Content Posted in 2021
A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle Against the Death Penalty (2017), Todd C. Peppers and Margaret A. Anderson
A Fine Line, Redefined: Moving Toward More Equitable Asylum Policies, Heather M. Kolinsky
"A Hussy Who Rode on Horseback in Sexy Underwear in Front of the Prisoners": The Trials of Buchenwald’s Ilse Koch, Mark A. Drumbl and Solange Mouthaan
Anatomy of an Execution: The Life and Death of Douglas Christopher Thomas (2009), Todd C. Peppers and Laura Trevvett Anderson
Antiracism in Action, Daniel Harawa and Brandon Hasbrouck
Antiracist Remedial Approaches in Judge Gregory’s Jurisprudence, Leah M. Litman
Apologies in the Marketplace, Kish Vinayagamoorthy
A Secretary's Absence for a Law School Examination, Todd C. Peppers
A Tale of Two Regulators: Antitrust Implications of Progressive Decentralization in Blockchain Platforms, Evan Miller
#Audited: Social Media and Tax Enforcement, Michelle Lyon Drumbl
Bad Actors: Authenticity, Inauthenticity, Speech, and Capitalism, Sarah C. Haan
Bankruptcy, Taxes, and the Primacy of IRS Refund Offsets: Copley v. United States, Michelle Lyon Drumbl
Biological Threats Are National Security Risks: Why COVID-19 Should Be a Wake up Call for Policy Makers, Rep. Eric M. Swalwell and R. Kyle Alagood
Birth of an Institution: Horace Gray and the Lost Law Clerks, Todd C. Peppers
Blind Justice: Virginia’s Jury Sentencing Scheme and Impermissible Burdens on a Defendant’s Right to a Jury Trial, Mitchell E. McCloy
Blood in the Water: Why the First Step Act of 2018 Fails Those Sentenced Under the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act, Lauren R. Robertson
Boards in Information Governance, Faith Stevelman and Sarah C. Haan
Can “Asians” Truly Be Americans?, Vinay Harpalani
Cancelling Justice? The Case of James Clark McReynolds, Todd C. Peppers
Chief Justice John Roberts: Institutionalist or Hubris-in-Chief?, Eric J. Segall
Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Failure of Modern Property Theory, Jill M. Fraley
Comment: WYSIATI and False Confessions, Michael R. Hoernlein
Companies Are People Too (2021), Carliss Chatman
Comparative Judicialism, Popular Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law: The US and UK Supreme Courts, Lissa Griffin and Thomas Kidney
Compliance as an Exchange of Legitimacy for Influence, in The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism (Paul Schiff Berman ed., 2020), Kishanthi Parella
Confronting Mass Incarceration, James Forman Jr.
Corporate Family Matters, Carliss N. Chatman
Corruption, Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration in Ukraine, in Handbook on Corruption, Ethics and Integrity in Public Administration (Adam Graycar ed., 2020), Thomas H. Speedy Rice, Alora Jiang, and Artem Shaipov
Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk (2006), Todd C. Peppers
Creating Cryptolaw for the Uniform Commercial Code, Carla L. Reyes
Deborah Gelin: Supreme Court Pioneer, Todd C. Peppers
Defending Democracy: Taking Stock of the Global Fight Against Digital Repression, Disinformation, and Election Insecurity, Scott J. Shackelford, Angie Raymond, Abbey Stemler, and Cyanne Loyle
Democracy Requires Good Law Libraries – with Books, Franklin L. Runge
Deportation and Depravity: Does Failure to Register as a Sex Offender Involve Moral Turpitude?, Rosa Nielsen
“Destructive to Judicial Dignity”: The Poetry of Melville Weston Fuller, Todd C. Peppers and Mary Crockett Hill
Double Sentence: The Consequences Incarcerated Mothers Face and the Impact on Their Children, in The State of Criminal Justice 2016 (Mark E. Wojcik ed., 2016), Carla Laroche, Lauren Donaldson, and Navneet Jaswal
Dr. Cornel West, Cornel West
Editor’s Note, Kimberly Shi
Empathy’s Promise and Limits for Those Disproportionately Harmed by the COVID-19 Pandemic, Theresa Glennon
Technological Tethereds: Potential Impact of Untrustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice Risk Assessment Instruments, Sonia M. Gipson Rankin
