ONLINE EDITION
A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of “Foreign Tribunal”
In March, the United States Supreme Court heard a case involving the issue of whether a private arbitration panel in another country is covered by the statutory phrase “foreign or international tribunal.” The statutory language, enacted in 1964, …
Antideference: COVID, Climate, and the Rise of the Major Questions Canon
Skepticism on the Supreme Court toward administrative authority has evolved into open hostility over the course of the past year in two cases related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The legal vehicle was not, as widely expected, rejection of Chevron’s …
Reevaluating School Policing
School police, often referred to as school resource officers (“SROs”), contribute to a pattern called the school-to-prison pipeline, through which Black and brown children are diverted from classrooms and into the criminal justice system. In schools …
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Accepted Pieces from the March 2022 Notes Pool
March 2022 Notes Pool
Accepted Pieces from the January 2022 Notes Pool
A math and engineering whiz who graduated from @MIT, Tiffany Mickel ’22 turned to her longtime interest in law for graduate school. Read about her path to becoming the first Black editor-in-chief of the @VirginiaLawRev. https://bit.ly/3EBsfxX
Extremely proud of our very own @JackVHoover for his recently published VLR Online piece, “Standing and Student Loan Cancellation,” which was cited today in the New York Times! Check out the article below⤵️
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/business/biden-student-loans.html
Why might it make sense for the Constitution to allow for a high burden to maintain a claim of bad faith prosecution? Ann Woolhandler, Michael Collins & I explain in our new @VirginiaLawRev paper: Bad Faith Prosecution, 109 Va. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4064071
.@KWeisburd is a star, up-and-coming (actually, already there!) scholar in privacy/law/tech/criminal justice/surveillance. A great paper, and the winner of the 2021 Reidenberg-Kerr Award for Outstanding Scholarship by a Junior Scholar at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference. https://twitter.com/VirginiaLawRev/status/1517672031126491136
Electronic surveillance (such as GPS-equipped ankle monitors) is often touted as a humane substitute for incarceration. But is it? In this Article, Professor Kate Weisburd argues that “punitive surveillance,” like incarceration, strips people of their basic rights and liberties.
The VLR Online team is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with @b_hasbrouck this year!
@KWeisburd @VirginiaLawRev Amazing! Love this piece! I’m excited to be publishing with @VirginiaLawRev this year too!