Vol. 136 No. 1 Ten years ago, the Supreme Court held in Martinez v. Ryan that ineffective assistance of postconviction counsel, in an initial-review proceeding, may establish cause...
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...
Vol. 135 No. 8 For a significant portion of American history, gun laws bore the ugly taint of racism. The founding generation that wrote the Second Amendment had...
Vol. 135 No. 7 Fourth Amendment law is in flux. The Supreme Court recently established, in the landmark case Carpenter v. United States, that individuals can retain Fourth...
Vol. 135 No. 7 In Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky issues an indictment of the Supreme Court,...
Introduction In their welcome new article, Justin Driver and Emma Kaufman offer a provocative take on American prison law: that it is “fundamentally incoherent.”...
Vol. 135 No. 5 As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread through prisons, jails, and other detention facilities in the United States, it has brought new attention to a...
Vol. 135 No. 5 In 2021, Texas enacted a new antiabortion law. The law, SB 8, garnered attention for its dramatic curtailment of abortion rights. But, more esoterically,...
Introduction Professor Payvand Ahdout’s article, Enforcement Lawmaking and Judicial Review, makes a powerful case that, contrary to the views of many scholars, federal courts...