In this episode, we interview UCLA Law professor Samuel L. Bray, whose article The System of Equitable Remedies is published in issue 63.3 of the UCLA Law Review. We discuss the distinction between legal and equitable remedies, and we describe the key characteristics and features of each. We also consider whether it makes sense to distinguish between legal and equitable remedies, and we explain...
Episode 1.4: Richard M. Re on the Legacy of Justice Scalia
In this episode, we discuss the life and legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia with Richard M. Re, Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Law. Tune in to hear Professor Re describe Justice Scalia's unique jurisprudence and most important legal contributions. You'll also hear Professor Re discuss how Scalia's absence might affect the future of the United States Supreme Court.
Episode 1.3: Discussing Treaties with Professor Melissa Durkee
In this episode, we interview Melissa Durkee, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law, about her article The Business of Treaties published in issue 63.2 of the UCLA Law Review. We discuss the various roles that businesses take in enacting and forming international treaties such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. We also delve into the implications of this private...
Spring Scholar Forum, Volume 63
How Governments Pay: Lawsuits, Budgets, and Police Reform UCLA Law Review Spring Scholar Forum Monday, April 4 12:10 – 1:30 pm Room 1447 The UCLA Law Review proudly presents its Spring Scholar Forum, featuring UCLA Professor Joanna C. Schwartz. Professor Schwartz’s article, How Governments Pay: Lawsuits, Budgets, and Police Reform, will be published in Volume 63, Issue 5, of the UCLA Law Review...
Mute and Moot: How Class Action Mootness Procedure Silences Inmates
This Comment uses a recent prisoners’ rights class action that challenges solitary confinement to demonstrate the way in which class action mootness procedure disadvantages inmates. With courts divided on how they should evaluate plaintiffs’ claims that are mooted before the court reaches a class certification decision, this unsettled area leaves prisons with creative ways to moot named...
Calibrating the Eighth Amendment: Graham, Miller, and the Right to Mental Healthcare in Juvenile Prison
Young people locked up in juvenile prisons have an enormous need for mental healthcare, one which juvenile prisons have consistently found themselves unable to meet. As a result, many incarcerated young people end up being denied the care they deserve. Yet for years, courts have implemented a confused, haphazard doctrine to evaluate youth right to mental healthcare claims—likely because the quasi...
Plenary Power, Political Questions, and Sovereignty in Indian Affairs
A generation of Indian law scholars has roundly, and rightly, criticized the Supreme Court’s invocation of the political question and plenary power doctrines to deprive tribes of meaningful judicial review when Congress has acted to the tribes’ detriment. Courts have applied these doctrines in tandem so as to frequently leave tribes without meaningful judicial recourse against breaches of the...
Challenging the “Criminal Alien” Paradigm
Deportation of so-called “criminal aliens” has become the driving force in U.S. immigration enforcement. The Immigration Accountability Executive Actions of late 2014 provide the most recent example of this trend. Even for immigrants’ rights advocates, conventional wisdom holds that if deportations must occur, “criminal aliens” should be the first to go. A voluminous “crimmigration” scholarship...