Category: Past Issues

Felipe Jiménez This Article offers a theoretical framework for thinking about contract remedies. The argument starts from the distinction between rights and remedies in contract law. The distinction is consistent with the doctrinal structure of contract law in Western legal…

Derek E. Bambauer & Michael Risch The rise of algorithm-driven decision making enabled by Big Data has generated widespread concern among legal scholars. However, few critics have considered data on people’s existing preferences about the role of algorithms in decision systems.…

Daniel Restrepo Fifty thousand years ago, a woman stands and stretches her arms, looking over America’s open plains. In the distance, she sees thirty very hairy and practically naked people speaking a language that will never be heard on the…

Nyla Knox On average, on-duty police officers shoot and kill one thousand individuals in the United States each year. One in every one-thousand black men will be killed by law enforcement in their lifetime. In nearly every instance, though, courts…

Shannon Hautzinger Aurora. Newtown. San Bernardino. Orlando. Las Vegas. Parkland. Pittsburgh. Thousand Oaks. Virginia Beach. El Paso. Dayton. Boulder. The grim commonality that links these cities needs no explanation, yet the ease with which it comes to mind demonstrates the…

Hon. Lawrence F. Winthrop “Equal justice under law is not merely a caption on the fa ade of the Supreme Court building. It is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society. It is one of the ends for which our…

Judge Peter B. Swann & Sarah Pook The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides unambiguously and without exception that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech.” Read literally, there is no room…

G. Murray Snow For this edition of the Arizona State Law Journal (Journal), the editors have invited prominent Arizona judges (both state and federal) to write on topics they know about. All of the authors are jurists of experience and…

Roslyn Silver Today, the right to vote in this country and the state of Arizona is a fundamental right of citizenship. The act of voting is one of the most elemental forms of democratic participation. But participation in our democracy…

Mary Schroeder Title VII of the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 was nearly ten years old before Arizona lawyers realized their state law needed to ban sex discrimination in employment. Indeed, major Phoenix law firms were openly refusing to…