Law

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

The passage of the administration’s Inflation Reduction Act should be celebrated, but without explicit corporate guardrails it’s doomed.

The legal doctrine of “superior responsibility” makes the Russian president liable for war crimes committed in Ukraine.

Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today’s regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

The patchwork of government regulations around sex and gender causes endless misery for transgender people. A new book considers how gender became so integral to bureaucracy.

As Roe is struck down by the Supreme Court, we bring together recent and archival essays to assess what is at stake—and how we might move from reproductive rights to reproductive justice.

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.