Enforcement of the Reconstruction Amendments, Alexander Tsesis
Equity over Equality: Equal Protection and the Indian Child Welfare Act, Lucy Dempsey
Facebook and Politicians’ Speech, Sarah C. Haan
Foreword: Humanity, Dignity, and Grace, Brant J. Hellwig
Foreword, in From the Texas Cotton Fields to the United States Tax Court: The Life Journey of Juan F. Vasquez (Mary Theresa Vasquez & Anthony Head, 2020), Brant J. Hellwig
Gamesmanship and Criminal Process, John D. King
George B. McClellan, Robert E. Lee, and the Laws of War before the Lieber Code, Stephen Cushman
Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights (2021), Johanna Bond
GPS Tracking at the Border: A Mistaken Expectation or a Chilling Reality, Kimberly Shi
Habeas Corpus, Conditions of Confinement, and COVID-19, Allison Wexler Weiss
Hard and Soft Law Preferences in Business and Human Rights, Kishanthi Parella
How Biden Began Building Back Better the Federal Bench, Carl Tobias
How Corporations Became People, Adam Winkler
How to Compromise on Saving the Most Lives: A Commentary on Hellman and Nicholson, “Rationing and Disability”, David Wasserman
In Chambers: Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices (Todd C. Peppers & Artemus Ward eds., 2012), Todd C. Peppers
Intersectionality, Women’s Rights in Africa, and the Maputo Protocol, in Patriarchy and Gender in Africa (Veronica Fynn Bruey ed., 2021), Johanna E. Bond
Invisible Article III Delinquency: History, Mystery, and Concerns About “Federal Juvenile Courts”, Mae C. Quinn and Levi T. Bradford
Isaiah and His Young Disciples: Justice Brandeis and His Law Clerks, Todd C. Peppers
It’s My Party, and I’ll Do What I Want to: Making the Case for Judicial Review of National Interest Waiver Denials, M. Hunter Rush
Judicial Assistants or Junior Judges: The Hiring, Utilization, and Influence of Law Clerks, Chad Oldfather and Todd C. Peppers
Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should: Reconciling Attorney Conduct in the Context of Defamation with the New Professionalism, Heather M. Kolinsky
Justice Hugo Black and His Law Clerks: Match-Making and Match Point, Todd C. Peppers
Keeping the Zombies at Bay: Fourth Amendment Problems in the Fight Against Botnets, Danielle Potter
Law Clerk Influence on Supreme Court Decision Making: An Empirical Assessment, Todd C. Peppers and Christopher Zorn
Leaving Judicial Review with the Judiciary: The Misplaced Role of Agency Deference in Tunney Act Public Interest Review, Alexandra P. Clark
Legitimacy Matters: The Case for Public Financing in Prosecutor Elections, Rory Fleming
Leveling the Field Through Transnational Regulation, Kishanthi Parella
Making Open Access Viable Economically, Andrew Hyde, Russell A. Miller, and Emanuel V. Towfigh
Meaningless Guarantees: Comment on Mitchell E. McCloy’s “Blind Justice: Virginia’s Jury Sentencing Scheme and Impermissible Burdens on a Defendant’s Right to a Jury Trial”, Alexandra L. Klein
Modern Waste Law, Bankruptcy, and Residential Mortgage, Jill M. Fraley
Mourning the Magnificent Yankee: The Funeral of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Todd C. Peppers
“No Earlier Confession to Repeat”: Seibert, Dixon, and Question-First Interrogations, Lee S. Brett
Noncompetes and Other Post-Employment Restraints on Competition: Empirical Evidence from Trade Secret Litigation, Christopher B. Seaman
Nondelegating Death, Alexandra L. Klein
Of Courtiers and Kings: More Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices (Todd C. Peppers & Clare Cushman eds., 2015), Todd C. Peppers
Of Courtiers and Princes: Stories of Lower Court Clerks and Their Judges (Todd C. Peppers ed., 2021), Todd C. Peppers
Opportunity Zones Providing Opportunity for Whom?: How the Current Regulations Are Failing and a Solution to Uplift Communities, Ruta R. Trivedi
Past the Tipping Point, but With Hope of Return: How Creating a Geoengineering Compulsory Licensing Scheme Can Incentivize Innovation, Brooke Wilson
