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Response to Drug Scheduling as Institutional Design
Vol. 139 No. 7 Professors Matthew Lawrence and David Pozen’s Drug Scheduling as Institutional Design is an ambitious and welcome intervention in the long-running debate over U.S. drug policy. The authors reconceptualize...
Vol. 139 No. 7 Antibiotic resistance is a large and growing threat to public health, causing over 35,000 deaths a year in the United States alone. The animal agriculture industry is the largest user of medically important antibiotics and a major contributor to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (AR-bacteria). AR-bacteria pose a massive health risk to the public, with agricultural workers and people living near animal agriculture facilities at particular risk.
Vol. 139 No. 7 In December 2025, without oral argument or a written opinion, the Supreme Court did something it had never done before: It set aside a lower court judgment upholding a vaccine mandate that lacked religious exemptions. In Miller v. McDonald...
Vol. 139 No. 6 In many U.S. states, climate laws and regulations were designed using distinct policy ideologies from those used in traditional environmental laws: Whereas traditional environmental laws typically mandate specific technology changes and pollution reductions at individual facilities...
Vol. 139 No. 6 Any respectable textbook account of the relationship between the U.S. Supreme Court and the lower federal courts would leave one with the impression that...
Vol. 139 No. 5 On April 1, 1940, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson strode into the Great Hall of the Justice Department with a complex mission. Assembled before...
Vol. 139 No. 5 In September 2024, then–Attorney General Merrick Garland addressed the eighty-fifth annual U.S. Attorneys’ Conference. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Garland invoked the first such address — the 1940 speech...
Response to Federalism and the New National Security
Vol. 139 No. 4 Professors Ashley Deeks and Kristen Eichensehr have written a fine article that significantly advances discussion of national security federalism. The increase in state and...
Vol. 139 No. 4 All lawyers are bound by the ethical rules of the legal profession. However, newly collected empirical evidence suggests that a subset of court-appointed attorneys in Pennsylvania routinely violate basic ethical principles when they employ a particular procedure: the Finley...
Vol. 139 No. 3 When military officers have been tried for grave atrocities, from the Holocaust to the My Lai Massacre, some have claimed that they were “only...
