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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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Organizations have long used individuals’ pasts to predict those individuals’ likely future behaviors. Banks look at our credit histories to predict the likelihood of on-time mortgage payments; states look at criminal histories to predict the likelihood of recidivism when making

Roy Shapira & Shay Lavie, Rivalrous Remedies, available at SSRN (Apr. 07, 2026).

Rivalrous Remedies offers a novel theoretical account of chronic underenforcement. Its primary contribution is to explain and systematize an enforcement phenomenon in which courts and legislators employ

In early twentieth-century South Africa, the Gordonia School Board refused admission to two children on the grounds that they were not of “European parentage.”<a href=”https://juris.jotwell.com/can-law-speak-against-itself/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-3315″ title=”This decision was ultimately upheld in Moller v. Keimoes School District 1911 AD 635.” target=”_blank”>1

In May 2025 the Trump Administration summarily fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter and announced that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would become the Acting Librarian and Associate Deputy Attorney General Paul Perkins the

Defining and redefining the family law canon is an ongoing project, with family law casebooks and scholars increasingly questioning the boundaries (or even the existence) of a canon. Kaiponanea Matsumura’s chapter, Close Resemblances: The Legal Construction of the Asian American