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Vol. 137 No. 6 Abstract The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides workers twelve weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to care for their own or a close...
Vol. 137 No. 6 Abstract The trans rights movement is engaged in an internal debate over whether trans people diagnosed with gender dysphoria should bring claims under the...
Vol. 137 No. 6 At a time when much conflicts scholarship is focused on unwarranted extensions of state power beyond state borders, Professor Carlos Vázquez’s Non-extraterritoriality makes a...
Vol. 137 No. 4 On October 3, 2022, two animal rights activists — one of whom, Wayne Hsiung, is an author of this Essay — faced a felony trial and up to...
Response to The Incompatibility of Substantive Canons and Textualism
Vol. 137 No. 2 Introduction In an important new Article, The Incompatibility of Substantive Canons and Textualism, Professors Benjamin Eidelson and Matthew Stephenson argue that substantive canons cannot...
Response to Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights from Fifty Sitting Judges of the Federal Courts of Appeals
Vol. 137 No. 2 Introduction It is my great good fortune to have been asked to comment on the remarkable Article Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights from...
Response to The Constitution of American Colonialism
Vol. 137 No. 1 What are the borderlands? In her brilliant and sweeping exploration of the “constitution of American colonialism,” Professor Maggie Blackhawk references the borderlands dozens of...
Response to Roberts’s Revisions: A Narratological Reading of the Affirmative Action Cases
Vol. 137 No. 1 Introduction In her insightful Comment on Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc....