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Warning: Stop-And-Frisk May Be Hazardous To Your Health, Josephine Ross
Warning: Stop-And-Frisk May Be Hazardous To Your Health, Josephine Ross
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Flawed Reasoning Behind Johnson V. United States And A Solution: Why A Facts-Based Approach Should Have Been Used To Interpret The Residual Clause Of The Armed Career Criminal Act, Jake Albert
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Punishing Sexual Fantasy, Andrew Gilden
Punishing Sexual Fantasy, Andrew Gilden
William & Mary Law Review
The Internet has created unprecedented opportunities for adults and teenagers to explore their sexual identities, but it has also created new ways for the law to monitor and punish a diverse range of taboo sexual communication. A young mother loses custody of her two children due to sexually explicit Facebook conversations. A teenager is prosecuted for child pornography crimes after sending a naked selfie to her teenage boyfriend. An NYPD officer is convicted for conspiracy to kidnap several women based on conversations he had on a “dark fetish” fantasy website. In each of these cases, online sexual exploration and fantasy …
Our Prescriptive Judicial Power: Constitutive And Entrenchment Effects Of Historical Practice In Federal Courts Law, Ernest A. Young
Our Prescriptive Judicial Power: Constitutive And Entrenchment Effects Of Historical Practice In Federal Courts Law, Ernest A. Young
William & Mary Law Review
Scholars examining the use of historical practice in constitutional adjudication have focused on a few high-profile separation of powers disputes, such as the recent decisions in NLRB v. Noel Canning and Zivotofsky v. Kerry. This Article argues that “big cases make bad theory”—that the focus on high-profile cases of this type distorts our understanding of how historical practice figures into constitutional adjudication more generally. I shift focus here to the more prosaic terrain of federal courts law, where practice plays a pervasive role. That shift reveals two important insights: First, while historical practice plays an important constitutive role structuring and …
The Lawfulness Of The Same-Sex Marriage Decisions: Charles Black On Obergefell, Toni M. Massaro
The Lawfulness Of The Same-Sex Marriage Decisions: Charles Black On Obergefell, Toni M. Massaro
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Is The “Arising Under” Jurisdictional Grant In Article Iii Self-Executing?, David R. Dow
Is The “Arising Under” Jurisdictional Grant In Article Iii Self-Executing?, David R. Dow
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Deconstructing Juryless Fact-Finding In Civil Cases, Shaakirrah R. Sanders
Deconstructing Juryless Fact-Finding In Civil Cases, Shaakirrah R. Sanders
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
In many states, legislatures have mandated juryless fact-finding in common law–based civil cases by imposing compensatory damage caps that effectively lessen the jury’s traditional and historic role as injury valuator. The primary purpose of most caps was to reign in “excessive” civil jury verdicts, which allegedly caused “skyrocketing” medical malpractice insurance premiums and litigation costs. But no legislatively imposed cap is triggered by a preliminary finding of excessiveness. Trial judges have no authority to determine whether application of a cap is just or fair to the (often) severely injured plaintiff. Despite a shared interpretive methodology with regards to the nature …
But First, (Don’T) Let Me Take A Selfie: New Hampshire’S Ban On Ballot Selfies And First Amendment Scrutiny, Emily Wagman
But First, (Don’T) Let Me Take A Selfie: New Hampshire’S Ban On Ballot Selfies And First Amendment Scrutiny, Emily Wagman
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Exploiting Ambiguity In The Supreme Court: Cutting Through The Fifth Amendment With Transferable Development Rights, Trevor D. Vincent
Exploiting Ambiguity In The Supreme Court: Cutting Through The Fifth Amendment With Transferable Development Rights, Trevor D. Vincent
William & Mary Law Review
No abstract provided.
Real Bite: Legal Realism And Meaningful Rational Basis In Dog Law And Beyond, Ann L. Schiavone
Real Bite: Legal Realism And Meaningful Rational Basis In Dog Law And Beyond, Ann L. Schiavone
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Most Loved, Most Hated Magazine In America: The Rise And Demise Of Confidential Magazine, Samantha Barbas
The Most Loved, Most Hated Magazine In America: The Rise And Demise Of Confidential Magazine, Samantha Barbas
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Forging Ahead From Ferguson: Re-Evaluating The Right To Assemble In The Face Of Police Militarization, Ashley M. Eick
Forging Ahead From Ferguson: Re-Evaluating The Right To Assemble In The Face Of Police Militarization, Ashley M. Eick
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
The Lesser Of Two Evils: Exploring The Constitutionality Of Indefinite Detentions Of Terror Enemy Combatants Following The End Of “Combat Operations” In Afghanistan, Justin A. Thatch
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Due Process As Choice Of Law: A Study In The History Of A Judicial Doctrine, Matthew J. Steilen
Due Process As Choice Of Law: A Study In The History Of A Judicial Doctrine, Matthew J. Steilen
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
This Article argues that procedural due process can be understood as a choice of-law doctrine. Many procedural due process cases require courts to choose between a procedural regime characteristic of the common law—personal notice, oral hearing, neutral judge, and jury trial—and summary procedures employed in administrative agencies.
