Vol. 139 No. 6 Whether written or unwritten, young or old, constitutions can't compel the construction of institutions of the enforcement of checkpoints any more than maps can create fences, checkpoints, or border patrols. And yet constitutions are powerful; they produce effects.
Vol. 139 No. 5 At some point, less than two decades after the United States Supreme Court found racial segregation in the public schools to be unconstitutional, the...
Vol. 139 No. 4 The Digital Fourth Amendment is written by Professor Orin Kerr, one of the country’s foremost authorities on the Fourth Amendment, electronic privacy, and criminal procedure. Kerr’s work has been deeply influential in shaping how courts are looking at and deciding issues raised by law enforcement’s powerful and novel capabilities, thanks to technological changes.
Vol. 138 No. 7 Queering Reproductive Justice and Liberating Abortion are not books of theory. I want to make this clear from the start because the work of “queering” a topic can sometimes be followed by paragraphs filled with words like deontological, epistemic, and discursive (not that there’s anything wrong with those words).
Vol. 138 No. 5 Who’s afraid of a bankruptcy filing? Perhaps we all should be given the increasingly outsized role that bankruptcy law plays in our market society. Handling more cases per year than any other category of federal court, bankruptcy courts attend to the disposition of debts related to both mundane contractual relationships and pressing social issues.
Vol. 138 No. 4 Introduction A high school biology teacher was traveling on a train from Nantes to Paris. She had with her, in a wicker basket, twenty...
Vol. 137 No. 7 Introduction The constitutional settlement of the United States is coming undone at the seams. The U.S. Supreme Court is on a crusade to revisit...
Vol. 137 No. 6 Introduction In 2019, the Business Roundtable (BRT), a fifty-year-old association of American chief executive officers, shocked corporate governance theorists with a new statement of...
Vol. 136 No. 8 Introduction Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers is not a great book. I don’t mean that in the sense the writer Judith Newman...