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Vol. 137 No. 3 Abstract In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Alito justified the decision to overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania...
Vol. 137 No. 2 Abstract A majority of the Justices today are self-described textualists. Yet even as these jurists insist that “the text of the law is the...
Vol. 137 No. 2 Abstract Judicial clerkships are key positions of responsibility and coveted opportunities for career advancement. Commentators have noted that the demographics of law clerks do...
Vol. 137 No. 2 Although she was the only woman working at the Rent-A-Center, Natasha Jackson was optimistic about her career as an account executive in South Carolina....
Vol. 137 No. 2 Professor Karl Llewellyn famously demonstrated that for almost every canon of statutory interpretation, there exists an opposite and equally plausible countercanon. Fashioning a fencing...
Vol. 137 No. 2 In 2017, Sonoma County, California, was hit by the Tubbs Fire, the largest blaze it had experienced in over fifty years. All told, the...
Vol. 137 No. 1 Introduction In the last Term at the United States Supreme Court, standing was the critical question in several major cases: the two challenges to...
Vol. 137 No. 1 The chilling effect doctrine is “a major substantive component of first amendment adjudication,” but courts’ understanding of chilling effects is limited and narrow. In...
Vol. 137 No. 1 In Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon, Justice Holmes observed that “while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if a regulation goes too...
Vol. 137 No. 1 In an increasingly interconnected national economy, the myriad political leanings and morals of political actors result in equally varied — and sometimes diametrically opposed — state laws. Thus,...