Essay

Our national DNA database, CODIS, now contains over two million individual profiles taken from arrestees. Most states and the federal… Continue reading →

For the last several years, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has quietly attempted to curtail capital defendants’ representation in state postconviction… Continue reading →

If government statistics are correct, almost all of us engage in what the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) calls “voluntary tax… Continue reading →

On April 8, 2015, the United States deported Salvadoran General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, whom The New York Times described… Continue reading →

On November 12, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Comptroller of the Treasury v. Wynne. The case,… Continue reading →

Do new regulations apply to pending cases? The question is simple, but the short answer is a lawyer’s favorite: “It… Continue reading →

In Yates v. United States, the Supreme Court will decide whether tossing undersized fish overboard can be prosecuted under the… Continue reading →

On July 1, 2014, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Form 1023‐EZ, a streamlined version of the application required of… Continue reading →

Since its decision more than thirty years ago in Illinois v. Gates, the Supreme Court has emphasized that the Fourth… Continue reading →

This Essay examines what I call “post‐parodies” in apparel. This emerging genre of do‐it‐yourself fashion is characterized by the appropriation… Continue reading →