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Volume 106 — 2020
Bound Electors
In a decision hailed as “a masterpiece of historical analysis and originalist reasoning,” the Tenth Circuit recently held that the Constitution prevents a state from binding its presidential electors to vote for the winner of the state’s popular …
106 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
Self-Portrait in a Complex Mirror: Reflections on The Making of a Justice: Reflections on My First 94 Years by John Paul Stevens
Immediately after his death last year, Justice John Paul Stevens received a number of moving eulogies, several by former law clerks published in the Harvard Law Review, along with a tribute from Chief Justice Roberts.
106 Va. L. Rev. Online 28
Restoring Honor: Ending Racial Disparities in University Honor Systems
In student-led academic honor systems, students establish policies governing lying, cheating, or stealing (referred to as “academic misconduct”); adjudicate reports of academic misconduct among their peers; and determine appropriate sanctions.
106 Va. L. Rev. Online 47
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 …
106 Va. L. Rev. Online 71
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.
106 Va. L. Rev. Online 99
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 …
106 Va. L. Rev. Online 124
Volume 105 — 2019
Foreword: Facebook Unbound?
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
Facebook’s Alternative Facts
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 18
Criminal-Justice Apps: A Modest Step Toward Democratizing the Criminal Process
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 37
Law Enforcement’s Pairing of Facial Recognition Technology with Body-Worn Cameras Escalates Privacy Concerns
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 57
Hacking the Right to Vote
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 67
Commuting to Mars: A Response to Professors Abraham and Rabin
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 84
The Future is Almost Here: Inaction is Actually Mistaken Action
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 91
Self-Policing: Dissemination and Adoption of Police Eyewitness Policies in Virginia
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 96
Paved in Good Intentions: The Venerable Aims and Unique Vulnerabilities of Purportedly Independent Committees
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 112
Constructing Originalism or: Why Professors Baude and Sachs Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Ronald Dworkin
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 128
Letter to the Editor: Remembering Charlottesville 2017 and Engaging Black-Jewish Alliances
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 149
Foreword: Tinker at 50
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 155
The Great Unfulfilled Promise of Tinker
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 159
Fill in the Blank: Compelling Student Speech on Religion
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 175
Walking Out the Schoolhouse Gates
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 198
The Miseducation of Free Speech
105 Va. L. Rev. Online 218
Volume 104 — 2018
Foreword
104 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
Rethinking the Heckler’s Veto After Charlottesville
104 Va. L. Rev. Online 8
Your ‘Little Friend’ Doesn’t Say ‘Hello’: Putting the First Amendment Before the Second in Public Protests
104 Va. L. Rev. Online 30
Payne v. City of Charlottesville and the Dillon’s Rule Rationale for Removal
104 Va. L. Rev. Online 45
When White Supremacists Invade a City
104 Va. L. Rev. Online 58
The Living Anti-Injunction Act
104 Va. L. Rev. Online 74
Underwrites, Overrides, and Recovered Precedents
104 Va. L. Rev. Online 89
Regulation and Deregulation: The Baseline Challenge
104 Va. L. Rev. Online 101
Antitrust’s Unconventional Politics
104 Va. L. Rev. Online 118
Agency Design and the Zero-Sum Argument
104 Va. L. Rev. Online 136
Volume 103 — 2017
Common Law vs. Statutory Bases of Patent Exhaustion
103 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
Reorganizing Organizational Standing
103 Va. L. Rev. Online 18
Copyright Owners’ Putative Interests in Privacy, Reputation, and Control: A Reply to Goold
103 Va. L. Rev. Online 36
Presidents Lack the Authority to Abolish or Diminish National Monuments
103 Va. L. Rev. Online 55
The Rule of Recognition in Reconstruction: A Review of Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis, By Cynthia Nicoletti
103 Va. L. Rev. Online 72
Act-Sampling Bias and the Shrouding of Repeat Offending
103 Va. L. Rev. Online 94
Volume 102 — 2016
A Modest Proposal for Justice Scalia’s Seat
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
The Interaction of Exhaustion and the General Law: A Reply to Duffy and Hynes
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 8
Patent Exhaustion and Federalism: A Historical Note
