Articles Written By: alr_rocks

This lecture is about convergence and disparity with respect to climate change---disparity between what scientists believe and what the American people believe. As to convergence: a few years ago I…

In recent years, foreign plaintiffs have paired with individual do-gooders and international nonprofits to step up litigation in U.S. courts under the 1789 Alien Tort Statute (ATS). Burmese villagers and…

Renewable energy is undoubtedly one of today's "hot topics," often discussed hand-in-hand with climate change, environmental policy, and international affairs. Yet one aspect of renewable energy that frequently goes unnoticed…

This Note examines Arizona's ten-year experiment with authorized payday lending and sets it in the framework of the continuing national policy debate about this high-risk, high-cost consumer financial product. Arizona…

Americans expect their legal system to mete out justice objectively, without regard for identity, money, power, or weakness. The blindfolded Lady Justice, who frequently adorns courthouses and public buildings, is…

They were decided just seven months apart and are in some ways hard to reconcile. But there is a message in the combined holdings of *Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal…