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Symposium Introduction: The Volume Problem, Jeffrey Bellin
Symposium Introduction: The Volume Problem, Jeffrey Bellin
William & Mary Law Review
Introduction to the 2024 William & Mary Law Review symposium, "Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration."
Critical Data Theory, Margaret Hu
Critical Data Theory, Margaret Hu
William & Mary Law Review
Critical Data Theory examines the role of AI and algorithmic decisionmaking at its intersection with the law. This theory aims to deconstruct the impact of AI in law and policy contexts. The tools of AI and automated systems allow for legal, scientific, socioeconomic, and political hierarchies of power that can profitably be interrogated with critical theory. While the broader umbrella of critical theory features prominently in the work of surveillance scholars, legal scholars can also deploy criticality analyses to examine surveillance and privacy law challenges, particularly in an examination of how AI and other emerging technologies have been expanded in …
Nohwere, Peter A. Alces, Robert M. Sapolsky
Nohwere, Peter A. Alces, Robert M. Sapolsky
William & Mary Law Review
Imagine the frustration of Samuel Butler’s protagonist, Higgs, with the strange society he encounters in Erewhon:
"Was there nothing which I could say to make them feel that the constitution of a person’s body was a thing over which he or she had had at any rate no initial control whatever, while the mind was a perfectly different thing, and capable of being created anew and directed according to the pleasure of its possessor? Could I never bring them to see that while habits of mind and character were entirely independent of initial mental force and early education, the body …
The Authority Of International Refugee Law, Evan J. Criddle, Evan Fox-Decent
The Authority Of International Refugee Law, Evan J. Criddle, Evan Fox-Decent
William & Mary Law Review
As COVID-19 has spread around the world, many states have suspended their compliance with a core requirement of international refugee law: the duty to refrain from returning refugees to territories where they face a serious risk of persecution (the duty of non-refoulement). These measures have prompted some observers to question whether non-refoulement will survive the pandemic as a nonderogable legal duty. This Article explains why the international community should embrace non-refoulement as a peremptory norm of general international law (jus cogens) that applies even during public emergencies, such as the coronavirus pandemic. Viewed from a global justice perspective, the …
Judging "Under Fire" And The Retreat To Facts, Allison Orr Larsen
Judging "Under Fire" And The Retreat To Facts, Allison Orr Larsen
William & Mary Law Review
Americans tend to worry about how our current polarized political climate will affect the legitimacy of our courts. Often overlooked in this important conversation is a discussion about what a toxic political dialogue can do—and in fact is doing—to the construction of the law itself. This Article will begin to make the case that judicial decisions themselves change as a result of high-intensity politics. Specifically, I will argue that when judges are “under fire” (to borrow a phrase from Planned Parenthood v. Casey), they tend to cloak their decisions in factual observations about the world that seem neutral and objective, …
Wickard Through An Antitrust Lens, Alan J. Meese
Wickard Through An Antitrust Lens, Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Redistricting Transparency, Rebecca Green
Redistricting Transparency, Rebecca Green
William & Mary Law Review
Until recently, legislative redistricting remained a relatively obscure topic for most Americans. In the upcoming 2020 round, increased public interest in the problem of gerrymandering, combined with the rise of technologies that empower public participation, will fuel public scrutiny of state redistricting processes at levels never before experienced. Are states prepared for this oversight onslaught? Will current redistricting transparency rules frustrate or nurture growing public interest? Can states take steps in advance of 2020 to ensure meaningful and productive public participation during the redistricting process? A thoughtful approach to redistricting transparency can both improve resulting maps and stave off litigation. …
Why Congress Does Not Challenge Judicial Supremacy, Neal Devins
Why Congress Does Not Challenge Judicial Supremacy, Neal Devins
William & Mary Law Review
Members of Congress largely acquiesce to judicial supremacy both on constitutional and statutory interpretation questions. Lawmakers, however, do not formally embrace judicial supremacy; they rarely think about the courts when enacting legislation. This Article explains why this is so, focusing on why lawmakers have both strong incentive to acquiesce to judicial power and little incentive to advance a coherent view of congressional power. In particular, lawmakers are interested in advancing favored policies, winning reelection, and gaining personal power within Congress. Abstract questions of institutional power do not interest lawmakers and judicial defeats are seen as opportunities to find some other …
A Comparative Look At Plea Bargaining In Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, And The United States, Carol A. Brook, Bruno Fiannaca, David Harvey, Paul Marcus, Jenny Mcewan, Renee Pomerance
A Comparative Look At Plea Bargaining In Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, And The United States, Carol A. Brook, Bruno Fiannaca, David Harvey, Paul Marcus, Jenny Mcewan, Renee Pomerance
William & Mary Law Review
In a world where the vast majority of criminal cases are resolved through some means other than the popularly depicted criminal trial, it is fundamental to a comprehensive understanding of comparative criminal procedure to study and appreciate the different mechanisms for criminal case resolution in different nations. This Article developed through a series of conversations (and ultimately a panel discussion) between six international criminal justice professionals - practicing attorneys, scholars, and judges - regarding the nature and effects of plea bargaining (and its comparative substitutes) in their respective countries. Providing a comparative look at different mechanisms for criminal case resolution, …
