Strategic Judicial Lawmaking: Ideology, Publication, and Asylum Law in the Ninth Circuit

This casebook aspires to help students understand and think systematically about the techniques of statutory interpretation. It blends exposition with...

The United States has granted reparations for a variety of historical injustices, from imprisonment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War...

Supreme Court opinions involving race and the jury invariably open with the Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil Rights Act of 1875, or landmark cases like...

On January 1, 2022, the most radical change to the American jury in at least thirty-five years occurred in Arizona: peremptory strikes, long a feature...

How should judges decide hard cases involving rights conflicts? Standard debates about this question are usually framed in jurisprudential terms...

Berryessa et al. (2022) consider how prior experience as a criminal prosecutor may influence judicial behaviour, but their concerns about prior...

A federal grand jury in Florida indicted former President Donald Trump on June 8, 2023, on multiple criminal charges related to classified documents...

In our increasingly polarized society, claims that prosecutions are politically motivated, racially motivated, or just plain arbitrary are more common...

The lawyer-client relationship is pivotal in providing access to courts. This paper presents results from a large-scale field experiment exploring how...

Perhaps the most surprising feature of the last Supreme Court term was the extraordinary public discourse on 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. According to...

The nascent field of comparative migration law can do more than classify different approaches to migration law; it is well-positioned to address...

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law is perhaps the first book-length treatment of the subject of comparative immigration law. The...

This Essay was prepared for a Symposium at the Yale Law School, celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of The Nature of the Judicial Process, the...

Legal ethicists, advocacy groups, and politicians have called for greater restrictions on the use of nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) when parties...

Over the past twenty-five years, a growing number of European countries have enacted laws granting citizenship to individuals and their descendants...

A growing experimental literature suggests that international law appears to have a larger impact on public opinion than constitutional law. Because...

In our last column, we explored different ways of incorporating quotes into legal writing. And although the whole point of quoting is to use another...

Human rights discourse has become central to the global debates about treatment of and solutions for refugees and displaced persons. Following the...