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Issue 2020.1
Visionary Article
The Incomparable Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft
Robert Post
Articles
Cooperative Principles and Fair Labor Standards: Volunteering for Food Co-Ops
Ariana R. Levinson & Chad Eisenback
What Problem? A Response to How Cities Fail: Service Delivery Insolvency and Municipal Bankruptcy
Anne Lawton
Comment
Issue 2020.2
Articles
Artificial Intelligence, Due Process, and Criminal Sentencing
John Villasenor & Virginia Foggo
#SororityToo
Tanya Asim Cooper
Looking for a Life Raft: Citizen Voice and Votes of No Confidence
Mae Kuykendall
Comments
Direct Shipping for Michigan Beer? Wine Not
Mitchell Zolton
Issue 2020.3
Articles
U.S. Trade Infallibility and the Crisis of the World Trade Organization
Daniel C.K. Chow
The Protean Concept of Materiality in Contract Law
Brian A. Blum
The Systems Approach to Teaching Business Associations
Lynn M. LoPucki & Andrew Verstein
Contract as Voluntary Commutative Justice
James Gordley & Hao Jiang
Compare This: How Employers Use Comparator Evidence to Defeat Employment Discrimination Claims
Marc Chase McAllister
Comment
Issue 2020.4
Articles
Two First Amendment Futures: Consumer Privacy Law and the Deregulatory First Amendment
Shaun B. Spencer
Incivility as Identity
Melissa Mortazavi
Rethinking Segregation
Paul Boudreaux
The Private Option
Brendan S. Maher
Comments
Issue 2020.5
Symposium Articles
Law Search in the Age of the Algorithm
Michael A Livermore, Peter Beling, Keith Carlson, Faraz Dadgostari, Mauricio Guim & Daniel N. Rockmore
Technologies of Language Meet Ideology of Law
Anya Bernstein
Split Decisions: Practical Machine Learning for Empirical Legal Scholarship
James Ming Chen
Principles of Political Economy and the Taxation of Nations: Econometric and Machine-Learning Evaluation of Tariffs
James Ming Chen, Thomas Poufinas, Charalampos Agriopoulos & George Galanos
Nothing Under the Sun That Is Made of Man
Andrew W. Torrance
Issue 2021.1
Visionary Article
Good Faith as Contract’s Core Value
Daniel Markovits
Articles
Piketty Revisited: The Meaning of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Edward J. McCaffery
Cooperative Ownership and the Fair Labor Standards Act
Ariana R. Levinson & Chad Eisenback
Therapeutic Discipline: Drug Courts, Foucalt, and the Power of the Normalizing Gaze
Michael D. Sousa
Circumventing the Crime Victims’ Rights Act: A Critical Analysis of the Eleventh Circuit’s Decision Upholding Jeffrey Epstein’s Secret Non-Prosecution Agreement
Paul G. Cassell, Bradley J. Edwards & Jordan Peck
Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence and Transgender Inmates: The “WPATH” to Evolving Standards of Decency
Bryce T. Daniels
Comment:
Issue 2021.2
Articles:
Hidden Trade-Offs in Insurance Wellness Programs
Anya E.R. Prince
Patenting Fast and Slow: Examiner Rejections and Applicant Traversals to Nonprior Art Rejections
Shine Sean Tu
Exploring College Sports in the Time of COVID-19: A Legal, Medical, and Ethical Analysis
Marc Edelman, Thomas A. Baker III, John T. Holden & Dr. Andrew Shuman
Pandemics, Quarantines, Utility, and Dignity
Jens David Ohlin
Artificial Intelligence, LLC: Corporate Personhood as Tort Reform
Alicia Lai
Comment:
Old Law, New Solution: Bottling Water in the Great Lakes States
Rachel Westmaas
Issue 2021.3
Articles:
The Daubert Double Standard
Michael D. Cicchini
Weaponizing Proof of Harm in First Amendment Cases: When Scientific Evidence and Deference to the Views of Professional Associations Collide in the Battle Against Conversion Therapy
Clay Calvert
Summoning a New Artificial Intelligence Patent Model: In the Age of Crisis
Schlomit Yanisky-Ravid & Regina Jin
Comment:
Issue 2021.4
Articles:
The Species of Origin
Max Stul Oppenheimer
Getting the Dream Team on the Ballot: The Legality of Bipartisan Gubernatorial Tickets
T. Quinn Yeargain
USDA’s Oversight Over National Check-Off Boards: What Check Do National Check-Off Boards Need?
