Every year, states send thousands of state prisoners and foster youth to live in confinement across state lines. This Note introduces interjurisdictional ...

Cross-sovereign policing allows federal, state, and local officers to exercise overlapping coercive authority while fracturing the structures that ...

Prevailing forms of originalism, which eschew much of history in practice, share much in common with recent attacks on “CRT” and DEI. To illustrate ...

Volume 135 of the Yale Law Journal inaugurates the Atkins Feature. This Introduction recovers three civil-rights cases litigated by Jasper Alston Atkins, ...

Native Nations were invisible in Felix Frankfurter and James Landis’s seminal piece, The Compact Clause of the Constitution, which helped entrench a ...

abstract. Farms are places where people live their lives, sustain their families, and produce food and fiber for the wider community. Today, however, farms are becoming assets swept up into global ...

abstract. For most of American history, the jury was considered an elite institution, composed of “honest and intelligent men,” esteemed in their communities for their “integrity,” “reputation,” or ...

author. District Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; Law Clerk for Justice David H. Souter, 2002-03. I had the distinct privilege of clerking for Associate ...

abstract. Each day, the news brings stories of military attacks on schools, hospitals, apartment buildings, electrical facilities, and other critical civilian infrastructure. The militaries attacking ...

abstract. This Essay explores perceived biases within recent Supreme Court decisions affecting voting access and their implications for American democracy. The Supreme Court plays a pivotal role in ...

abstract. Family separation has long served as a mechanism of social control and punishment in the United States, disproportionately targeting Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized families under ...

This Collection analyzes legal, social, and political dimensions of drug decriminalization in the context of current debates. The Essays explore issues related to state drug-policy reform, federal ...