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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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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

In May 2025 the Trump Administration summarily fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter and announced that Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche would become the Acting Librarian and Associate Deputy Attorney General Paul Perkins the

Defining and redefining the family law canon is an ongoing project, with family law casebooks and scholars increasingly questioning the boundaries (or even the existence) of a canon. Kaiponanea Matsumura’s chapter, Close Resemblances: The Legal Construction of the Asian American

Brandon M. Terry, Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement (2025).

Apologies to Nina Simone …Brandon Terry’s extensively developed, very intense book recasts how we think about the “Civil Rights Movement,” a sequence of confrontations

Felipe Jiménez, The Rule of Law, __ Mich. St. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN (Dec. 05, 2025).

The rule of law matters. But what it requires is, as Jeremy Waldron famously observed, “essentially contested.”<a href=”https://juris.jotwell.com/the-rule-of-law-through-thick-and-thin/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-3307″ title=”Jeremy