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This article situates lawsuits against Backpage.com in the context of changing laws and norms of sexual commerce and trafficking, and of evolving legal interpretations of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 has been used repeatedly to shield internet service providers such as Backpage.com from liability for content generated by third parties that has led to criminal harm to others; in this case, the trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of minors. Moving to a critique of the law as at times grievously detached from the realities it addresses, I compare the legal strategies and decisions in three prominent cases brought against Backpage.com in St. Louis, Tacoma, and Boston, respectively. This critique identifies the evacuation of gendered bodies and the harm done to them from the court opinions as an example of what Robert Cover has called the "interpretive violence" of the law, and of the judges who interpret and dispense it. I conclude by calling for courts and Congress to act together to disrupt the accumulation of interpretive precedent favoring freedom of commerce and speech over the protection of bodies from harm.

AbstractChicago Public Schools, in partnership with the greater Chicago community, is implementing the largest‐scale community school initiative in the nation. By bringing together public, private, and nonprofit entities, community schools in Chicago provide quality out‐of‐school‐time activities and services that strive to improve the education, health, and wellness of students, families, and the community.

Editor's Introduction The Guantánamo Artwork of Moath al-Alwi: Art as Expression, Witness, Evidence Alexandra S. Moore and Elizabeth Swanson -- Chapter 1: Artmaking at Guantánamo: A Ship Expresses Rescue Moath al-Alwi -- Chapter 2: My Brother, the Artist Mansoor Adayfi -- Chapter 3: APPROVED BY U.S. FORCES: Showing Art from Guantánamo Erin L. Thompson -- Chapter 4: From Wasting Away to a Way with Waste: The Visibility of Moath al-Alwi's Hunger and Sculpture Joshua O. Reno -- Chapter 5: Ships of Scraps: Moath al-Alwi's Model Ships in Islamic Art and Prison Histories Mira Rai Waits -- Chapter 6: Guantánamo Bay Ensigns: Material Rhetorics and Moath al-Alwi's Ships Belinda Walzer -- Chapter 7: A Sea without a Shore: Building an Alternative Visual Archive of Guantánamo Bay Safiyah Rochelle -- Chapter 8: Assemblage by Necessity: The Maritime Sculpture of Moath al-Alwi Gail Rothschild. .

Slavery's expansion across the globe often escapes notice because it operates as an underground criminal enterprise, rather than as a legal institution. In this volume, Elizabeth Swanson and James Brewer Stewart bring together scholars from across disciplines to address and expose the roots of modern-day slavery from a historical perspective as a means of supporting activist efforts to fight it in the present. They trace modern slavery to its many sources, examining how it is sustained and how today's abolitionists might benefit by understanding their predecessors' successes and failures. Using scholarship also intended as activism, the volume's authors analyze how the history of African American enslavement might illuminate or obscure the understanding of slavery today and show how the legacies of earlier forms of slavery have shaped human bondage and social relations in the twenty-first century