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Criminal Procedure

Act poses an increasing threat to criminal defendants’ ability to access evidence. This Note analyzes pathways criminal defendants can pursue to access

Campus Sexual Assault Adjudication and Resistance to Reform

credible testimony be corroborated by other evidence, that the victim resist her attacker to the utmost of her physical capacity, that the victim

Forum: Was Sexual Harassment Law a Mistake? The Stories We Tell

organizational ones. Some of these larger frames are difficult to discern from the allegations, arguments, and evidence available in public documents, but in

One Size Fits None: An Overdue Reform for Chapter 7 Trustees

indebted consumers’ deferred payments become due. If and when those consumers do file, our novel empirical evidence from the analogous post-2008

Forum: Bargaining Around the Hearth

bargaining power. Empirical evidence suggests that midgame bargaining power—more specifically, control over resources within marriage—affects allocation. A

News: Recent Media Coverage of YLJO Essay, The Myth of Prosecutorial Accountability After Connick v. Thompson: Why Existing Professional Responsibility Measures Cannot Protect Against Prosecutorial Misconduct

that prosecutors who withhold evidence are almost never disciplined. Andrew Rosenthal also referenced the YLJO essay in his New York Times editorial

The Politics of Decarceration

that the criminal-justice system is deeply broken: the United States’s incarceration rate is the highest in the world, and there is little evidence

Forum: Democracy’s Distrust: The Supreme Court’s Anti-Voter Decisions as a Threat to Democracy

without substantial evidence can erode public trust in the electoral process. When people lose faith in the integrity of elections, they may become

Regulating Sexual Orientation Change Efforts: The California Approach, Its Limitations, and Potential Alternatives

about same-sex attraction, rather than clinically demonstrable scientific evidence. These two types of harm are not explicitly identified as separate

Forum: The Meta-Nonsense of Lawrence

call into question the line of Supreme Court capital-sentencing cases requiring admission of whatever mitigating evidence the defense wishes to use to