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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

By Lihi Yona & Tammy Harel Ben-Shahar. The legal treatment of educational inequality is at an impasse. The recent Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College case (“SFFA v. Harvard”), in which the Supreme Court struck down…

By Aidan E. Wright. Debates over judicial philosophies of interpretation are not new, but the recent changes in the makeup of the Supreme Court have thrust these debates even further into the public eye. Debates over originalism in particular are more…

By Gabriel Rauterberg & Joshua Younger. Money is a motley. While the state typically enjoys a monopoly on issuing new physical currency, a variety of instruments serve money-like roles in the financial system. Most familiarly, the United States relies heavily on…