In Access to Justice in the Age of AI: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts, Anand V. Shah and Joshua Y. Levy, document what may be a tectonic shift in the civil justice system. According to Shah and Levy, Generative
The fact that Black Americans played a pivotal role in the formation and adoption of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments would not come as a surprise to historians of the Reconstruction period working today. Scholars ranging from W.E.B. DuBois
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
In his recent book, Critical Wage Theory: Why Wage Justice Is Racial Justice, Professor Ruben Garcia argues that wage justice is inseparable from racial justice and offers a framework for understanding the intersection of race, class, and labor law through
In Criminal Justice in Divided America, David Sklansky argues that populist democracy has been a significant cause of our criminal justice problems and that those problems, in turn, are largely responsible for the continued degradation of American democracy. But he
Gentrification occupies an uneasy place in property scholarship. It is often invoked as evidence of property’s distributive failures: market allocation displaces vulnerable residents, concentrates capital, and entrenches inequality. In A Civil Rights Defense of Gentrification, Professor Carol Brown challenges
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