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 25
One Last Word on the Blackstone Principle
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 34
Changing the Face of Urban America: Assessing the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 48
Pragmatism and Principle: Intelligence Agencies and International Law
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 67
Discrimination is a Comparative Injustice: A Reply to Hellman
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 85
Data Privacy and Inmate Recidivism
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 101
Defending Two Concepts of Discrimination: A Reply to Simons
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 113
What’s Wrong with Sentencing Equality? Sentencing Legality: A Response to Professors Bierschbach & Bibas
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 120
RJR Nabisco and the Runaway Canon
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 134
Retooling the Amicus Machine
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 151
Crowdfunding and the Not-So-Safe SAFE
102 Va. L. Rev. Online 168
Volume 101 — 2015
Bad Actors and the Evolution of Patent Law
Historically high levels of abusive patent enforcement fuel an ongoing debate on the need for legislative and judicial reforms designed to deter bad faith conduct by patent holders. To date, this debate has focused intently on the direct monetary …
101 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
At the Frontier of the Younger Doctrine: Reflections on Google v. Hood
101 Va. L. Rev. Online 14
Politicians in Robes: The Separation of Powers and the Problem of Judicial Legislation
101 Va. L. Rev. Online 31
The Corporation as Snitch: The New DOJ Guidelines on Prosecuting White Collar Crime
101 Va. L. Rev. Online 51
Response: The Metamorphosis of Corporate Criminal Prosecutions
101 Va. L. Rev. Online 60
Volume 100 — 2014
A Critique of the Corporate Law Professors’ Amicus Brief in Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood
100 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
Saving the IRS
100 Va. L. Rev. Online 22
Consciously Decoupling: A Response to Professors Barry, Hatfield, and Kominers
100 Va. L. Rev. Online 37
Noel Canning and Remedial Obligation Under the Constitution
100 Va. L. Rev. Online 47
Famigration (Fam-Imm): The Next Frontier in Immigration Law
100 Va. L. Rev. Online 63
Volume 99 — 2013
Protecting Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty
99 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
Unequal Treatment of Religious Exercises Under RFRA: Explaining the Outliers in the HHS Mandate Cases
99 Va. L. Rev. Online 10
Noel Canning v. NLRB – Enforcing Basic Constitutional Limits On Presidential Power
99 Va. L. Rev. Online 17
The Trouble With Dignity And Rights Of Recognition
99 Va. L. Rev. Online 29
United States v. Windsor And The Role Of State Law In Defining Rights Claims
99 Va. L. Rev. Online 39
Ten Things the 2012–13 Term Tells Us About the Roberts Court
99 Va. L. Rev. Online 48
Volume 98 — 2012
Now We Are Six: The Emerging Roberts Court
98 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
Content Neutrality and Compelling Interests: The October 2010 Term
98 Va. L. Rev. Online 14
Wal-Mart, AT&T Mobility, and the Decline of the Deterrent Class Action
98 Va. L. Rev. Online 24
Cautious Contextualism: A Response to Nelson Tebbe’s Nonbelievers Article
98 Va. L. Rev. Online 32
Reading Arizona
98 Va. L. Rev. Online 41
The Scope of Trademark Law In the Age of The Brand Persona
98 Va. L. Rev. Online 61
Remaking Lawrence
98 Va. L. Rev. Online 61
Politics and Terrorism: What Happens When Money is Speech?
98 Va. L. Rev. Online 71
Out of Infancy: The Roberts Court at Seven
98 Va. L. Rev. Online 76
How Lax is Nevada Corporate Law? A Response to Professor Barzuza
98 Va. L. Rev. Online 108
Volume 97 — 2011
Massive Hard Drives, General Warrants, and the Power of Magistrate Judges
97 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
Clear Rules—Not Necessarily Simple or Accessible Ones
97 Va. L. Rev. Online 13
McDonald’s Other Right
97 Va. L. Rev. Online 23
The Supreme Court, Original Habeas, and the Paradoxical Virtue of Obscurity
97 Va. L. Rev. Online 31
DNA Database Trawls and the Definition of a Search in Boroian v. Mueller
97 Va. L. Rev. Online 41
On Proportionality and Federalism: A Response to Professor Stinneford
97 Va. L. Rev. Online 51
Separating Retribution from Proportionality: A Response to Stinneford
97 Va. L. Rev. Online 61
Revisiting the Taxation of Punitive Damages
97 Va. L. Rev. Online 73
PPACA in Theory and Practice: The Perils of Parallelism
97 Va. L. Rev. Online 83
Volume 96 — 2010
The Mandatory Core of Section 4 of the Federal Arbitration Act
96 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
Placebo Statutes?: Sarbanes-Oxley and Ethics Code Disclosures
96 Va. L. Rev. Online 9
The Immortality of Equitable Balancing
96 Va. L. Rev. Online 17
Does the Structure of the Franchise Tax Matter?
