Critical Curriculum Design: Teaching Law in an Age of Rising Authoritarianism
By RACHEL LÓPEZ. Full Text.
Continue ReadingJohn Roberts’ Supreme Court: The Triumph of Partisanship and Ideology Over Precedent
By DAVID SCHULTZ & JACOB BOURGAULT. Full Text.
Continue ReadingTax Talk and Taxing Sugar Babies
By BLAINE G. SAITO. Full Text.
Continue ReadingThe Liminality of Transactional Relationships
By VICTORIA J. HANEMAN. Full Text.
Continue ReadingCommodification, Precarity, and Identity: A Review of Professor Bridget Crawford’s Taxing Sugar Babies
By TESSA DAVIS. Full text.
Continue ReadingSubstance over Symbolism: Do We Need Benefit Corporation Laws?
BY CHENG-CHI (KIRIN) CHANG. Full essay here. Benefit corporation laws have gained traction as mechanisms to integrate societal and environmental objectives into business operations, yet they are arguably superfluous within the existing legal framework. The prevailing belief that corporations must prioritize shareholder wealth above all is not a legal imperative, as evidenced by the flexibility…
Continue ReadingSprinting a Marathon: Next Steps for Gender Equity in Criminal Law Employment
By Maryam Ahranjani. Full Text. In an era when women’s hard-fought and hard-earned participation in the workforce is in peril, the ABA Criminal Justice Section’s Women in Criminal Justice Task Force (TF) continues its groundbreaking work of documenting challenges in hiring, retention, and promotion of women criminal lawyers. Sprinting a Marathon follows up on the…
Continue ReadingCivil Disobedience in the Face of Texas’s Abortion Ban
By Alexi Pfeffer-Gillett. Full Text. On September 1, 2021, the Supreme Court refused to block Texas Senate Bill 8 from going into effect, despite the bill overtly banning constitutionally protected access to abortions before fetal viability. The Court reasoned that because the statute only allowed for private plaintiffs—and not government officials—to bring civil lawsuits to…
Continue ReadingCybersecurity for Idiots
By Derek E. Bambauer. Full Text. Cybersecurity remains a critical issue facing regulators, particularly with the advent of the Internet of Things. General-purpose security regulators such as the Federal Trade Commission continually struggle with limited resources and information in their oversight. This Essay contends that a new approach to cybersecurity modeled on the negligence per…
Continue ReadingThe Federal Arbitration Act, Rules of Decision, and Congress’ Exercise of Judicial Power
By Anthony J. Meyer. Full Text. Long before this Article’s germination, Professor David Schwartz quipped that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) “is unconstitutional . . . and no one has noticed.” The observation is both delightfully sardonic and—for a variety of reasons, including those expounded in this Article—true. Professor Schwartz asserts a brilliantly creative thesis…
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