Risa Goluboff
- University of Virginia School of Law
Historians spend a lot of time in archives, and much of what they find, in its original form, would likely engage, no one but themselves. Every so often, however, they find documents—letters, memos, draft opinions—that might be of interest to a broader audience. Such discoveries are the impetus for this… Read More »
For years, experts have debated whether the U.S. should spearhead reform of the United Nations (U.N.) framework for authorizing the use of force to counter the threats of terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). In this debate, some scholars argue that the permanent members of the U.N.… Read More »
Introduction
Given the continuing popularity of the “no taxation without representation” catchphrase, one might expect American woman suffragists to have pounced on every opportunity to deploy it. But although many suffragists occasionally mentioned taxation, it was certainly not a focal point of the movement as a whole. In my Note,… Read More »
It is hard to imagine a topic in civil procedure that has garnered more attention recently than pleading standards. The Supreme Court’s decision last Term in Ashcroft v. Iqbal) prompted an onslaught of commentary and critiques. A particularly troubling aspect… Read More »
As with phrenology and the polygraph, society is again confronted with a device that the media claims to be capable of reading our minds. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (“fMRI”), along with other types of functional brain imaging technologies, is currently being introduced at various stages of criminal trials as evidence… Read More »
Stopped in time and sealed in place. Hundreds of high-poverty neighborhoods of color are trapped in the vestiges of rural poverty, though they sit adjacent to incorporated cities and suburbs across the country. City growth through annexation has passed them by (though city crime may not have). Homes lack rudimentary… Read More »
This Article proposes a general approach to applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet. It assumes that courts will try to apply the Fourth Amendment to the Internet so that the Fourth Amendment has the same basic function online that it has offline. The Article reaches two major conclusions. First,… Read More »
Brandon Garrett
-University of Virginia School of Law
The scholarship of interrogations has taken a turn from procedure to substance. The Supreme Court’s landmark criminal procedure rulings regulating modern psychological interrogations remain static, inviting lingering decades-long debates over whether the Court correctly decided decisions such as Miranda. Meanwhile, psychologists increasingly study not the legal regulation of interrogations, but… Read More »
Imagine the following scenario: A police officer is investigating a major drug trafficking ring. She obtains a wiretap on the cell phone of the suspected kingpin of the organization. The wiretap enables her to overhear conversations between the top target of the wiretap and several other people in the drug… Read More »
In 2007, the Court handed down its opinion in Bell Atlantic v. Twombly. The case set the civil procedure world abuzz; in addition to “retir[ing]” Conley v. Gibson’s famous “no set of facts” standard, Twombly introduced the concept of “plausibility” as the dividing line between complaints that do and do… Read More »