This way of thinking about procedural due process is at odds with the current balancing test associated with the Supreme Court’s opinion in Mathews v. Eldridge. This Article aims to show, however, that it is consistent with case law over a much longer period, indeed, most of American history. It begins with a …
Confrontation As A Rule Of Production, Pamela R. Metzger
Confrontation As A Rule Of Production, Pamela R. Metzger
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Fissures, Fractures & Doctrinal Drifts: Paying The Price In First Amendment Jurisprudence For A Half Decade Of Avoidance, Minimalism & Partisanship, Clay Calvert, Matthew D. Bunker
Fissures, Fractures & Doctrinal Drifts: Paying The Price In First Amendment Jurisprudence For A Half Decade Of Avoidance, Minimalism & Partisanship, Clay Calvert, Matthew D. Bunker
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
This Article comprehensively examines how the U.S. Supreme Court’s adherence to principles of constitutional avoidance and judicial minimalism, along with partisan rifts among the Justices, have detrimentally affected multiple First Amendment doctrines over the past five years. The doctrines analyzed here include true threats, broadcast indecency, offensive expression, government speech, and strict scrutiny, as well as the fundamental dichotomy between content-based and contentneutral regulations.
Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Journal, Volume 5, William & Mary Law School
Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference Journal, Volume 5, William & Mary Law School
Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal
Property as a Form of Governance
October 1-2, 2015
Panel 1: Property as a Form of Governance
Panel 3: Of Pipelines, Drilling, & the Use of Eminent Domain
Panel 4: Property Rights in the Digital Age
Implementing Enumeration, Andrew Coan
Implementing Enumeration, Andrew Coan
William & Mary Law Review
The enumeration of legislative powers in Article I of the U.S. Constitution implies that those powers must have limits. This familiar “enumeration principle” has deep roots in American constitutional history and has played a central role in recent federalism decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. Courts and commentators, however, have seldom rigorously considered what follows from embracing it. The answer is by no means straightforward. The enumeration principle tells us that federal power must be subject to some limit, but it does not tell us what that limit should be. Nor does it tell us how the Constitution’s commitment to …
Some Thoughts On The Study Of Judicial Behavior, Lee Epstein
Some Thoughts On The Study Of Judicial Behavior, Lee Epstein
William & Mary Law Review
Back in the 1940s the political scientist C. Herman Pritchett began tallying the votes and opinions of Supreme Court Justices. His goal was to use data to test the hypothesis that the Justices were not only following the “law,” but were also motivated by their own ideological preferences.
With the hindsight of nearly eighty years, we know that Pritchett’s seemingly small project helped to create a big field: Judicial Behavior, which I take to be the theoretical and empirical study of the choices judges make. Political scientists continue to play a central role, but they are now joined by economists, …
A Problem Of Standards?: Another Perspective On Secret Law, Jonathan Hafetz
A Problem Of Standards?: Another Perspective On Secret Law, Jonathan Hafetz
William & Mary Law Review
This Article provides a new perspective on the growth of secret law in the United States. It is widely assumed that the U.S. government’s exercise of national security powers suffers from excessive secrecy. Although secrecy presents significant challenges, it does not alone explain the lack of clarity surrounding the government’s legal justifications for using military force, conducting surveillance, or exercising other national security powers. The Article argues that what is often labeled “secret law” may also be understood as a consequence of how legal standards are used in this context.
The Article draws on the larger rules versus standards literature …
Premodern Constitutionalism, Martin H. Redish, Matthew Heins
Premodern Constitutionalism, Martin H. Redish, Matthew Heins
William & Mary Law Review
The traditional concept of American constitutionalism has long been a basic assumption not subject to tremendous examination. For generations, scholars have understood our Constitution to be the byproduct of a revolutionary war fought for representation and a foundinggeneration concernedwith preventingtyranny in any form. The traditional understandingof American constitutionalism thus consists of two elements: the underlyingprinciple of skeptical optimism, which can be found in the historical context within which the Framers gathered to draft the Constitution, and the political apparatus effectuating that idea countermajoritarian constraint set against majoritarian power which reveals itself through reverse engineeringfrom the structural Constitution.
