Jotwell

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.

Aníbal Rosario Lebrón, Opting Out of Subordination: Minors’ Right to Control Their Bodies and Futures, 47 Cardozo L. Rev. __ (2026), available at SSRN (Apr. 17, 2026).

Over the last five years, repeated waves of attacks on transgender children have…

Many books are timely. Quite a few books put forth an interesting and well-supported argument. Few books manage to do both while introducing a thesis that can be construed narrowly towards a specific class- in this case women- while also…

Chad Squitieri, Congress in the Mouth of a Lawyer, 78 Ala. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (Apr. 07, 2026).

Chad Squitieri’s Congress in the Mouth of a Lawyer is one of the most generative articles I have read…

In one dimension, the law of charity is oversimplified.  A transfer either meets or fails to meet the definition of charitability.  Lawmakers acknowledge no gradations of charity, and a gift to a food bank sustaining indigent citizens is treated in…