At the end of the Term in Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court overruled Humphrey’s Executor—the bedrock precedent that
When I teach asset protection trusts, my students often imagine that I am talking about activities that occur in faraway places. The word offshore does a great deal of imaginative work: it makes wealth planning sound exotic, remote, and faintly
Robert Prevost has many alter egos. He is a world-famous Chicago White Sox fan<a href=”https://torts.jotwell.com/in-praise-of-pontification/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-2255″ title=”Tania Ganguli, Pope Leo Was Elected. The White Sox Were Resurrected, N.Y. Times (Aug. 7, 2026).” target=”_blank”>1; the 267th Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church<a
Readers of law journal articles wouldn’t be out of line for thinking that we legal scholars take ourselves too seriously and write too obtusely. We know it’s a problem and we wouldn’t blame you if you never wanted to pick
In Public Housing Reimagined, Professor Rosa Newman offers a deeply thoughtful and timely intervention in housing law and policy—one that asks readers to reconsider not only how federal housing programs operate, but what they are for. At a moment when
As the elevator rises through the federal office building in downtown Portland, Oregon, one expects the sliding doors to open onto rows of federal bureaucrats keystroking policy into reality. Instead, a narrow hallway leads to the lobby of two diminutive
Celeste Arrington’s From Manners to Rules: Advocating for Legalism in South Korea and Japan is an important contribution to the study of law and politics in East Asia and to sociolegal scholarship more generally. The book asks a deceptively simple
William Blackstone is, of course, an omnipresent name for law students and law professors alike. At least once a week during the semester, I teach a Supreme Court opinion that cites the eighteenth-century English jurist’s writings for some proposition or
General jurisprudence can sometimes be surprisingly parochial for a field that purports to study the nature of law, wherever and whenever law exists. In Truly General
