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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Most legal responses to generative artificial intelligence ask familiar questions. Who may copy? Who may sue? Who should regulate? Who should pay? Jeremy Bearer-Friend and Sarah Polcz ask a more basic, and more corporate, question: who should own AI? Their

Does the United States only pay lip service to testamentary freedom? When compared to other countries, it does not appear that way. That is, by providing a substantial degree of testamentary freedom, the United States is actually in the minority

The professional standard for medical malpractice, traditionally set by custom, has come under scrutiny. The most common concern is that custom may not reflect actual best practices,1 and health care providers may be reluctant to adopt those newer, better

In K-Sue Park’s Property and Sovereignty in America: A History of Title Registries & Jurisdictional Power, it is the near-invisible, mundane title registry that is at the center of the early American settlement and dispossession of indigenous landholders.Title registries are

Native people’s citizenship is in the news.  In its attacks on birthright citizenship, the Trump administration argues that because “Indians in tribal relations” were not citizens under the original understanding of the Citizenship Clause, children of undocumented or temporarily present

Andrew Perlman, Generative AI and the Future of Legal Scholarship (June 2026 edition), available at SSRN (June 9, 2026).

Crisis claims, especially around disruptive technological innovation, tend to sell well, but are often overstated. This is true in general (the

There is a renewed wave of scholarship in constitutional law emphasising cooperation and trust rather than conflict and distrust. The latter, associated with American-style constitutionalism, has long dominated our imagination alongside American political and social supremacy, but it now seems