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Forum: And How: Mayo v. Prometheus and the Method of Invention

standard for the admissibility of scientific evidence, surveying the landscape of complex technical practice is often better left to witnesses rather

Jagged Edges

and statutes, finding no evidence that courts currently take these concerns about boundary irregularity into account but identifying potential

Originalism-by-Analogy and Second Amendment Adjudication

of institutional competence. First, courts should be careful about basing broad decisions on a supposed lack of historical evidence, given that they

Congressional Intervention in Agency Adjudication: The Case of Veterans’ Appeals

consideration of evidence collected on an open agency record—and it backed that requirement with judicial review. The APA’s requirement that agencies act

Forum: Small Business Disaster Relief and Restructuring

for bankruptcy in record numbers in 2020, and evidence suggests that liquidity was unusually high during the early days of the pandemic in particular

Forum: Unemployment Insurance for the Gig Economy

contexts. Empirical evidence indicates, for instance, that enrolling people automatically in retirement plans increases retirement savings. Assuming

Forum: War Powers Reform: A Skeptical View

evidence that the Founders gave Congress the power to “declare war” because most of them thought it would be too risky (or too monarchical) to place it in

Agency Design and Political Control

Second, most policy outputs—where one would look to see evidence of political control—are not readily comparable across agencies. As a consequence

Forum: Should Tort Law Care About Police Officers?

First, there is evidence that tort law deters harmful conduct, even in situations in which actors are not consciously thinking through the risks of

Forum: Radical Early Defense Against Family Policing

practice. We worked closely with clients whom we met at arraignments. We cobbled together the evidence at our disposal to craft compelling legal