Localist Statutory Interpretation
The average citizen’s point of contact with the judicial system as a litigant is, most likely, in the nation’s municipal,… Continue reading →
The average citizen’s point of contact with the judicial system as a litigant is, most likely, in the nation’s municipal,… Continue reading →
In any given metropolitan region, scores of municipalities are locked in a zero-sum struggle for mobile sources of jobs and… Continue reading →
The Supreme Court has set forth in detail the standards that govern convicted prisoners’ Eighth Amendment claims concerning their conditions… Continue reading →
The idea of using law to change the built environment in ways that reduce opportunities to commit crimes has a… Continue reading →
In 1989, the Supreme Court in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins declared that sex stereotyping was a prohibited form of sex… Continue reading →
This Article identifies four conceptions of insurance that have operated in the debates about insurance law in recent decades, analyzes… Continue reading →
Debt and domestic violence are connected in ways not previously imagined. A new type of debt—which I have labeled “coerced… Continue reading →
The production of natural gas from formerly inaccessible shale formations through the use of hydraulic fracturing has expanded domestic energy… Continue reading →
In the past few years, four courts of appeals have applied a presumption against recognition of a Bivens cause of… Continue reading →
This article explores the decisions that, over four decades, lower federal court judges have made when considering leaving the bench,… Continue reading →