Nov 17, 2020 | Brooke Vaydik, Case Note, Criminal Law, Criminal Sentencing, Law
By Brooke Vaydik In her Case Note, Brooke Vaydik examines the Fifth Circuit’s recent decision in US v. Eaden, and argues that the Federal Sentencing Guidelines should be interpreted narrowly. Download the full article (PDF) here. Hein | Lexis Recommended...
Sep 8, 2020 | Case Note, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Eighth Amendment, Law, West Menefee Bakke
By West Menefee Bakke In his Case Note, West Menefee Bakke critiques the 9th Circuit’s recent opinion extending the status crimes doctrine to homelessness and argues that the status crimes doctrine ought to be abandoned in its entirety. Download the full article...
Aug 27, 2020 | Book Review, Bridget J. Crawford, Law, Law and Race, Tax Law
By Bridget J. Crawford In her review of Professor Lolita Buckner Inniss’s The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson, Professor Crawford examines the role that tax law plays in perpetuating institutional racism. Download the full article...
Aug 25, 2020 | Administrative Law, Article, Christian Talley, Law, Supreme Court of the United States
By Christian Talley Abstract In Kisor v. Wilkie, the Supreme Court recently confronted whether to overrule the doctrine under which courts defer to agencies’ interpretations of their own ambiguous regulations—so-called Auer or Seminole Rock deference. In its prior...
Aug 19, 2020 | Article, Carliss N. Chatman, Law, Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Legal Profession, President/Executive Department
By Carliss N. Chatman In her Article, Professor Chatman examines the actions of Attorney General Bill Barr and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone through the prism of the ethical rules governing attorney conduct. Download the full article (PDF) here. Hein | Lexis...
May 14, 2020 | Article, Collaboratory on Legal Education and Licensing for Practice, Constitutional Law, Law, Legal Education, Legal Profession
By the Collaboratory on Legal Education and Licensing for Practice Members: Claudia Angelos (New York University); Sara Berman (AccessLex Institute); Mary Lu Bilek (City University of New York); Carol L. Chomsky (University of Minnesota); Andrea Anne Curcio (Georgia...
Feb 25, 2020 | Collection, Foundational Voices in 2020 and Beyond, Law, Thomas Wm. Mayo
By Thomas Wm. Mayo Twitter | SSRN Abstract It is an honor to offer an introduction to this first curated collection of articles for the SMU Law Review Association’s new online journal, the SMU Law Review Forum. I want first to comment briefly on the articles and...
Feb 25, 2020 | Collection, Foundational Voices in 2020 and Beyond, Law, Martha Albertson Fineman
By Martha Albertson Fineman Twitter | SSRN Abstract The societal frame of the “economically disadvantaged” is rooted in a distinction between a conceptual status of equality and the actuality of discrimination and disadvantage. This paradigm provides the governing...