Over the last …
Friendly Precedent, Anthony Niblett, Albert H. Yoon
Friendly Precedent, Anthony Niblett, Albert H. Yoon
William & Mary Law Review
This Article explores which legal precedents judges choose to support their decisions.When describing the legal landscape in a written opinion, which precedent do judges gravitate toward? We examine the idea that judges are more likely to cite friendly precedent. A friendly precedent, here, is one that was delivered by Supreme Court Justices who have similar political preferences to the lower court judges delivering the opinion. In this Article, we test whether a federal Court of Appeals panel is more likely to engage with binding Supreme Court precedent when the political flavor of that precedent is aligned with the political composition …
Pro-Constitutional Representation: Comparing The Role Obligations Of Judges And Elected Representatives In Constitutional Democracy, Vicki C. Jackson
Pro-Constitutional Representation: Comparing The Role Obligations Of Judges And Elected Representatives In Constitutional Democracy, Vicki C. Jackson
William & Mary Law Review
The role of elected representatives in a constitutional democracy deserves more attention than it typically receives in law schools. Just as judges have a set of role obligations, which are widely discussed and debated, so, too, do representatives. Their obligations, however, are far less widely discussed in normative terms. Understandable reasons for this neglect exist, due to institutional differences between legislatures and courts, law schools' long-standing focus on courts, and the intensely competing demands on elected officials; but these factors do not justify the degree of silence on the normative obligations of representatives. This Essay seeks to introduce and defend …
Stanley V. Illinois’S Untold Story, Josh Gupta-Kagan
Stanley V. Illinois’S Untold Story, Josh Gupta-Kagan
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Stanley v. Illinois is one of the Supreme Courts more curious landmark cases. The holding is well known: the Due Process Clause both prohibits states from removing children from the care of unwed fathers simply because they are not married and requires states to provide all parents with a hearing on their fitness. By recognizing strong due process protections for parents rights, Stanley reaffirmed Lochner-era cases that had been in doubt and formed the foundation of modern constitutional family law. But Peter Stanley never raised due process arguments, so it has long been unclear how the Court reached this decision. …
Implications On The Constitutionality Of Student Cell Phone Searches Following Riley V. California, Ross Hoogstraten
Implications On The Constitutionality Of Student Cell Phone Searches Following Riley V. California, Ross Hoogstraten
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
No abstract provided.
Attorney’S Fees, Nominal Damages, And Section 1983 Litigation, Thomas A. Eaton, Michael L. Wells
Attorney’S Fees, Nominal Damages, And Section 1983 Litigation, Thomas A. Eaton, Michael L. Wells
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
Can plaintiffs recover attorneys fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988 when they establish constitutional violations but recover only nominal damages or low compensatory damages? Some federal appellate courts have concluded that no fee, or a severely reduced fee, should be awarded in such circumstances. This position, which we call the low award, low fee approach, rests primarily on the Supreme Courts 1992 opinion in Farrar v. Hobby.
We argue that a low award, low fee approach is misguided for two main reasons. First, the majority opinion in Farrar is fragmented, and the factual record is opaque regarding what and how …
Domestic Violence And The Politics Of Self-Help, Elizabeth L. Macdowell
Domestic Violence And The Politics Of Self-Help, Elizabeth L. Macdowell
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Self-help programs are conceptualized as alternatives to attorney representation that can help both courts and unrepresented litigants. The rhetoric of self-help also typically includes empowering unrepresented individuals to help themselves. But how do self-help programs respond to litigants’ efforts at self-advocacy? This Article reports findings from a study of courthouse self-help programs assisting unrepresented litigants applying for protection orders. The central finding is that self-help staff members were not neutral in the provision of services despite a professed ethic of neutrality. Using the sociological concept of demeanor, this Article shows that staff members rewarded protection order applicants who conformed to …
Neutral Principles And Some Campaign Finance Problems, John O. Mcginnis
Neutral Principles And Some Campaign Finance Problems, John O. Mcginnis
William & Mary Law Review
This Article has both positive and normative objectives. As a positive matter, it shows that the Roberts Courts campaign finance regulation jurisprudence can be best explained as a systematic effort to integrate that case law with the rest of the First Amendment, making the neutral principles refined in other social contexts govern this more politically salient one as well. It demonstrates that the typical Roberts Court majority in campaign finance cases follows precedent, doctrine, and traditional First Amendment theory, while the dissents tend to carve out exceptions at each of these levels.
As a normative matter, it argues that following …
The Administrative Constitution In Exile, Mila Sohoni
The Administrative Constitution In Exile, Mila Sohoni
William & Mary Law Review
For decades, the aspiration of administrative law has been to develop legal structures that would constrain and legitimate the exercise of agency power. The fruition of that hope was the complex internal blueprint that has made modern administrative governance both successful and legitimate the framework for executive action that many have hailed as the administrative constitution. Today, however, novel exercises of administrative power are crowding out old and familiar varieties, making the conventional forms of administrative action less and less relevant to the conduct of government.
This Article examines how the administrative constitution has changed over time and how that …