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Jotwell
Website: jotwell.com
Jotwell is a legal publication that features scholarly commentary and reviews of recent legal scholarship across a broad range of topics. It highlights academic articles and books that contribute to understanding various legal issues, including copyright law, health law, family law, food policy, and constitutional law. The publication serves as a platform for legal academics and practitioners to engage with emerging research and critical analyses, often emphasizing the intersection of law with social, economic, and policy concerns. Jotwell’s content includes detailed discussions of case law, empirical studies, and theoretical frameworks relevant to contemporary legal debates.
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Should Wage Theft be Theft?
For years, worker advocates have argued that “wage theft is theft.” Increasingly, legislators and prosecutors have agreed. If an employer intentionally fails to pay workers’ wages, why shouldn’t the law…
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Reparations And Decolonization
“Decolonization and reparations are distinct paradigms and projects that cannot be collapsed into one another. But the project of reparations entails decolonization.” (P. 421.)A former UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary…
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Contesting “Trust Me, Bro’” Forensics Beyond the Trial Process
The criminal justice system is rife with junk forensics. From bitemark comparisons to firearm examinations and more, police and prosecutors secure arrests and convictions by presenting numerous techniques and methodologies…
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Ascertaining Ascertainability
Maureen Carroll & Madena Mustafa, The Trouble with Ascertainability, 77 Case W. Rsrv. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2027), available at SSRN (July 7, 2026).Class actions have long been an important…
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Bots as Corporate Directors? An Exploration of AI in Corporate Governance
Technological advancements add new wrinkles to business law and practice at an unforgivingly rapid pace. As a result, the work of legal scholars (including my own research and writing) increasingly…
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Two Ways to Be Bound
By Brandon Duke
Formalism has won. Textualism is now the Supreme Court’s dominant language of statutory interpretation, and originalism is its main vocabulary of constitutional interpretation. Yet victory has produced strange discontent. In…
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In Search of A Simple Test for Job Discrimination
In 1978, federal agencies enforcing employment discrimination law agreed to a “rule of thumb” to keep agency “attention on serious discrepancies” in rates of hiring, promotion and other employee selection…
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The Unitary Executive at the Border (and Beyond)
Eric S. Fish, Deportation in the Deep State, __ Stan. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (Apr. 11, 2026).At the end of the Term in Trump v. Slaughter, the…
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When Offshore is Everywhere
When I teach asset protection trusts, my students often imagine that I am talking about activities that occur in faraway places. The word offshore does a great deal of imaginative…
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In Praise of Pontification
Robert Prevost has many alter egos. He is a world-famous Chicago White Sox fan<a href="https://torts.jotwell.com/in-praise-of-pontification/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-2255" title="Tania Ganguli, Pope Leo Was Elected. The White Sox Were Resurrected, N.Y. Times (Aug. 7,…