Volume 58, Issue 2

Prior to the mid-nineteenth century, American legislatures and courts conceived of the patent as an active tool of economic growth. Patents were issued to both inventors and “promoters” who promised…

In recent decades, major religious denominations have experienced some of the largest schisms in our nation’s history, resulting in a flood of church property disputes. Unfortunately, the law governing these…

Bitcoin is a protocol promoted as the first peer-to-peer institution—an alternative to a central bank. The decisions made through this protocol, however, involve no judgment. Could a peer-to-peer protocol underpin…

Compelled commercial speech, including mandatory labeling and the disclosure of factually true information, should not be seen as a separate category of speech under the First Amendment. Rather, compelled commercial…

In recent years polygamy has taken center stage on prime-time television and in the nation’s courts. After the Supreme Court’s reexamination of marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, polygamy was thought…

The Supreme Court in Furman v. Georgia tacitly authorized states to impose the death penalty so long as their authorizing statutes ensure that eligibility is not so expansive as to…

Water is an essential and increasingly scarce resource in the west. Such scarcity has revealed the importance of considering the public interest in allocating water rights. Many states, including Arizona,…