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Incorporating Ai Into The Contract Drafting Process: A Classroom Exercise, Kristen V. Hardy

UF Law Faculty Publications

I recently read the Three Blind Drafts: An AI-Generated Classroom Exercise, by Margie Alsbrook and Ashley Chase. I was trying to create an AI-related assignment for my spring contract drafting class. The article inspired me to attempt a conceptually similar assignment in an AI contract drafting exercise. This article will summarize Alsbrook’s and Chase’s original idea and describe how I adapted it for the contract drafting classroom; the student outcome; and my thoughts about what I would do differently the next time I attempt the assignment.

Foreword: Casebooks And The Choices That Shape Constitutional Law, Sanford Levinson, Caroline Olsen

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

This collection of essays is the product of a conversation between the two co-authors of this Introduction. It occurred toward the conclusion of a very illuminating Symposium at William & Mary Law School in March 2024 on Jack Balkin’s latest book, Memory and Authority, on the role that memory plays in our notions of law. Caroline was the incoming Editor-in-Chief of the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, which had sponsored the Symposium. Sandy was a participant in the Symposium. Jack is a very close friend with whom he has coauthored at least two dozen articles and …

Casebooks, Canons, And Constitutional Memory, Jack M. Balkin, Sanford Levinson

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Casebooks on constitutional law take a lot of time and effort to prepare. What is the point of bothering to edit one? There are several possible reasons. First, you might want to make money from sales. For the vast majority of law professors, the financial return to the hours spent organizing and editing cases is simply not worth it. Second, you might be the sort of person who just likes to do things by yourself. If you are going through the bother of preparing your own materials, then why not publish them and possibly influence others as well? Most law …

What Is The Measure Of Success For A Constitutional Law Casebook?, Erwin Chemerinsky

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

In this Essay, I want to address four topics: how I came to write my constitutional law casebook; my goals for my Constitutional Law class and how the book facilitates achieving them; the challenges in writing a constitutional law casebook; and thoughts about the future of constitutional law casebooks.

There are many different constitutional law casebooks on the market because there are countless different ways of teaching the subject. There is no right way or best way to teach this or any other subject in the law school curriculum. I am describing my approach to teaching a subject that is …

Overruled Cases As A Tool For Inculcating Legal Realism, Michael C. Dorf

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

The changes wrought by Dobbs and Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College (SFFA) are hardly the only examples of momentous changes to constitutional law in the last few years. Doctrines involving the religion clauses of the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the scope of the president’s removal power, and much more have been changing rapidly since Amy Coney Barrett replaced Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the fall of 2020, thereby solidifying a conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court. I imagine that the strengthening of the major questions doctrine, the overruling of Chevron deference to federal administrative …

Teaching Firearms Law: One Big Opportunity And Three Pedagogical Challenges, Joseph Blocher, Jacob D. Charles, Darrell A.H. Miller

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

The U.S. Supreme Court’s groundbreaking 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller ushered in a new era for the Second Amendment: one in which the right to keep and bear arms, long dormant as a matter of practical impact and even “embarrassing” as a matter of legal scholarship, vaulted into the front ranks of constitutional law. The Court itself has only revisited the Amendment a few times since then—albeit once by revolutionizing the doctrine. Meanwhile, lower courts have issued thousands of decisions giving shape to the right, while scholars have generated work that is increasingly deep, diverse, and challenging. …

Show And Tell: Writing Constitutional Law Casebooks When The Law Doesn't Matter, William D. Araiza

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Writing a constitutional law casebook today presents significant challenges. One reason among several stands out: law matters less—indeed, sometimes very little—to those charged with interpreting our constitutional law and implementing our constitutional system.

This Essay examines this challenge and explains how my contribution to the constitutional casebook genre attempts to answer it. It argues that the current moment requires instructors, and the books they use, to “show”—that is, to demonstrate to their students both the handiwork of those interpreters and implementers and alternative pathways. Sometimes, however, practical considerations preclude such showing. In those situations, “telling” may be required. But regardless …

Coping With A Court One Disagrees With, Randy E. Barnett, Josh Blackman

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Part I of this Essay focuses on our approach to teaching the constitutional canon. This part is adapted from the Preface to our constitutional law casebook. Part II traces the evolution of our casebook from the First Edition to the Fourth Edition, and the forthcoming Fifth Edition. We demonstrate that the constitutional canon has changed, but remains remarkably stable. Part III addresses how we, and other like-minded law professors, managed to teach decisions that we fundamentally disagreed with.

