Putting the “Why” in YIMBY

By: Brian J. Connolly. In response to the vexing U.S. housing crisis, over 100 cities have deregulated their zoning laws to allow more dwelling units, prompted in some cases by the pro-housing “Yes In My Backyard,” or YIMBY, movement. This trend…
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Decanonization

By: Sam Heavenrich. Much has been written about the substantive canons of statutory interpretation—policy-based interpretative guidelines and legal principles—and the purportedly recent vintage of some substantive canons, such as the major questions doctrine and the First Congress canon. Virtually ignored by…
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Normalizing Maternal Ambivalence

By: Elizabeth Kukura. Normalizing Maternal Ambivalence argues that law’s cramped and punitive understanding of maternal ambivalence causes harm by signaling that mothers who fail to conform to idealized notions of the good mother should face stigma, scrutiny, and even punishment. In practical…
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Ratifying Bruen in the States

By: Quinn Yeargain. In Bruen, the U.S. Supreme Court laid down a new test for evaluating the constitutionality of gun regulations under the Second Amendment, which has unleashed a wave of new lawsuits challenging federal and state regulations alike. For state courts,…
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Saban, Pope, and the Benefits Theory of Taxation

By Adam Chodorow. This Article examines Arizona’s jurisprudence interpreting the state constitution’s anti-diversion provision, which requires that revenues raised from road users be spent on the roads. It argues that the courts adopted a cramped, technical interpretation that severs the provision…
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