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...
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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...
Governing Through Gun Crime: How Chicago Funded Police After the 2020 BLM Protests
Vol. 135 No. 8
Gun violence is the number one issue plaguing the city in this moment. — Mayor Lori Lightfoot, July 15, 2021 There can be no...
Torture in Our Schools?
Vol. 135 No. 8
Nothing can fix what that day broke inside of me and in every child in that school. My biggest fear walking into school every...
Violence and Nondelegation
Vol. 135 No. 8
Introduction Debates over delegation are experiencing a renaissance. These debates presuppose an initial distribution of constitutional authority between actors that cannot be redistributed, or...
A Public Health Approach to Addiction Starts at Home
In December 2021, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art unceremoniously removed the “Sackler” name from galleries funded by the billionaire family. At the time...
The Democratic (Il)legitimacy of Assembly-Line Litigation
Introduction Millions of debt cases are filed in the civil courts every year. In debt actions, asymmetrical representation is the norm, with the plaintiff...
Decreasing Supply to the Assembly Line of Debt Collection Litigation
Introduction Professor Daniel Wilf-Townsend’s Assembly-Line Plaintiffs shines an empirical light on state courts and quantifies a world where “debt cases comprise[] the preponderant majority...
Recidivism Reformation: Eliminating Drug Predicates
The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) imposes a minimum fifteen-year sentence for violating 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) after three “violent felony” or “serious drug offense”...
Identifying and Minimizing the Risk of Election Subversion and Stolen Elections in the Contemporary United States
Introduction The United States faces a serious risk that the 2024 presidential election, and other future U.S. elections, will not be conducted fairly and...