Unsettling History
Vol. 131 No. 4
At the time she set out to write City of Inmates, Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández wanted to tell the story of the “long rise...
Book Reviews
Rethinking Autocracy at Work
Vol. 131 No. 3
Professor Elizabeth Anderson’s outstanding Tanner Lectures, recently published as Private Government, aim to bring the problem of workplace governance back into the exalted domain...
Crafting Precedent
Vol. 131 No. 2
How does the law of judicial precedent work in practice? That is the question at the heart of The Law of Judicial Precedent, the...
Cooperative and Uncooperative Foreign Affairs Federalism
Vol. 130 No. 8
Foreign affairs are a matter for our national government. On this there was agreement from the beginning, with even the Jeffersonians accepting that the...
Courting Abolition
Vol. 130 No. 7
The American death penalty is a shadow of what it once was. In 2016, states conducted fewer executions than they had in twenty-five years,...
This Land Is My Land?
Vol. 130 No. 7
Almost twenty years ago, I wrote in a piece with Professor Dan Kahan that one of the central features of modern criminal procedure was...
Spiraling: Evictions and Other Causes and Consequences of Housing Instability
Vol. 130 No. 5
Our discussions about the nation’s housing affordability crisis usually begin with challenges in the market: the population of renters is increasing in metropolitan areas...
The Importance of “Money”
Vol. 130 No. 4
In a provocative new book, The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation, Professor Morgan Ricks argues that the government should reclaim control over money creation....
The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Tort Law
Vol. 130 No. 3
Theorists like to do a lot with a little. And not just because simple theories seem more elegant: we deepen our understanding when we...
Law and Moral Dilemmas
Vol. 130 No. 2
A runaway trolley rushes toward five people standing on the tracks, and it will surely kill them all. Fortunately, you can reach a switch...