Continuity and Change in the Threat to Religious Liberty: The Reformation Era and the Late Twentieth Century

Today, intimate privacy—which seeks to protect access to and information about our body, health, sexuality, gender, intimate thoughts, desires...

Although research suggests that countries' colonial experiences are associated with a range of contemporary outcomes, the link between colonial...

Congress and state legislatures are showing renewed interest in youth privacy, proposing myriad new laws to address data extraction, addiction...

Content moderation is typically viewed as an affront to free expression. When companies remove online abuse, they face accusations of censorship. Lost...

Fifty years ago, federal and state lawmakers called for the regulation of a criminal justice “databank” connecting federal, state, and local agencies...

The recent mass arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators have left many asking how such suppression can be justified in a free society. Yet—despite...

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 Thursday afternoon, in an important lawsuit seeking to clarify which religious objectors will be taken seriously when they seek legal exemptions, a...

St. George Tucker is commonly regarded as the most important commentator on American law in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the first...

Liberalism is back on its heels, pushed there by political movements in the United States and Europe and by the critiques of legal scholars and...

In Matter of Giuliani, the New York Appellate Division held that Rudy Giuliani’s knowingly false statements of fact during the period after the 2020...

This paper, prepared for the 2023 Clifford Symposium on “New Torts” at DePaul Law School, addresses the tort of offensive battery. This is an ancient...

Cyber stalking involves repeated, often relentless targeting of someone with abuse. Death and rape threats may be part of a perpetrator’s playbook...

In the last few years, the Supreme Court has upended its doctrine of religious freedom under the First Amendment. The Court has explicitly rejected...

This paper describes the response of George Washington's administration to a plea for emergency war financing from French colonists who were trying to...

On March 1, 2024, the University of Richmond Law Review hosted a symposium entitled Vestiges of the Confederacy: Reckoning with the Legacy of the...

In New York Times v. Sullivan (1964), the Supreme Court began adopting First Amendment restrictions on liability for defamation and other speech torts...

In DeTreville v. Smalls, an 1879 case from Port Royal, South Carolina, the Supreme Court declared that titles to land that had been sold in...