96 Va. L. Rev. Online 27
Good Intentions Matter
96 Va. L. Rev. Online 35
State Judicial Elections and the Limits of Calibrating Access to the Federal Courts
96 Va. L. Rev. Online 41
Schrödinger’s Cross: The Quantum Mechanics of the Establishment Clause
96 Va. L. Rev. Online 51
Of Punitive Damages, Tax Deductions, and Tax-Aware Juries: A Response to Polsky and Markel
96 Va. L. Rev. Online 61
Don’t Tilt the Playing Field: A Response to Polsky and Markel
96 Va. L. Rev. Online 69
Volume 95 — 2009
Who’s In the Club?: A Response to Oliar and Sprigman
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
Does Equity Pass the Laugh Test?: A Response to Oliar and Sprigman
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 9
Custom, Comedy, and the Value of Dissent
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 19
Of Coase and Comics, or, The Comedy of Copyright
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 27
Pleasant Grove v. Summum: Losing the Battle to Win the War
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 43
The Impotence of Delaware’s Taxes: A Response to Barzuza’s Delaware’s Compensation
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 49
From Corn to Norms: How IP Entitlements Affect What Stand-Up Comedians Create
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 57
Tiered Originality and the Dualism of Copyright Incentives
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 67
Counterinsurgency, The War on Terror, And The Laws of War: A Response
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 79
The Constitutional Foundation for Fact Deference in National Security Cases
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 87
The Confrontation Clause and the High Stakes of the Court’s Consideration of Briscoe v. Virginia
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 97
Good Scholarly Intentions Do Not Guarantee Good Policy
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 109
Accentuate the Positive: Are Good Intentions an Effective Way to Minimize Systemic Workplace Bias?
95 Va. L. Rev. Online 117
Volume 94 — 2008
Thoughts on Treating Union Representation Processes as a Market in Need of Legally Required Disclosure of Information
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Rent-to-Own Unionism?
94 Va. L. Rev. Online 9
The Market for Union Representation: An Information Deficit or Rational Behavior?
94 Va. L. Rev. Online 15
The Market for Union Services: Reframing the Debate
94 Va. L. Rev. Online 23
The Networked—Yet Still Hierarchical—Family
94 Va. L. Rev. Online 31
Rights and Realities
94 Va. L. Rev. Online 39
Parents as Hubs
94 Va. L. Rev. Online 45
Get in the Game or Get out of the Way: Fixing the Politics of Death
94 Va. L. Rev. Online 51
The Multifarious Politics of Capital Punishment: A Response to Smith
94 Va. L. Rev. Online 57
What’s Wrong with Democracy? A Critique of “The Supreme Court and the Politics of Death”
94 Va. L. Rev. Online 65
The Persistence of Boundaries: A Reply to Rosen-Zvi and Fisher
94 Va. L. Rev. Online 75
The Boundaries Are Dead, Long Live the Boundaries!
94 Va. L. Rev. Online 85
Volume 93 — 2007
International Human Rights in American Courts
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 1
Sosa, Federal Question Jurisdiction, and Historical Fidelity
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 15
Sosa and Substantive Solutions to Jurisdictional Problems
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 23
Federal Suits and General Laws: A Comment on Judge Fletcher’s Reading of Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 33
The Temporal Dimension of Voting Rights
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 41
What Kind of Right is “the Right to Vote”?
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 45
The Significance of Massachusetts v. EPA
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 53
Warming Up to Climate Change Litigation
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 63
Massachusetts v. EPA: The Inconvenient Truth About Precedent
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 75
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 85
United States v. Goliath
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 105
Institutional Competence and Organizational Prosecutions
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 115
Deferred Prosecution Agreements: A View From the Trenches and a Proposal for Reform
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 121
Pleading Standards After Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 135
Rediscovering Dangerousness: The Expanded Scope of Reasonable Deadly Force After Scott v. Harris
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 145
Of Coerced Waiver, Government Leverage, and Corporate Loyalty: The Holder, Thompson, and McNulty Memos and Their Critics
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 153
Expanding Congressional Power in Gonzales v. Carhart
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 165
The Hurricane Katrina Insurance Claims
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 173
Compensating the Victims of Catastrophe: The Virginia Tech Victims Assistance Program
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 181
Deterrence, Retributivism, and the Law of Evidence
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 189
Criminal Law’s “Mediating Rules”: Balancing, Harmonization, or Accident?
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 199
The Perils of Evidentiary Manipulation
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 207
Purposes and Effects in Criminal Law
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 215
Some Reflections on Custom in the IP Universe
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 223
“For Profit Charity”: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 231
Decoupling?
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 235
Why Custom Cannot Save Copyright’s Fair Use Defense
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 243
Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History
93 Va. L. Rev. Online 249