Tribute to Judge Guido Calabresi

Our perceptions of what we owe each other turn somewhat on whether we consider “another” to be “an other”—a stranger and not a friend. In this essay...

An upcoming Supreme Court case on Article III standing and disability presents critical questions about the future of litigation that promotes...

Although ethical critiques of markets are longstanding, modern academic debates about the “moral limits of markets” (MLM) tend to be fairly limited in...

Many analyses of law take an unsentimental, perhaps even cynical view of regulated actors. On this view, law is a necessity borne of people’s selfish...

Three established torts require the defendant’s behavior to be “offensive” or “highly offensive” in order to be actionable: offensive battery, public...

We live in a golden age of student surveillance. Some surveillance is old school: video cameras, school resource officers, and tip lines. Old-school...

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...

This Article develops a new way of understanding the law in order to address contemporary debates about judicial practice and reform. The...

It has long been said that the common law "works itself pure" But in the law of torts, not always. This Article reveals and analyzes the...

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

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

This article argues that the fact that an action will compound a prior injustice counts as a reason against doing the action. I call this reason The...

At first blush, the debate between Stanley Fish and Ronald Dworkin that took place over the course of the 1980s and early 90s seems to have produced...

There is one group that the court does not put into an identity straitjacket—those claiming religious exemptions.

This special issue of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities contains papers presented at a March 2022 conference at Yale Law School marking the...

Across multiple national surveys sampling more than 12,000 people, we have found that a majority of Americans, more than 60 percent, consider false...

Given that no two acts, events, situations, and legal cases are identical, precedential constraint necessarily involves determining which two...

This chapter examines the intellectual and social contexts in which the American Law Institute (ALI) has operated and how they have influenced the...