Volume 72 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Nonmarriage and the Law: Fourth Annual Roundtable

Today, nearly twenty million adults in the United States are cohabitating, some maintaining committed relationships while living separately and others living together while maintaining relationships with some form of intimacy or dependency—apart from the traditional confines of marriage. All the while, others have chosen to remain single. With the proliferation of these arrangements comes legal reforms—albeit slowly—to address and accommodate nontraditional couples along with scholarship to examine the reasons couples and individuals are parting from tradition in higher numbers.


Published by the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy (“Journal”), this seventy-second volume continues a growing tradition of cutting-edge scholarship. As part of our fourth roundtable event on nonmarriage, this volume features articles and essays (reflections) from academics across a wide range of disciplines on the economic rights of nonmarital partners, the constitutional issues relating to nonmarriage, the design of regulatory responses to family composition, and the implications of legal directives across a myriad of demographic categories, including race, gender, class, and sexual orientation—to name a few. The featured authors have worked tirelessly to bring quality contributions on the phenomenon of nonmarriage to this Symposium’s publication— Nonmarriage and the Law: Fourth Annual Roundtable.  


Article

Making Some Sense of the Constitutional Family

Katharine K. Baker

2023-06-04 Volume 72 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Nonmarriage and the Law: Fourth Annual Roundtable • 1-26

Reflections on Singlehood

Naomi R. Cahn

2023-06-04 Volume 72 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Nonmarriage and the Law: Fourth Annual Roundtable • 27-50

Household Intimacy and Being Unmarried: Family Pluralism in the Novels of Anthony Trollope

Linda McClain and Allison Tait

2023-06-04 Volume 72 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Nonmarriage and the Law: Fourth Annual Roundtable • 51-102

Conscription, Consent, and the Meaning of "Family"

Sean H. Williams

2023-06-04 Volume 72 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Nonmarriage and the Law: Fourth Annual Roundtable • 103-128

Reflections on "Personal Responsibility " After COVID and Dobbs

Susan Frelich Appleton and Laura Rosenbury

2023-06-04 Volume 72 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Nonmarriage and the Law: Fourth Annual Roundtable • 129-166

Reflections: My Mother Who Fathered Me

Eleanor Brown

2023-06-04 Volume 72 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Nonmarriage and the Law: Fourth Annual Roundtable • 167-194

Note

Legal High? The High Stakes REgulatory Questions About Delta-8 THC & Other Emerging Psychoactive Cannabinoids

Owen Flomberg

2023-06-04 Volume 72 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Nonmarriage and the Law: Fourth Annual Roundtable • 195-218

A Tool to Build a Working-Class Environmental Movement: Proposal for an Industrial Workers Safety Act

Clara R. Goodwin

2023-06-04 Volume 72 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Nonmarriage and the Law: Fourth Annual Roundtable • 219-258

Undue Burdens: How the Texas Abortion Ban (SB 8) Disproportionately Affects Low-Income Women

Ellen Mannion

2023-06-04 Volume 72 • Issue 1 • 2023 • Nonmarriage and the Law: Fourth Annual Roundtable • 259-282

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