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Policing Through an American Prism

already started to implement. Part IV describes three different reform pathways that embrace Peel’s vision of legitimacy and trust, paying special

How to Save the Supreme Court

along party lines more consistently than ever before in American history. That development gravely threatens the Court’s legitimacy. If in the future

Rethinking Police Expertise

revealing the ambiguous relationship between competency and legitimacy in a system administered by multiple, often conflicting agents of the law. Not

Forum: Judging Debt: How Judges’ Practices in Consumer-Credit Court Undermine Procedural Justice

analyze judging practices in debt-collection courts. Current practices undermine courts’ fairness and legitimacy. This Essay argues that courts must

After the Law of Apolitical Economy: Reclaiming the Normative Stakes of Labor Unions

supply-side economics gained prominence in the late 1970s, it was devastating for union legitimacy. New economic theories and the on-the-ground

Comparative Law

The Yale Law Journal - Comparative Law Comparative Law Article This Article argues that the sociological legitimacy of judicial institutions in

Forum: Charles Reich’s Unruly Administrative State

political legitimacy. Namely, the more fraught encounters a person has with the state may make it less likely that the person may be less likely to view

Forum: IP Essentialism and the Authority of the Firm

depends so integrally on the core assumptions that sustain the legitimacy of the international IP system, the most essential of which is that

Base Constitutional Communities: Lessons from Liberation Theology for Democratic Constitutionalism

the democratic legitimacy of constitutional law. author. J.D. 2023, Yale Law School; M.T.S. 2015, Harvard Divinity School; A.B. 2013, Brown University

Illegitimate Borders: Jus Sanguinis Citizenship and the Legal Construction of Family, Race, and Nation

legitimacy into jus sanguinis citizenship law. In other instances the practices were race salient, in that officials used restrictive conceptions of marriage