Edwin B. Firmage is a law professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City who has defended polygamists. A monogamist and a great-great-grandson of polygamist Brigham Young, Firmage teaches constitutional law. He is co-author of Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 (University of Illinois Press, […]

Maura I. Strassberg is a law professor at Drake University in Des Moines who has expertise in sexuality law and has written about polygamy.

Michele Alexandre, an associate law professor at the University of Mississippi, is a 2004 Fulbright Scholar researching the legal protection afforded to women under the Haitian practice of placage, an informal form of polygamy.

Read an April 8, 2008, article from the Associated Press (posted by the Washington Post) about the raid on the Texas polygamist compound.

Read a May 29, 2012, article from The Huffington Post about the state of Idaho’s reaction to Five Wives Vodka. Because of the polygamist undertones of the name and logo, the Idaho State Liquor Division banned the vodka.

Read a Nov. 28, 2012, article from The Los-Angeles Times about the state of Texas’ decision to seize Warren Jeffs’ ranch after his conviction.

Read an article about polygamist religious leader Warren Jeffs’ conviction. Jeffs is serving a life sentence after being convicted of sexually assaulting minors.

More than 15,000 ethnic Hmong refugees now living in Thailand are eligible to be resettled in the United States, but their common practice of polygamy raises problems, according to a March 2, 2004, Reuters article posted by the Washington Times.

Read an article published in the spring 2003 issue of the Houston Law Review on the constitutionality of banning polygamy in the United States.