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  • CommentaryVol. 103 · Iss. 2

    Whose Children?

    Recent debates surrounding transgender children and the rights of their parents reveal a troubling development. When addressing state restrictions on vital medical care for…

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    When to Admit Art as Evidence

    Jeffery Lamar Williams, better known as Young Thug, is the latest high-profile rapper to have his rap “lyrics” potentially entered into evidence as part…

  • ArticleVol. 99 · Iss. 2

    The Just Prosecutor

    Abstract As the most powerful actors in our criminal legal system, prosecutors have been and remain one of the principal drivers of mass incarceration.…

  • ArticleVol. 87 · Iss. 6

    Rodrigo’s Portent: California and the Coming Neocolonial Order

    Through the style of a fictional narrative, this paper demonstrates how colonialism is starting to supplant race as an organizing principle, enabling whites to…

  • ArticleVol. 94 · Iss. 6

    Justice Stevens, The Writer

    In any discussion about United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, you’re likely to hear him labeled in a variety of ways—as a…

  • CommentaryVol. 94 · Iss. 5

    To Consider or to Use? Citation to Foreign Authority and Legal Aesthetics

    In this essay I consider what it means to consider something. More directly, I consider how a judge might distinguish a source used for…

  • ArticleVol. 95 · Iss. 5

    Phenomenology, Colonialism, and the Administrative State

    In A Realistic Theory of Law, Brian Tamanaha rejects the claim that universal legal principles exist, and its variant that essential features of law…

  • ArticleVol. 95 · Iss. 3

    IP, R.I.P.

    Death is an inevitably disruptive event. When a famous artist or public figure dies, the fallout can be particularly complex and contentious. An artist’s…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • NoteVol. 97 · Iss. 4

    United States Law’s Failure to Appreciate Art: How Public Art Has Been Left Out In The Cold

    VARA does not sufficiently protect public artists’ moral rights. A better understanding of public art from an artistic, rather than legal, point of view…

  • CommentaryVol. 97 · Iss. 3

    Robotic Collective Memory

    The various ways in which robots and AI will affect our future society are at the center of scholarly attention. This Commentary, conversely, concentrates…