Ms. Donaldson, a mother of three, receives an eviction notice. She shows up in court, like so many other tenants, without a lawyer, facing an experienced landlord’s attorney who has been before the ...

Because of Bruen, the Third Circuit expressly discounted the more than 80 earlier precedents upholding the felon-in-possession ban: Of course, a court might have scrutinized whether a particular group ...

Leading up to oral argument in the same-sex marriage cases, it was reasonable to wonder whether the Indiana episode was evidence of an irreconcilable conflict between same-sex marriage and religious ...

This essay describes how a 1917 misdemeanor case charted the course of civil justice in America for over a century and urges state judiciaries to change course. That was where Alfani conducted ...

Introduction. Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v.Wade and Planned Parenthood v.Casey, the movement for abortion rights and access finds itself in uncharted territory. 1 Open this footnote ...

In this Response, Kim Forde-Mazrui discusses Sonja Starr’s recent Stanford Law Review Article The Magnet School Wars and the Future of Colorblindness. Starr’s Article can be found here. I. Alternative ...

Introduction. There exists in our law a principled mechanism for imbuing the federal sentencing system with needed post-sentencing flexibility: 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A).

A Note for Readers: In this Response, Susan C. Morse & Leah R. Butterfield discuss David S. Cohen, Greer Donley & Rachel Rebouché’s recent Stanford Law Review Article Abortion Pills. Cohen et al.’s ...

Introduction. The U.S. Constitution provides little proper recourse for the incapacitation of a member of Congress. This is a problem. As of today, if a Senator were to suffer from, say, a stroke, ...

The landscape of American history is littered with facially racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, and other demeaning, marginalizing, and subordinating laws. Many more facially neutral laws ...

Part of Stanford Law Review's symposium on access to justice, Karin Martin argues that monetary sanctions are an important contributing factor to the problem of access to justice.The sanctions ...