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. 138 No. 8 If a constitutional amendment were written today, one might assume an originalist would interpret it according to its meaning today. If that originalist were...
Vol. 138 No. 8 Over two decades after then-Professor Elena Kagan published her seminal article Presidential Administration, presidential involvement in agency action has increased so much that it...
Vol. 138 No. 8 Revocation of the constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has raised concern that other substantive due process rights may...
Vol. 138 No. 7 The hate crime enhancement in the federal sentencing guidelines, U.S.S.G. § 3A1.1(a), increases a defendant’s offense level by three if they “intentionally selected any victim . . . because...
Vol. 138 No. 7 While technology advances, do Fourth Amendment rights keep pace to preserve privacy? Or do they get left behind? Regardless of the answer, it would...
Vol. 138 No. 7 In response to the nationwide affordable housing crisis, several states have attempted to boost construction by liberalizing zoning. These reforms have been frequently challenged...
Ninth Circuit Denies Rehearing En Banc to Consider Whether Nonmember Physical Presence on Tribal Lands Is Required for Tribal Adjudicatory Jurisdiction