Persistent Inequalities, the Pandemic, and the Opportunity to Compete, Rachel F. Moran
PGS, I Love You: Rebuilding Copyright for Architecturally-Situated Pictorial, Graphic, and Sculptural Works, Llewellyn Kittredge Shamamian
Picking Federal Judges: A Note on Policy and Partisan Selection Agendas, Micheal W. Giles, Virginia A. Hettinger, and Todd C. Peppers
Politicians as Fiduciaries: Public Law v. Private Law When Altering the Date of an Election, Steven J. Cleveland
Pretrial Custody and Miranda, Kit Kinports
Prison Abolition, and a Mule, Paul Butler
Profiting From Our Pain: Privileged Access to Social Impact Investing, Cary Martin Shelby
Property: Hypotheticals, Self-Assessment Rubrics, and Tools for Success (2021), Jill M. Fraley
Prosecutors and Sentencing, in The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution (Ronald F. Wright et al. eds., 2021), Nora V. Demleitner
Protecting Third Parties in Contracts, Kishanthi Parella
Public Health Originalism and the First Amendment, Claudia E. Haupt and Wendy E. Parmet
Qualified Immunity: Round Two, Andrew Coan and DeLorean Forbes
Random Chance or Loaded Dice: The Politics of Judicial Designation, Todd C. Peppers, Katherine Vigilante, and Christopher Zorn
Rationing and Disability: The Civil Rights and Wrongs of State Triage Protocols, Deborah Hellman and Kate M. Nicholson
Rationing in the Time of COVID and the Perils of Anti-Subordination Rhetoric, Mark Kelman
Real Insider Trading, Michael A. Perino
Respecting Working Mothers with Infant Children: The Need for Increased Federal Intervention to Develop, Protect and Support a Breastfeeding Culture in the United States, Heather M. Kolinsky
Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep Up? (2021), Joshua A.T. Fairfield
Say the Magic Words: Establishing a Historically Informed Standard to Prevent Partisanship from Shielding Racial Gerrymanders from Federal Judicial Review, Emily K. Dalessio
School Finance, Race, and Reparations, Preston C. Green III, Bruce D. Baker, and Joseph O. Oluwole
Settled Law, G. Alexander Nunn and Alan M. Trammell
Sex, Crime, and Serostatus, Courtney K. Cross
Sexual Assault Proceedings on College Campuses: Current Issues, in The State of Criminal Justice 2017 (Mark E. Wojcik ed., 2017), Carla Laroche, A. Ann Ratnayake, Navneet Jaswal, and Lauren Donaldson
Situating the Corporation within the Vulnerability Paradigm: What Impact Does Corporate Personhood Have on Vulnerability, Dependency, and Resilience, Heather M. Kolinsky
Surgeons or Scribes? The Role of United States Court of Appeals Law Clerks in "Appellate Triage", Todd C. Peppers, Micheal W. Giles, and Bridget Tainer-Parkins
Taking Away an Employer's Free Pass: Making the Case for a More Sophisticated Sex-Plus Analysis in Employment Discrimination Cases, Heather M. Kolinsky
The Ambiguous Significance of Corporate Personhood, David K. Millon
The American Revolution and National Identity, Jack Duane Warren Jr.
The Beginning of the End: Abolishing Capital Punishment in Virginia, Alexandra L. Klein
The Cost of Doing Business? Corporate Registration as Valid Consent to General Personal Jurisdiction, Matthew D. Kaminer
The Digital Samaritans, Eldar Haber
The Etiology of the Occurrence of En Banc Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Micheal W. Giles, Virginia A. Hettinger, Christopher Zorn, and Todd C. Peppers
The FDA’s Power Over Non-Therapeutic Uses of Drugs and Devices, Patricia J. Zettler
The Fractured Colossus: An Evaluation of Gender-Based Asylum Claims for the 2020s, Karlo Goronja
The Haunting of Her House: How Virginia Law Punishes Women Who Become Mothers Through Rape, Jordan S. Miceli
The Independent Board as Shield, Gregory H. Shill
The Intended Parent: The Power and Problems Inherent in Designating and Determining Intent in the Context of Parental Rights, Heather Kolinsky
The Life and Power of Chief Justice John Roberts, Joan Biskupic
The Necessity in Antitrust Law, Gregory Day
The New Insider Trading, Karen E. Woody
The Other Ordinary Persons, Fred O. Smith, Jr.
