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Forum: Pedagogy of Prefiguration
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten on the undercommons, this Essay asks how we may teach ourselves—lawyers and law students—to work with social-movement
Forum: Transcending the Stigma of a Criminal Record: A Proposal to Reform State Bar Character and Fitness Evaluations
lawyering. I was shocked and devastated when my application was rejected. I had taken a calculated gamble when I decided to earn a law degree and join
Financing the Class: Strengthening the Class Action Through Third-Party Investment
Ostrager, Rebecca Lee, and the Yale Law Journal Notes Committee for their outstanding editorial assistance. Introduction The class action lawsuit, a
Legal Ethics
The Yale Law Journal - Legal Ethics Legal Ethics Forum Nina Lea Oishi This Essay draws from on-the-ground interviews and procedural-justice theory to
Federalism
vulnerable to retaliation. This Essay provides the perspective of an employment lawyer on the shortcomings of sexual harassment law and how state law can
Forum: May Congress Abrogate Stare Decisis by Statute?
William N. Eskridge, Jr. & Philip P. Frickey, Quasi-Constitutional Law: Clear Statement Rules as Constitutional Lawmaking, 45 Vand. L. Rev. 593, 600-01
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how law operated across a wide historical panorama. Such contextualization has implications for a sound working definition of law, understanding law’s
Legal Scholarship for Judges
all of the complexity of both the lawmaking and the law-application process, the Realists had created a world in which the rule of law itself was
Executive Orders in Court
second year of his presidency, only fifteen claimed any specific law or laws as their source(s) of authority. President Obama’s other nineteen executive
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in urban America. This Essay addresses what may be a lawyer’s most natural question upon finishing Desmond’s book: what can lawyers and the law do to