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Forum: How Justice Thomas Determines the Original Meaning of Article II of the Constitution

adopted.” Justice Thomas, however, does not limit his inquiry solely to evidence most demonstrative of the original objective meaning. On the contrary

Forum: The Trump Administration and the Breakdown of Intra-Executive Legal Process

which have viewed the procedural deficiencies as evidence of discriminatory purpose. The decisions serve as a warning to an unconventional

Forum: Our Darwinian Law of War

historical evidence when they debate the legitimacy of conflict, as they did when British and American soldiers clashed on The Caroline. Instead, they look

Forum: The Difference a Whole Woman Makes: Protection for the Abortion Right After Whole Woman’s Health

scientific evidence about the health benefits of regulating abortion, and it evaluated the burdens imposed by the Texas law, with close attention to

Forum: Losers’ Rules

among decisionmakers of different races or genders—federal discrimination law lurches in the opposite direction, often ignoring or trivializing evidence

Forum: Recycling Electrons, Undermining Justice

present evidence demonstrating clear patterns of behavior and showing who knew what and when. The recent revisions to the discovery rules missed the

Forum: On Estimating Disparity and Inferring Causation: Sur-Reply to the U.S. Sentencing Commission Staff

Using an econometric method for causal inference, a regression discontinuity-style design, we found no evidence that Booker or its progenyincreased

A Textualist Response to Two Texts: Positive-Law Codification and Interpreting Section 1983

textualist values. Textualists espouse formalism, and codified positive-law text is formally “legal evidence of the law”—meaning the codified positive-law

Jill Lepore

about whether scientific evidence is admissible in court to illustrate how the law renders historical evidence invisible. Frye v. United States established o…

Rebecca Steele

access evidence. This Note analyzes pathways criminal defendants can pursue to access evidence within the current statutory framework and argues that the statute is ...