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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Heather R. Abraham, Sheltering Discrimination: Fourth Amendment Challenges to Voucher Inspections, __ U.C. Davis L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2027), available at SSRN (Feb. 06, 2026).

Professor Heather Abraham’s new Article, Sheltering Discrimination: Fourth Amendment Challenges to Voucher Inspections, embodies the

John Morley & Yair Listokin, What Should You Owe Your Ex? A Survey of Attitudes About the Law of Married and Cohabiting Relationships (Mar. 14, 2026) (unpublished manuscript), available at SSRN.

Law has mostly dealt with unmarried couples by

In Sustaining Stare Decisis as a Post-Merits Determination, Peter Povilonis offers an insightful and novel analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court’s stare decisis jurisprudence. He characterizes stare decisis as a procedural doctrine that, in its proper form, is separate from

Earlier this year, Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy advocate in Hong Kong and a critic of China, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of colluding with foreign forces and publishing seditious material in violation of the Beijing-originated

It is not difficult to think of constitutional rules that are criticized, defended, or often both, on normative grounds that are more or less fact-free—not for what they actually are, but for what their critics or defenders believe they are