Criminalization by Other Means is a richly documented and analytically
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Criminalization by Other Means is a richly documented and analytically…
I last taught Wills, Estates, and Trusts in Spring 2025 to a large class…
How many uninjured plaintiffs are too many? The question–which arises across class action litigation, from consumer to employment cases–sounds simple. But as Tom Flesher demonstrates in his student note, federal courts cannot agree on an answer.Flesher’s note centers on Olean…
Bentham’s account of political authority is often deeply misunderstood. Legal theorists too easily buy Hart’s critique of imperativist jurisprudence, as presented in The Concept of Law, without bothering to check what Bentham said about language, perception, fictitious entities, analysis, paraphrasis,…
I really “like lots” Elizabeth Ford’s recently posted work-in-progress, Thin Blue Advantage: Police Exceptionalism and the Two-Tier System…
Inheritance law scholarship usually addresses some form of the question: “Who gets what?” But in their remarkable new article, Uneven Ground: New Mexico as a Case Study of a Growing Rural Estate Planning Crisis, Sergio Pareja and Sophie Rane ask…