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  • ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 4

    Police Prosecutions and Punitive Instincts

    This Article makes two contributions to the fields of policing and criminal legal scholarship. First, it sounds a cautionary note about the use of individual prosecutions…

  • NoteVol. 98 · Iss. 3

    How Content Moderation May Expose Social Media Companies to Greater Defamation Liability

    This Note will explain the critical distinction between “publishers” and “platforms,” why social media entities are currently considered “platforms,” and why the legal system…

  • ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 3

    Economic Regulation and Rural America

    Rural America today is at a crossroads. Widespread socioeconomic decline outside cities has fueled the idea that rural communities have been “left behind.” The…

  • CommentaryVol. 98 · Iss. 3

    Arbitrator Diversity: Can It Be Achieved?

    The 2018 lawsuit Jay-Z brought against the American Arbitration Association (AAA) because the list of twelve arbitrators AAA provided in a breach of contract…

  • NoteVol. 98 · Iss. 3

    It’s Five O’Clock Everywhere: A Framework for the Modernization of Time

    This Note discusses existing legal procedures by which the current system of time could be modified to adapt to contemporary social changes and reduce…

  • ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 3

    Active Virtues

    Constitutional theory has long been influenced by the idea that the Supreme Court exercises “passive virtues,” avoiding politically divisive cases that threaten its legitimacy.…

  • ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 3

    Democratizing Rule Development

    Agencies make many of their most important decisions in rulemaking well before the publication of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), when they set…

  • ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 3

    Breaking Down Status

    The law regulates some of society’s most significant relationships through status. Yet social and legal changes can diminish a status’s effectiveness and importance. The…

  • NoteVol. 98 · Iss. 2

    Model Language for Supported Decision-Making Statutes

    States often impose guardianship on people whose disabilities interfere with their decision-making ability, thereby entrusting another person with decision-making on their behalf. People with…

  • ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 2

    Copyright and the Brain

    This Article explores the intersection of copyright law, aesthetic theory, and neuroscience. The current test for copyright infringement requires a court or jury to…

  • ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 2

    Freedom of the Press in Post-Truthism America

    Freedom of the press in America is at a critical crossroads in a number of ways, but one way stands out as most fundamental:…

  • CommentaryVol. 98 · Iss. 2

    Inmate Constitutional Claims and the Scienter Requirement

    Scholars have criticized requirements that inmates prove malice or deliberate indifference to establish constitutional claims against corrections officials. The Eighth Amendment currently requires convicted…