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Not Without My Father: The Legal Status Of The Posthumously Conceived Child, Christopher A. Scharman

Vanderbilt Law Review

Twins Amanda and Elyse were born to William and Mariantonia Kolacy of New Jersey on November 3, 1996. At this ordinarily joyous occasion, only Mariantonia was able to welcome the two girls into the world; their father, William, had passed away some eighteen months before their birth-nearly a year before the girls were conceived.

When William and Mariantonia were a young married couple, doctors diagnosed William with leukemia and advised him to begin chemotherapy immediately. Fearing the treatment or the disease would render him sterile, William preserved some of his sperm for later use. Regrettably, William did not survive the …

Looking Back On Planned Parenthood V. Casey, Christina B. Whitman

Articles

Scholarship that tells us what is really at stake in the lives of people affected makes the law honest and responsive. Whether or not it directly shapes doctrine, this type of scholarship can capture imagination and influence judgment. The Michigan Law Review has published some of the best of this work: Yale Kamisar's articles on coerced confessions, Terry Sandalow's essay on affirmative action, Joe Sax and Phillip Hiestand's description of the emotional impact of living in a slum, Martha Chamallas and Linda Kerber's demonstration of how injuries that uniquely befall women have been dismissed as merely emotional wrongs, and, most …