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Zero-Sum Empathy: The Supreme Court's 2025 Term Decisions On Gender Identity, Susan Etta Keller

ConLawNOW

This past term, the Supreme Court majority continued to follow a pattern of rendering transgender individuals essentially invisible in the cases that concern their rights. In last year’s United States v. Skrmetti, the transgender youth affected by the ban on transgender care were largely absent from the majority opinion holding that such bans discriminated on the basis of neither sex nor transgender status. This term, the majority continued a similar trend, deciding two cases on the emergency docket that ignored the lived experience of transgender individuals while significantly affecting them, and one case on the merits, West Virginia v. …

Deportation By Deception: Coerced Administrative Voluntary Departures And The Illusion Of Choice, Fonda Pham

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

Administrative voluntary departure allows noncitizens facing removal to leave the United States by waiving their right to a hearing before an immigration judge. Although this process provides noncitizens with a quicker alternative to a lengthy removal hearing, the process is not always as “voluntary” as its name suggests. Over the past four decades, noncitizens have alleged that immigration officers threatened and intimidated them in order to obtain waivers of consent, including threats against family members, prolonged detention, and physical abuse. Although the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution states that all persons physically present in the U.S. must receive due process …

Kai Bird & Susan Goldmark, Floersheimer Center For Constitutional Democracy, Jacob Burns Center For Ethics In The Practice Of Law, American Constitutional Society, Cardozo Chapter

2026–2027 Flyers

A book sale and light reception will follow the discussion.

Les Réformes Récentes En Matière D’Expropriation, Antoine Moarbès

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

L'Exercice De La Fonction Législative Au Liban : Approche Juridico‑Politique, Daoud Sayegh

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

المحكمة العليا الأميركية في النقاش القانوني المعاصر: مراجعة المحكمة القضائية بين نظرية جن هارت إيلي ونظرية روبرت بورك, شبلي الملاّط

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

La Constitution Américaine Et La Cour Suprême Des États-Unis : Un Envers Juridique De Robert Bork : John Hart Ely, Chibli Mallat

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

Les Éléments Structurels Du Blocage : Rupture Du Consensus Et Institutionnalisation De La Dyarchie, Fadia Habib

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

Norm-Based Remedies For Statutory Inequalities, Evan H. Caminker

Articles

Upon finding that a statute creates an unconstitutional inequality, courts face an intriguing remedial question: how to enjoin executive officials henceforth to implement the statute in a nondiscriminatory manner. There are almost always two options: “leveling up” to extend a statutory benefit or burden to the initially excluded group, and “leveling down” to withdraw the benefit or burden from the initially included group.

For decades, the Supreme Court has approached this remedial enterprise as if no substantive constitutional values guide the choice between leveling up and leveling down; so long as the remedy establishes prospectively equal treatment at any level, …

International Law Can't Get No Respect, Cindy G. Buys

ConLawNOW

This Essay addresses the recent trend in the U.S. Supreme Court of refusing to seriously engage with the United States’ commitments under international law. It argues this refusal to acknowledge the role of international law in U.S. law disregards the U.S. Constitution’s inclusion of treaties as part of the Supreme Law of the Land and the Court’s own long-standing position that “international law is part of our law.” This Essay uses two cases from the Court’s 2025 term, Mullin v. Al Otro Lado and Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Doe to illustrate the Court’s disregard of international law and highlights some …

When The Modern Public Square Goes Private: The Supreme Court's Struggle Over Social Media As The New First Amendment Frontier, Jason M. Shepard, Kathleen Bartzen Culver

Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2024 decisions in Moody v. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Paxton, the meaning of free expression in the digital age is being rewritten. Our research analyzes how the Court, advocates, and amici invoked decades of First Amendment and media law precedent to define whether social media platforms act as speakers with editorial rights or as common carriers open to regulation. Relevant doctrines include First Amendment implications of medium-specific regulations, common carrier definitions, speaker autonomy, editorial discretion, expressive conduct, intermediate and strict scrutiny analysis, content-based regulations, viewpoint neutrality, and public forum analysis. Drawing on an …

Chin Music: Chilling Legal Advocacy Through Executive Orders Attacking Law Firms, Robert S. Chang

Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law

Introduction to amicus brief challenging executive orders targeting law firms.

The amicus brief itself is reproduced as filed with the Supreme Court of the United States.

Her Discerning Eye, Abigail Stepnitz

ConLawNOW

Court watchers read each Supreme Court term like tea leaves, seeking in the record a deeper meaning about who we are and where we are going. To read the recent term, this Essay takes up Oliver Wendell Holmes’s image of law as a tapestry woven for its initiates and Robert Cover’s account of courts as jurispathic, killing competing legal meanings to preserve a coherent archive. It sees the 2025–26 term not as a set of doctrinal developments or even political compromises, but as a weave of foreclosed claims, in which what the discerning eye can read is those foreclosures, those …

L'Expropriation Pour Cause D'Utilité Publique, Antoine Moarbès

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

Le Discours Politique De L'Élite Musulmane Traditionnelle Au Liban : 1943-1975, Hala Soubra

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

Le Problème De La Valeur Juridique Des Principes Généraux Du Droit, Adnan Dannaoui

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

وثيقة الوفاق الوطني وتعديل الدستور, إدمون رباط

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

Législateurs Déguisés En Juges Ou Fidèles Serviteurs De La Loi?, Michel Halbecq S.J.

Proche-Orient, Études juridiques

No abstract provided.

Brief Of Richard W. Garnett As Amicus Curiae In Support Of Defendant-Appellant And Reversal, John L. Rockenbach, Richard W. Garnett

Court Briefs

No. 23-3696
United States of America v. Mujera Benjamin Lung'aho

On Remand from the Supreme Court of the United States, Case No. 25-6124

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Case No. 20-cr-288-DPM-1 Hon. D.P. Marshall Jr.

From the Summary of Argument

In light of Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections & Public Safety, Section 844(f)(1) of Title 18, as applied to Mr. Lung’aho, exceeds Congress’s constitutional authority. It is a fundamental principle of constitutional law that the federal government lacks a general police power. Therefore, there are real and enforceable limits on …

Weird Cops (Agency Police), Farhang Heydari

Vanderbilt Law Review

The police badge has migrated deep into the administrative state. Parks, schools, transit, housing, revenue, conservation, insurance, and gaming agencies now field tens of thousands of sworn “Agency Police”—often with full arrest powers despite missions far removed from general public safety. The footprint of these officers is significant and expanding, outpacing the growth of traditional law enforcement. Far from being limited to certain communities, Agency Police attract support across the political spectrum, from law-and-order policymakers to reformers. And yet, Agency Police are largely ignored in legal scholarship. The result is that a large slice of U.S. criminal enforcement is poorly …