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Expedient Imprisonment: How Federal Supervised Release Sentences Violate the Constitution
Each year, more than ten thousand people are imprisoned by federal courts without being charged with a crime, indicted by a grand jury, or found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury of their peers. Those results are authorized by federal …
On Rawlsian Contractualism and the Private Law
Shifts in academic paradigms are rare. Still, it was not long ago that the values taken to govern the private law were thought to be distinct from the values governing taxation and transfer. This was thought to be true, although for different …
On Lenity: What Justice Gorsuch Didn’t Say
Facially neutral doctrines create racially disparate outcomes. Increasingly, legal academia and mainstream commentators recognize that this is by design. The rise of this colorblind racism in Supreme Court jurisprudence parallels the rise of the War …
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Marley volunteered as head coach while also serving as our Assistant Managing Editor on the @VirginiaLawRev. She brings dedication and care to everything she does, and we are so lucky to work with her and colleagues like her https://twitter.com/UVALaw/status/1591111007379738624
As head varsity volleyball coach for @CHSBlackKnights this fall, 3L Marley Peters prioritized teaching players to embrace who they are. http://bit.ly/3To7SKo
The decision invokes SCOTUS's latest deregulatory/anti-Democratic-administration doctrinal weapon -- the major questions doctrine -- to say the student debt cancellation is unlawful.
For more on this, check out our piece forthcoming @VirginiaLawRev: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4165724
Congratulations to two of our Articles Editors, Ethan Treacy and Dev Ranjan, on winning this year’s @lilemootcourt!
.@lilemootcourt winners Ethan Treacy ’23 and Dev Ranjan ’23, who met as incoming 1Ls and worked on @VirginiaLawRev together, share their recipe for success. http://bit.ly/3hg04NC
Because he is never one to boast, wanted to brag about my partner, James Tomberlin @UVALaw '18, whose student note was quoted in the @nytimes yesterday, talking about the near-impossibility of holding sheriffs accountable!
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/opinion/progressive-sheriff-los-angeles.html