Developments in the Law

A special Developments in the Law issue is published every April. The issue features a collaborative collection of in-depth Chapters that each focus on a different aspect of a broader legal topic selected by the board of editors.

Unjust Enrichment

Introduction

Vol. 133 No. 6 In American law schools, first-year students learn about the basic obligations of private law through two required classes: contracts and torts. For the most...
Prison Abolition

In Spite of Prison

Vol. 132 No. 6 How does a former gang-banging, gun-toting Latino serving a thirty-year prison sentence, the product of an elderly uneducated immigrant father and a drug-addicted mother,...
Prison Abolition

Introduction

Vol. 132 No. 6 Introduction Many agree that American carceral punishment is unjust; from the New York Times to the Movement for Black Lives, calls for urgent and...