Category: Past Issues

Kevin H. Theriot & Ken Connelly. The right to conscience of medical practitioners and related healthcare professionals has come under increasing attack in recent years. Examples abound of individuals and institutions being compelled to act against their will and their beliefs.…

The Honorable Mary M. Schroeder. 1968 was not a good year for the world, for the United States, or for my husband, Milt, and me. The Vietnam War and public reactions to it were going so badly that in March,…

Christina Sandefur. When Jenn McNary’s son Austin was three and her son Max was just a newborn, both boys were diagnosed with Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy— an incurable, fatal, degenerative muscle disorder. By the time Jenn learned of a promising treatment…

Matt O'Connor. On January 29, 2015, the Arizona Court of Appeals rejected one of the most contentious tort doctrines in modern U.S. history. Amanda Watts began taking the drug Solodyn for acne treatment when she was a minor, as prescribed…

Rhett Larson & Brian Payne. A cloud hangs over the future of Arizona’s water. The cloud has hung low and heavy for over forty years. The cloud is the ongoing adjudication of water rights in Arizona’s courts, where the priority,…

Leia Dingott. The evidence in support of homebirths continues to pile up, and yet many states, including Arizona, continue to be influenced by the powerful lobby rather than by the facts and interests of the primary stakeholders, mothers, and babies.…

Paul Avelar & Keith Diggs. Justice Brennan’s exhortation—now forty years old—for lawyers and judges to rediscover protections for individual rights in state constitutions was a timely reminder of the importance of state constitutions in our system of federalism. Justice Brennan…

Arizona State Law Journal Executive Editorial Board. To celebrate the law school’s fiftieth anniversary, we want to look back and appreciate the people and events from the last half century that have contributed to the school’s development. It is particularly…

Sherod Thaxton. Justice Stephen Breyer recently made international headlines when he emphasized that reforms to the capital punishment process have apparently failed to ameliorate the rampant arbitrariness, capriciousness, and bias that led the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily invalidate the…