Ashley Nicole Wilde
Fraudulent Transfers as a Tort David Gray Carlson
Comment:
A Victim’s Plea for a Fair Justice System: Providing Proper Disclosure Requirements Before Guilty Pleas
Juliana Sousou
Redefining Physical Restraint to Ensure Consistency in Its Application as a Federal Sentence Enhancement
Tyler Kitzmiller
Issue 2021.5
Symposium:
Racialized Bankruptcy Federalism
Rafael I. Pardo
Contextual Benefits of a Neutral Principles Approach to Religious Property Disputes
Frank S. Ravitch
The Feminist Movement’s State Action Doctrine
Elizabeth Sepper
Passive Takings in Action
Christopher Serkin
Erasing the Thin Blue Line: An Indigenous Proposal
Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Without Religion, W(h)ither Family Law?
Anita Bernstein
Issue 2022.1
Articles
The Truman Show: The Fraudulent Origins of the Former Presidents Act
Paul Campos
Geographic Income Tax Marriage Equality: A Proposal to Expand the Double Basis Step-Up
Daniel J. Durst
Non-Competes and Other Contracts of Dispossession
Sandeep Vaheesan & Matthew Jinoo Buck
Contextualizing (Children’s) Immigration Law, History, Theory and Politics
Shani M. King
Comment:
Issue 2022.2
Articles:
Fitting China–US Trade into WTO Trade Law–National Security and Non-Violation Mechanisms
Justin Hughes
Why Words?
Akhil Reed Amar
Courts in Conversation
Thomas P. Schmidt
Does Constitutional Law Have a Future?
Caitlin B. Tully
Hidden Killers and Imagined Saints: Why Courts Fail to Identify Unconstitutional Jurors in Death Penalty Cases
Eric R. Carpenter
Comment:
The Evolving Standards of Decency: Transgender Prisoners’ Right to Adequate Medical Care in the Prison System
Carly Cruickshank
Issue 2022.3
Articles:
The Dangerous Independent State Legislature Theory
Jason Marisam
The Challenges of 21st Century Transboundary Water Management and the Limits of International Water Law
Isabelle Blacketer, Fiona Luu, & Paul Babie
Rejecting Test Surveillance in Higher Education
Lindsey Barrett
Comment:
It’s Time For CRISPR Genetically Modified Food Labeling
Emily King
Issue 2022.4
Articles:
ESG: The 5th Element Of Corporate Risk Assessment
Michael J. Kelly
Bostock’s Impact on Sex-Differentiated Employee Appearance Standards
Marc Chase McAllister
A Judge Never Writes More Freely: A Separate-Opinions Citation-Network Approach to Assessing Judicial Ideology
Joseph Scott Miller
Comment:
Your Law is Due for an Update: Why Congress Should Update the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to Curb the Rise of Robotexts
Connor Hoffman
Issue 2022.5
Symposium:
Sequential Uses of Copyrighted Materials: Transforming Transformative use Doctrine in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith Richard A. Epstein
Three Portraits of Sarony
Alfred C. Yen
The Best Comes Later: Copyright, Career Professionals, and Creative Achievement
Sean A. Pager & Sunawer Aujla
Statutory Damages Under the Copyright Act: An Empirical Study
Benjamin K. Brady, Roy Germano & Christopher Jon Sprigman
Issue 2023.1
Articles:
Novelty Traps, Kiwis, and other Flightless Birds
Daniel Benoliel & Michael Gishboliner
Is Criminal Law Unlawful?
Paul Gowder
An Empirical Constitutional Crisis: When Magistrate Judges Exercise De Facto Article III Power.
Edward S. Adams, Edward R. Adams, & William C. Price Jr.
Comment:
The Child That No State Wants: Challenging Juvenile Sex Offender Regulations as a Violation of the Right to Travel
Nikolas Spilson
Issue 2023.2
Articles:
Decentralized Global Legal Ordering
Shahala F. Ali
Principia Bibliometrica: Modeling Citation and Download Data in Legal Scholarship
James Ming Chen
Ashley M. London
Comment:
SPACS: Sponsor Compensation, Redemption Rights, and Congressional Oversight
J. Clayton Burnheimer
Issue 2023.3
Articles:
Cops or Coaches? The Statutory Role of Juvenile Probation Officers in a Transformative Age
Justin Iverson & David S. Tanenhaus
Democracy and Trust: The Troubling Role of Education in Misinformation Belief
Edward Lee & Andrew Moshirnia
When Should Clients Call the Shots? Examining Attorney-Client Relationship After McCoy v. Louisiana
Chad Flanders
Comment:
Copyright in the Age of NFTs and Digital Art
Jari Wilson
Issue 2023.4
Visionary Scholar Article
Lawrence B. Solum
Articles
Daniel J. Croxall
Robert Leider
Comment
Sam Weiser
Issue 2023.5
2023 Symposium on Insider Trading
Articles
Rethinking Disclosure Obligations in Securities Regulations: Why Less is (Much) More
Richard A. Epstein
Safe Harbors in the Shadows: Extending 10b5-1 Plans to Cover Shadow Trading
Karen E. Woody & M. Cole Davidson
Special Norms and Insider Trading
Jonathan R. Macey
Civil Insider Trading in Personal Networks
Joan Macleod Heminway