Ms. Donaldson, a mother of three, receives an eviction notice. She shows up in court, like so many other tenants, without a lawyer, facing an experienced landlord’s attorney who has been before the ...

But a word might be invoked more frequently in one sense than another for reasons that have little to do with the common understanding of that word. More specifically, the frequency with which a word ...

Because of Bruen, the Third Circuit expressly discounted the more than 80 earlier precedents upholding the felon-in-possession ban: Of course, a court might have scrutinized whether a particular group ...

Leading up to oral argument in the same-sex marriage cases, it was reasonable to wonder whether the Indiana episode was evidence of an irreconcilable conflict between same-sex marriage and religious ...

This essay describes how a 1917 misdemeanor case charted the course of civil justice in America for over a century and urges state judiciaries to change course. That was where Alfani conducted ...

Ghappour’s article is provocative and interesting, but we are not convinced that a genuine problem exists. This response challenges Ghappour’s framework in three ways. First, it questions whether ...

In this Response, Kim Forde-Mazrui discusses Sonja Starr’s recent Stanford Law Review Article The Magnet School Wars and the Future of Colorblindness. Starr’s Article can be found here. I. Alternative ...

The compassionate release misnomer is easy to understand: Perhaps the most salient group of beneficiaries is comprised of prisoners with terminal illnesses. 4Open this footnote Close this footnote 4 ...

A Note for Readers: In this Response, Susan C. Morse & Leah R. Butterfield discuss David S. Cohen, Greer Donley & Rachel Rebouché’s recent Stanford Law Review Article Abortion Pills. Cohen et al.’s ...

Class actions have been dominating headlines, both in mainstream outlets 1Open this footnote Close this footnote 1 See, e.g., Adam Liptak, Supreme Court Won’t Block Student Loan Class-Action ...

Part of Stanford Law Review's symposium on access to justice, Karin Martin argues that monetary sanctions are an important contributing factor to the problem of access to justice. The sanctions ...

State civil courts are the object of growing scholarly attention converging from two directions: rapidly expanding research regarding lawyerless state civil trial courts, 1Open this footnote Close ...