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Risky Business?
(Illinois Law Review, 2017)
While it is clear that the new attorney general opposes state marijuana reforms, it is less clear what he will or even could do to block those reforms or to curb the industry that has flourished under them. The popularity ...
Reconstituting the Federalism Battle in Energy Transportation
(Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2017)
This article explores the growing federalism tensions in efforts to expand the nation’s energy transportation infrastructure — the electric transmission lines, natural gas pipelines, natural gas import and export terminals ...
Coitus and Consequences in the Legal System: An Experimental Study
(SMU Law Review, 2015)
Scholars have found that men who physically harm their intimate partners receive less punishment than men who harm strangers. In other words, in the criminal setting, coitus has consequences. In particular, for female ...
Raising the Bar
(Arizona State Law Journal, 2012)
This paper explores the adoption of best practices for the admission and graduation of undocumented students as lawyers and promoting their integration into the legal profession. Law schools are already both knowingly and ...
International Human Rights Law
(Marquette Law Review, 2018)
It is a great honor to deliver this lecture in honor of the late Dean Robert F. Boden. I am grateful to all of you for attending. My topic tonight is international law and peace among nations. It may seem a poor fit for a ...
Debating the Past's Authority in Alabama
(Stanford Law Review, 2018)
In 2015, the city council of Birmingham, Alabama enacted an ordinance establishing a local minimum wage of $10.10 an hour-a significant raise for the city's low-income workers from the federal floor of $7.25. The ordinance ...
Protected Class Gatekeeping
(New York University Law Review, 2017)
Courts routinely begin their analyses of discrimination claims with the question of whether the plaintiff has proven he or she is a “member of the protected class.” Although this refrain may sometimes be an empty formality, ...
The Due Process and Other Constitutional Rights of Foreign Nations
(Fordham Law Review, 2019)
The rights of foreign states under the U.S. Constitution are becoming more important as the actions of foreign states and foreign state-owned enterprises expand in scope and the legislative protections to which they are ...
What Gideon Did
(Columbia Law Review, 2016)
Many accounts of Gideon v Wainwright s legacy focus on what Gideon did not do--its doctrinal and practical limits. For constitutional theorists, Gideon imposed a preexisting national consensus upon a few "outlier" states, ...
Beyond Equality
(Indiana Law Journal, 2011)
Sexual harassment law and family leave policy originated as feminist reform projects designed to protect women in the workplace. But many academics now ask whether harassment and leave policies have outgrown their gendered ...