120 Yale L.J. 1784 (2011). Despite their seeming impotency, non-self-executing treaties play an important role in domestic jurisprudence. When a statute ...

113 Yale L.J. 493 (2003) Judges have been called liars, but lying is not necessarily a bad thing. Judges must be given the ability to overrule; otherwise, we ...

This essay is part of a collection The <I>Insular Cases</I> in Light of <I>Aurelius</I> Over 120 years after YLJ published its first piece on the Insular Cases, these cases appeared again before the ...

abstract. Family separation has long served as a mechanism of social control and punishment in the United States, disproportionately targeting Black, Indigenous, and other marginalized families under ...

On June 20, 1991, two police officers brought an African American man named Anthony Gray into custody for questioning related to the unsolved rape and murder of a woman in Calvert County, Maryland. 1 ...

abstract. In its recent decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, the Supreme Court held that a defendant’s use of a plaintiff’s copyrighted work would be judged ...

abstract. This Note presents a study of judicial decisions that have engaged with executive orders. The study was designed to elucidate the contexts in which courts have considered executive orders; ...

Informational capitalism brings new dangers of surveillance and manipulation—but also of accelerating monopoly, inequality, and democratic ...

abstract. This Article proposes an innovative approach to remedying the crisis of political inequality: using law to facilitate organizing by the poor and working class, not only as workers, but also ...

abstract. America has an access-to-justice crisis. At a time when law is more prominent in every facet of American life and commerce than ever before, most of our people and small businesses have no ...

abstract. In March 2022, President Biden signed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (Ending Forced Arbitration Act). The Act voids predispute arbitration clauses ...

abstract. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) enables people to create music simply by using words—fulfilling the belief that music is a universal language. This Essay analyzes how courts and Congress ...