The publisher is an organization that disseminates scholarly and analytical legal research and commentary. Its publications include detailed explorations of legal theory, historical legal practices, and the social implications of law, often authored by academics and legal professionals. Topics covered range from the ontology of legal facts and the judicial construction of racial identities to the interpretation of historical legal practices and the role of courts and lawyers in common law. The content is aimed at advancing understanding of legal principles, history, and their application in contemporary contexts, reflecting a focus on legal scholarship and critical legal studies.
Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law School, is publishing State Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country: A History in volume 133 of the Virginia Law Review. Here is the abstract.
In Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta (2022), the Supreme Court dismantled the long-standing black-letter principle…
Jonathan Green, University of Florida College of Law, is publishing What the Declaration Didn’t Do in volume 101 of the Notre Dame Law Review. Here is the abstract.
What did the Declaration of Independence do? Today, the Declaration figures in…
Robert J Spitzer, SUNY Cortland; College of William & Mary School of Law, has published The Historic Regulation of “Unusual” Weapons. Here is the abstract.
Is the AR-15 assault-type rifle an “unusual” gun? This might seem an amorphous or…
Michael L. Smith, University of Oklahoma College of Law, and Yoo Jung Chang, Quad City Symphony Orchestra, have published Stravinsky’s National Anthem.
In January 1944, famed composer Igor Stravinsky was scheduled to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in performing…
Michael H. Hoffheimer, University of Mississippi School of Law, is publishing Home of the Brave, Land of the Free: The Star-Spangled Banner’s Contested History in volume 2 of the Nebraska Journal of Advancing Justice (Spring 2026).
This Essay reviews the…
Jimmy Mahardhika, Inspired Research Collective, has published The Spirit Before Law: A Philosophical Reconstruction of Javanese Spirits as Sacral Social Control. Here is the abstract.
Javanese spirits function as pre-juridical institutions of sacral social control. Their philosophical significance lies in…
Curtis Segarra, University of Michigan Law School, is publishing Tattoos and the Unreasonable Logic of Reasonable Suspicion in volume 63 of the Criminal Law Bulleting. Here is the abstract.
The U.S. is a tattooed nation, with nearly a third of…
Shin-Chun Steven Chien, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Law, has published Cultivating Sense: Cultural Change in the Prosecutor’s Office. Here is the abstract.
Prosecutors exercise broad discretion. They are widely viewed as the gatekeepers of the criminal justice…
Etienne C. Toussaint, University of South Carolina School of Law, has published After the Comet: Du Bois, Afrofuturism, and Constitutional Renewal at 101 NYU Law Review 1120 (2026). Here is the abstract.
American constitutional development has long followed cycles of…
Forthcoming from Yale University Press:
Sergei Antonov, Russia’s Rogue Masters: Elite Criminal Trials in the Age of Reform, 1866-1884 (to be published July 21, 2026).
Here from the publisher’s website is a description of the book’s contents.
In this book,…