This abstract has been taken from the authors' introduction. 

What Should A Constitutional Law Casebook Be?, William Funk

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

What is the purpose of a “casebook”? It is not a “hornbook,” designed to summarize or explain the law in a specific area, generally aimed at law students or lawyers to provide a straightforward statement of the law. It is not a “treatise,” a comprehensive, systematic exposition of the law in a particular field, involving an in-depth analysis and interpretation of the law. And it is not a “study aid,” supplementary material designed to help students do better in their classes. It is the book used by professors in their classes. For professors of constitutional law, it is a tool …

Intellectual Integrity, Collaboration, And The Market, Mark Tushnet

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

My reflections are those of someone who co-edited/co-authored two casebooks that were commercially and intellectually successful and one that was intellectually but not commercially successful. I start with the assumption that people decide to do a casebook because they find that existing materials don’t do some things they think ought to be done in the course (and do some things that aren’t really necessary for teaching purposes). That is, doing a casebook is at the outset an intellectual project.

Executing that project runs up against some constraints almost immediately. A simple one is that you might well think that you …

What Belongs In A Constitutional Law Casebook?, Ernest A. Young

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

This Essay argues that constitutional law cannot (and should not) be an autonomous subject within the legal curriculum. This argument echoes a long-standing debate about whether law itself is an autonomous scholarly discipline. The answer to that question is surely, as Allan Farnsworth put it, “sometimes YES and sometimes NO.” But this Essay does not focus on law’s autonomy from other disciplines, such as political science, psychology, or economics. Rather, I consider the extent to which constitutional law should overlap with other legal subjects, such as legal history, administrative law, or statutory interpretation. My conclusion is that, at least in …

Clark Memorandum: Fall 2025, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Byu Law School Alumni Association, J. Reuben Clark Law Society

The Clark Memorandum

• Our Constitutional Anchor
• Divine Law
• The Courage of Our Convictions
• Our Call to Action

Codification In Mississippi: Nineteenth Century Efforts For A Mississippi Civil Code, Milton J. Hernandez Iv

MC Law Review

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The Mississippi Court Of Appeals 30th Anniversary Commemoration And Panel Discussion, Donna M. Barnes

MC Law Review

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Globalisasi Hukum Dalam Pluralisme Hukum Modern, Sulistyowati Irianto

The Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies

This article revisits the concept of legal pluralism, which continues to evolve alongside society and all its complexities. Knowledge of legal pluralism evolves in line with societal changes identified through scientific research and activities. Over the past two decades, developments have drawn attention to the globalisation of law, leading to the concept of modern legal pluralism. The intertwining and mutual influences, as well as the adoptions and reproductions, resulting from encounters between legal systems have become increasingly complex due to the presence of international and transnational law. This is particularly significant in the areas of human rights, democracy, clean governance …

The Political Dynamics Of Constitutional Law, Neal Devins

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

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What Makes A Con Law "Doctrine" And Why Does It Matter?, Allison Orr Larsen

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

A few years ago, I started wondering about the “major questions doctrine” (or MQD) in administrative law, and I found myself asking: “When did that become a thing?” I was familiar with the cases that stand for the proposition that Congress does not lightly delegate high stakes questions to administrative agencies—cases that date back to 2000 and specifically to a decision about cigarette advertising and the FDA. But up until 2022, it was rare for courts and commentators to refer to that collection of cases as a “doctrine.” Today, by contrast, the major questions doctrine is bread and butter administrative …

Editorial Foreword Ijsls Volume 5 Number 1, Sulistyowati Irianto

The Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies

This edition marks the end of 2025 and presents articles on seemingly unrelated themes but reveal various aspects of our current legal system and society. In several countries, including Indonesia, autocratic legalism has emerged as a governing practice. Indonesia's political elite do not obey the law, but instead change and manipulate the law in the name of the people to legitimise their power. Various policies continue to be enacted without a scientific basis or evidence-based data, and without considering their impact on people, especially the poor and vulnerable. State institutions are also systematically weakened because they operate without opposition when …

Doktrin Penyalahgunaan Hak (Abus Des Droit), Syukron Salam

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The present article examines the emergence of the doctrine of abus de droit in France in the mid-twentieth century through an analysis of key judicial decisions and the debates that followed them. The study commences with an exposition of the manner in which the evolution of capitalism, concomitant with the escalating economic disparity and the propagation of societal challenges, has influenced the judicial approach to the abstract Roman-law tradition of absolute rights. In light of this, the article contends that the civil-law tradition exhibited a fundamental flaw in its conceptualisation of rights as absolute, thereby overlooking objections that were firmly …

