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Tort Law Inside Out

demarcate the boundaries of community membership.” While the process is especially prominent in defamation because the injury by definition requires a

Proceduralize Student Speech

punishing off-campus student speech? Since Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, on-campus-speech cases have most commonly turned on

Professional Speech

operations. My definition of “knowledge community” builds on various definitions of that concept offered in the management and social science literature and

Forum: Chosen Family, Care, and the Workplace

marriage—was first developed in the LGBTQ+ community, and a flexible and inclusive definition of family is particularly important for its members. Many

Forum: Can Corpus Linguistics Help Make Originalism Scientific?

constructing definitions from a large corpus of this foreign language, using the tools of corpus linguistics to determine which terms are typically

Expanding Conscience, Shrinking Care: The Crisis in Access to Reproductive Care and the Affordable Care Act’s Nondiscrimination Mandate

commitment to equality in access to care. Section 1557 incorporates into federal healthcare law a robust definition of sex discrimination that may limit

Forum: The Overreach of Limits on “Legal Advice”

“tate law has been characterized by its broad sweep and imprecise definition. . . . Many definitions of unauthorized practice are obviously

A Reassessment of Common Law Protections for "Idiots"

definition. The collective understanding of his community that he was intellectual disabled would be probative under the community reputation analysis

What We Ask of Law

This exercise in historical and cross-cultural contextualization has implications for our choice of a sound working definition of law, and for a clear

Forum: Partisanship, Remedies, and the Rule of Law

offering either warning or operative definition. This is particularly true of their deployments of the terms “judicial independence” and “the rule of