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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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The election of Donald Trump to a second term has brought to power a political coalition that is alienated from—and distrustful of—the federal bureaucracy, by which I mean career officials in federal agencies (a.k.a., civil servants). The second Trump Administration

Organizations have long used individuals’ pasts to predict those individuals’ likely future behaviors. Banks look at our credit histories to predict the likelihood of on-time mortgage payments; states look at criminal histories to predict the likelihood of recidivism when making

Roy Shapira & Shay Lavie, Rivalrous Remedies, available at SSRN (Apr. 07, 2026).

Rivalrous Remedies offers a novel theoretical account of chronic underenforcement. Its primary contribution is to explain and systematize an enforcement phenomenon in which courts and legislators employ

In early twentieth-century South Africa, the Gordonia School Board refused admission to two children on the grounds that they were not of “European parentage.”<a href=”https://juris.jotwell.com/can-law-speak-against-itself/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-3315″ title=”This decision was ultimately upheld in Moller v. Keimoes School District 1911 AD 635.” target=”_blank”>1