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...
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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...
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...
Race and Guns, Courts and Democracy
Vol. 135 No. 8
Is racism in gun regulation reason to look to the Supreme Court to expand Second Amendment rights? While discussion of race and guns recurs...
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...
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”...
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...
Of Autonomy, Sacred Rights, and Personal Marks
Response to Navigating the Identity Thicket: Trademark’s Lost Theory of Personality, the Right of Publicity, and Preemption
Introduction At the height of the Indian freedom movement, Mahatma Gandhi was contacted by a manufacturer of clay tiles with a rather unusual request:...
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...