Vol. 138 No. 7 Prisons and jails are “total institutions.” Incarcerated people, to a large extent, depend on correctional agencies for their basic welfare and have limited power to resist harmful conditions and practices
In the early mornings at the Northwest Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, Washington, a detained immigrant might wake to begin...
Vol. 138 No. 1 Introduction “Dead, dead, dead.” This quote might have referred to any number of apparent casualties of the 2023 Supreme Court Term — from the Court’s decades-old...
Conspiracy represents the immense sweep and racialized harms of the American criminal system in particularly stark form. Yet it remains widely used by prosecutors...
Vol. 136 No. 6 Introduction In her excellent article Pragmatic Family Law, Professor Clare Huntington argues that divisive issues roiling U.S. politics, law, and society — such as abortion rights,...
Vol. 131 No. 7 Introduction Since Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in 2014, the problem of police violence against African Americans has been a relatively salient...
Vol. 131 No. 6 Speaking at Yale Law School in 1938, Dean James Landis offered a powerful defense of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, and in particular its...
