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NoteVol. 92 · Iss. 1
Inmates Who Cried Wolf: The Dangers of Applying the PLRA’s Limit on Appellate Attorney’s Fees in Prisoner Deprivation of Rights Claims
Beginning in the mid-1970s, the incarceration rate in the United States began to skyrocket, increasing rapidly during the “War on Drugs” in the 1980s…
Peter Shakro -
NoteVol. 91 · Iss. 6
The Constitutional Hall Pass: Rethinking the Gap in § 1983 Liability That Public Schools Have Enjoyed Since Deshaney
On six occasions during the 2007–2008 school year, Tommy Keyes picked up nine-year-old Jane Doe from her elementary school during school hours. On each…
Jeff Sanford -
NoteVol. 97 · Iss. 1
Genital Exceptionalism Has No Place in the Law: Improving Transgender and Intersex Rights in the 21st Century
Sex exceptionalism—also referred to as sexuality or sexual exceptionalism—is a concept that has recently been developed and explored in feminist legal scholarship. Sex exceptionalism…
Lindsey M. Walker -
ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 4
Racial Transition
The United States is a nation in transition, struggling to surmount its racist past. This transitional imperative underpins American race jurisprudence, yet the transitional bases of…
Yuvraj Joshi -
ArticleVol. 98 · Iss. 4
Miscarriage, Stillbirth, & Reproductive Justice
Each year in the United States, millions of women’s pregnancies end not with the birth of a living child, but in miscarriage or with the…
Jill Wieber Lens -
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…
Ann Woolhandler & Michael Collins -
ArticleVol. 89 · Iss. 5
“A Horrible Fascination”: Sex, Segregation, and the Lost Politics of Obscenity
Building on current interest in the regulation of child pornography, this Article goes back to the 1950s, recovering a lost history of how southern…
Anders Walker -
CommentaryVol. 89 · Iss. 4
Bridging the Great Divide—A Response to Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel’s Before (and After) Roe v. Wade: New Questions About Backlash
This essay discusses the history of Roe v. Wade as recently addressed by Linda Greenhouse and Reva B. Siegel. Going beyond their assertions, I…
Lolita Buckner Inniss