An International Framework for Marriage Promotion

By Jessica Tueller. This article presents a framework, distilled from human rights law, for assessing whether States’ efforts to increase their marriage rates are in keeping with their international obligations. The framework underlines States’ obligations to work simultaneously to make it…
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Gubernatorial Emergency Powers

By Gregory Schwab. After COVID-19, legislatures in numerous states stripped their governors of emergency powers that had evolved over generations. This Article argues that the post-pandemic reforms are predominantly structural disablements—measures that paralyze the executive's capacity to respond to crisis—rather than…
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Activist Judicial Restraints

By Michael Gentithes. This Article analyzes the Supreme Court’s use of justiciability doctrines as judicial restraints both empirically and theoretically. It demonstrates that such restraints are often used in an activist way to preserve a (typically conservative) status quo. The Article…
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