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plained, makes federal law as binding on states as laws passed by states’ own legislatures.155 States “do not bear the same relation to the United
criminal-justice/human-trafficking-laws.aspx [https://perma.cc/R6US-PU4U]. While this Note focuses predominantly on the federal antitrafficking law
class actions in the country,21 mak- ing use of a 2003 law that created a private right of action for trafficking victims.22 Since the law’s passage
certification. In these and similar cases, no compensation is availa- ble for victims, the law goes unenforced, and no judgment guides lawful be
occurred through the force of the criminal law.17 In this Feature, we give particular attention to instances in which criminal laws are used to enforce
to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, twenty- one states have adopted the URLTA. Unif. Law Comm’rs, A Few Facts About the
many scholars have observed that this approach is at odds with contemporary jury law and practice. This Note argues that courts should instead defend
merchant debtors,20 and the first federal bankruptcy law confined itself accordingly.21 A century later, bankruptcy laws had begun to do much more.22 By
Line Item Veto Act. See, e.g., Lawrence Lessig, Lessons from a Line Item Veto Law, 47 CASE W. RES. L. REV. 1659 (1997); Thomas O. Sargentich, The
the yale law journal online 119: 41 2009 46 Professor Paulsen’s measure, then, the U.S. domestic legal system turns out to be quite lawless