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The Art Of The Review, Don Herzog

Michigan Law Review

What’s a book review for?

You might think it’s to supply a summary of the book. Time is short. We’re drowning in stuff to read; it’s hard to keep up even if you dutifully apply the seat of your pants to the seat of your chair and read very fast. Courts are constantly publishing new opinions. And—even though you’re used to this familiar feature of American law, you should still notice how startling it is—they’re also publishing unpublished opinions, with indefensible rules about whether or how they count as precedents lawyers can cite. Legislatures are publishing floor debates, not to …

Care Reimagined: Transforming Law By Embracing Interdependence, Robyn M. Powell

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A review of All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship. By Jennifer Natalya Fink.

A Democracy Story: Reframing A Free Speech Landmark, Thomas Healy

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A review of Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan. By Samantha Barbas.

Disability, Race, And Health Beyond The Carceral State, Benjamin A. Barsky, Craig Konnoth, Michael Ashley Stein

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A review of Embodied Injustice: Race, Disability, and Health. By Mary Crossley.

In Pursuit Of Collective Liberation In Feminist Constitutionalism, Yvette Butler

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A review of After Misogyny: How The Law Fails Women and What to Do About It. By Julie C. Suk.

Justice By Means Of The Administrative State, Glen Staszewski

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A review of Justice by Means of Democracy. By Danielle Allen.

Orders Without Law, Thomas P. Schmidt

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A review of The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic. By Stephen Vladeck.

The Shadow Of The Law Of The Police, Adam A. Davidson

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A review of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable. By Joanna Schwartz.

Beyond Profit Motives, William J. Moon

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A review of The Profit Motive: Defending Shareholder Value Maximization By Stephen M. Bainbridge.

On The Genealogy Of Intimate Digital Harm, Aziz Z. Huq

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A review of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age. By Danielle Keats Citron.

What Is A Prison?, Grace Y. Li

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A review of The Idea of Prison Abolition. By Tommie Shelby.

Consumerist Waste: Looking Beyond Repair, Roy Shapira

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A review of The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own. By Aaron Perzanowski.

Favoritism, Coercion, And The Establishment Clause, Christopher C. Lund

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A review of Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Protects Religious Diversity and Freedom of Conscience. By Nathan S. Chapman and Michael W. McConnell.

The Profit Principle: Tracing The Moral Decline Of Corporate Law Firms, Sung Hui Kim

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A review of Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice. By David Enrich.

Of Might And Men, Leah M. Litman, Melissa Murray, Katherine Shaw

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A review of Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs By Josh Hawley.

Policing Queer Sexuality, Ari Ezra Waldman

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A Review of Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall. By Anna Lvovsky.

The Geography Of Unfreedom, Ann M. Eisenberg

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A Review of Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia. By Judah Schept.

Nepantla/Coatlicue/Conocimiento, Gerald Torres

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A Review of Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. By Gloria Anzaldúa.

Status Manipulation In Chae Chan Ping V. United States, Sam Erman

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A Review of Chae Chan Ping v. United States. By Rose Cuison-Villazor in Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law 74, 84. Edited by Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R.A. Lenhardt and Angela Onwuachi-Willig.

An Appeal To Books, Amir H. Ali

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This feels a fit, even urgent, moment to celebrate our books and the role they play vis-à-vis the law, the courts, and the truth.

As this issue goes to print, our nation’s highest court faces forceful criticism that some of its most significant decisions have been detached from objective fact. In recent Terms, the Supreme Court’s majority has doubled down on deciding major constitutional questions based on “history and tradition”—that is, the majority’s understanding of what the nation was like centuries ago. Just as quickly as these justices praised the objectivity of their fealty to history, they met widespread rebuke …

Mothers In Law, Melissa Murray

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A Review of Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality. By Tomiko Brown-Nagin.

Beyond “Big Government”: Toward New Legal Histories Of The New Deal Order’S End, Gabriel L. Levine

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A Review of Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism. By Paul Sabin.

An Order, Most Fixed, Alexandra D. Lahav

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A Review of Rules: A Short History of What We Live By. By Lorraine Daston.

Introduction: Three Responses To Rewritten Opinions In Critical Race Judgments, Gabe Chess, Elena Meth

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A Review of Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law. Edited by Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R.A. Lenhardt and Angela Onwuachi-Willig.

Allow Me To Transform: A Black Guy’S Guide To A New Constitution, Brandon Hasbrouck

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A Review of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution. By Elie Mystal.

Disrupting Carceral Logic In Family Policing, Cynthia Godsoe

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A Review of Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, By Dorothy Roberts.

Heeding The Voices Of Migrant Youth: The Need For Action, Randi Mandelbaum

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A Review of Unaccompanied: The Plight of Immigrant Youth at the Border. By Emily Ruehs-Navarro.

Sisters Gonna Work It Out: Black Women As Reformers And Radicals In The Criminal Legal System, Paul Butler

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A Review of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. By Derecka Purnell and a review of Progressive Prosecution: Race and Reform in Criminal Justice. Edited by Kim Taylor-Thompson and Anthony C. Thompson.

The Indian Child Welfare Act In The Multiverse, M. Alexander Pearl

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A Review of Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl By Matthew L.M. Fletcher and Kathryn E. Fort, in Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law 452, 471. Edited by Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R.A. Lenhardt and Angela Onwuachi-Willig.

Beyond More Accurate Algorithms: Takeaways From Mccleskey Revisited, Ngozi Okidegbe

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A Review of McCleskey v. Kemp. By Mario Barnes, in Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law 557, 581. Edited by Bennett Capers, Devon W. Carbado, R.A. Lenhardt and Angela Onwuachi-Willig.