Karen M. Tani

Publications

• Unwanted Histories
  75 DUKE L.J. 1265 (2026) · Duke Law Journal · 2026
• When a Wrong Creates a Life: Tort Responses to Children Born From Institutional Sexual Violence
  73 DEPAUL L. REV. 617 (2024) · DePaul Law Review · 2024
• The Disability Docket
  72 AM. U. L. REV. (2023) · American University Law Review · 2023
• The Pennhurst Doctrines and the Lost Disability History of the “New Federalism”
  110 CAL. L. REV. 1157 (2022) · California Law Review · 2022
• The Poverty Law Education of Charles Reich
  36 TOURO L. REV. (2021) · Touro Law Review · 2021
• Compensation, Commodification, and Disablement: How Law Has Dehumanized Laboring Bodies and Excluded Nonlaboring Humans
  119 MICH. L. REV. 1269 (2021) · Michigan Law Review · 2021

• An Administrative Right To Be Free from Sexual Violence? Title IX Enforcement in Historical and Institutional Perspective
  66 DUKE L.J. 1847 (2017) · Duke Law Journal · 2017
• Something Old, Something New: Reflections on the Sex Bureaucracy
  California Law Review Online · 2016
• Administrative Equal Protection: Federalism, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Rights of the Poor
  100 CORNELL L. REV. 825 (2015) · Cornell Law Review · 2015
• Poverty Law 101: The Law and History of the U.S. Welfare State
  39 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 1 (2012) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2012
• Portia's Deal
  87 CHI.-KENT. L. REV. 549 (2012) · Chicago-Kent Law Review · 2012
• Welfare and Rights Before the Movement: Rights as a Language of the State
  122 YALE L.J. 314 (2012) · Yale Law Journal · 2012