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Response to The Demise of Deference — And the Rise of Delegation to Interpret?
Vol. 138 No. 3 [I]t was morning, and lo! now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished. — Henry David Thoreau The writing was on the wall,...
Vol. 138 No. 2 Introduction What may and what should courts and legislatures do about private restrictions on speech? This has long been a critically significant and contested...
Response to Curation, Narration, Erasure: Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme Court
Vol. 138 No. 2 Introduction In her revelatory Foreword to this year’s Supreme Court issue of the Harvard Law Review, Professor Karen Tani illuminates how the Supreme Court...
Vol. 138 No. 1 Guns, abortion, religious establishments, presidential power: While today’s Supreme Court identifies as originalist, it has settled constitutional questions on these and many other issues...
Vol. 137 No. 7 In a Comment here last November, Professors William Baude and Samuel Bray reimagined a twenty-five-year-old trend of state-initiated public law litigation as the consequence...
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...
