The Precedential Weight of Slavery
More than 150 years after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, the law of slavery’s reach continues through precedent that undergirds a significant portion of American law.
The Review: Volume 47
Preview
Issue 1
featuring
- State-Court Liability for U.S. Entities Furthering International Harms: Tort Causation & U.S. Financiers of Israeli Settler Organizations Dispossessing Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah
- The Precedential Weight of Slavery
- Would Justice Scalia Think Black Guns Matter?
- Fourth Amendment Balancing and its Disparate Impact
Issue 2
featuring
- Thompson v. Clark and the "Reasonable" Policing of Marginalized Families
- Disentangling the Civil-Carceral State: An Abolitionist Framework for the Non-Criminal Response to Intimate Partner Violence
- Juvenile Decarceration and Structural Culpability
- "The Stop Woke Act": HB 7, Race, and Florida's 21st Century Anti-Literacy Campaign
Issue 3
featuring
In Depth Reading
Volume 47 Issue 1
State-Court Liability for U.S. Entities Furthering International Harms: Tort Causation & U.S. Financiers of Israeli Settler Organizations Dispossessing Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah
“This Article is animated by solidarity with Palestinian communities resisting Israeli apartheid and with the interconnected struggles of all communities organizing against oppression.”
Would Justice Scalia Think Black Guns Matter?
"Black gun ownership and activism have long been important dimensions of civil rights activism and of the Second Amendment. If the Second Amendment is to mean what Justice Scalia says it does, it must mean that Black Guns Matter."
Fourth Amendment Balancing and its Disparate Impact
“Too often, the Court understands the interests at stake in Fourth Amendment cases as purely adversarial. It fails to consider the government has just as much of an interest in protecting individual liberties as it does in detecting and controlling
Volume 47 Issue 2
Thompson v. Clark and the "Reasonable" Policing of Marginalized Families
"The broader task is to continue the project of interrogating—and disrupting—the carceral logic driving the state’s actions and the public’s reaction to those actions"
"The Stop Woke Act": HB 7, Race, and Florida's 21st Century Anti-Literacy Campaign
“A fully operational HB 7 will enable a purge of race scholarship and race scholars in Florida’s colleges and universities, as a result of the law’s targeting of these scholars and their scholarship.”
Juvenile Decarceration and Structural Culpability
Youth violence is a public health phenomenon with structural causes, and our best hope is to solve it structurally.
Disentangling the Civil-Carceral State: An Abolitionist Framework for the Non-Criminal Response to Intimate Partner Violence
As we work to reimagine a world that does not rely on a militarized, often brutal approach to solving social and individual problems, we must recognize the ways in which the civil response to violence was built on and is still entangled
Volume 47 Issue 3
Venture Liability: The Key to Unlocking Corporate Complicity in Supply Chain Forced Labor
Venture liability allows for a holistic examination of the power and incentive dynamics within supply chains.
Rethinking Hindsight: The Failed Interpretation of Graham v. Connor
To the extent that Graham remains the law of the land, the Ninth and Tenth Circuits’ proper—and more capacious—reading of the Supreme Court’s opinion should be adopted by all lower federal courts as well as by the Supreme Court itself.
Safe Harbor: Reforming the U.S. Asylum System to Better Protect Domestic Violence Survivors
[The United States] must recognize the global epidemic of domestic violence and enact guidelines and a statutory amendment that will explicitly offer safe harbor to those seeking protection. The current system must be reformed to ensure that the thousands of
Volume 47 Issue 4
Resource Attacks on the Criminal Legal System
“With enough participation, collective actions such as plea strikes and mass arrest campaigns can slow the rate of arrests and convictions to a trickle.”
A First Amendment Analysis of Trans-Exclusive Sports Law
[T]rans-exclusive sports laws aim to foster adherence to a particular ideological point of view, namely gender essentialism. And they do so by compelling athletes who are trans to engage in an activity whose social meaning both communicates and constitutes a