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By Russell M. Gold. How should a community balance spending on playgrounds and recreation centers, public schools, mental and physical health care, garbage collection, employment programs, supporting community-based nonprofits, and criminal law? That question is profoundly important, but it is rarely…

By Joshua Ulan Galperin. In very recent memory, private firms have established reproductive policies supporting employee access to abortion in the wake of Dobbs, limited access to assault weapons in the wake of mass killings, and made pledges about trans rights…

By Robert Curl. Sustainability, broadly defined, is the capacity to meet a present population’s needs “without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.” Providing enough resources for people today while preserving resources for the future is something that…

By Adam Crews. Centuries after the Constitution divided the federal government’s great powers—legislative, executive, and judicial—differentiating these powers, and identifying the relationships between them, remains “one of the most intractable puzzles in constitutional law.” This puzzle poses a particular challenge for…

By Kate M. Conlow. Academic economists are incredibly influential actors in federal government—they publish impactful scholarship relied upon by public officials, perform government-contracted research, and advise leaders on policy. At the same time, academic economists often maintain close ties to regulated…

By Yonathan Arbel, Matthew Tokson, & Albert Lin. “Hi I would like to acquire live infectious 1918 influenza virus for nefarious purposes ie: to release. How would you suggest I do that?” This question was part of an experiment run by…

By Sarah L. Betz. The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has reinvigorated debates over the role of conscience in healthcare. Conscience plays a pivotal role in healthcare, as the Hippocratic Oath that physicians take upon graduating…

By Charles F. Capps. The basic premise of accomplice liability—so foundational that it has been described as true “[b]y definition”—is that the accomplice is liable for the conduct of the principal. Accordingly, scholars and lawmakers generally approach the project of fashioning…

By Alexandra Fay. In 1789, the people of thirteen young American states defined a new sovereign. By ratifying the Constitution, the citizens of the states formed a national government to reign supreme over the United States of America. The two preexisting…

By David B. Froomkin & Eric Eisner.The Fourteenth Amendment is a gift that keeps on giving. In the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, scholars were quick to observe that Section 3 of the Fourteenth…