Corrections For Racial Disparities In Law Enforcement, Christopher L. Griffin Jr., Frank A. Sloan, Lindsey M. Eldred
Corrections For Racial Disparities In Law Enforcement, Christopher L. Griffin Jr., Frank A. Sloan, Lindsey M. Eldred
William & Mary Law Review
Much empirical analysis has documented racial disparities at the beginning and end stages of criminal cases. However, our understanding about the perpetuation of—and even corrections for—differential outcomes in the process remains less than complete. This Article provides a comprehensive examination of criminal dispositions using all DWI cases in North Carolina from 2001 to 2011, focusing on several major decision points in the process. Starting with pretrial hearings and culminating in sentencing results, we track differences in outcomes by race and gender. Before sentencing, significant gaps emerge in the severity of pretrial release conditions that disadvantage black and Hispanic defendants. Yet …
Introduction: The Civil Jury As A Political Institution, Jason M. Solomon, Paula Hannaford-Agor
Introduction: The Civil Jury As A Political Institution, Jason M. Solomon, Paula Hannaford-Agor
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Dicta, Schmicta: Theory Versus Practice In Lower Court Decision Making, David Klein, Neal Devins
Dicta, Schmicta: Theory Versus Practice In Lower Court Decision Making, David Klein, Neal Devins
William & Mary Law Review
The distinction between dictum and holding is at once central to the American legal system and largely irrelevant. In the first systematic empirical study of lower court invocations of the distinction, we show that lower courts hardly ever refuse to follow a statement from a higher court because it is dictum. Specifically, federal courts of appeals meaningfully invoke the distinction in about 1 in 4000 cases; federal district courts in about 1 in 2000 cases; and state courts in about 1 in 4000 cases. In this Essay, we report these findings, describe our coding system, and offer a preliminary assessment …
Law's Dark Matter, Michael S. Green
Disability Cause Lawyers, Michael E. Waterstone, Michael Ashley Stein, David B. Wilkins
Disability Cause Lawyers, Michael E. Waterstone, Michael Ashley Stein, David B. Wilkins
William & Mary Law Review
There is a vast and growing cause lawyering literature demonstrating how attorneys and their relationship to social justice movements matter greatly for law’s ability to engender progress. But to date, there has been no examination of the work of ADA disability cause lawyers as cause lawyers. Similarly, despite an extensive literature focused on the ADA’s revolutionary civil rights aspects and the manner in which the Supreme Court’s interpretation of that statute has stymied potential transformation of American society, no academic accounts of disability law have focused on the lawyers who bring these cases. This Article responds to these scholarly voids. …
Introduction: The Boundaries Of Intellectual Property Symposium, I. Trotter Hardy
Introduction: The Boundaries Of Intellectual Property Symposium, I. Trotter Hardy
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
How To Write A Life: Some Thoughts On Fixation And The Copyright/Privacy Divide, Laura A. Heymann
How To Write A Life: Some Thoughts On Fixation And The Copyright/Privacy Divide, Laura A. Heymann
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Citizen Lawyer, W. Taylor Reveley Iii
The Citizen Lawyer, W. Taylor Reveley Iii
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Expanding Participation In Constitution Making: Challenges And Opportunities, Angela M. Banks
Expanding Participation In Constitution Making: Challenges And Opportunities, Angela M. Banks
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Introductory Remarks: Criminal Law Panel, Cynthia V. Ward
Introductory Remarks: Criminal Law Panel, Cynthia V. Ward
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Introductory Remarks: Contract Law And Morality, Nathan B. Oman
Introductory Remarks: Contract Law And Morality, Nathan B. Oman
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Introductory Remarks: Property Law, James G. Dwyer
Introductory Remarks: Property Law, James G. Dwyer
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Introductory Remarks: Explaining Tort Law, Michael S. Green
Introductory Remarks: Explaining Tort Law, Michael S. Green
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Moral Impossibility Of Contract, Peter A. Alces
The Moral Impossibility Of Contract, Peter A. Alces
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Foreword: The Legacy Of St. George Tucker, Davison M. Douglas
Foreword: The Legacy Of St. George Tucker, Davison M. Douglas
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Legal Realism As Theory Of Law, Michael S. Green
Legal Realism As Theory Of Law, Michael S. Green
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Statehood As The New Personhood: The Discovery Of Fundamental "States' Rights", Timothy Zick
Statehood As The New Personhood: The Discovery Of Fundamental "States' Rights", Timothy Zick
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Cross Burning, Cockfighting, And Symbolic Meaning: Toward A First Amendment Ethnography, Timothy Zick
Cross Burning, Cockfighting, And Symbolic Meaning: Toward A First Amendment Ethnography, Timothy Zick
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Foreword: Property Rights And Economic Development, Eric Kades
Foreword: Property Rights And Economic Development, Eric Kades
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Virginia's Capital Jurors, Stephen P. Garvey, Paul Marcus
Virginia's Capital Jurors, Stephen P. Garvey, Paul Marcus
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Diaspora Of Ethnic Economies: Beyond The Pale?, Lan Cao
The Diaspora Of Ethnic Economies: Beyond The Pale?, Lan Cao
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.