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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You should read Reimagining Marital Property At Death because it challenges the conventional conception that death ends the economic partnership between spouses. The authors’ insight that a marriage might (sort of) continue post-mortem prompts a reevaluation of how property is

To truly understand all the nuances and textures in Verónica Rodríguez-Blanco’s rich argument in her recent book, Responsibility for Negligence in Ethics and Law: Aspiration, Perspective, and Civic Maturity, a reader would likely need full fluency with the methodology and

Nikia Gray, Kyle Rozema, & Danielle Taylor, Who Enters the Pipeline to Partnership at Leading American Law Firms? (Dec. 13, 2025), available at SSRN.

Equity partners at America’s leading law firms occupy positions of extraordinary wealth, influence, and prestige atop

For decades, law-and-tech scholarship has relied on intuition and analogy: a new technology arrives, legal scholars declare it “disruptive,” and commentary proliferates, particularly concerning its governance and affordances. Ryan Calo’s Law and Technology is an ambitious and lucid attempt to

Andrew Isenberg’s Age of the Borderlands should be required reading for anyone interested in the territorial expansion of the United States. The book takes on a slew of myths about the American past, including the once-popular Frederick Jackson Turner thesis

Francisco J. Urbina, The Object of Interpretation, 114 Geo. L.J. __ (forthcoming 2026), available at SSRN (Feb. 11, 2025).

In The Object of Interpretation, Professor Urbina offers a comprehensive exploration of this topic. He addresses the nature of the object