Interrogating Dominion: On Political Theology and Summary Process Eviction in Connecticut
Vol. 136 No. 4
The Bible, the Greeks: What is the nature of these texts’ openness to the whole world? On the one hand, for [Emmanuel] Levinas, they...
Essays
The Anti-Klan Act in the Twenty-First Century
Vol. 136 No. 4
Racial terrorism by organized hate groups and “lone wolf” vigilantes presents a growing societal danger. Increasingly, the planning and recruitment for such plots occur...
“Made to Feel Broken”: Ending Conversion Practices and Saving Transgender Lives
Vol. 136 No. 4
The past year has witnessed an unprecedented, coordinated campaign by state governments to deny gender-transition care to trans-gender youth. On April 6, 2021, Arkansas...
Separation of Powers and Thuraissigiam: The Entry Fiction as Judicial Aggrandizement
Vol. 136 No. 3
In Department of Homeland Security v. Thuraissigiam, the Supreme Court rejected Vijayakumar Thuraissigiam’s challenge to the procedurally threadbare “expedited removal” he faced. The Court...
A Plea for Affirmative Action
Vol. 136 No. 3
Affirmative action in the form of race-conscious admissions is being legally challenged by a conservative activist organization . During the Supreme Court’s 2022 October...
Personal Precedent at the Supreme Court
Vol. 136 No. 3
Personal precedent is a judge’s presumptive adherence to her own previously expressed views of the law. This Essay shows that personal precedent both does...
The Imperial Supreme Court
Vol. 136 No. 1
The past few years have marked the emergence of the imperial Supreme Court. Armed with a new, nearly bulletproof majority, conservative Justices on the...
On Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in late March of 2022 ushered in a new chapter of war on the European continent. For a Russian...
Parchment Rights
Vol. 135 No. 8
Introduction Like many places in central Louisiana, Grant Parish became a haven for oil and gas prospecting in the late 1890s. Once speculators discovered...
Racist Gun Laws and the Second Amendment
Vol. 135 No. 8
For a significant portion of American history, gun laws bore the ugly taint of racism. The founding generation that wrote the Second Amendment had...