Jotwell

Jotwell is a legal blog published by Jotwell that features scholarly commentary and reviews on recent legal scholarship across diverse areas of law. It covers topics including copyright law and its application to natural objects and AI-generated works, legal issues in healthcare such as primary care access and liability, historical and contemporary family law focusing on parental rights and family regulation, the intersection of law and food policy addressing food waste and structural inequalities, and empirical studies on constitutional law matters like Fourth Amendment search and seizure practices. The blog highlights emerging legal debates and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding law's role in society.

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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…

Michael Selmi, DEI and the Private Workplace, available at SSRN (September 11, 2025).

Professor Michael Selmi’s 2025 essay, DEI and the Private Workplace, examines some of the court rulings in the “upwards of one hundred cases filed” challenging the legality…

Carla Spivack & Deborah Gordon, Donative Freedom, Disrupted, 91 Brook. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming, 2026), available at SSRN (Feb. 5, 2025).

Donative freedom is the guiding principle of inheritance law. This is something that many of us who teach the…