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Civil Rights Fellowship Essay

Administrative Nullification and the Precarity of Carceral Reform

Vol. 138 No. 7 May 2025 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
  • Riley Doyle Evans
  • Stefen R. Short
Immigration Blog Essay

Preemption, Labor, and Movement Strategy: Lessons from Nwauzor on Detention Capitalism

May 13, 2025 In the early mornings at the Northwest Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, Washington, a detained immigrant might wake to begin...
  • Siddharth Jejurikar
  • Ibrahim Bharmal
Supreme Court Foreword

Curation, Narration, Erasure: Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme Court

Vol. 138 No. 1 November 2024 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...
  • Karen M. Tani
Criminal Justice Blog Essay

Criminalizing Community, Policing Space: Conspiracy, Young Thug & the “Stop Cop City” Protestors

August 28, 2024 Conspiracy represents the immense sweep and racialized harms of the American criminal system in particularly stark form.  Yet it remains widely used by prosecutors...
  • Cynthia Godsoe
Family Law Response

The Unpragmatic Family Law of Marginalized Families

Response to Pragmatic Family Law
Vol. 136 No. 6 April 2023 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,...
  • Mariela Olivares
  • hlr
Prison Abolition Developments in the Law

Envisioning Abolition Democracy

Vol. 132 No. 6 April 2019 What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society that could...
  • Allegra M. McLeod
Criminal Law Notes

The Paradox of “Progressive Prosecution”

Vol. 132 No. 2 December 2018 When Freddie Gray woke up on April 12, 2015, he surely did not know that he would soon enter a coma only to die...
Policing Book Review

The Black Police: Policing Our Own

Vol. 131 No. 7 May 2018 Introduction Since Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown in 2014, the problem of police violence against African Americans has been a relatively salient...
  • Devon W. Carbado
  • L. Song Richardson
Administrative Law Book Review

Reconstructing the Administrative State in an Era of Economic and Democratic Crisis

Vol. 131 No. 6 April 2018 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...
  • K. Sabeel Rahman
Immigration Book Review

Unsettling History

Vol. 131 No. 4 February 2018 At the time she set out to write City of Inmates, Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández wanted to tell the story of the “long rise...
  • Jennifer M. Chacón
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