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Employment Law Essay

“An Arbitrary Fraction”: How the Family and Medical Leave Act Fails Rural Workers

Vol. 137 No. 6 April 2024 Abstract The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides workers twelve weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to care for their own or a close...

Melanie Hagerman

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

Jurisprudence Response

The Linguistic and Substantive Canons

Response to The Incompatibility of Substantive Canons and Textualism

Vol. 137 No. 2 December 2023 Introduction In an important new Article, The Incompatibility of Substantive Canons and Textualism, Professors Benjamin Eidelson and Matthew Stephenson argue that substantive canons cannot...

Constitutional Law Articles

The Incompatibility of Substantive Canons and Textualism

Vol. 137 No. 2 December 2023 Abstract A majority of the Justices today are self-described textualists. Yet even as these jurists insist that “the text of the law is the...

Labor Law Recent Legislation

Cal. Lab. Code §§ 96, 1470–1473 (West 2020 & Supp. 2023)

California Law Creates Council to Set Minimum Work Standards for Fast-Food Industry.

April 2023

Jurisprudence Leading Case

Maine Community Health Options v. United States

Vol. 134 No. 1 November 2020 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), enacted in 2010, contained a number of provisions meant to encourage health insurers to provide services...

Employment Law Recent Legislation

Assemb. B. 5, 2019–2020 Leg., Reg. Sess. (Cal. 2019)

California Adopts the ABC Test to Distinguish Between Employees and Independent Contractors.

Vol. 133 No. 7 May 2020

Criminal Law Case Comment

Categorical Mistakes: The Flawed Framework of the Armed Career Criminal Act and Mandatory Minimum Sentencing

Vol. 133 No. 1 November 2019 Congress fundamentally changed the punishment of federal crimes in the 1980s and almost entirely for the worse. The Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984...

Rachel E. Barkow

Constitutional Law Articles

Of Synchronicity and Supreme Law

Vol. 132 No. 4 February 2019 The Constitution identifies three forms of supreme law — the Constitution, laws, and treaties — and specifies procedures for their adoption. Yet it says...

Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash

Fourth Amendment Case Comment

The Carpenter Chronicle: A Near-Perfect Surveillance

Vol. 132 No. 1 November 2018 On May 24, 1844, a crowd gathered inside the United States Supreme Court chambers in the basement of the Capitol, eagerly awaiting a demonstration...