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Forum: The Present Crisis in American Bail

centuries of struggle, would lose its meaning.” As the Court has elsewhere recognized, a detainee “is hindered in his ability to gather evidence, contact

Forum: Living with History: Will the Alien Tort Statute Become a Badge of Shame or Badge of Honor?

Washington’s presidency. Those materials provide uncontroverted contemporaneous evidence that the Founding generation was concerned with providing remedies for

How Qualified Immunity Fails

participating in discovery and trial. Yet the Supreme Court has relied on no empirical evidence to support its assertion that qualified immunity doctrine

Forum: Masquerading Behind a Facade of National Security

imprisonment of mostly American citizens—without charges, trials, or evidence of individual disloyalty—despite the Constitution’s commands of due process and

Forum: The Easterbrook Theorem: An Application to Digital Markets

taking variants of the Easterbrook assumption as given, the optimal standard of proof is stronger than the preponderance of the evidence standard. Our

Forum: Chevron Should Not Be Converted into a Voting Rule: A Response to Gersen and Vermeules Proposal

reducing bias in judicial review of agency decisions, all of the available evidence supports my belief. A few years after the Court decided Chevron

Forum: Political Checks on a Politicized Presidency: A Response to Neal Katyals Internal Separation of Powers

been “decimated” and that “legislative abdication is the reigning modus operandi”? As evidence, Katyal points to the dearth of legislative enactments

Forum: Their Bark Is Bigger Than Their Bite: An Essay on Who Bleeds When the Wolves Bite

corporate governance landscape is not going to alter this process. V. a less unhappy ending? Happily, a careful review of the evidence—including the

The Eyes-On Doctrine

order. Consider inmate grievance procedures, nonjudicial oversight bodies, and evidence that both promote discipline. By what assumed necessity do

Uncovering the Codifier’s Canon: How Codification Informs Interpretation

arguments. The ordinary meaning of a textual phrase in a statute is often the most persuasive evidence in favor of a particular interpretation. An