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Law at the Boundaries of Love, Identity, and Commitment is a collection of three interconnected scholarly essays examining the institutional limits of private law in the most intimate domains of human life. The volume brings together studies on the right of publicity in the age of artificial intelligence, adultery as a potential civil wrong, and the legal status of tentative divorce agreements. Taken together, these essays develop a unified theoretical framework for understanding relational wrongdoing. Modern private law is commonly structured around measurable harm. Yet intimate relationships generate structured rights and obligations that cannot always be reduced to economic injury. The collection argues that the law’s reluctance to intervene in spheres of love, fidelity, and personal identity reflects not doctrinal impossibility, but normative boundary-setting. By distinguishing between relational harm and relational wrong, the book proposes a principled account of when law should adjudicate intimacy—and when it must deliberately abstain.