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Established in 1969 and originally published under the title Law and the Social Order, the Arizona State Law Journal is a nationally recognized legal periodical that serves as the primary scholarly publication of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.
Current Print Issue
Published in Volume 56, Issue 3, Fall 2024
Revictimization Through Arbitration: Keeping Outrageous and Unforeseeable Torts in Court
By Victoria Warkins. Imagine you have just landed a new job at a restaurant. You’ve jumped through all the hoops and signed all the paperwork to get started. You’ve even completed a six-week training process as part of your employment. Then you show up for work, and on your first real day, your boss grabs […]
Navigating the Frontiers of MedTech
By Benjamin Sundholm. In general terms, artificial intelligence can be defined as a constellation of capabilities and technologies enabling a computer system to accomplish tasks that ordinarily require the application of human intelligence. This technology has been used in medical care for decades. Although early clinical and research applications for artificial intelligence were relatively narrow, […]
Placebo Trials: A New Tool to Discourage Wrongful Convictions Caused by Jury Error
By Hayley Stillwell. “[I]t is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.” The principle that a criminal justice system should err on the side of acquittals—even acquittals of the guilty—to avoid convicting the innocent is a cornerstone of the American criminal justice system. It is reflected in many defendant-friendly system features, […]
Election Lies
By Amanda Shanor. No lie has captured recent national attention as dramatically as the “Big Lie”—the false allegation that the 2020 election was stolen from then-President Trump. That lie fueled the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and has raised serious concerns about future political violence. On August 1, 2023, President Trump […]
Bright Young Minds: Envisioning a Child’s Right to Direct Their Education
By Isabella Santos. Temecula is a small community of fewer than 200,000 people, nestled in a Southern California valley dotted with wineries. Despite presumptions of quiet pastoralism, this community has recently been embroiled in controversy, attracting interest nationwide––and it’s the kids who are caught in the crossfire. The Temecula Valley Unified School District Board, governed […]
Generative Contracts
By Spencer Williams. Consider a hypothetical consumer-to-consumer contract: Alice wants to sell her car to Bob. Alice and Bob are not lawyers, nor do either of them have any prior experience buying or selling used cars. Having agreed on a price, they must decide how to represent and effectuate their contract. Until recently, they had […]
The Prisoner Swap Dilemma
By Ryan T. Williams. U.S. Presidents face significant political and social pressures to bring home Americans unjustly detained in foreign countries, as illustrated by the exchange of Viktor Bout, “the Merchant of Death,” for Brittney Griner. Griner was the first U.S. civilian with no alleged war crimes on her record to be detained by a […]
Addicted to the ADA? Disability Antidiscrimination Law and the Problem of Addiction
By Adi Goldiner. As the opioid epidemic continued to devastate lives, families, and communities, legal scholars and practitioners have joined medical experts in seeking ways to improve the social response to this unprecedented crisis. There is a growing group of scholars advocating for decriminalization of drug use and an end to the “war on drugs,” […]
Just Tort Settlements
By Gilat Juli Bachar. Most disputes in the United States settle, and often behind closed doors. In particular, settlement agreements with nondisclosure clauses (“confidential settlements”) have been debated for years in the products liability context, as such settlements might conceal information about hazards that endanger public health and safety. Debates gave rise to a series […]
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