UCLA Law Review 2026 Symposium

In Symposium

February 11, 2026

Constitutional Resistance: Self-Defense Against Unlawful Federal Force under 18 U.S.C. § 111

Abstract The federal government is increasingly weaponizing 18 U.S.C. § 111, originally enacted to protect federal officers from assault, in order to punish speech, protest, and dissent. But § 111 cannot be read to criminalize all resistance to...

By Marc Canellas

In Discourse

February 3, 2026

Organizing for Enforcement

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...

By Julie Gilgoff

In Print

January 26, 2026

Abolishing Carceral Data

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...

By Joseph Gaylin

In Print

January 26, 2026

Environmentalists’ Latent Abolitionism

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...

By Alyse Bertenthal

In Print

January 26, 2026

Birthright Citizenship, Denaturalization, and the Specter of Statelessness

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...

By Melissa Stewart

In Discourse

January 26, 2026