Volume 104
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ArticleVol. 104 · Iss. 2
Fairness and Excess in Asset Forfeiture
Every year, federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies take ownership of billions of dollars’ worth of property that is thought to be connected…
Stephanie Holmes Didwania & Matthew B. Kugler -
ArticleVol. 104 · Iss. 2
Enforcing the Community Reinvestment Act
Nearly fifty years after the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA) required banks to serve low- and moderate-income (LMI) areas, the systematic exclusion of…
Jeremy C. Kress & Jeffery Y. Zhang -
ArticleVol. 104 · Iss. 2
Corporate Crime and Corporate Bankruptcy
Mass-tort bankruptcies often arise from underlying criminal conduct, yet organizational criminal charges are pursued inconsistently. In some high-profile Chapter 11 reorganizations, such as that…
Alexander Gouzoules -
ArticleVol. 104 · Iss. 2
Incognito Consumer Harm
What good is a legal system built for visible injuries in a world where injury is designed to be invisible? This Article identifies and…
Yunsieg P. Kim -
CommentaryVol. 104 · Iss. 2
Clemency and Public Opinion: A Survey of Missouri Voters
Executive clemency presents a law and policy puzzle. The executive power to grant clemency is quite broad and unregulated; historically, it was frequently exercised.…
Nicholas Scurich, Brandon L. Garrett, Richard S. John & T.C. Tanski -
NoteVol. 104 · Iss. 2
One-Person, One-Initiative: Equal Protection Limits on Missouri’s Proposed District-Based Initiative Approval Rule
Direct democracy is deeply rooted in Missouri’s history. Since Missouri adopted the initiative and referendum processes in 1908, voters have successfully placed 130 measures…
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ArticleVol. 104 · Iss. 1
Trust Litigation
There is a blind spot at the center of American inheritance law. In the late twentieth century, revocable living trusts (rev trusts) replaced wills…
David Horton, Reid Kress Weisbord & Christopher J. Ryan, Jr. -
ArticleVol. 104 · Iss. 1
Fiscally Restraining Criminal Lawmaking
Lawmakers face strong political incentives to criminalize ever more conduct and punish it more harshly, even when adding a new crime or increasing sentence…
Russell M. Gold & Leah Nelson -
ArticleVol. 104 · Iss. 1
Dual-Track Bias
Since the JOBS Act of 2012 made it easier to start the IPO process, startups have increasingly pursued a “dual-track” exit strategy, simultaneously preparing…
Alexander I. Platt -
ArticleVol. 104 · Iss. 1
Board Overload
The board of directors plays a critical role in steering corporate behavior. Over the past two decades, regulators have increasingly required boards to oversee…
Asaf Eckstein, Roy Shapira & Ariel Shillo -
CommentaryVol. 104 · Iss. 1
Beyond the Prison Wall: Refundable Fines as an Alternative to Incarceration
In this Commentary, we introduce the refundable fine, a novel mechanism designed to rehabilitate low- to mid-level first-time offenders and to improve the criminal…
Gideon Parchomovsky & Alex Stein -
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Reading Laws, Not Minds: The “Why” Inquiry After Bruen
This Article identifies a tension at the center of the Supreme Court’s post-Bruen Second Amendment doctrine. In other areas of the law, the Court…
Hutchinson Fann & Jordan Al-Rawi