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Decriminalizing Drugs
This Collection analyzes legal, social, and political dimensions of drug decriminalization in the context of current debates. The Essays explore issues related to state drug-policy reform, federal cannabis rescheduling, the separation of drug scheduling powers, and family separation in cases of parental drug use.
28 Mar 2025
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Procedure, Fairness, and Access to Justice: Perspectives on Reform
This Collection examines the relationship between procedure and fairness. The Essays analyze rural criminal defense challenges, administrative rulemaking responsibilities, and the role of technology in improving access to justice. Together, they illuminate how procedural reform and technological integration might enhance fairness and responsiveness across diverse legal contexts.
14 Mar 2025
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Eighth Annual Student Essay Competition
This Collection features the winners of the annual Yale Law Journal Student Essay Competition. This year’s topic was “Emerging Issues in Criminal Law.” The three winning Essays explore a range of timely criminal-law matters, including honest services fraud, racial discrimination in jury selection, and habeas corpus.
27 Feb 2025
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Yale Law Journal Public Interest Fellowship Essays
This Collection features Essays from the 2023-2024 Yale Law Journal Public Interest Fellows. The Fellows share reflections on their experiences working in public service at Legal Action Chicago and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice.
21 Feb 2025
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Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Legal Challenges in the U.S. Territories
This Collection critically examines legal issues in the U.S. territories and explores pathways for reform. These four Essays challenge the emerging “Law of the Territories” framework, document the ABA’s discrimination against territorial lawyers, address reproductive and economic injustices rooted in colonialism, and analyze Congress’s historical role in territorial taxation.
10 Feb 2025
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Reimagining and Empowering the Contemporary Workforce
This Collection explores how to better protect workers against the harms of an expanding gig economy and an increasingly automated workplace. It offers three distinct and interconnected perspectives on the legal, regulatory, and policy interventions that could empower workers to navigate the shifting landscape with flexibility, security, and dignity.
31 Jan 2025
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United States v. Rahimi: Race, Gender, and an Evolving Second Amendment
In this Exchange, Daniel S. Harawa and Michael R. Ulrich examine the implications of United States v. Rahimi for the future of Second Amendment rights. Together, these pieces reveal how Rahimi exposes deep tensions and inconsistencies within the Roberts Court’s Second Amendment jurisprudence.
12 Nov 2024
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Doing History After Dobbs: Applications, Implications, and Critiques of Dobbs's Historical Methodology
11 Apr 2024
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Revitalizing State Constitutions: A Turning Point for State and Federal Constitutional Rights
21 Nov 2023
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2022 Yale Law Journal Student-Essay Competition
The Essays in this Collection won the sixth annual Yale Law Journal Student-Essay Competition. Essays by current and recent law students explore emerging issues in law and the changing natural environment.
17 Feb 2023
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Lock Them™ Up: Holding Transnational Corporate Human-Rights Abusers Accountable
In the increasingly globalized modern economy, large corporate actors have long operated with relative impunity for transnational human-rights abuses committed in the name of profit maximization. This Collection explores perspectives from a range of voices engaged in the fight for corporate accountability in both the United States and abroad.
22 Dec 2022
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Administrative Law at a Turning Point
Administrative law faces a critical juncture. Settled doctrines ranging from deference to agency interpretations of statutes to delegations of executive power have been destabilized. And earlier this year, Justice Breyer—himself an administrative-law scholar—retired from the Supreme Court. We publish this Collection as a tribute to his judicial legacy.
21 Nov 2022
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Law and Movements: Clinical Perspectives
As law-school clinics assume a growing role in legal education, instructors, students, and community partners have used clinics to test novel, sometimes radical lawyering approaches. This Collection draws from those experiments, using case studies from family defense, immigration, and worker rights to explore the relationship between law and social movements.
18 Nov 2022
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Religion and the Public Schools: Reflections on Carson v. Makin
This Collection analyzes the Court’s decision in Carson v. Makin last Term. What does the case mean for minority students? LGBTQ children? How does it connect to the broader movement for public education in the United States? How does it relate to the history of religious schools in our country?
17 Nov 2022