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Human Rights

Transnational Racial (In)Justice in Liberal Democratic Empire

Vol. 134 No. 7 June 2021 On June 17, 2020, Philonise Floyd addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council, the United Nations’ paramount human rights body, demanding justice for the...
  • E. Tendayi Achiume
American Indian Law

The (Indigenous) Case for Shareholder Primacy and its Role in Climate Justice

Vol. 134 No. 6 April 2021 In 1970, Milton Friedman published his now-infamous essay, arguing that the purpose of a corporation is to produce value for its investors. Articulating what...
  • Carla F. Fredericks
Environmental Law

Root and Branch: Climate Catastrophe, Racial Crises, and the History and Future of Climate Justice

Vol. 134 No. 6 April 2021 After all, radical simply means “grasping things at the root.” — Angela Davis Introduction The disproportionate burdens of climate change borne by the Global...
  • Maxine Burkett
Corporate Law

Rethinking Retirement Savings

Vol. 134 No. 6 April 2021 At the end of 2020, Americans held a collective $35 trillion in their retirement accounts. To put this in perspective, $35 trillion is larger...
  • Jason Fernandes
  • Janelle Orsi
Animal Law

Rights of Nature, Rights of Animals

Vol. 134 No. 5 March 2021 The fields of animal law and environmental law have an uneasy relationship. At a basic level, they are intertwined by the fundamental observation that...
  • Kristen Stilt
Animal Law

Palliative Animal Law: The War on Animal Cruelty

Vol. 134 No. 5 March 2021 In 2019 President Donald Trump signed into law the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act. Although every state already permitted felony animal cruelty...
  • Justin Marceau
Animal Law

Desmond’s Law: Early Impressions of Connecticut’s Court Advocate Program for Animal Cruelty Cases

Vol. 134 No. 5 March 2021 In March 2012, police found the body of a dog in a trash bag in the woods of Madison, Connecticut. The dog was Desmond....
  • Jessica Rubin
Education

Resisting the Theory/Practice Divide: Why the “Theory School” is Ambitious About Practice

Vol. 132 No. 7 May 2019 Debates about how to educate law students have long rotated around a familiar axis — the theory/practice divide. Commentators and bar associations routinely rebuke...
  • Heather K. Gerken
U.S. Territories

Problematizing the Protection of Culture and the Insular Cases

U.S. Territories Commentary Series

Response to American Samoa and the Citizenship Clause: A Study in Insular Cases Revisionism
Vol. 131 No. 6 April 2018
  • Rose Cuison Villazor
U.S. Territories

Accomplices of Abbott Lawrence Lowell

U.S. Territories Commentary Series

Vol. 131 No. 5 March 2018
  • Sam Erman
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