The “P” Isn’t for Privacy: The Conflict Between Bankruptcy Rules and HIPAA Compliance, Sophie R. Rogers Churchill
The Public Health Turn in Reproductive Rights, Rachel Rebouché
The Sexual Harassment Loophole, Keith Cunningham-Parmeter
The Shibboleth of Discretion: The Discretion, Identity, and Persecution Paradigm in American and Australian LGBT Asylum Claims, Heather Kolinsky
The Soft-Shoe and Shuffle of Law School Hiring Committee Practices, Carliss N. Chatman and Najarian R. Peters
The Supreme Court’s Challenge to Civil Society, Linda Greenhouse
The Surprising Significance of De Minimis Tax Rules, Leigh Osofsky and Kathleen DeLaney Thomas
The Ties that Bind: Reevaluating the Role of Legal Presumptions of Paternity, Heather Kolinsky
The Unconstitutional Police, Brandon Hasbrouck
The U.S. Sentencing Commission’s Recidivism Studies: Myopic, Misleading, and Doubling Down on Imprisonment, Nora V. Demleitner
Three Observations about the Worst of the Worst, Virginia-Style, Corinna Barrett Lain
Till Death Do Us Part: Chief Justices and the United States Supreme Court, Todd C. Peppers and Chad M. Oldfather
Tribute to Professor David Bruck, Cristina Becker, C. Elizabeth Belmont, Johanna Bond, J.D. King, Zoe Bruck, Judy Clarke, Dawn M. Davison, Bernadette M. Donovan, Matthew L. Engle, William S. Geimer, Dan Goldman, Brandon Hasbrouck, Laura G. Hastay, Alexandra L. Klein, Emily Kuchar, Charu Kulkarni, Kristina Leslie, Kamyle Li, Kevin McNally, Maisie Osteen, Jonathan Shapiro, and Scott E. Sundby
Tribute to Professor Doug Rendleman, Katy Barnett; Alison Bell; Jeff Berryman; Neil Birkhoff; Daniel Friedmann; Thomas P. Gallanis; Claire Hagan Eller; Brandon Hasbrouck; Corey Hauser; Brant Hellwig; Margaret Howard; Alexandra L. Klein; Douglas Laycock; Benjamin V. Madison, III; Judith L. Madison; Kyle McNew; Linda Mullenix; Rami Rashmawi; Caprice Roberts; Victoria Shannon Sahani; Joan Shaughnessy; Barry Sullivan; Martha Vazquez; and Edilson Vitorelli
Tribute to Professor Samuel W. Calhoun, Doug Ammar, David Carson, Kelly Faglioni, John Fishwick, Mark Grunewald, Stephen Halpin, Brandon Hasbrouck, Brant Hellwig, Lyman Johnson, Bill Johnston, Rick Kirgis, Brian Murchison, Joan Shaughnessy, and Howard Wall
Truthiness and the Marble Palace, Chad M. Oldfather and Todd C. Peppers
Unifying Antitrust Enforcement for the Digital Age, John O. McGinnis and Linda Sun
Weathering the Pandemic: Dying Old at a Young Age from Pre-Existing Racist Conditions, Arline T. Geronimus
Weaving a Broader Tapestry, Mark A. Drumbl
When Statutory Interpretation Becomes Precedent: Why Individual Rights Advocates Shouldn’t Be So Quick to Praise Bostock, Elena Schiefele
Where's Rudy?, James E. Moliterno
Which America?: Judge Roger L. Gregory and the Tradition of African-American Political Thought, Daniel Fryer
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.: Breaking the Color Barrier at the U.S. Supreme Court, Todd C. Peppers
Working While Mothering During the Pandemic and Beyond, Nicole Buonocore Porter