Introduction
This month marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. History remembers Dr. King as the nonviolent leader of the civil rights movement in America. Often...
View ArticlePolicy as a One-Legged Stool: U.S. Actions Against Supply Chain Forced Labor...
Forced labor is on the rise worldwide, with migrant workers and local communities falling victim to exploitative trafficking and labor practices. These practices sometimes catch the headlines, as...
View ArticleDevelopments in the Law — Court Reform
Contents Introduction Chapter One: Confusion and Clarity in the Case for Supreme Court Reform Chapter Two: Reform Congress, Not the Court Chapter Three: Judicial Ethics Chapter Four: District Court...
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Yeniifer Alvarez arrived in the United States from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, in 1998, when she was three years old. Her family settled in Luling, Texas, about fifty miles south of Austin. After her...
View ArticleConfusion and Clarity in the Case for Supreme Court Reform
Supreme Court reform is in the air. Different people want different changes for different reasons, but they come together in an excited buzz about changing the Court. This excitement is out of the...
View ArticleReform Congress, Not the Court
Public approval of the Supreme Court has fallen to historic lows. The Court is not alone. Trust in government has collapsed. Only twenty-six percent of Americans have a favorable view of Congress....
View ArticleJudicial Ethics
[T]he [S]upreme [C]ourt . . . [will] have a right, independent of the legislature, to give a construction to the [C]onstitution and every part of it, and there is no power provided in this system to...
View ArticleDistrict Court Reform: Nationwide Injunctions
On November 18, 2022, months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a group of antiabortion doctors and organizations brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...
View ArticleAppendix for District Court Reform: Nationwide Injunctions
This Appendix provides the dataset used in the Developments in the Law Chapter on nationwide injunctions. The table below lists nationwide injunctions issued from 1963 through the end of 2023, as...
View ArticleThe Constrained Override: Canadian Lessons for American Judicial Review
Who gets to decide what the U.S. Constitution means? At least since the turn of the century, the Justices on the Supreme Court have made their answer clear: the courts. But a growing wave of scholars...
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