“The Birth of Death”: Stillborn Birth Certificates and the Problem for Law

Stillbirth is a confounding event, a reproductive
moment that at once combines birth and death. [...]

Drinking Water and Exclusion: A Case Study from California’s Central Valley

The American West is notorious for its water wars,
and California’s complex water allocation and [...]



The Uneven Bulwark: How (and Why) Criminal Jury Trial Rates Vary by State

Forty-five years since the U.S. Supreme Court first
recognized the right to a criminal jury [...]

Rules, Principles, and the Competition to Enforce the Securities Laws

Though the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
is the primary securities enforcer, multiple [...]

Why Party Democrats Need Popular Democracy and Popular Democrats Need Parties

Too often, popular political power-whether it is in
the form of direct democracy or other more [...]



Marriage Fraud

This Article examines the astonishing array of
doctrines used to determine what constitutes [...]

Replay

This Essay explores a question of superficial triviality:
when sports use instant replay [...]

Moving the Virtual Border to the Cellular Level: Mandatory DNA Testing and the U.S. Refugee Family Reunification Program

Should the United States impose a
genetic definition of "family "on refugees seeking to reunite [...]

Debt Collection in the Information Age: New Technologies and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

Debt collectors are increasingly
using internet and mobile technologies as part of the debt [...]

Climate Regulation and the Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Over the past two years U.S.
regulatory agencies have issued fourteen regulations that take into [...]