Extreme Risk Protection Orders - Effective Tools for Keeping Guns out of Dangerous Hands

For the over half-million people currently homeless in the United States, the U.S. Constitution has historically provided little help: it is strongly...

Memory issues are well-known in legal trials that involve the reliability of eyewitnesses in criminal cases. However, the relevance of memory to law...

Gradualism should have won out in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, exerting gravitational influence on the majority and dissenters alike. In general...

Evidence law controls what information will be admissible in court and when, how, and by whom it may be presented. It shapes not only the trial...

Today, legal culture is shaped by One Big Question: should courts, particularly the US Supreme Court, have a lot of power? This question is affecting...

Constitutional review is the power of a body, usually a court, to assess whether law or government action complies with the constitution. Originating...

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

During times of crisis, governments often consider policies that may promote safety, but that would require overstepping constitutionally protected...

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

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

Professor Elizabeth Scott, the chief reporter of the American Law Institute’s (ALI) Restatement of Children and the Law, has often observed that the...

In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, Justice Thomas’s majority opinion announced that the key to applying originalist methodology...

In Poland, Venezuela, Rwanda, and several other countries, governments have in the past years altered basic rules of their constitutional system to...

In Chile, many commentators, academics and political leaders have spent years arguing that the limited nature of the social rights in the national...

Forensic evidence has become a common tool in police investigations and a familiar form of evidence at trial. Forensic scientists are trained to...

Scott Lilienfeld warned that psychology’s ideological uniformity would lead to premature closure on sensitive topics. He encouraged psychologists to...

Congress may want to prevent nuclear command and control from going fully autonomous. Would such a law be constitutional?

We examined how the presentation of risk assessment results and the race of the person charged affected pretrial court actors’ recommendations to...