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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Deborah DeMott, When Agentic AI Met the Common Law of Agency, __ Harv. J.L. & Tech. __ (forthcoming, 2026), available at SSRN (May 27, 2026).

Professor Deborah DeMott’s article When Agentic AI Met the Common Law of Agency is a…

Aníbal Rosario Lebrón, Opting Out of Subordination: Minors’ Right to Control Their Bodies and Futures, 47 Cardozo L. Rev. __ (2026), available at SSRN (Apr. 17, 2026).

Over the last five years, repeated waves of attacks on transgender children have…

Many books are timely. Quite a few books put forth an interesting and well-supported argument. Few books manage to do both while introducing a thesis that can be construed narrowly towards a specific class- in this case women- while also…