Politik Hukum Kedudukan Wakil Presiden Dalam Badan Pengarah Percepatan Pembangunan Otonomi Khusus Papua, Maleakhi Samuel Pasalli, Yamuna Nurafifah, Pranaldo Gunawan

Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan

The legal policy regarding the amendment of Law Number 21 of 2001 into Law Number 2 of 2021 concerning Special Autonomy for Papua marks a paradigm shift from asymmetric decentralization towards controlled autonomy or leading to the centralization of power, notably through the establishment of the Steering Committee for Acceleration of Development of Special Autonomy for Papua (BP3OKP), which is chaired directly by the Vice President. This research is motivated by juridical issues wherein the Academic Paper (Naskah Akademik) of the amendment fails to provide scientific justification regarding the urgency of establishing this special body or the involvement of the …

Public Service Summer Stipend Meetings, Center For Public Service Law

2025–2026 Flyers

Cardozo offers stipends to provide funding for students working in unpaid public service summer internships. To be eligible for the stipend, you MUST attend one of the three meetings listed above.

What's Appealing In Mississippi?, Virginia C. Carlton

MC Law Review

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Fifth Circuit And Mississippi Law: Asked And Answered (Or Not), Caroline B. Smith, Emily K. Lindsay, Jim Rosenblatt

MC Law Review

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Freedom Clinic Faculty And Students Win Clemency Case Through New Jersey Second Chance Initiative, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Archive

The Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law secured clemency for LaShawn Fitch through New Jersey's Second Chance Initiative. Cardozo Freedom Clinic faculty and students helped prepare Mr. Fitch's clemency petition, highlighting issues surrounding felony-murder sentencing, the trial penalty, and juvenile justice.

Vol. 69, No. 13 (November 24, 2025)

Indiana Law Annotated

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The Next Frontier Of Environmental Advocacy, Center For Rights And Justice, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

2025 Event Invitations

The Center for Rights and Justice invites you to hear from three experts on environmental litigation and policy in a panel discussion moderated by Professor Alex Reinert. The discussion will be far-ranging, touching on domestic and international litigation, environmental policy, and climate justice.

• Wilson Dunlavey, a partner at the leading class action firm in the country, represents government entities, consumers, small businesses, workers, fishers, and residents in complex litigation against fossil fuel companies, automobile manufacturers, and other polluters.
  
  
• Raya Salter is the Founder and Executive Director of the Energy Justice Law & Policy Center and is an attorney, consultant, educator …

Being An Art Lawyer, Cardozo Fame Center, Cardozo Art Law Society

2025–2026 Flyers

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Cardozo Law News Brief: November 21, 2025, Benjamin N. Cardozo School Of Law

Cardozo Law News Briefs

Highlights from the November 21, 2025 Cardozo Law News Brief include:

• CLIHHR and global partners published a report on the Mura people’s resistance to Canadian potash mining in Brazil’s Amazon.

• Professor Jessica Roth appeared on PBS NewsHour and other outlets discussing Congress’s push to release Epstein-related DOJ files.

• Professor Matt Wansley was quoted in The New York Times on safety concerns around Amazon’s Zoox robotaxi program.

• Professor Rebecca Ingber spoke to The Intercept about the legality of U.S. drug boat strikes in the Caribbean.

• Professor David Rudenstine wrote an op-ed in The Hill calling for judicial independence in pending Trump …

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Did The Dodgers Ruin Baseball? Why Mlb’S Antitrust Exemption Stands In The Way Of A More Competitive League, Jack Ross

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (AELJ) Blog

After the Los Angeles Dodgers’ series win over the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Championship Series, Dodgers manager, Dave Roberts, remembered that, “[b]efore the season started, they said, ‘The Dodgers are ruining baseball … Let’s get four more wins and really ruin baseball. Let’s go!’” Because of this win, Roberts and the Dodgers made good on their promise by going on to win their second straight World Series. No, the Dodgers did not ruin baseball, but their dominance is representative of the growing disparity in competition between large and small-market teams.

Chelsea Gallery Walk + Happy Hour After, Cardozo Art Law Society, Cardozo Fame Center

2025–2026 Flyers

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