 4th, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

The Fair Housing Act at Fifty: Time for a Change

In 2018, the Fair Housing Act (FHA) turned fifty. There has been a plethora of commemorations of that important event in the life of the United States throughout the year, including The Fair Housing Act After Fifty Years symposium held at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law on March 28, 2018. The story of the passage of the FHA is, like most legislation, the story of negotiation and compromise as much as principle and purpose.

“Social Engineering”: Notes on the Law and Political Economy of Integration

On the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, progress towards the Act’s goals of non-discrimination and integration is uneven. On both fronts, the last fifty years have seen some progress, but by several accounts more progress has been made on the anti-discrimination front than in advancing integration.

Promises Still to Keep: The Fair Housing Act Fifty Years Later

Fair, safe, and affordable housing is about much more than housing. It is about human dignity. It is about access to health care, wellness, quality education, transportation, career opportunity, security, longer life expectancy, and overall quality of life.