This Article sets forth a new paradigm for describing, understanding, and shaping children's
relationship to law. The existing legal regime, which we term the" authorities framework," …

Healthcare providers often rely on surrogates to decide on behalf of their patients with
dementia who are deemed incapable of exercising autonomy. There is a longstanding …

The Supreme Court of Utah upholds the termination of a biological father's parental rights5
on the ground that paternity is" inherently different" 6 from maternity given that maternity …

Over the last twenty years, state legislatures have passed a number of laws designed to
support and encourage breastfeeding, including laws that protect public breastfeeding and …

Breastfeeding in public has become more accepted, but milk expression-defined as
removing milk from the breasts manually or using a breast pump-continues to be seen as a …

I have had five miscarriages. They tend to blur together in my head. The one enduring
memory, though, is of blood. With one miscarriage, I remember running to the bathroom at …

The pregnant body is not meaningfully incorporated into mainstream legal theory.
Pregnancy is ignored entirely by many legal and philosophical texts and thinkers. 1 When …

In this paper I assess the labour ward admission policies introduced by some National
Health Service (NHS) trusts during the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that these intersected …

This chapter uses the literature on domestic abuse to illuminate the wrongs in obstetric
violence. It draws on three themes from the literature. The first is the concept of coercive …

The United States was recently dubbed" the most dangerous place in the developed world
to give birth." I Over seven hundred pregnant women or new mothers die in the United …