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Criminal Law Articles

Expungement of Criminal Convictions: An Empirical Study

Vol. 133 No. 8 June 2020 Laws permitting the expungement of criminal convictions are a key component of modern criminal justice reform efforts and have been the subject of a...

Law and Behavior Book Review

On Trust, Law, and Expecting the Worst

Vol. 133 No. 6 April 2020 A man says he will marry a woman, while he’s secretly involved with someone else, just long enough to get her brother’s kidney. The...

Elizabeth F. Emens

Consumer Law Recent Regulation

Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans

CFPB’s Final Payday Lending Rule Deems It an “Unfair” and “Abusive” Practice to Make Payday Loans Without Determining Borrower Ability to Repay.

Vol. 131 No. 6 April 2018

Abortion Law Recent Legislation

Act of Sept. 28, 2017

Illinois Repeals Anti-Abortion Trigger Law.

Vol. 131 No. 6 April 2018

42 U.S.C. § 1983 Articles

How Private Insurers Regulate Public Police

Vol. 130 No. 6 April 2017 A string of deadly police-citizen encounters, made public on an unprecedented scale, has thrust American policing into the crucible of political conflict. New social...

John Rappaport

Law and Behavior Response

Empirically Validating the Police Liability Insurance Claim

Responding to John Rappaport, How Private Insurers Regulate Public Police

Response to How Private Insurers Regulate Public Police

Vol. 130 No. 6 April 2017

Andrea Cann Chandrasekher

Law and Behavior Book Review

The Positive Foundations of Formalism: False Necessity and American Legal Realism

The empirical evidence that judging need not be political

Vol. 127 No. 8 June 2014

Lawrence B. Solum

Law and Behavior Essay

Shallow Signals

When laws quietly permit people to act in ways usually forbidden, they create “shallow signals” that may lead others to act illegally.

Vol. 126 No. 8 June 2013

Bert I. Huang