Parents in Fact
This Essay examines the Restatement of Law, Children and the Law’s full-throated embrace of a de facto parent doctrine in the context of family law’s evolving treatment of functional parents.
Competence-Competence, Delegation, and the AAA/ICDR Rules
This article argues that the 2021/2022 amendments to the AAA and the ICDR’s arbitration rules reinforces the Restatement’s interpretation of the rules as codifying competence-competence doctrine rather than constituting delegation clauses.
The American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law Is Approved
The American Law Institute’s membership voted to approve Restatement of the Law, Children and the Law, the first Restatement to comprehensively examine the legal regulation of children.
ALI’s Torts: Medical Malpractice Is Approved
The American Law Institute’s membership voted to approve Restatement of the Law Third, Torts: Medical Malpractice.
Debt Tokens
This Article offers the first comprehensive analysis of debt tokens, addressing their flaws, potential within the framework of the 2022 amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code, and the socio-economic impacts of widespread adoption.
Children at Work, Parental Rights– and Rhetoric
This essay focuses on the use of “parental rights” as a rationale that is being used in a number of states to justify the reduction of children’s labor protections.
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