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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 ...
Leading up to oral argument in the same-sex marriage cases, it was reasonable to wonder whether the Indiana episode was evidence of an irreconcilable conflict between same-sex marriage and religious ...
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. That was where Alfani conducted ...
This Essay, published in the immediate aftermath of Dobbs, offers some initial thoughts about what the changed legal landscape means for abortion rights legal advocacy. Our focus in recent writings ...
Ghappour’s article is provocative and interesting, but we are not convinced that a genuine problem exists. This response challenges Ghappour’s framework in three ways. First, it questions whether ...
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 here. I. Alternative ...
The compassionate release misnomer is easy to understand: Perhaps the most salient group of beneficiaries is comprised of prisoners with terminal illnesses. 4Open this footnote Close this footnote 4 ...
A Note for Readers: In this Response, Susan C. Morse & Leah R. Butterfield discuss David S. Cohen, Greer Donley & Rachel Rebouché’s recent Stanford Law Review Article Abortion Pills. Cohen et al.’s ...
The U.S. Constitution provides little proper recourse for the incapacitation of a member of Congress. This is a problem. As of today, if a Senator were to suffer from, say, a stroke, said Senator’s ...
The landscape of American history is littered with facially racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, and other demeaning, marginalizing, and subordinating laws. Many more facially neutral laws ...
State civil courts are the object of growing scholarly attention converging from two directions: rapidly expanding research regarding lawyerless state civil trial courts, 1Open this footnote Close ...