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.

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You should read Reimagining Marital Property At Death because it challenges the conventional conception that death ends the economic partnership between spouses. The authors’ insight that a marriage might (sort of) continue post-mortem prompts a reevaluation of how property is…

To truly understand all the nuances and textures in Verónica Rodríguez-Blanco’s rich argument in her recent book, Responsibility for Negligence in Ethics and Law: Aspiration, Perspective, and Civic Maturity, a reader would likely need full fluency with the methodology and…

Nikia Gray, Kyle Rozema, & Danielle Taylor, Who Enters the Pipeline to Partnership at Leading American Law Firms? (Dec. 13, 2025), available at SSRN.

Equity partners at America’s leading law firms occupy positions of extraordinary wealth, influence, and prestige atop…

For decades, law-and-tech scholarship has relied on intuition and analogy: a new technology arrives, legal scholars declare it “disruptive,” and commentary proliferates, particularly concerning its governance and affordances. Ryan Calo’s Law and Technology is an ambitious and lucid attempt to…

Andrew Isenberg’s Age of the Borderlands should be required reading for anyone interested in the territorial expansion of the United States. The book takes on a slew of myths about the American past, including the once-popular Frederick Jackson Turner thesis…