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Marriage, divorce, parentage and custody -- the law of the household, and the place where legal doctrine tracks social change most visibly.

The family as an institution: marriage, kinship, household work, childrearing, and how all of them have shifted.

Cinema as form and as institution: how a film is put together and how it means, and the industries and audiences it exists inside.

How an organisation is financed and how it accounts for itself: capital, valuation and risk on one side, measurement and disclosure on the other.

Asset prices and financial markets: risk and return, portfolio choice, derivatives, and how much of a price move is information.

The motion of liquids and gases: flow, turbulence, waves, and the equations that resist solving.

How states actually decide what to do abroad -- the leaders, bureaucracies and domestic pressures behind a foreign policy.

Human remains read for a legal purpose: identity, trauma and time since death, in criminal cases and in mass-grave investigations.

Language as legal evidence: authorship of a threat, the meaning of a contested clause, and whether anyone could understand the caution they were read.

Psychology put to legal questions: eyewitness memory, false confessions, competence to stand trial, and how juries actually decide.

The science that answers questions a court asks: trace evidence, DNA, toxicology and the hard problem of how certain any of it makes you.

Proving that a program or protocol meets its specification, with model checking, theorem proving and static analysis.

What mathematics rests on: axiom systems, consistency, and the competing accounts of what a proof establishes.

Sets whose structure repeats across scales and whose dimension need not be an integer.

French as an object of study: its grammar, its history, and its varieties across Europe, Africa and the Americas.

Analysis on infinite-dimensional spaces: Banach and Hilbert spaces and the operators between them.

The Milky Way and its contents: the structure of the disc and halo, the interstellar medium, star clusters, and the motions that reveal the mass we cannot see.

The correspondence between field extensions and groups of symmetries, which settles which equations are solvable in radicals.

Games as cultural form: how play makes meaning, what a rule system does to a player, and games as narrative, art and social space.

Decisions made against other decision-makers: strategies, equilibria, and what rational players do to each other.