Ms. Donaldson, a mother of three, receives an eviction notice. She shows up in court, like so many other tenants, without a lawyer, facing an experienced landlord’s attorney who has been before the ...

This Essay identifies and explores another, more fundamental reason to doubt the Frequency Hypothesis: A word might be used more frequently in one sense than another for reasons that have little to do ...

Introduction Lower courts are grappling with challenges to what were, until recently, settled Second Amendment laws—most notably, the federal laws prohibiting felons and those involuntarily committed ...

Introduction Last month, the potential conflict between same-sex marriage and religious liberty prompted death threats, arson threats, and the temporary closure of a small-town pizzeria in Indiana.

This essay describes how a 1917 misdemeanor case charted the course of civil justice in America for over a century and urges state judiciaries to change course. Introduction The crime scene was a ...

Ghappour argues that government use of NITs to investigate users of anonymizing software in criminal cases “presents a looming flashpoint between criminal procedure and international law.” 8Close this ...

A Note for Readers: In this Response, Kim Forde-Mazrui discusses Sonja Starr’s recent Stanford Law Review Article The Magnet School Wars and the Future of Colorblindness. Starr’s Article can be found ...

The compassionate release misnomer is easy to understand: Perhaps the most salient group of beneficiaries is comprised of prisoners with terminal illnesses. 4Close this footnote 4See,e.g., U.S. Sent’g ...

Introduction The landscape of American history is littered with facially racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, and other demeaning, marginalizing, and subordinating laws. Many more facially ...

Abstract. The core of the access-to-justice problem is widespread unmet civil legal needs coupled with general disuse of the civil legal system. This Essay posits that monetary sanctions are an ...

Introduction State civil courts are the object of growing scholarly attention converging from two directions: rapidly expanding research regarding lawyerless state civil trial courts, 1 See, e.g., ...

Has qualified immunity finally found its roots? Scott Keller’s Qualified and Absolute Immunity at Common Law shows the breadth and complexity of nineteenth century case law dealing with official ...