Featured Alumnus
- Our “Citadel of Truth,” William Brantley Aycock
September 27, 2009 | 1:37 pm
Dedication to Volume 73
This issue of the North Carolina Law Review is dedicated to Professor and Chancellor Emeritus William Brantley Aycock, a man who has graced the UNC School of Law in one way or another for fifty years. Albert Coates observed that there is a special spirit here at the UNC School of Law, [...] -
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| Volume 88 | June 2010 | Issue 5 |
Globalization, Women’s Work, and Care Needs: The Urgency of Reconciliation Policies
Lourdes Beneria
This Address argues that the increase in women’s participation in paid work in many countries has made more manifest the tensions around balancing family and labor market work, hence... »
Families on the Edge: Governing Home and Work in a Globalized Economy
Kerry Rittich
Scholars working in the fields of labor law, globalization, law and development, and of course gender now encounter the family at every turn. This is sometimes true even when... »
Globalization, Canadian Family Policy, and the Omissions of Neoliberalism
Janine Brodie
The relationship between globalization, family structures, and social policy is complex, uneven, and evolving. This Article examines social policy reform in Canada during the past two decades in order... »
Families, Human Dignity, and State Support for Caretaking: Why the United States’ Failure to Ameliorate the Work-family Conflict is a Dereliction of the Government’s Basic Responsibilities
Maxine Eichner
In the last two generations, the hours worked by American families have increased significantly as greater numbers of women have moved into the workplace. The resulting work patterns have... »
Achieving Accountability for Migrant Domestic Worker Abuse
Janie A. Chuang
Domestic work has become increasingly commoditized in the global economy. Migrant domestic workers’ remittances constitute a rich source of revenues for their countries of origin, while their labor ameliorates... »
Abortion Access in the Global Marketplace
Martha F. Davis
In the United States, government funding of legal abortion for low-income women has been uniquely “de-linked” from the fundamental right to an abortion. While the underlying right to an... »
Race and Market Values in Domestic Infant Adoption
Barbara Fedders
For prospective parents seeking to adopt U.S.-born babies, white infants are the most in demand and, relatively speaking, in the shortest supply. Some domestic adoption agencies have responded to... »
Credit for Motherhood
Melissa B. Jacoby
This Essay builds on prior work exploring the impact of consumer lenders who sell credit products for assisted reproduction and adoption. After reviewing some basic attributes of the parenthood... »
A Woman’s Worth
Kimberly D. Krawiec
This Article examines three traditionally “taboo trades”: (1) the sale of sex, (2) compensated egg donation, and (3) commercial surrogacy. The Article purposely invokes examples in which the compensated... »
The Very Uneasy Case Against Remittances: An Ex Ante Perspective
Adam Feibelman
Money that individual migrants send back to their home countries has become a major source of foreign exchange for many developing and emerging economies. These remittances now represent a... »
The Effects of U.S. Deportation Policies on Immigrant Families and Communities: Cross-Border Perspectives
Jacqueline Hagan, Brianna Castro, and Nestor Rodriguez
Since the mid-1990s, the United States has enacted a series of laws that makes it easier to arrest, detain, and deport noncitizens. These laws, which have been highly criticized... »
Transnational Mothering: A Source of Gender Conflicts in the Family
Rhacel Salazar Parrenas
Migration destabilizes families or what we think families should “look” like, as it forces the transformation of households from nuclear to transnational structures, challenges the traditional gender division of... »
Disruptions, Dislocations, and Inequalities: Transnational Latino/a Families Surviving the Global Economy
Leah Schmalzbauer
This Article draws on field research with Honduran and Mexican transnational families and the transnational family literature to explore how global inequality is influencing gender and class relations within... »
The Legal Production of the Transgressive Family: Binational Family Relationships Between Cuba and the United States
Deborah M. Weissman
This Article reviews the relationship between U.S. policy after the 1959 Cuban Revolution and the legal mechanisms that have influenced the character of the binational Cuban-American family since then.... »
