This Essay shows how LGBT rights advocates successfully transformed civil unions and domestic partnerships from a sign of equality into a marker of inequality. The deployment of constitutional frames, and the articulation and resolution of those...
This Essay uses the opportunity to examine Roe v. Wade forty years after it was decided and Lawrence v. Texas ten years after it was decided as a platform from which to analyze the status of the civil rights paradigm in American law. A comparison of...
Roe v. Wade grounds constitutional protections for women’s decision whether to end a pregnancy in the Due Process Clauses. But in the forty years since Roe, the U.S. Supreme Court has come to understand the abortion right as an equality right, as...
This Essay responds to an article by Hila Shamir previously published in the UCLA Law Review, in which she suggests that human rights has failed as a framework for addressing human trafficking and that instead a labor model would be more successful...
UCLA Law Review is now accepting faculty proposals for our next symposium! Visit our Call for Proposals page for more information and our Past Symposia page to see the topics that we have covered in past symposia.
Law Review’s Spring Scholar Forum for the 2012-13 academic year featuring Professor Tom C.W. Lin will be held on Thursday, October 18, at 12:15 p.m., in Room 1347. Professor Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA School of Law) will give a formal response. Non...