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Law and Psychology Notes

Bias Baked In: How Antisocial Personality Disorder Diagnoses Trigger Legal Failure

Vol. 138 No. 4 February 2025 In 1927, a Supreme Court of Nebraska opinion quoted testimony from the physician who examined capital defendant Frank Carter: “[H]e belonged to a type...
Disability Law Blog Essay

Community Integration of People with Disabilities a Quarter Century After Olmstead v. L.C.

January 8, 2025 June 2024 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) decision in Olmstead v. L.C. holding that...
  • Michael Ashley Stein
  • Benjamin A. Barsky
  • Lisa I. Iezzoni
Civil Rights Blog Essay

Defending Consent Decrees in the Wake of Horne v. Flores

November 13, 2024 Consent decrees have long been used by federal courts to vindicate basic constitutional and civil rights. In the years following the U.S. Supreme Court’s...
  • Alaizah Koorji
Eighth Amendment Leading Case

City of Grants Pass v. Johnson

Vol. 138 No. 1 November 2024 “Poverty and immorality are not synonymous,” the Supreme Court once observed. A set of laws that would restrict where “the poor and the unpopular...
Election Law Recent Case

Arkansas State Conference NAACP v. Arkansas Board of Apportionment

Eighth Circuit Holds Voting Rights Act Does Not Contain a Private Cause of Action to Enforce Section 2

Vol. 137 No. 8 June 2024
Civil Rights Blog Essay

Civil Suits by Parents Against Family Policing Agencies

May 1, 2024 Introduction In recent decades, the family policing system has penetrated more deeply into poor communities, removing children and surveilling families at a rate never...
  • Alexa Richardson
Election Law Recent Case

Pico Neighborhood Ass’n v. City of Santa Monica

California Supreme Court Interprets State Act to Expand Reach of Vote Dilution Protection.

Vol. 137 No. 6 April 2024
Election Law Recent Legislation

Pub. Act No. 23-204, §§ 410–418, 2023 Conn. Acts 819–48 (Reg. Sess.)

Connecticut Voting Rights Act Strengthens Vote Dilution Claims.

Vol. 137 No. 6 April 2024
Civil Rights Recent Case

J.W. v. Paley

Fifth Circuit Rejects a Corporal Punishment Claim for Tasing by School Police Officer.

Vol. 137 No. 5 March 2024
Social Change Essay


Voluntary Prosecution and the Case of Animal Rescue

Vol. 137 No. 4 February 2024 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...
  • Justin Marceau
  • Wayne Hsiung
  • Steffen Seitz
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