Occasional editorials, practice notes, and essays, written in the Journal's house style and circulated chiefly to no one in particular.
In which the Editor reflects, at characteristic length, on why the small grievances of family life deserve the same formality we extend to any other injury — and why, despite everything, they keep filing them.
Read the letter →A methodological note on the quantification of uncompensated household labor, including our preferred approach to hourly rates, the compounding problem, and the doctrine of "they were going to do it anyway."
Read the guide →On the uncomfortable truth at the heart of our practice — that minors generally have nothing the law can reach — and why we proceed nevertheless.
Read the essay →A short treatise on the curious legal status of the things parents and children say to each other over breakfast, and whether any of them can be enforced.
Read the note →