These student-written pieces comment on any recent legal development — hence “Recent Things” — including decisions by courts other than the U.S. Supreme Court, statutes, regulations, books, or any similar contribution to legal practice or scholarship. These comments are typically eight pages and are usually written by second-year students.
Vol. 139 No. 8 In recent years, states have enacted wide-ranging requirements for technologies like social media and generative artificial intelligence. These regulations are, like all government action,...
Vol. 139 No. 8 Government speech doctrine can be a silver bullet for government defendants facing First Amendment free speech claims. If the government is speaking, its regulation...
Vol. 139 No. 7 Justice Gorsuch, writing for the majority in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, made two bold immunity claims: that state court judges possess sovereign immunity...
Vol. 139 No. 7 While it is well established that a finding of viewpoint discrimination suffices to hold government regulation of speech unconstitutional in nonschool contexts, the interaction...
Vol. 139 No. 7 The compactness requirement has become a rule without a ruler. To curb gerrymandering, many state and local laws require electoral districts to be compact....
When an employer-sponsored health plan covers mastectomies for cancer but excludes them for gender dysphoria, is that sex discrimination under Title VII? The Eleventh...
Vol. 139 No. 6 Lifetime sex offender registration statutes are common across the states, and several state supreme courts have reached conflicting results in analyzing the constitutionality of...
Vol. 139 No. 6 President Trump is invoking new tools to bolster American economic and national security. His recent approval of Nippon Steel Corporation’s (Nippon Steel) acquisition of...
Vol. 139 No. 5 In SEC v. Jarkesy, the Supreme Court failed to fully clarify the “unquestionably muddy” relationship between Article III and the Seventh Amendment. Yet it...
