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ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
Privacy’s Past: The Ancient Concept and Its Implications for The Current Law of Privacy
Privacy is a mysterious concept. The more apparent its significance in the real world becomes, the more obscure the core and the limitations of…
Keigo Komamura -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 1
Law and the Epistemology of Disagreements
This Article identifies a discrepancy between law and epistemology and proposes a way to fix it. Our legal system relies on decisions of multimember…
Alex Stein -
ArticleVol. 93 · Iss. 6
A Quantitative Analysis of Writing Style on the U.S. Supreme Court
This Article presents the results of a quantitative analysis of writing style for the entire corpus of US Supreme Court decisions. The basis for…
Keith Carlson, Michael A. Livermore & Daniel Rockmore -
ArticleVol. 91 · Iss. 4
Formalizing Gratuitous And Contractual Transfers: A Situational Theory
By tradition, gifts, wills, and contracts are formalized according to protocols established within each legal category. This Article examines the policies that underlie these…
Adam J. Hirsch -
ArticleVol. 91 · Iss. 2
Taking Groundwater
In February 2012, in a case called Edwards Aquifer Authority v. Day, the Texas Supreme Court held that landowners hold property rights to the…
Dave Owen -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 3
Collective Goods and The Court: A Theory of Constitutional Commodification
Not everything is or should be for sale. Collective goods such as our democracy and parts of our natural environment would be destroyed if…
Eric W. Orts & Amy J. Sepinwall -
ArticleVol. 97 · Iss. 2
Interstitial Space Law
Conventionally, customary international law is developed through the actions and beliefs of nations. International treaties are interpreted, in part, by assessing how the parties…
Melissa J. Durkee -
CommentaryVol. 98 · Iss. 4
Considering the Private Animal and Damages
Since 2018, private law damages claims seeking to place animals in the role of plaintiffs have––in dramatic fashion––moved from academic debate to high-profile litigation. Focusing on…
Richard L. Cupp, Jr. -
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…
Kaiponanea T. Matsumura -
ArticleVol. 89 · Iss. 4
Judging, Expertise, and the Rule of Law
We live in an era of hyper specialization. Professionals across a spectrum of fields focus on mastering and practicing in narrow subspecialties. This is…
Chad M. Oldfather