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Blackness as Fighting Words
Where I grew up, the wrong words could turn an innocent sparring match of playground taunts and after-school gibes into a full-out asphalt brawl. Naïve boys enacting popular tropes of Black hypermasculinity, we would often form a circle around the …
Essentially Elective: The Law and Ideology of Restricting Abortion During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has put on full display the physical and doctrinal isolation of abortion from health care more generally. In early 2020, several states proclaimed that abortions had to be stopped or delayed for lengthy or indefinitely.
Pandemics, Risks, and Remedies
The coronavirus (“COVID”) pandemic exposed America’s brittle reliance on incarceration as means of promoting justice and social welfare. For each criminal detention site, a single prisoner infection ultimately threatened the entire institutional …
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Our new website is finally live!! Huge kudos to our ODE @katharinejanes whose hard work made this possible. Check out our fancy floating footnotes & our D&I page at http://virginialawreview.org
Congratulations to one of our incredible authors and esteemed professors - Professor Deeks.
Prof. Ashley Deeks has been tapped by the incoming Biden administration to serve as White House associate counsel and deputy legal advisor to the National Security Council. @Transition46 http://at.virginia.edu/2LEAFgz
“Today’s doctrine limits federal jurisdiction by borrowing #FourteenthAmendment principles thought to govern state courts....It's also a mistake,” writes @DukeLaw Prof. @StephenESachs in an article for @VirginiaLawRev.
Thanks so much. The piece is here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3418528 for anyone that wants to read it. Comments always welcome. @VirginiaLawRev https://twitter.com/KathiHoke/status/1339711387908632576
@Debbie_Hellman Congrats!
Deb Hellman’s Measuring Algorithmic Fairness was selected for the Jurisprudence Section Article Award, annually in recognition of an article or book chapter published in the prior year that exemplifies exceptional philosophical work in legal scholarship
It's out! Now online at @VirginiaLawRev: "The Unlimited Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts"
https://legacy.virginialawreview.org/volumes/content/unlimited-jurisdiction-federal-courts
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3537251