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
In his recent book, Critical Wage Theory: Why Wage Justice Is Racial Justice, Professor Ruben Garcia argues that wage justice is inseparable from racial justice and offers a framework for understanding the intersection of race, class, and labor law through
In Criminal Justice in Divided America, David Sklansky argues that populist democracy has been a significant cause of our criminal justice problems and that those problems, in turn, are largely responsible for the continued degradation of American democracy. But he
Gentrification occupies an uneasy place in property scholarship. It is often invoked as evidence of property’s distributive failures: market allocation displaces vulnerable residents, concentrates capital, and entrenches inequality. In A Civil Rights Defense of Gentrification, Professor Carol Brown challenges
Apologies to Nina Simone …Brandon Terry’s extensively developed, very intense book recasts how we think about the “Civil Rights Movement,” a sequence of confrontations
The rule of law matters. But what it requires is, as Jeremy Waldron famously observed, “essentially contested.”<a href=”https://juris.jotwell.com/the-rule-of-law-through-thick-and-thin/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-3307″ title=”Jeremy
Working with Statutes is a love letter to administrative agencies, and, if I may be so bold, to those of us who have been privileged to serve as their custodians.Anya Bernstein and Cristina Rodriguez make a case for agency legitimacy rooted
How many kinds of hammers can you name? Most people picture a claw hammer. A few might add a rubber mallet, and gamers might imagine a medieval war hammer. Skilled trades and craft persons, however, recognize dozens of designs, each
