Volume 51, Issue 4

Past property theft is often a volatile political issue that has threatened to destabilize many nascent democracies. How does a transitional state avoid present-day property-related disobedience when a significant number…

A powerful coalition has made “Racial Disproportionality” the central issue in child welfare today. It notes that black children represent a larger percentage of the foster care population than they…

An empirical study of 163 preliminary memoranda, recently made available when Justice Blackmun’s papers were opened, demonstrates that the Court’s certiorari process is neither objective nor neutral. The research, reflecting…

This Article shows that the original public meaning of the slavery-as-punishment clause in the Thirteenth Amendment leads to abhorrent outcomes, including the emasculation of many modern protections grounded on the…

The legal history of sole executive agreements is muddled at best. Over the years the Supreme Court has created a confused doctrine concerning sole executive agreements through its Belmont, Pink,…

Muslim-Americans have faced many challenges to their basic civil liberties since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centers. One of the areas in which they have felt the…

In State v. Guillen, Division Two of the Arizona Court of Appeals, with one dissenting judge, held that it was not a search under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S.…