Law articles from across Nature Portfolio

A study shows that, although the number of incarcerated people in the USA decreased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fraction of incarcerated Black and Latino individuals increased.

Academic freedom is increasingly threatened by homophobic legislation. Stella Nyanzi describes how this affects queer African scholars, and calls for resistance.

A group of older women in Switzerland has taken the government to court over its inaction on climate change. Our experience of preparing evidence for the case offers six lessons for researchers.

Health outcomes, ending poverty and greening the environment are boosted when power is shared between the genders.

Zijie Yan led a laboratory at the University of North Carolina that studied light–matter interactions on the nanometre scale.

The current global mishmash of rules on whether innovations made using artificial intelligence are patentable impedes AI-rich fields such as drug discovery.

Lead attorney Julia Olson lays out what’s needed for future victories.