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This Essay argues that legal challenges to Trump’s restrictive immigration policies should call out white nationalism as the underlying harm, both through raising equal protection claims and in ...

A study of the rise and triumph of an “adversarial legal culture” in nineteenth-century America, Inventing American Exceptionalism illuminates the extent to which ideas and assumptions that seem ...

Immigration detention in the U.S. is civil confinement for which the officially stated purpose is to facilitate the removal of individuals who do not have permission to remain in the country. With ...

The landscape of American history is littered with facially racist, misogynistic, homophobic, xenophobic, and other demeaning, marginalizing, and subordinating laws. Many more facially neutral laws ...

Ghappour’s article is provocative and interesting, but we are not convinced that a genuine problem exists. This response challenges Ghappour’s framework in three ways. First, it questions whether ...

To make matters worse, when a woman does report harassment in the workplace and experiences retaliation, her claim often fails. Section 704(a) of Title VII states: A. Changes to Anti-Retaliation Law ...

In the first 100 days of his second term, President Donald Trump made a bid for stronger presidential control over federal spending. One key feature of this “appropriations presidentialism,” as two ...

The Stanford Law Review is a legal publication run by Stanford Law School students since 1948, providing expert legal scholarship, analysis, and commentary.

Medicalization and the New Civil Rights. Konnoth’s Article can be found here. Our Response unfolds as follows. We first discuss the benefits and recognition granted to medicalized individuals. We then ...

This episode and others are suggestive of the increasing strain on prosecutors charged with implementing Administration directives that may improperly target opponents or reward supporters. While ...

The course of a pandemic is as much a function of social structures as protein structures. Law is among the most important of these social structures, and it is among those most capable of the kind of ...