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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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…

Francisco J. Urbina, The Object of Interpretation, 114 Geo. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN (Feb. 11, 2025).

In The Object of Interpretation, Professor Urbina offers a comprehensive exploration of this topic. He addresses the nature of the object…

Nila Bala, Guilt by Parenthood, 136 Yale L.J. __ (forthcoming, 2026), available at SSRN (Oct. 5, 2025).

As a person of a certain age, I’ve attended my fair share of dinner parties hosted by parents of young children. More times…