In Second-class Administrative Law, Professor Matthew Lawrence makes a provocative challenge to the presumption of unreviewability announced in Lincoln v. Vigil, 508 U.S. 182 (1993), which applies to agencies’ decisions about how to allocate lump-sum appropriations. Challenging both the
In 2024, the Brazilian Supreme Court froze assets of a Starlink
In this provocative article, Bill Corbett traces recent developments in Title VII employment discrimination law by analyzing two Supreme Court decisions, Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, 605 U.S. 303 (2025), and Muldrow v. City of St. Louis,
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
Equity partners at America’s leading law firms occupy positions of extraordinary wealth, influence, and prestige atop
Scholarship that highlights the far-reaching consequences of the failure of American land use law to address climate change deserves our attention. That’s why, for the second year in a row, my JOTWELL review covers this critical issue. My choice last
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
Colorado and New Mexico are experiencing one of the driest winters on record, with snowpack at only half its normal level. While drought has long been a challenge for this region, this dry winter—and the dry spring that will inevitably
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
