Abstract As policy proposals for tenant protections are debated nationwide and often struck down, tenants continue to live in dangerous conditions that our legal system is ill equipped to redress. Code enforcement is ineffective, and depending on...
Abstract American prisons are a black box: remote, austere, and cruel. Although basic demographic data about the people confined in prisons are common—that is, data on the number of people incarcerated, their age, or their race—there is little...
Abstract Criminal law and environmental law share a central question: How should the state respond to harm? Despite their common concern, these fields approach state power in sharply divergent ways. Criminal law scholars increasingly question the...
Abstract Stateless persons, those that lack a legal connection to any nation, are among the most vulnerable people in the world. While stateless persons have always lived among us, the United States has not generally contributed to a significant...
Abstract Each year, the UCLA School of Law presents the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching to an outstanding law professor. On Wednesday, April 23, 2025, this honor was given to Professor Iman Anabtawi. UCLA Law Review Discourse is proud to...
Abstract Some members of Congress propose to make it a crime to publish the name of a federal official with the intent of obstructing that official’s law or immigration enforcement duties. This Essay considers whether the lawmakers’ bill, the...
