Coming into the Anthropocene
Vol. 129 No. 6
Law is the boring side of many interesting topics. Entertainment law is not famously amusing, nor is the law of war notably heroic or...
Book Reviews
Keeping Track: Surveillance, Control and the Expansion of the Carceral State
Vol. 129 No. 5
After decades as a divisive political touchstone, American criminal justice is now characterized by widespread, bipartisan agreement that the system is “broken” in significant...
How Much Does Speech Matter?
Vol. 129 No. 4
No Immunity: Race, Class, and Civil Liberties in Times of Health Crisis
Vol. 129 No. 4
Nearly a century ago, the United States found itself in the midst of a health crisis related to individuals it found to be socially...
The Struggle for Administrative Legitimacy
Vol. 129 No. 3
Nearly forty years ago, Professor James O. Freedman described the American administrative state as haunted by a “recurrent sense of crisis.” “Each generation has...
Body Banking from the Bench to the Bedside
Vol. 129 No. 2
How much is a kidney worth? An ounce of breast milk? Genetic material from an individual facing a Parkinson’s diagnosis? In today’s America, it...
Crown and Constitution
Vol. 128 No. 8
In his first cabinet meeting of 2014, President Obama announced a strategy to bypass the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and advance his social and...
The Family, In Context
Vol. 128 No. 7
Much of the family law scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s focused narrowly on the marital family itself. That scholarship considered the effects of...
How a “Lawless” China Made Modern America: An Epic Told in Orientalism
Vol. 128 No. 6
Legal Orientalism begins with a map of modern law in which the United States and China are located at opposite ends. America sees itself...
Growing Up Outside the Law
Vol. 128 No. 5
Introduction Immigration law has become unmerciful. Perhaps it has always been this way, but thanks to Professor Hiroshi Motomura, at least we know that...